The Most Dangerous Animal of All (42 page)

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The Killing of Sharon Tate
. Signet, 1970.

Selvin, Joel.
Summer of Love: The Inside Story of LSD, Rock & Roll, Free Love, and High Times in the Wild West
. Cooper Square, 1999.

NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS

Daily World (Opelousas, La.)

“TWO PERSONS WERE KILLED in the headon collision Saturday Morning.” January 8, 1961.

Edwardsville (Ill.) Intelligencer

“Murderer Terrorizes Bay Area.” October 16, 1969.

Indiana Combat Veteran (Indianapolis)

“State Chaplain Best Succumbs to Death.” Vol. XXXVII, no. 3. May/June 1984.

Los Angeles Times

“Zodiac Kills Fifth Victim.” October 16, 1969.

“Zodiac’s Trail, a Confusing Crime Pattern.” May 8, 1970.

“Zodiac Threatens to Kill Reporter for S.F. Newspaper.” October 31, 1970.

“Evidence Links Zodiac Killer to ’66 Death of Riverside Coed.” November 16, 1970.

Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.)

“Tot Abandoned Here Is Put in Hospital for Observation.” March 18, 1963.

Napa Register (Napa County, Calif.)

“School Bus Is Target.” October 17, 1969.

“ ‘Zodiac’ Jangles Nerves of Napa County People.” October 18, 1969.

Oakland (Calif.) Tribune

“TROUBLE, Jail Parts Child Bride, Husband, 28.” August 1, 1962.

“Ailing Child Bride, Spouse Disappear.” August 31, 1962.

“Car Gives Clue in Child Bride Hunt, Bulletin Out for Arrest of Pair in 2nd Elopement.” September 1, 1962.

Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, Calif.)

“Masked Man Stabs Couple; Links to Vallejo Killings?” September 29, 1969.

“Coed Stabbing Victim Dies.” September 30, 1969.

Press-Enterprise (Riverside, Calif.)

“RCC Coed, 18, Slain on Campus.” October 31, 1966.

“ ‘Zodiac’ may have killed Riverside Co-Ed, paper says.” November 16, 1970.

“Detectives hope to find Zodiac’s handwriting in City College records.” November 24, 1970.

Register-Guard (Eugene, Ore.)

“Murder Suspect Free Because Gays Silent.” July 8, 1977.

Reno (Nev.) Evening Gazette

“Pretty Coed Slain, Watch Single Clue.” November 1, 1966.

San Francisco Chronicle

“He Found Love in Ice Cream Parlor.” August 1, 1962.

“Ice Cream Romance: Child Bride Gone Again.” September 1, 1962.

“Statewide Hunt for S.F. Child Bride.” September 2, 1962.

“Love on the Run: Ice Cream Romance’s Bitter End.” April 20, 1963.

“S.F. Couple Held: Ice Cream Romance Ends on Bourbon Street.” April 20, 1963.

“Ice Cream Parlor Lover: Senator’s Letter to Judge Doesn’t Help.” August 14, 1963.

“Friends Quizzed in Slaying of Teen Pair Near Vallejo.” December 22, 1968.

“Police Seeking Teens’ Slayer.” December 23, 1968.

“Woman Slain, Friend Shot.” July 6, 1969.

“Coded Clue in Murders.” August 2, 1969.

“A ‘Murder Code’ Broken.” August 9. 1969.

“Cabbie Slain in Presidio Heights.” October 12, 1969.

“The Boastful ‘Slayer’: Letter Claims Writer Killed Cabbie, 4 Others.” October 15, 1969.

“Zodiac: Portrait of a Killer.” October 18, 1969.

“Fear Rides the Yellow Bus.” October 21, 1969.

“Dare by Brother of Slain Man.” October 23, 1969.

“Zodiac Halloween Threat, Reporter Warned, Zodiac Threat on Halloween Card.” October 31, 1969.

“ ‘I’ve Killed Seven,’ the Zodiac Claims.” November 12, 1969.

“Zodiac ‘Legally Sane,’ Cops Sure Clues Will Snag Him.” November 13, 1969.

“Urgent Appeal by Belli to Zodiac.” December 29, 1969.

“Zodiac Sends New Letter: Claims Ten.” April 22, 1970.

“Gilbert and Sullivan Clue to Zodiac.” October 12, 1970.

“Police Confer on Zodiac Killings.” November 19, 1970.

“Zodiac Writes Again, 17 Dead.” March 16, 1971.

“Zodiac Mystery Letter, the First Since 1971.” January 31, 1974.

“Zodiac Ends Silence: ‘I Am Back With You.’ ” April 26, 1978.

“Feinstein Says Toschi’s Being ‘Crucified.’ ” July 14, 1978.

“Latest Zodiac Letter a Fake, 3 Experts Say.” August 3, 1978.

