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I will start this blog with a quote I came across while I was working on this post. It was found under the cap of my Honest Tea drink and I found it quite fitting.

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

~ Albert Einstein

Edgar Allan Poe’s stories were ones obsessed with madness and the condition of absurdities and unbelieving truths. I feel the Zodiac Killer was attempting just this with his cipher codes. Poe’s character in “The Gold Bug” story who uncovers the answers to a coded message he found was believed to be mad for a time until he actually found the treasure along with two dead bodies.

But now you may be asking yourself why Edgar Allan Poe would have anything to do with the Zodiac Killer…let’s find out why.

While researching about the Zodiac Killer recently, I found something interesting I had not known before. There was an article written to the Zodiac Killer to try and persuade him to place his real name within a cipher coded message of his own creation. The article quoted Edgar Allan Poe to try and manipulate the Zodiac Killer into using Poe’s cipher code methods. The author of this article did this so that when Zodiac created a new code he might end up using one of Poe’s cipher methods to create it. That way it might be more easy to decode his hidden message within when and if he were to take the bait and send a new cipher letter. Here is the article mentioned.

Will Stevens. “Cipher Expert Dares Zodiac To ‘Tell’ Name.”

San Francisco Examiner (Oct. 22, 1969)

Learn more by reading this article. “My Name Is” Cipher Motivation by Michael Cole

I was previously unaware that Edgar Allan Poe had any association with cipher codes until I had researched about this written article. But I was semi familiar with stories such as “The Tell-Tale Heart”. So I started researching more of his stories to see if I could find any connections with my previous work I had done on Zodiac’s correspondences.

On my journey to find out more I fell down another rabbit hole. The story I found ended up leading me to some very interesting things. I now believe my theory for the Halloween card and the way I have decoded it goes hand in hand with Edgar Allan Poe’s Story “The Gold Bug”. I also have a theory that once this link between the two has been discovered it can then open a new door to the Z340 code as I have started to see similarities between all three subjects when linked together.

The San Francisco Examiner article was published Oct. 22, 1969

The Z340 was sent on November 8th 1969

A couple of weeks after the article was published.

Learn more about the Z340 here.

This would not have given Zodiac much time to create a thoughtful code. Perhaps this was just a quick response to the article.

Zodiac’s Halloween Card was mailed on October 27th 1970

Sent almost exactly a year apart from the article.

Learn more about the Halloween card origins here .

Learn about the Halloween card and what Zodiac altered in it here.

If the Halloween card is a response to the article, he would have had time to really plan a coded message out. (Perhaps he mixed his previous codes with this one.)

Now let’s look into Edgar Allan Poe’s story…

“The Gold Bug” Plot Summary – Quoted from Wikepedia

“William Legrand has relocated from New Orleans to Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina after losing his family fortune, and has brought his African-American servant Jupiter with him. The story’s narrator, a friend of Legrand, visits him one evening to see an unusual scarab-like bug he has found. The bug’s weight and lustrous appearance convince Jupiter that it is made of pure gold. Legrand has lent it to an officer stationed at a nearby fort, but he draws a sketch of it for the narrator, with markings on the carapace that resemble a skull. As they discuss the bug, Legrand becomes particularly focused on the sketch and carefully locks it in his desk for safekeeping. Confused, the narrator takes his leave for the night.

One month later, Jupiter visits the narrator on behalf of his master and asks him to come immediately, fearing that Legrand has been bitten by the bug and gone insane. Once they arrive on the island, Legrand insists that the bug will be the key to restoring his lost fortune. He leads them on an expedition to a particular tree and has Jupiter climb it until he finds a skull nailed at the end of one branch. At Legrand’s direction, Jupiter drops the bug through one eye socket and Legrand paces out to a spot where the group begins to dig. Finding nothing there, Legrand has Jupiter climb the tree again and drop the bug through the skull’s other eye; they choose a different spot to dig, this time finding two skeletons and a chest filled with gold coins and jewelry. They estimate the total value at $1.5 million, but even that figure proves to be below the actual worth when they eventually sell the items.

Legrand explains that on the day he found the bug on the mainland coastline, Jupiter had picked up a scrap piece of parchment to wrap it up. Legrand kept the scrap and used it to sketch the bug for the narrator; in so doing, though, he noticed traces of invisible ink, revealed by the heat of the fire burning on the hearth. The parchment proved to contain a cryptogram, which Legrand deciphered as a set of directions for finding a treasure buried by the infamous pirate Captain Kidd. The final step involved dropping a slug or weight through the left eye of the skull in the tree; their first dig failed because Jupiter mistakenly dropped it through the right eye instead. Legrand muses that the skeletons may be the remains of two members of Kidd’s crew, who buried the chest and were then killed to silence them.”

Read the full story here.

“The Gold Bug” – Readable PDF – Full Story ( read pages 1 – 47)

Here is the information about the books origins.

Book Source Link

Here are a few pages from the book just for quick reference.

This is a small excerpt from an article about the origins of “The Gold Bug” story.

