Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed
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Inspector William Armstrong, Affidavit for Search Warrant, Santa Rosa, 6 pages, September 14, 1972, 12:00 P.M.
Jack Mulanax Officer’s Reports, July 28, 1971, August 3, 1971, August 9-12, 1971, personal interviews with the author.
Mulanax and William Garlington: July 29, 1971: Exemplars for Arthur Leigh Allen, report from A. L. Coffey, Chief of the Bureau.
Manhattan Beach Police Department: “Information: Possible Zodiac Suspect,” July 19, 1971, Chief Charles W. Crumly.
Riverside Report, October 20, 1969.
John Lynch, Vallejo P.D. Report on Arthur Leigh Allen, 4:05 P.M. October 6, 1969.
SFPD Report. Two pages: Suspected Zodiac Correspondence and DNA Testing.
San Francisco Police Department, Vallejo Police Department, Napa Sheriff’s Department, Benicia Police Department, Vallejo Sheriff’s Department, Santa Rosa Police Department, and Riverside Police Department incident reports and files. Included in these reports are ballistics and crime lab results, autopsy reports, fingerprint comparisons, and suspect files.
Personal Interviews by author with Vallejo Detective George Bawart, Detective Sergeant John Lynch, Detective Jack Mulanax, Captain Ken Narlow of Napa Sheriff’s Department, Homicide Inspector David Toschi (Toschi’s interviews ran to almost three hundred hours over a thirty-year period), Detective William Baker, Lieutenant Tom Bruton, and Inspectors Vince Repetto and Rich Adkins. Police investigators’ personal case notes and reports, including rough drafts of local and state reports.
Psychiatric studies of Arthur Leigh Allen.
Unpublished crime scene photographs and maps.
Unreproduced Zodiac letters and potentially authentic typewritten letters from the killer. Photos of the killer’s shoes, watch, and actual samples of the prime suspect’s handprinting. All newspaper and television accounts of the Zodiac case, including computer files and unpublished stories.
Various stories, internal memos, and unpublished notes for stories including personal observations by reporter Paul Avery to the author between 1969-1976.
Cablegrams and reports by phone from Melvin Belli from Rome and Munich, December 1969.
San Francisco State Zodiac Conference: Attended by author, Captain Roy Conway, Detective George Bawart, and Rita Williams. Author worked from his handwritten record of the meeting and a tape recording that he made. Follow-up questions were asked of Conway, Bawart, and Williams after the meeting, and in the weeks following. Additional detailed interviews with Williams by phone and in person were conducted by the author in 2000 and 2001.
The original tip letters received at the San Francisco Chronicle 1969-1983.
Letters and phone calls from readers to the author 1969-2001.
Employment records, phone logs, and academic files of some suspects.
Hypnotic interviews conducted with witnesses and suspects.
Suspect’s letters from Atascadero State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
California Department of Motor Vehicles and some insurance records.
CI&I Handwriting reports and numerous interviews with the State Questioned Documents chief.
Discarded files on the case.
Xerox photocopies made from the originals of all of the Zodiac letters.
Interviews with Donald Lee Cheney, January, February, May 2001.
Interview with Sandy Panzarella. The full story of Cheney and Panzarella’s tip to police is also enclosed in the 1991-92 requests for search warrants for Allen’s home. These court documents are now on file at the County Courthouse.
January 29, 1981, interview with Darlene’s close friend, Bobbie Ramos.
Interview with Linda Del Buono on November 8, 1980, January 29, 1981.
Bobbie Oxnam, a close friend of Darlene’s, interview, June 15, 1981.
Interview with Mary Pilker, Donna Lass’s sister, April 7, 2001, July 7, 2001.
South Lake Tahoe Police File, Case #70-6436-Donna Lass, RN.
Douglas County Sheriff File, Case #70-3120-Donna Lass, RN.
Sonoma County Probation File No. 62892, Court No. 7588-C.
Technical advice: Dave Toschi, Mary Ontano, Wendy Manning.
Penny Donaly, Sonoma County Coroner’s Office.
