The following is a list of generalized facts about Mr. X.  Warning:  I would caution that anyone who would clarify or otherwise show that they have “insider’s knowledge” about these facts and make them more specific on public message boards than they are herein may create severe legal problems for themselves!

1) Mr. X was not cleared of being Zodiac by DNA in 2002.  That is a myth.  If he is Zodiac and knows that he did not lick the stamps and envelopes, then it was in his favor to donate a DNA sample for comparison to the fragment from 2002.  Not to do so would be to bring suspicion upon himself immediately.  It would have made it look like he had something to hide.  (Note: It does not matter why Zodiac did not lick the stamps and envelopes.  The fact remains that he did not!)

2) In 1969, Mr. X was a dead ringer for the SFPD “Revised” sketch of Zodiac.  Zodiac was described by the witnesses as having reddish-brown hair.  Mr. X had reddish brown hair and a receding hairline.  The hair found beneath a stamp on a verified Zodiac letter is reddish-brown. 

When Jim Dean showed a photo of Mr. X to several of the Stine eyewitnesses in 2003, one of them had a very visceral reaction to it, calling the comparison “frightening.”  They said it was the closest to the man they had seen that night of any photo they had ever been shown.  Officer Fouke looked at two different photos of Mr. X, one a B/W photo from the 1960s and one a color photo from the 1970s and said that the person in the B/W one “had the right chin” and the man in the other photo “had the right hairline.”  (He did not realize that he was looking at two photos of the same man.)  Officer Fouke said that Mr. X was a “possible” for the man he had seen.  SFPD has had the B/W 1960s photo of Mr. X in its possession since 1999 and had never bothered to show it to either set of witnesses.  Had they shown it to the Stine witnesses, they would have experienced first-hand the reaction that Jim got when he showed it to them in 2003.

3) The dates of two of the Zodiac murders are related to the date on which Mr. X’s mother died and on which his father was born.  The third murder occurred after midnight on a day that Mr. X had a “large-scale attention seeking event” occur.  He made statements to the press that drew attention to himself and also terrorized the populace of SF Bay Area about the event that he stated occurred on this day.  This was many years before Z existed. Long before there was a Zodiac, Mr. X demonstrated Zodiac’s core behavior of attention seeking.  Because of his statements to the press, he ended up on front page of two Bay Area newspapers.  His statements were egotistical, showed that he felt that he possessed knowledge beyond what the average person would have possessed at the time and flew clearly in the face of both conventional wisdom and science at the time. 

The Belli letter commemorated one of the dates related to his parents, in addition to the LHR murders. 

The last Zodiac murder did not take place on a significant date in Mr. X’s life but was committed within walking distance of his home in 1969.

When I went to SF to meet with Mr. X, he changed date of our meeting from September 22^nd to September 27^th, the anniversary of Berryessa attack, which is also one of the dates related to his parents.  He laughed it off as coincidence brought on by scheduling conflicts.

Shortly after Zodiac’s murders ended, Mr. X bought a company that bore the name of one of Zodiac’s victims.  He then used this company to commemorate date that Zodiac also commemorated.  There was a three-year pattern of commemoration of same date—Mr. X in 1969, then Zodiac in 1970, then Mr. X again in 1971.  The 1971 date makes use of the company bearing the name of one of Zodiac’s victims to force the articles into the papers on this date by holding a press conference to announce news related to the company the day before.

On a certain date in 1955, a large circulation Bay Area paper ran article that had symbol comprised of crossed circle and radian in same figure.  Mr. X has orchestrated articles about himself and made business launch and merger decisions on this same date beginning after 1955 and continuing through the 1990s.

4) The Zodiac was described as having a “calm” voice.  People who are calm speak slowly, not quickly.  In two articles about Mr. X from both years prior to and several years after the Zodiac murders, he is described as having a similar manner of speaking.  In one of the articles, it states that his manner of speech is “leisurely—almost slow.”  Other describes it like voice of an announcer for a classical music station.