THE GOLD-BUG: The Most Mysterious Edgar Allan Poe Story You’ve Never Heard Of. By Tasha Brandstatter

The Gold-Bug was the first work of fiction to incorporate cryptography into the plot. In fact, the very word cryptograph was invented by Poe and used for the first time in this story. It inspired future cryptologists for generations to come (including William F. Friedman, an American famous in cryptographic circles for breaking Japan’s PURPLE code in WWII), and dozens of writers all over the world. Think Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s Devils in Daylight, or The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers. It’s entirely plausible that the science of cryptanalysis as we know it today wouldn’t exist without The Gold-Bug. Before Poe, cryptography was a complete mystery to most people. Simple substitution ciphers like the one in The Gold-Bug were considered unbreakable unless you possessed the key to decode them. But Poe’s knowledge of language and obsession with logic, or “ratiocination,” made him realize that any code could be broken. And he showed people exactly how to do it.

In 1839, four years before the publication of The Gold-Bug, Poe published an article in Alexander’s Weekly Messenger where he challenged the readers to send him coded messages, stating,

It would be by no means a labor lost to show how great a degree of rigid method enters into enigma-guessing. This may sound oddly; but it is not more strange than the well know fact that rules really exist, by means of which it is easy to decipher any species of hieroglyphical writing—that is to say writing where, in place of alphabetical letters, any kind of marks are made use of at random. For example, in place of A put % or any other arbitrary character—in place of B, a *, etc., etc. Let an entire alphabet be made in this manner, and then let this alphabet be used in any piece of writing.

You can read the full article here.

Now that you have either read the story or the plot summary, how does Poe’s story connect to the Zodiac Killer’s “Halloween Card”?

Let’s look at what I did with some of this information.

One of the things I had done when I was first working on the Halloween Card last year was to take a computer printed version of the card to a light box so I could see through it. This helped me figure out a few things within the card itself to solve it. You can find some of that previous work here.

After finding out about “The Gold Bug” story I decided to look for new connections again. The story stood out to me to begin with simply because it had mentioned two skeletons as well as a cipher code which seemed to be a similarity to the “Halloween Card”. When reading the “Gold Bug”story, the main character mentions the way he first started to figure the coded message out was by accidentally placing it up to the light of the burning fire; only than did things start to appear to him within the parchment.

In the story it was heat that uncovered the code. But what if Zodiac also read it as light and used that instead to create his own code? Or perhaps he used both methods. Though I do not know if a heated process would work on parts of the “Halloween Card”.

These two excerpts are quoted from “The Gold Bug” story. It is the beginning of the explanation of how the character figured out the coded message through the use of the lighted fireplace.

“When, at length, we had concluded our examination, and the intense excitement of the time had, in some measure, subsided, Legrand, who saw that I was dying with impatience for a solution of this most extraordinary riddle, entered into a full detail of all the circumstances connected with it.

“You remember,” said he, “the night when I handed you the rough sketch I had made of the scarabaeus. You recollect also, that I became quite vexed at you for insisting that my drawing resembled a death’s-head. When you first made this assertion I thought you were jesting; but afterwards I called to mind the peculiar spots on the back of the insect, and admitted to myself that your remark had some little foundation in fact. Still, the sneer at my graphic powers irritated me –for I am considered a good artist –and, therefore, when you handed me the scrap of parchment, I was about to crumple it up and throw it angrily into the fire.”

“The scrap of paper, you mean,” said I.

“No; it had much of the appearance of paper, and at first I supposed it to be such, but when I came to draw upon it, I discovered it, at once, to be a piece of very thin parchment. It was quite dirty, you remember. Well, as I was in the very act of crumpling it up, my glance fell upon the sketch at which you had been looking, and you may imagine my astonishment when I perceived, in fact, the figure of a death’s-head just where, it seemed to me, I had made the drawing of the beetle. For a moment I was too much amazed to think with accuracy. I knew that my design was very different in detail from this –although there was a certain similarity in general outline. Presently I took a candle, and seating myself at the other end of the room, proceeded to scrutinize the parchment more closely. Upon turning it over, I saw my own sketch upon the reverse, just as I had made it. My first idea, now, was mere surprise at the really remarkable similarity of outline –at the singular coincidence involved in the fact, that unknown to me, there should have been a skull upon the other side of the parchment, immediately beneath my figure of the scarabaeus and that this skull, not only in outline, but in size, should so closely resemble my drawing. I say the singularity of this coincidence absolutely stupefied me for a time. This is the usual effect of such coincidences. The mind struggles to establish a connection –a sequence of cause and effect –and, being unable to do so, suffers a species of temporary paralysis. But, when I recovered from this stupor, there dawned upon me gradually a conviction which startled me even far more than the coincidence. I began distinctly, positively, to remember that there had been no drawing on the parchment when I made my sketch of the scarabaeus. I became perfectly certain of this; for I recollected turning up first one side and then the other, in search of the cleanest spot. Had the skull been then there, of course I could not have failed to notice it. Here was indeed a mystery which I felt it impossible to explain; but, even at that early moment, there it seemed to glimmer, faintly, within the most remote and secret chambers of my intellect, a glow-worm-like conception of that truth which last night’s adventure brought to so magnificent a demonstration. I arose at once, and putting the parchment securely away, dismissed all farther reflection until I should be alone.