Santa Rosa Sergeant Steve Brown, August 2001.
Newspapers and Periodicals
Blum, Walter. “Zodiac.” San Francisco Examiner, November, 1968.
Clark, Mark. “Dangerous Games.” Scarlet Street Magazine, No. 27, April 1998, pp. 33-37.
Dorn, Norman K. “Putting the Right Sound into Silent Movies.” San Francisco Chronicle, January 4, 1972.
Ginley, Jacqueline. “Local Attorney Claims to Know Zodiac.” Vallejo Times-Herald, October 30, 1991, p. A-1.
Hackler, Timothy. “Can We Blame It on the Moon?” San Francisco Examiner, December 13, 1978, p. 24.
Hedger, Matthew. “Was the Zodiac Killer a Local Teacher?” Calaveras County Ledger Dispatch, June 2, 2001.
Holt, Tim. “The Men Who Stalk the Zodiac Killer.” San Francisco Magazine , April 1974, pp. 34-36.
Jennings, Duffy. “Step by Step with Two Detectives.” San Francisco Chronicle, April 1, 1974, p. 4.
Lieber, Dr. Arnold L. “The Lunar Effect and Dade County.” Report culled by Dr. Arnold from Florida Homicide Records, 1955-70.
Lyons, Corey. “Zodiac.” Contra Costa Times, December 3, 2000.
Martin, Harry V. “Zodiac.” Napa Sentinel, December 17, 1991.
McCockran, Robert. “Suspect’s Death Won’t Halt Zodiac Investigation.” Vallejo Times-Herald, September 3, 1992.
O’Flaherty, Terrence. “The Police: Reel vs. Real.” San Francisco Chronicle , August 21, 1975, p. 46.
Peterson, Dave. “Zodiac Link to Santa Barbara Murders.” Vallejo News-Chronicle , 1969.
Starr, Kevin. “The City’s Supercop.” San Francisco Examiner, August 13, 1977, p. 11.
Silverman, Gene. “Zodiac.” Vallejo Times-Herald, “January 19, 1986, p. 1.
Stark, John. “The Man We Loved to Hate.” San Francisco Examiner, January 20, 1980, Scene Section, p. 1.
Stienstra, Tom. “Zodiac.” San Francisco Examiner, March 17, 2000.
Weir, Tom. “The Cop Who Hunts Zodiac.” Oakland Tribune, July 13, 1976.
Zellerbach, Merla. “My Fair City.” San Francisco Chronicle, September 11, 1968.
Sources for the New York Zodiac [Zodiac II]
Associated Press. “Attacks by ‘Zodiac’ Gunman Linked to Book.” July 1, 1990.
Celona, Larry, and Bowles, Pete. “Shooter Foils ‘Zodiac’ Author’s Intent.” New York Newsday, June 24, 1990, p. 1.
Bunch, William, and Gordy, Molly. “Trying to Chart a Gunman’s Moves.” Newsday, June 22, 1990.
Crowley, Kieran. “Breaks Zodiac Code.” New York Post, August 8, 1994, p. 5.
Crowley, Kieran. Sleep My Little Dead. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Frankel, Bruce. “Zodiac Killer Stalks NYC.” USA Today, June 27, 1990, p. 3A.
George, Tara, Breen, Virginia, and Mooney, Mark. “He’s Nailed.” New York Daily News, June 19, 1996.
Lyons, Richard D. “Zodiac Detectives Turn to Computers and Stars.” New York Times, June 28, 1990.
Marzulli, John. “Zodiac Knew Signs of Victims.” New York Daily News, p. 3.
McNamara, Joseph. “New York Zodiac Copies S.F. Killer.” New York Daily News, June 24, 1990.
McNamara, Joseph. “Frisco Killer Unrelated to Stalker.” San Francisco Examiner, June 24, 1990, p. 43.
McNamara, Joseph. “Zodiac Fires on 4th Man.” New York Daily News, June 22, 1990, p. 7.
McAlary, Mike. “Cop’s Net for Maniac.” New York Daily News, June 28, 1990, p. 34.
