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SUSPECTS

THERE WERE MANY THOUSANDS OF "SUSPECTS" IN THE POLICE INVESTIGATIONS OVER THE YEARS DURING AND AFTER THE ZODIAC'S ACTIVE PERIOD BUT ONLY A FEW STAND OUT AS REALISTIC POSIBILITIES.     1. ARTHUR LEIGH ALLEN     2. RICK MARSHALL     3. TED KACZYNSKI     4. LAWRENCE KANE 5. BRUCE DAVIS     EACH OF THESE CLASSIC SUSPECTS HAS A PARTICULAR 'CHARM' AND REASON THEY HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN SELECTED AS SUSPECTS.......AND EACH ONE OF THEM WILL BE DEALT WITH IN THEIR TURN...STARTING WITH THE MOST POPULAR CHOICE...ARTHUR LEIGH ALLEN.

SUSPECT # 1

ARTHUR LEIGH ALLEN OR "LEE" AS HE WAS MOST OFTEN CALLED WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 16, 1933 MAKING HIM APROXIMATLY 35 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME OF THE FIRST VERIFIED ZODIAC KILLING.     ACCORDING TO HIS DRIVING LICENCE OF 1967, THAT VERY YEAR, HE STOOD 6 FEET TALL AND WEIGHED 250 POUNDS BITH BROWN HAIR AND BROWN EYES..ACCORDING TO A POLICE REPORT HE STOOD 6 FOOT 1 INCH.     ONE MIGHT NOTE THAT HE ALSO SPORTS A MOUSTACHE.

ARTHUR LEIGH ALLEN

LEIGH WAS EMPLOYED AS A TEACHER FROM THE YEARS 1959 ALMOST CONTINUOSLY UNTIL 1969 WHEN HE WAS CHARGED WITH CHILD MOLESTATION.     ADMITIDLY, HE WAS A NASTY PIECE OF WORK BEING A TEACHER AND A PEDAEOPHILE AND IT IS TRUE HE WAS THE POSSESSOR OF MANY GUNS AND IN ONE MEMORABLE SEARCH OF THE TRAILER HE LIVED IN THERE WERE FOUND PIPE BOMBS IN HIS POSSESSION. LETS LOOK AT THE MOST COMMON EVIDENCE THAT SUPPOSIDLY LINKS HIM TO ZODIAC.     HE OWNED MANY GUNS AND ONE SEARCH OF HIS HOUSE IN THE EARLY 90'S YIELDED 9 GUNS AND SOME PIPE BOMBS. ZODIAC NEVER SET OFF ANY BOMBS...PIPE OR OTHERWISE.     HE IS SAID TO HAVE LEFT HIS TEACHING JOB NOT LONG BEFORE THE ZODIAC KILLINGS BEGAN. POSSIBLY TRUE BUT MANY PEOPLE MAY HAVE DONE THE SAME THING.     HE IS SAID TO HAVE SPOKEN TO A FRIEND OF HIS ABOUT A BOOK HE WOULD WRITE IN WHICH HE WOULD STALK PEOPLE IN A LOVER'S LANE AND SHOOT THEM WITH A FLASHLIGHT TAPED TO HIS GUN AND CALL HIMSELF "ZODIAC".     I CAN'T SAY THIS NEVER HAPPENED BUT TO COME FORWARD YEARS AFTER THE FACT AND AFTER LEE IS DEAD IS SOMEWHAT POOR IN THE EVIDENCE DEPARTMENT.     HE IS SAID TO HAVE OWNED A TYPEWRITER SIMILAR TO THE ONE POSSIBLE USED BY ZODIAC BUT THAT ONE WAS FOUND AND IDENTIFIED IN A SEARCH NEARLY 25 YEARS AFTER THE MURDER.     HE OWNED A SEA WOLF WATCH MODEL ZODIAC. DESPITE MY EFFORTS TO LOCATE THE COMPANY I HAVE BEEN UNSUCESSFUL BUT I FEEL CERTAIN THEY SOLD MILLIONS OF THOSE WATCHED OVER THE YEARS....AND NOT JUST TO ZODIAC.     THERE SEEMS TO BE LITTLE IN THE WAY OF REAL EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM AND THE MAIN SUPORTERS OF HIS GUILT DO SO, I BELIEVE, BECAUSE HE WAS A CHILD MOLESTOR.     WHILE THAT IS DEFINETLY TRUE IT WOULD IN FACT AUCTUALLY CONTRADICT THE IDEA THAT HE WOULD ATTACK ADULTS.

MUCH HAS BEEN MADE OF THE FACT THAT LEE MIS-SPELLED WORDS TO EMBARASS THE POLICE BUT THE ONLY STAND-OUT EXEMPLE I WAS ABLE TO FIND WAS.................WHERE SUBTLETY WAS NOT THE FIRST REQUIREMENT....OBVIOUSLY.     SOMEONE WISHING TO DISGUISE THEIR WRITING DISGUISES THEIR STYLE OF WRITING...NOT THE QUALITY. QUALITY WILL NOT POINT IN THEIR DIRECTION BUT HANDWRITING ANALYSIS WILL CERTAINLY IDENTIFY  QUALITIES WITHIN THEIR WRITING.     LET'S NOT FORGET AS WELL THAT THE ONLY CERTAIN IDENTIFICATION OF ZODIAC WAS ON 3 OCCASIONS ONLY AND EACH AND EVERY TIME HE WAS DESCRIBED AS BEING 5 FOOT 8 OR 8, WHITE,AND HEAVYSET.     THERE WAS NO MENTION OF FACIAL HAIR AT ANY TIME AND THERE WAS MENTION OF GLASSES.     AS BOTH THE PHOTO AND DRIVER'S LICENCE BELOW SHOW HE DID HAVE FACIAL HAIR, DID NOT WEAR GLASSES AND AT 6 FEET AND 250 POUNDS WOULD HARDLY BE CONFUSED WITH SOMEONE 5 FOOT 8.

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