“At this stage of my reflections I endeavored to remember, and did remember, with entire distinctness, every incident which occurred about the period in question. The weather was chilly (oh rare and happy accident!), and a fire was blazing on the hearth. I was heated with exercise and sat near the table. You, however, had drawn a chair close to the chimney. Just as I placed the parchment in your hand, and as you were in the act of inspecting it, Wolf, the Newfoundland, entered, and leaped upon your shoulders. With your left hand you caressed him and kept him off, while your right, holding the parchment, was permitted to fall listlessly between your knees, and in close proximity to the fire. At one moment I thought the blaze had caught it, and was about to caution you, but, before I could speak, you had withdrawn it, and were engaged in its examination. When I considered all these particulars, I doubted not for a moment that heat had been the agent in bringing to light, on the parchment, the skull which I saw designed on it. You are well aware that chemical preparations exist, and have existed time out of mind, by means of which it is possible to write on either paper or vellum, so that the characters shall become visible only when subjected to the action of fire. Zaffre, digested in aqua regia, and diluted with four times its weight of water, is sometimes employed; a green tint results. The regulus of cobalt, dissolved in spirit of nitre, gives a red. These colors disappear at longer or shorter intervals after the material written on cools, but again become apparent upon the re-application of heat.

“I now scrutinized the death’s-head with care. Its outer edges –the edges of the drawing nearest the edge of the vellum –were far more distinct than the others. It was clear that the action of the caloric had been imperfect or unequal. I immediately kindled a fire, and subjected every portion of the parchment to a glowing heat. At first, the only effect was the strengthening of the faint lines in the skull; but, on persevering in the experiment, there became visible, at the corner of the slip, diagonally opposite to the spot in which the death’s-head was delineated, the figure of what I at first supposed to be a goat. A closer scrutiny, however, satisfied me that it was intended for a kid.”

Knowing that Zodiac liked his codes placed within the newspapers as he sent them to reporters to publish, it would be a good assumption that light is to be used instead of heat. He wanted random people to try and figure out his coded messages.

Placing Zodiac’s “Halloween Card” up to a glowing light source.

When I started noticing similarities between Poe’s “Gold Bug” story and Zodiac’s “Halloween Card” I decided to put the images into Photoshop instead of using a light box so I could create a version of it the way it would be seen through a light source. This way I could more easily look for visual connections to see if the two had any more similarities between the story and the images shown. Would the Halloween Card mimic anything within Poe’s story?

This was the result.

The Original

Now let’s see what happens when you put the card up to a light source. Does anything interesting happen?

If you look at this picture closely, it now looks like the skeleton on the card is climbing a tree similar to the character within the story of “The Gold Bug”. In fact this is one of the more memorable parts of the story where the character “Jupiter” climbs a tree while holding onto a string with a gold bug or a (goole bug; the name Jupiter gives the beetle) tied to the end of it to reach out and place the bug within the skeletons eye that is hanging from the long main branch of the tree.

Quoted from “The Gold Bug”

“De bug –I’m berry sartain dat Massa Will bin bit somewhere bout de head by dat goole-bug.”

This video from 1980 of the ABC’s Saturday Special adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Gold Bug” will give you a small visual in similarity before I show how the “Halloween Card” relates to the story even more.

There is a spot in the video where a boy climbs a tree and places the gold bug hanging from a string within the skeletons left eye till it reaches the ground and then they draw a Bee line from the tree.

Please note they changed the character to a little boy instead of the adult servant (slave) “Jupiter”in Poe’s story. This movie is not an exact replica of Poe’s story but shows a good visual representation of what has taken place in the actual book.

Start at the time 34:13 and stop at 36:30 to see the spot I am mentioning.

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Could this represent the depiction in Zodiac’s Halloween Card?

Poe’s Cipher code solved within his story.

On page 42 of “The Gold Bug” (from the pdf mentioned earlier in this post) the first paragraph describes part of the stories solved coded message. This leads into climbing the tree in the story after they followed the codes directions.

Here is Poe’s solved coded message.

‘A good glass in the Bishop’s hostel in the Devil’s seat — forty-one degrees and thirteen minutes — northeast and by north — main branch seventh limb east side — shoot from the left eye of the death’s-head — a bee-line from the tree through the shot fifty feet out.'”

Now back to the Zodiac’s “Halloween Card” and how the code might relate.

Now that we see the Halloween card through a light source similar to in Poe’s story let’s see if the solved code also has any coincidences or parts that match up.

If the Zodiac killer was trying to incorporate visuals into his coded message similar to dual coding theory methods then maybe this is what he did.

“main branch seventh limb east side”

I believe the eyes resemble the branches on the tree. His foot is nestled on (branch 1). His head is next to (branch 7) His arm is holding onto the main branch (branch 6 ). The Zodiac Killer circled the main branch with text. (Peek-A-Boo You are doomed) The skeletons arm is reaching outward from the main branch towards the other skeletons skull which is resting on the long main branch. (branch 6). I believe the sentence ( “But, then, why spoil the game!”) resembles the rest of the long main branch with the skeletons head resting on it.

In Poe’s story there is a bit of a confusion between the main branch and branch 7.

“One, two, tree, four, fibe –I done pass fibe big limb, massa, ‘pon dis side.”

“Then go one limb higher.”

In a few minutes the voice was heard again, announcing that the seventh limb was attained.

The skeletons hand is extended almost as if it is holding something like a string in it’s hand. (The string is not visible though.)

If the skeleton was holding a string like the servant (slave) Jupiter in the “Gold Bug” story, then what is directly below where a string would be hanging?