McAlary, Mike. “Following the Stars.” New York Daily News, June 24, 1990, p. 2.
McQuillan, Alice, Marzulli, John, and Siemaszko, Corky. “Gunman Admits Serial Shootings.” AP, June 19, 1996, p. 30.
Miller, Alan. “Killer May Be Copycat.” USA Today, June 27, 1990, p. 5A.
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�Zodiac II—the New York Gunman.” New York Times, June 23, 1990.
“Zodiac.” New York Times, August 13, 1994.
Rashbaum, William K. “Confession of Murderous Terror Spree.” UPI, June 20, 1996, p. 34. Source for first-person confession of Zodiac II.
Shain, Michael. “Subway Trap for Zodiac.” New York Daily News. July 12, 1990, p. 5.
Smith, Greg B. “Son of Zodiac Creates Climate of Fear in New York.” San Francisco Examiner, July 2, 1990, p. A-6.
Weiss, Murry. “He Warned Police Before First Attack.” New York Post, June 22, 1990, p. 5.
selected references
Belli, Melvin, and Kaiser, Robert Blair. My Life on Trial. New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1976.
Douglas, John, and Olshaker, Mark. The Cases That Haunt Us. New York: Scribner, 2000.
Fallis, Greg. A Murder. New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1999.
Gardner, Earle Stanley. The Court of Last Resort Handbook. Privately published.
Gilliam, Harold. San Francisco Bay. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957.
Goldner, Orville, and Turner, George E. The Making of King Kong. Ballantine Books, New York, 1975.
Hanke, Ken. Charlie Chan at the Movies. McFarland & Co. Inc.
Huffman, Rob. “Camping with the Zodiac.” 1997, 2000.
Kessler, Robert. The FBI. New York: Pocket Books, 1993.
Lunde, Donald T., M.D. Murder and Madness. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1979.
Time-Life, editors. Serial Killers. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1992.
Zinman, David. Saturday Afternoon at the Bijou. New York: Arlington House, 1973.
Map of Vallejo Showing Prime Suspect’s Close Proximity to the Victims, Witnesses and Crime Scenes.
index
Abduction and abduction attempts
Adkins, Rich
Alioto, Mayor Joe
Allen, Arthur Leigh:
ambidexterity
and animals. See also Animal torture
arrests
prior
in Santa Rosa, Sept. 27, 1974
in Vallejo, Jan. 23, 1975
background information . See also Cheney, Donald Lee
birthday
clothing worn by
computer files
connection with victims’ names n.
cross-examination of Aug. 4, 1971
death and cremation
education and degrees . See also California Polytechnic State University; Sonoma State College
finances
First Aid certification
fondness for rhymes
gait
health
I.Q.
left-handedness
link to Zodiac
in the Bawart Report
the big tip
positive identification by Mageau
in the media
Fairfield Daily Republic interview
KPIX interview
KTVU interview
San Francisco Chronicle interview
Vallejo Times-Herald interview
voice
parole. See also Pelle, Bruce R.
physical description
as police groupie
polygraph test
in prison. See Atascadero State Hospital for the Criminally Insane
questioning by San Francisco P.D.
questioning by Vallejo P.D.
relationship with brother
relationship with father
Allen, Arthur Leigh (cont.)
relationship with mother
Santa Rosa trailer
sexuality. See also Child molestation
six reasons for hating the police
special skills
trailers owned by. See Trailers
Vallejo home
will
Allen, Bernice (mother)
Allen, Ethan Warren (father)
Allen, Karen (sister-in-law)
Allen, Kim Wendy
Allen, Ronald Gene (brother):
apologizing for Arthur’s child molestation
on Cheney
choking incident
college
cooperation with police
decision to go to the police
and Ferrin
in Leigh’s will
personality
trip to Mexico
Alongis, Ronald
A. M.
Ambidexterity, of suspects
Amos, Richard
“Andrews,”
Animal torture
Ankron, Larry
Anstey, Marie
Antioch Police Department
“Armchair,”
Armstrong, Bill. See also San Francisco Police Department
during Allen cross-examination
investigation
of the Allen home
and Belli
interview with Cheney and Panzarella
interview with family
search of Santa Rosa property
work with Mulanax
link for “similars,”
retirement
transfer from Homicide
Arson
Ashman, Charles
Astrology:
Allen’s sign
horoscopes
symbols used in
syzygy
and timing of murders
Tropical Zodiac analysis
Atascadero State Hospital for the Criminally Insane
Automobiles. See Cars
Avery, Paul
health
meeting with Riverside P.D.
