AT ABOUT 11:15 AT NIGHT ON HER WAY TO SEE A SICK RELATIVE AT PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA, KATHLEEN JOHNS WAS ASKED TO STOP BY A MAN CLAIMING HER WHEEL WAS ABOUT TO COME OFF.
HE APPARENTLY FIXED IT BUT A SHORT TIME LATER IT DID, IN FACT COME OFF, PROBABLY AS A RESULT OF HIS DISABLING IT.
HE OFFERED TO DRIVE HER TO THE NEAREST GAS STATION BUT IT SOON BECAME EVIDENT THAT THEY WERN'T GOING THERE.
FOR 1 1/2 HOURS THEY ROAMED AROUND ON THE BACK ROADS NEAR TRACY AS HE THREATENED HER LIFE AND THAT OF HER INFANT DAUGHTER.
FINALLY, AS HE STOPPED AT A STOP SIGN SHE GRABBED HER DAUGHTER AND ESCAPED FROM THE CAR BEFORE HE COULD PURSUE HER AND HID IN A FIELD UNTIL HE WAS GONE.
SHE LATER IDENTIFIED HIM AS ZODIAC UPON SEEING THE WANTED POSTER OF HIM.
SEE THE AUCTUAL FILED POLICE REPORT BELOW.
NO MENTION OF ANY THREAT AT ALL, IN FACT NOT MUCH MORE THAN A JOY RIDE.
METHINKS MS. JOHNS RELISHED ALL THE ATTENTION SHE WAS GETTING WHEN SHE MENTIONED THE NAME....ZODIAC!
I SHALL DEVOTE NO MORE SPACE TO KATHLEEN.