A capital B rests directly below. (Could the letter “B” be a reference for Bug or Beetle?)

Is this Zodiac’s attempt to show the story of “The Gold Bug” through a coded message? Did he pick this card because he saw the ironic similarity with the story? I believe him to be a visual thinker as well as an artist. Minds that can see images together easily simply by looking at them. But unless we knew what we were looking for and what importance they had, the images together would remain a mystery as they would not connect in a solvable way.

If the letter “B” does resemble the gold bug in Poe’s story then the character in the story had climbed the tree not once but twice with the same bug. They had made a mistake the first time and placed the bug through the wrong skeletons eye dropping it on the ground and digging in the wrong location. Does this rendering of the “Halloween Card” show this?

The B is found twice under the pinched fingers of the hand.

What other clues can we find that might follow this story?

“shoot from the left eye of the death’s-head — a bee-line from the tree through the shot fifty feet out.'”

If we follow Poe’s story he drops the string with the bug attached to the end through both of the skeletons eyes. Let’s see what would happen if we dropped a string from both eyes.

Strangely two B’s rest right below the skeletons eyes as well. But only when this card is seen through a light source just like in Poe’s story. The coded message can only be fully seen when brought to the light.

After each string was dropped in Poe’s story they had drawn a Bee Line ( straight line) from the tree. This is what I found within the legs of the skeleton right between the “two B’s” that are only seen next to the skeleton in the card when placed up to a light source. Could Zodiac have used similarities, visuals along with wordplay to jest this as a letter B for creating a Bee line?

After they drew a B line they had dug holes within that spot. If the center of the B legs is the digging spot what will we find inside?

On the left the letters D and I are found but are halfway cut off and not fully within the leg digging spot. On the right the reverse K is directly found within this leg digging spot. This was from the left eye of the skeleton where there was something supposed to be found there. I have a theory about this letter. You can find it further down in this post.

Let’s look at another portion of Poe’s solved coded message from earlier.

“forty-one degrees and thirteen minutes — northeast and by north — main branch seventh limb east side

The numbers 41 and 13 seemed familiar within the “Halloween Card” to me. In fact those numbers stood out to me when I first read Poe’s story and noticed them directly in his solved code. I thought to myself what were the chances that they just fit?

Here are two images I put together for one of my previous posts about these numbers.

Now if we go by Poe’s code from the story and use it in reference to the “Halloween Card” what do we find?

“main branch seventh limb east side.”

Here I have sectioned off the spot where the 7th limb would be above the main branch. It mentions the east side of the branch, (northeast by north) so lets look right from the tree. Lets take notice that this is exactly where the skeletons starting hand is at first.

“forty-one degrees and thirteen minutes — northeast and by north”

When you view this card like this the 14 in the hand looks like a 41 and the word TEEN can resemble the number 13 for teen years. The 4-TEEN could even resemble a relevance to time. 4:13.

What were the coincidences that this is what would be found in that spot?

The skeletons hand has it’s fingers circled directly in the right spot to make this look like the symbol you use for degrees when placed above a number.

The 3 fingers in the hand could symbolize an E for East.

If you add the arms of the skeleton that are located where the main branch is and put them into the equation, they look like the symbol for N.

If we used a map this also might relate to a different kind of directions.

Looking for more clues within the 7th limb location.

I decided to look and see what letters stood out when looking at this spot in the “Halloween Card” by following Poe’s story directions.

This is what I found. (The letters on the left are excluded as we were meant to look eastward from the tree.)

The letters G and F shine through the card when placed to the light source.

The other letters present in this specific spot without the light present is the letter T both within the eye of the skeleton as well as in the word TEEN. If you want you can also include the letter b within the hand of the skeleton as I have shown it previously within another blog. The letter B shows through when placed up to a light source right below the b hand symbol.

Also notice when placed up to the light source that within the wrist of the skeleton the letter t shines through as well.

“T.B” or all of the letters “T. G. F. B. ”

Following Poe’s story to find two letters which are possibly a clue to directions.

If we look North East on the card like in the directions for Poe’s story, the one letter that shines through with light is the letter P. And then if we follow the other directions with digging a hole within a specific spot I believe we get the letter K which shines through only with light.

I personally believe these two letters have to do with road names for directions to a specific location that I have decoded previously within the Halloween card as it says “By P. as well as By K”

The directions I have uncovered and followed lead me to an unsolved murder to a boy who was stabbed by a knife 4 times with the initials of T.B. He was killed on the church grounds of Saint Basil the Great in the center of two streets one by the name Pike Springs Rd. or (113) and the other by the name Kimberton Rd.

Part of a postcard Zodiac sent within the same month of the Halloween Card

The Saint Basil church where the boy was murdered has some very interesting artwork within it’s church that seems very similar to some of the constructs of this card as well.

I have placed a partial amount of information about the directions I came by and a few other things that go along with them on a previous blog.

If you would like to learn more you can read about it here towards the middle of the blog.

Connecting Zodiacs “Halloween Card” and Poe’s story “The Gold Bug” to Zodiac’s “Z340” code.

Once I started noticing things through a light source I also began seeing possible similarities between Zodiac’s “Z340 “cipher code and his “Halloween Card.”

Here is just one out of many I have found.