retirement
suggestion for information clearinghouse
theft of Zodiac files from
theories on Zodiac
threats to
witness to stabbing
Ayers, Sue
Badlands
Baker, Detective
Baker, William
Baldino, Steve
Balmer, Thomas D.
Barca, Charles
Basement. See Allen, Arthur Leigh, Vallejo home
Bates, Cheri Jo:
and Allen
evidence
murder
surveillance at burial
Zodiac letters about
Bates, Joseph
Bawart, George:
case summary
and death of Zodiac
during DNA analysis
and Emmett
on Ferrin
interviews
investigation
Bawart, George (cont.)
on jurisdiction issues
on polygraph test by Allen
re-opening Zodiac investigation
Report of 1992
retirement
Beeman, William Steadman
Behavioral Science Unit
Belli, Melvin
Benecia, Calif.
Benecia Police Department
Bennallack, Nancy M.
Berkeley, Calif.
Berkowitz, David (Son of Sam)
Berryessa. See Lake Berryessa
Betts, Sandy
Bianchi, Kenneth
Bidou, Pierre
Black hood. See Hood and executioner’s costume
Blocker, Dan
Bloodlustn.
Blood tests
Blue/black felt tip pens. See Letters, blue/black felt tip pens used
“Blue Meannies,”
“Blue pigs,”
Blue Rock Springs murder/shooting. See also Ferrin, Darlene; Mageau, Mike
and Allen
and Andrews
investigation
timing of
Boasts to police. See Zodiac, boasts
Boats, owned by Allenn.
Bobbie (first love; mother of Karen Harris)
Bodega Bay, Calif.
Bodies:
positioning of
strategy for hiding
Bombs:
engineering diagrams
of New York Zodiac
in plan to escape Atascadero
supplies in Allen home
supplies in New York
threats in letters to Belli
threats to children. See School bus attack threats
by the Unabomber
Bonine, Dave
Borges, Stella
Borrelli, Joseph
Bow and arrow
Box, gray metal
Brandon. E.
Bronstein, Phil
Brooklyn, N.Y. See New York Zodiac
Brothers, Joyce
Brown, Earl
Brown, Lee
Brown, Steve
Bruton, Tom
Bryant, George R.
Bullets
Bundy, Ted
Burke, John
Butterbach (officer)
Cabdriver murders. See also Stine, Paul Lee
Caen, Herb
Cahill, Tom
California Department of Fish and Game
California Department of Justice (DOJ)
California Polytechnic State University
Cannibalism
Capital punishment
Cardimone, Andy
Carlstedt, Butch
Carney, Jack
Carpenter, David
Cars:
Bates murder
Blue Rock Springs murder/shooting
Ferrin murder
Lake Berryessa murders
Lake Herman Road murders
owned by Allen
white Chevrolet seen by witnesses
Case summaries
Caulfield, Jim
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Cheney, Ann
Cheney, Donald Lee:
Allen on
Allen’s visit to
Cheney, Donald Lee (cont.)
and Armstrong
conversation with Voigt
daughter and Allen
handprinting from Allen, attempt
handprinting of
polygraph test
testimony and opinions
Child molestation:
by Allen
and Cheney’s daughter
loss of jobs due to
notes in gray metal box
psychology of pedophiles
sister-in-law on Allen
Children. See School bus attack threats
Choppelas, George T.
Ciphers, symbols, and cryptograms:
Allen showed to friend as Zodiac’s
crossed circle. See Crossed circle symbol
in gray metal box
in letters