Profiled: The Zodiac Examined by Mark Hewitt

Author:Mark Hewitt [Hewitt, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: True Crime
ISBN: 9780998297330
Amazon: 099829733X
Publisher: Genius Book Publishing
Published: 2017-09-26T11:00:00+00:00

The abrupt change in tone from the Pen card to the 6-Page letter, even though they both arrived together at the offices of the San Francisco Chronicle, suggested something of the killer’s location or travels. The Pen card presented a writer who was confident and playful, with only the mention of loneliness, possibly disingenuously, if he were to be ignored. The 6-Page letter, by contrast, contained an altogether different mood. No longer was the writer light-hearted, and no longer was he understated and respectful. If anything, between the writing of the two missives, he had become more arrogant and severe. The change may have related to some new information the Zodiac received between the writing of the two letters.

This shift in attitude may have been the result of travels outside the Bay Area. A case can be made that the Zodiac was confident and proud when he created the Pen card. He had a new cipher and he had a threat. If, after sending the card, he only then learned that the police and teenagers had seen him following his murder of cab driver Paul Stine, and had viewed him clearly enough to create composite pictures, this may explain his change of tone. The optimism and confidence may have given way to insecurity, fear, and uncertainty. He had almost been captured, and now a likeness of him was being circulated.

All of the Zodiac’s arguments in the 6-Page letter, therefore, may have come from a place of weakness, and a need for the killer to prove himself, rather than from the attitude of self-assuredness as seen in the Pen card. The 6-Page letter may need to be interpreted as if it came from an insecure criminal who now desperately needed to argue for his superiority and convince others of his worth. He would even lie if he had to in order to bolster his image. Instead of coming from a place of strength, the killer was now revealing his cowardice.

A trip out of town might also explain why the two letters were sent in quick succession. It might answer the question of why he referred to bad news that would not come for a while but then never mentioned the issue again.

If the bad news referenced in the Pen card was the bomb diagram included in the 6-Page letter, the residents of the Bay Area did not need to wait “a while” to get it. If it was the solution to the Z340 cipher, that news didn’t arrive for more than 50 years.

Had the Zodiac been present in the Bay Area following the news of his San Francisco attack on Paul Stine, he would have been aware of the composite drawing that was circulating, and mindful of news reports that announced he had been seen. Created from the observations of the teens who witnessed the Stine attack, and possibly the police who drove past the killer minutes later, the two composite drawings may have rattled the killer and led him to rush production of the 6-Page letter.

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