After this I got an idea from reading a post by Shaqmeister.

Take the skeleton from the inside of Zodiac’s “Halloween Card” and place it onto Zodiac’s “Z340” coded message. This skeleton was placed onto the “Halloween Card” by the Zodiac Killer and was not part of the original card.

You can read the original post here.

I used Photoshop once again and tried to size the skeleton to be the proper dimensions to fit the Z340 in the way it could be meant to be used. While this is just an example for now, there are many different things that I have seen shine through when the skeleton is placed within specific spots.

I also started looking for clues within Poe’s “Gold Bug” story to see if there were any similarities between the story to piece together with Zodiac’s “Halloween Card” and the “Z340” all in one. I believe I have found quite a few connections when messing with wordplay and a few other similarities in descriptions. But these connections will all be for another blog at another time.

Taking a closer look at the characters in Poe’s story.

Character Analysis

William Legrand – The text’s protagonist, Legrand is a reclusive man who lives on desolate Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina. A man of the wealthy Huguenot bloodline, we are told Legrand lost his riches (although we are not told how) while living in New Orleans and moved to South Carolina to removed himself from the embarrassment of his misfortune.

Legrand is an intelligent and focused man; showing a resilience to distractions once he realizes that his bug can help him hit the jackpot. That said, his mission devours his entire being, resulting in what appears as manic behavior to the narrator and Jupitar. After they have recovered the treasure however, Legrand is composed, confident and ultimately proud of his accomplishment. His erratic behavior has ceased, and he calmly explains to the narrator how he figured out the location of the riches. Legrand has a passion for cryptology, mystery and nature.

Unnamed Narrator – Although he carries the entire story, the only things we are told about the narrator is that he lives in Charleston, practices as a physician, and is a friend of Legrand’s. He accompanies the man on his treasure hunt out of worry of his health.

Jupitar – Legrand’s black servant. A dim-witted and southern-tongued freed slave, Jupitar provides comic relief with his thick accent and tendency to disappoint his master. Although Legrand gets frustrated and angry with Jupitar on the hunt for treasure, it is understood that they maintain a peaceful, quasi-friendship.

Captian Kidd – An allusion to the 17th century Scotish sailor who was executed by English Parlimanet in 1701 for charges of piracy. At the time of the text, Kidd is long dead, only living on through the enormous treasure of that Legrand finds buried on Sullivan’s Island. Legends of Kidd treasures exist not only in The Gold-Bug, but in other literature as well as in folklore. It’s possible, though, that these tales are based in fact – for a treasure buried by the sailor was found on Gardiner’s Island off of Long Island, NY, shipped back to England and used as evidence against him in his trial. Kidd’s physical character does not appear in the text, but his contribution to the story is so great that he warrants a description on this page.

Take a look at the Biography of Captain Kidd history channel video here.

Old Negro Woman – Woman that Legrand finds in the brush; helps him locate the site of the buried treasure.

The Gold-Bug – classified by Legrand as a member of the Old World genus Scarabaeus, the beetle is dominantly gold in color – save for multiple black spots on the bug’s back – and about the size of a hickory nut. There is confusion as to whether or not the insect displays antennae; Legrand insists they are present and visible, while Jupitar and the narrator insist they cannot see them. No identical species exists in nature, though it is hypothesized that Poe used a combination of traits from Callichroma splendidum and Phanceus carnifex to create his composite gold-bug (see Poe’s Motive and Inspiration).

My thoughts on possible relations and observations to the characters within Poe’s story “The Gold Bug” combined with the “Halloween Card”.

The man climbing the tree in Poe’s story is called “Jupiter”. When you relate this character to the skeleton climbing the tree in the Halloween card what do we find?

When I was previously working on the Halloween Card I had associated this skeleton with the name Jack / John. They all have the same first initial. You can read more about Jack/john here.

In Poe’s story he mentions a Lieutenant G– but never gives the name. He just uses the initial G.

I had found the letter G on the main branch seventh limb spot using Poe’s code.

Here is a previous blog I wrote about the name George.

William Legrand is probably representative to the person trying to figuring out Zodiac’s riddle. If this were true it would be a kind of sick humor on Zodiac’s part. Him wanting people to think the person solving his riddles to be insane.

Captain Kidd could relate to another card zodiac wrote, “The Dragon Card” which has pirate references in it. Learn more here.

In conclusion…

I think the Zodiac killer wanted to make the person who uncovers the answers to his codes to appear to be mad in a way. Because what code would appear in this form and how will they find a way to explain it?

Language can be a tricky thing. Spoken language can have one meaning while written can have another separate meaning; add an image into the mix and you might have multiple meanings. How do we find the right way for the pieces to fit together? And are there multiple ways that they are saying the same thing over and over in the different formats to prove them to be the answer?

Though I am not an expert on all coded formats nor the names by which they go by, I believe the Zodiac Killer may have used something similar to a dual coding theory method meant to confuse the mind and leave people questioning if the answers found are actually true. This way all we can do is speculate. The methods used were controversial for the times back then and they still are to this very day. That is why I believe they are so hard to prove.