5) In 1999, I sent Mr. X two letters trying to get his hand printing for comparison to Zodiac’s.  The responses I received were typewritten—on Monarch sized paper. This is the same unusual sized stationery that Zodiac used for his letters.  (Note: This paper was modern day stationery, not paper that I am purporting came from the 1960’s.)

6) In a 1960s article about his business, the author suddenly speaks about how aloof and distant a person Mr. X is.  He is “unapproachable” and in order to meet him, you had to go through the “proper channels.”  It says that he has been this way all of his life.  He separates himself from others as their superior.  This is what happened when he made statements to the press and got his name on the front pages of two Bay Area newspapers (see Point # 3).  Zodiac clearly felt that he was possessed of knowledge that was superior to that of the citizens of the Bay Area and the police.

7) In 1969, Mr. X lived within walking distance of the Stine murder.  Zodiac, who was a dead ringer for him down to hair color, was seen by Officer Fouke walking within a block of Mr. X’s home at the time and walking on the same side of the street.  He was later accosted by an SFPD officer around the block from the Stine crime scene. Mr. X’s property would have given him a vantage point to view the police search in the park.  It would also have allowed him to hear the sounds of the search that Zodiac described in his letters.  Both Capt. Marty Lee and one of the Stine witnesses feel that whoever Zodiac was, he knew Presidio Heights very well.  What better way to “case” a neighborhood and to know that it is essentially devoid of foot and vehicular traffic at 10 PM on a Saturday night than to live there?

Mr. X owned property near Napa in 1969, which was located between Lake Berryessa and the phone booth.  He has provable ties to Vallejo that predate the Zodiac murders and to Benicia.  He was in Riverside the weekend that Bates was murdered until at least Saturday but further questioning of the witness that places him there may prove that Mr. X was there on Sunday, October 30^th.  He has provable ties to Mr. Diablo.

8) An article in the Chronicle in the 1970s showed that he supported the opera.  He denied any interest in the opera when I interviewed him.

9) Many years before the Zodiac case took place, Mr. X showed an ability to personally orchestrate an article in a national magazine with a “stunt” that was related to his business endeavors.  This demonstrates his familiarity with the press, knowledge of how to manipulate it to his advantage and its power in promoting himself and things he wanted to say.

10) The letter which he wrote to the editor of the newspaper that singled him out spoke of the specter of young people lying “dead or wounded in the street”.  This had already happened at LHR.   He accused the newspaper for promoting the agenda of the youth of the day, calling them “militants and lawbreakers.”   Zodiac killed young people in lovers’ lanes.  He spoke of an upcoming “bloody confrontation.”  Mr. X indicated that if bloodshed occurred, the editor, publisher and “some of your columnists” would share the blame.  (Zodiac later singled out writer Paul Avery for one of his letters.) He said that if the paper did not change the way it reported the news, it would be “rather expensive for all the people of Northern California.”  Zodiac used the word “rather” several times in his letters.  He acknowledges the power of the editor of the newspaper in shaping public opinion and speaks of the potential for the coming of another “Hitler.”  If this new evil entity is unleashed, he says that it will be the fault of the editor. He states that if the social situation lead to another “Hitler,” then “…you and people like you will be mainly responsible.”

11) Mr. X owns a building that has on its façade a big crossed-circle symbol right below his name.

12) Mr. X was in a branch of the military that is usually associated with aspects of the Zodiac case.

13) His original name was changed at one point.  His original name had eighteen letters in it.  When his name was changed, it was altered to have seventeen letters.  In Zodiac’s codes, he lays them out in exactly seventeen columns.  At the end of the three part cipher there are eighteen letters of gibberish.  Thus, Mr. X’s name fits both parameters within that code.  Many people mistake Zodiac’s claim that he was leaving clues to his identity for the notion that he was leaving us his actual name.  Suggesting that his name had both seventeen and eighteen letters at different points in time may be a clue to his identity that could be provided in the codes without having to tell us what his name is.

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