“Files Shut on Zodiac’s Deadly Trail.” April 7, 2004.

San Francisco Examiner

“Man with ‘Child Bride’ Arrested.” July 30, 1962.

“Their Idyll at End—Jailed Mate Sobs for Bride, 14.” August 1, 1962.

“Indictment in Child Bride Case: Girl, 14, Tells Story to Jury.” August 7, 1962.

“Cops Halt Elopers’ 3rd Flight.” April 20, 1963.

“Jail for Man Who Married Girl, 14.” August 14, 1963.

“Vallejo Mass Murder Threat Fails.” August 3, 1969.

“Salinas Teacher Breaks Code on Vallejo Murders.” August 10, 1969.

“Zodiac Manhunt Centered in S.F.” October 23, 1969.

“Rotea Gilford, Former Deputy Mayor, Dies at 70.” March 16, 1998.

San Francisco News–Call Bulletin

“Bride of 14—With a Sundae Kind of Love.” August 1, 1962.

“Sundae Bride Hunted.” September 1, 1962.

State Times (Baton Rouge, La.)

“Seek Identity of Abandoned Child’s Parents.” March 16, 1963.

“Teen-ager May Be Mother of Abandoned Tot.” April 19, 1963.

Tiger Times (Riverside Community College, Riverside, Calif.)

“Police Still Lack Clues in Murder.” November 4, 1966.

Times-Herald (Vallejo, Calif.)

“Investigators Lacking Clues in 2 Slayings.” December 22, 1968.

“Teenagers Slayer Still at Large.” March 30, 1969.

“Police Still Hunt for Shooting Clues.” July 8, 1969.

Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.)

“Man Admits Abandoning Young Infant, Police Say.” April 20, 1963.

Tucson (Ariz.) Daily Citizen

“Ice Cream Romance Ends in Jail.” August 14, 1962.

Vallejo (Calif.) News-Chronicle

“Jealousy Motive Checked.” December 23, 1968.

“Appeal Is Made for Help.” December 26, 1968.

ZODIAC LETTERS

April 30, 1967: “Bates Had to Die.” Joseph Bates, Riverside Police Department, Riverside
Press-Enterprise
.

July 31, 1969: 408 cipher. Vallejo
Times-Herald, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle.

August 4, 1969: “This is the Zodiac speaking.”
San Francisco Examiner
.

October 13, 1969: Paul Stine letter.
San Francisco Chronicle
.

November 8, 1969: 340 cipher.
San Francisco Chronicle
.

November 9, 1969: Zodiac threatens to bomb a bus.
San Francisco Chronicle
.

December 20, 1969: Letter sent to Melvin Belli.

April 20, 1970: “My Name Is” cipher.
San Francisco Chronicle
.

April 28, 1970: Dragon Card.
San Francisco Chronicle
.

June 26, 1970: 32-character cipher.
San Francisco Chronicle
.

July 24, 1970: Kathleen Johns.
San Francisco Chronicle
.

July 26, 1970: Zodiac’s version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “I’ve Got a Little List,” from
The Mikado
.
San Francisco Chronicle
.

October 27, 1970: Halloween card sent to Paul Avery.
San Francisco Chronicle
.

March 13, 1971: Blue Meanies.
Los Angeles Times
.

January 29, 1974: “The Exorcist.”
San Francisco Chronicle
.

February 14, 1974: Symbionese Liberation Army.
San Francisco Chronicle
.

July 8, 1974: Red Phantom.
San Francisco Chronicle.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

Baton Rouge Police Department Criminal Records Division

City and County Assessor-Recorder’s Office, San Francisco

County Clerk’s Office, Wilmore, Ky.

East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court

East Baton Rouge Welfare Department, Department of Public Works, Baton Rouge, La.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Indiana Department of Health, Hamilton County, Noblesville

New Orleans Police Department Records Office

Office of the Clerk-Recorder, San Jose, Calif.

Recorder-Clerk Division, San Bernardino, Calif.

San Francisco Police Department Criminal Court Records Office

U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Embassy, Mexico City

Washoe County Clerk’s Office, Reno, Nev.

POLICE REPORTS

Baton Rouge Police Department

California Department of Justice, Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Napa County Sheriff’s Office

New Orleans Police Department

Riverside Police Department, Riverside, Calif.

San Francisco Police Department

Solano County Sheriff’s Office, Fairfield, Calif.

Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office, Modesto, Calif.

Vallejo Police Department, Vallejo, Calif.

LIBRARIES

East Baton Rouge Parish Library

Long Beach Public Library, Long Beach, Calif.

New Orleans Public Library

Norman F. Feldheym Central Library, San Bernardino, Calif.

San Francisco Public Library

WEBSITES

https://diva.sfsu.edu

www.ancestry.com

www.dogpile.com

www.familysearch.org