I will share a couple of small excerpts from this book…

The Visual Experience of Image Metaphor: Cognitive Insights into Imagist Figures By Daniel W. Gleason

“In the 1960s, however, the cognitive turn in psychology and the rise of reader-response theory in literary studies helped thaw the mental imagery freeze. Slowly, and then with increasing speed, psychology studies brought the visual image back into circulation., As Roeckelein (2004: xii) notes, scientific interest in the topic of imagery made “a dramatic recovery with enormous increases from 1961 to the present.”- Stephen Kosslyn, William Thompson, and Giorgio Ganis (2006: 5) note that this shift was sparked by changes in methodology: “Cognitive psychology offered a way to begin to assess properties of internal representations, which opened the door to studying mental imagery objectively.” Alan Richardson (1969), Paivio (1971), and P. W. Sheehan (1972) were among the first psychologists to closely investigate mental imagery after behaviorism. During this time, the modern imagery debate (the successor to the imageless thought debate of the late nineteenth century) began, and cognitive psychologists con-ducted experiments to discover the format of mental representations; some argued that the brain represents information through a propositional code (i.e., an abstract verbal code) alone, and others countered that the brain makes use of both propositional and depictive (i.e., visual image–based) formats..

Paivio’s “dual coding theory,” which posits a nonverbal, mental image–based mode of mental representation alongside a verbal one as an explana-tion for the mnemonic superiority of concrete words over abstract words,/has attracted serious attention to mental imagery and visual imagery in particular. Though the “nonverbal” code accommodates mental imagery in general, Paivio’s early methods and discussion privileged the visual mode within mental imagery. Indeed, in Paivio’s (1971: 233) 1971 formulation the dual coding theory proposed the image and verbal codes after studying responses to “abstract words, concrete words, and pictures,” a framework that helps reveal the theory’s particular investment in visual imagery. Much of Paivio’s (ibid.: 207) discussion reveals a slippage between broad term image and the more specific visual image: “Thus concrete words not only are read or heard but some of them also evoke referent images; familiar pictures are perceived (images are aroused).” Perhaps because a few thinkers challenged the preeminence of visual imagery within his nonverbal system (Kintsch 1977; Flanagan 1984), Paivio (1986, 1991, 2007) moderates this visual investment in later versions of the theory, carefully noting the many modalities within the image system. Nonetheless, visual imagery remains a key feature within Paivio’s system”

Ironically, such an association of Imagist poem and picture prompted the editors of Some Imagist Poets (1916: v) to attempt to push beyond this simple equation: “In the first place ‘Imagism’ does not mean merely the presen-tation of pictures. ‘Imagism’ refers to the manner of presentation, not the subject.” Finally, there is Hulme. In his dogmatic, declarative way, Hulme is perhaps most emphatic about the importance of visual imagery in poetry, both for the reader and for the writer. Hulme’s literary philosophy centers on a sharp, visual language that communicates through images. He declares: “Each word must be an image seen . . . a man cannot write without seeing at the same time a visual signification before his eyes. It is this image which precedes the writing and makes it firm” (Hulme 1955c [1925]: 79). To Hulme, authors can only write through visual imagery, and readers must be able to see (presumably through visual imagery) each word that the author has written—a daunting requirement. Hulme (1955a [1908]: 73) even argues that the best poetry will make readers visualize so much that they become exhausted: “The new visual art . . . depends for its effect . . . on arresting the attention, so much so that the succession of images should exhaust one.” Certainly, other sensory modes, most notably touch, appear within Imagist theories of poetry, but overall their visual poetics is foundational. Despite these strong claims of visuality for both the writer and the reader in Imagist theories of poetry, many scholarly accounts of Imagist poetics seem uninterested in or even hostile to the visual aspect of those poetics. Scholarship on Imagism disagrees widely on a few contentious issues (e.g., who really created Imagism?), but the central accounts of Imagism seem to agree that the visual imagination is not a very important subject for schol-arly attention. These accounts particularly devalue the reader’s visual imagery, minimizing its role within Imagist poetics and its contribution to poetic understanding.

Anyways this is just a little food for thought to ponder over. There is much more that may be gleaned from Poe’s story “The Gold Bug” as there is a whole code he mentions within the pages that may relate in another way to the Zodiac’s messages. These are just a few of my thoughts and ramblings, please take them with a grain of salt.

My Honest Tea Cap

The Zodiac Killer may have used Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Gold Bug” to create some of his cipher codes. I will start this blog with a quote I came across while I was working on this post.

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An update for my solution on Zodiac's My name is Letter with bomb diagram.

An update for my solution on Zodiac’s My name is Letter with bomb diagram.

I have found the name within the anagram of the my name is letter as well as a hidden light code!

When i had originally first started working on the My name is letterin 2018 that the Zodiac wrote, I noticed the bomb diagram that came with it had matched many things within the letter itself. I soon started noticing that there was a light code in the pages. I then began uncovering a name within.…

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Allot of speculation has been going around that the Zodiac might have used a few comic books as his inspiration for the creation of his Halloween card. He had created a code within the Halloween Card taunting that his name could be found probably within the bones of the skeletons.

“I feel it in my bones. You ache to know my name, And so I’ll clue you in…

…But then why spoil the game!”

The card was originally sent to the reporter Paul Avery on October 27th 1970.

Learn more about the Halloween card here.

But how are comic books connected to this card? What drew people to this conclusion?

Let’s look into one of Paul Avery’s news articles.

I decided to look up Paul Avery’s articles that he had written before the Halloween card. I had found one that got my attention. It was written almost exactly one year before the Halloween card was sent to him directly.

The thing that got my attention about this article is that Paul Avery mentions comic strips and associates the Zodiac Killer with them.

So we know Zodiac would read these articles. And since Avery had already mentioned comic strips and the like it would not be too far of a stretch if Zodiac then decided to use comics for his creations like the Halloween card which was sent directly to Avery one year after this article was published. The idea was already being circulated in the general public. So it was already a thought in many peoples minds.

San Fransisco Chronicle – October 24th 1969

Halloween Card – October 27th 1970

In the clipping it says that the Zodiac is not the zodiac from the comic strip. Maybe for his Halloween card he used certain comics that he thought did give us a clue to who he is. Could this be a connection? Could Paul Avery have given the Zodiac Killer the idea to use comic books to clue us into his identity?

It’s interesting to think that he may have been taunting Avery due to the article he had written about comic strips and sent him a card that is connected to certain comics to help break the code without cluing him into it. Maybe he thought he could connect those dots?

Let’s see what links and information we can find to this comic book theory.

Tahoe27 originally found the connection between the Halloween card and the Lady Doom comic book and posted it to Zodiackiller.com found here.

Let’s look at the Tim Holt issue #30 Lady Doom comic book.

Front Page of Issue #30 Lady Doom Comic

This comic has been linked to the Halloween card by the similarities of the death wheel and the back of the Halloween card.

“Death by Gun, Death by Knife, Death by Fire, Death by Rope”

Back of Halloween Card

The character Red Mask is also linked due to the red mask placed onto the skeletons face inside the Halloween card.

The way the initials of the artist are demonstrated also play a role of similarity.

Notice how the 4 dots within the Halloween card match the shape of the center of the artists initials. The only difference is they are upside down. But they are both in the center. The F is obvious and the only one that is a question is the upside down L.

Is this comic book artist signature a clue to de-coding Zodiac’s signature?

Frank W. Bolle is the Comic Book Artist.

Frank W. Bolle (born June 23, 1924)[1][2] is an American comic-strip artist, comic-book artist and illustrator, best known as the longtime artist of the newspaper strips Winnie Winkle and The Heart of Juliet Jones; for stints on the comic books Tim Holt and Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom; and as an illustrator for the Boy Scouts of America magazine Boys’ Life for 18 years. With an unknown writer, he co-created the masked, Old West comic-book heroine the Black Phantom. Bolle sometimes used the pen name FWB and, at least once, F. L. Blake.

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Could this name be a link to Zodiac’s name?

The name Frank/ Francis has come up consistently with all of my research.

The comic is also about Lady Doom and in the Halloween card Zodiac wrote in white paint around the eye that is staring at the red masked skeleton.

“PEEK-A-BOO YOU ARE DOOMED!”

Doom being the linking word in similarity.

In fact the whole Issue #30 comic book following the Lady Doom strip is riddled with many interesting things that can support many of the Zodiacs personality quirks. It almost seems to be a criminals handbook for ideas and ways to fool people and get away with murder.

The man of 1000 faces for instance.

Notice the artist Frank Bolle wrote his name this time instead of just his initials.

Within this issue he describes how he can fool people with disguises and how he has learned to forge other peoples handwriting.

Now that we have seen some of the connections for this comic book and how they link with the Halloween card…let’s look into the history of the character of Red Mask.

I came across an interesting blog by Western Comics Adventures. (Author unknown)

TIM HOLT “becomes Red-Mask!”

“When Tim Holt #19 came out in 1950, the last page of the comic asked the question…” Who is this man?

“…when #20 came out two months later, the readers found out who the masked man was…”

“Many Western movie and tv stars had self-titled comics that played on the conceit that the actors actually were Western characters!

But this was the only series that a “reel-life” Westerner assumed a masked identity he hadn’t played on the silver screen…”

The masked identity became so popular that almost every cover from #20 onward featured the masked hero, and the book was re-titled Red Mask with #42!”

I would think Zodiac probably grew up reading all of these comics and probably was a big fan of westerns as well.

So let’s assume Zodiac used this comic book character to clue us into who he is. The character “Red Mask” is now linked to a real person “Tim Holt”.

Back in those days it seems they wanted people to believe that the characters portrayed were their actual identity. So Tim Holt is Red Mask in real life which is the message they are sending.

But who is Tim Holt?

Wikipedia Link above

Charles John “Tim” Holt III (February 5, 1919 – February 15, 1973) was an American actor best known for his youthful leading roles in dozens of Western films and his co-starring roles in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).

Tim Holt was born Charles John Holt III on February 5, 1919, in Beverly Hills, California, the son of actor Jack Holt and Margaret Woods.[1] During his early years, he accompanied his father on location, even appearing in an early silent film.[2] He was the inspiration for his father’s book, Lance and His First Horse.

Holt was educated at Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, graduating in 1936.[2] One of his classmates was Budd Boetticher who recalled Holt “used to walk around in our suite of rooms there…and he often had on his .38 revolvers and holster. He’d walk up and down the hall in his bathrobe and practice drawing his guns. He’d say, ‘I’m going to be a western star some day’.”[3] Immediately after graduation he went to work in the Hollywood film business.[1]

So Tim Holt’s actual name is Charles John “Tim” Holt III.

If you have read any of my previous posts then you know that the names Jack and John keep popping up every time I research most of the clues Zodiac has left us within his cards and letters. The name Frank is also one that pops up over and over and I’ve started seeing George now and again.

Tim Holt’s fathers name is “Jack” Holt. Let’s take a look.

Wikipedia Link above.

Charles John Holt Jr.[1] (May 31, 1888 – January 18, 1951) was an American motion picture actor in both silent and sound movies, particularly Westerns.

Born in 1888 in Winchester, Virginia, Holt was the son of an Episcopal priest.[2] When in Manhattan, he attended Trinity School. He was accepted into the Virginia Military Institute in 1909,[3] but expelled for misbehavior in his second semester there.[2]

Following Holt’s father’s death, the family moved to New York City, where Jack, his mother, and brother Marshall lived with his married sister, Frances.[2]

Holt worked at various jobs including construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s tunnel under the Hudson River and being a “surveyor, laborer, prospector, trapper, and stagecoach driver, among many other jobs” during an almost six-year stay in Alaska.[2]

Holt began in Hollywood with stunt work and bit parts in serials and at Universal Pictures worked as a supporting player for Francis Ford and his brother John Ford, and Grace Cunard.

It would seem that both father and son have the same exact name (Charles John Holt) but they are also both more known by a nickname instead. One is known as Tim and the other as Jack. Both are very famous stars and they have even been together in films.

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The Arizona Raider is a 1948 Western starring Tim Holt and his father Jack, the only movie where they co-starred.

RKO head of production Dore Schary, impressed by the Holts being in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, gave the film a bigger budget than Holt Westerns normally received.[5] It was also known as The Arizona Ranger.

Now that we have uncovered the identity of the Red Mask, let’s look at the other comic book believed to be associated with the Halloween card.

The September-October 1943 Red Ryder Comic #15 as well as the 1952 Red Ryder Paint Book.

The Red Ryder comic is about a character called Red Ryder and his sidekick Little Beaver. The artist is known as Fred Harman.

Fred Harman (February 9, 1902 – January 2, 1982) was an American artist, best known for his popular Red Ryder comic strip, which he drew for 25 years, reaching 40 million readers through 750 newspapers. Harman sometimes used the pseudonym Ted Horn.

These two comics are also said to be used as the Zodiac’s inspiration for the Halloween Card. The main reason is due to the symbol on the covers of these two comics. It is almost identical to the Zodiac Killers signature on the Halloween Card except these ones have a line on the bottom. But when you look at the envelope the Halloween card was sent in the Z is in the right spot to make that extra line.

Top left image: Halloween card signature from inside of the card. Right image: Envelope the Halloween card was in. Two bottom left images: Red Ryder Comic Symbols.

Top: Halloween Card Signature Bottom Two: Red Ryder Comic Symbols

Signature on the Envelope of Zodiac’s Halloween Card

So now that we see the same similar symbol, the question is what does it mean?

In the context of the comic book it is known as a Cattle brand.

The symbol is known as the Flying VF Bar Cattle Brand

More info

It is commonly called the Flying VF bar. It is also referred to as representing the Big Dipper constellation. It is also said to be the name of the current ranch owner Vincent Fontana. However Vincent Fontana did not own the ranch in the Zodiac era. It was then owned by Jon Clark Cummings, who also used this brand. The Flying VF brand was registered in 1941.

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It is interesting that the name John comes up again. He was the owner of the ranch with the Flying VF Bar Cattle Brands in those days. Another clue maybe? (I still need to find the sources for this.)

In terms of the Zodiac’s Halloween Card creation, the signature is slightly different than this cattle brand.

Another thing that can be considered similar is the negative space within the bottom part of the RR symbol directly above the Flying V.F. Bar Cattle Brand.

The negative space makes a similar shape to that of the 4 dots in the Halloween Card signature. Remember Frank Bolle’s signature in the other comic book with the W? Could this be another clue that the dots are supposed to be lines?

Another similarity is the number 14 or 41.

The Indian is pointing North East after the number 41.

Could this maybe be a clue for directions on a road as well as reversing the numbers? 30 is in the hand of the skeleton as well as the 14.

Place the numbers together then reverse the 14 and it ends up being 4130.

If you reverse this number as a whole you get 0314 the equivalent for PI. Which is found all over the Halloween card. It’s even written within the wrist of one of the skeletons.

Another similarity was the circled symbol that looks as if it could be an axe or the letter T on the Red Ryder Paint Book. If you look closely into one of the skeletons left eye in the Halloween card you can see a T written within in a circle.

I also noticed there is a tent and a broken arrow next to this symbol.

It makes me wonder if this is a victim of the Zodiac killers. Maybe a child or a boy-scout was killed in a tent by an arrow, knife or even an axe who’s first name starts with a T. The fact that the letter T is within the skeletons eye could mean that the boy was last seen in the eye of the killer….the skeleton representing one of the murderers.

I also noticed that the same skeleton is holding up his hand in the shape of a lowercase b which is right next to the T. So initials could be T.B.

The reason I bring this up is due to some of my first work on the Halloween card. I had actually found a code within the card and broke it. I found not one but two full names/ two killers who appear to be family related with the same last name. This is what lead me on a goose chase to finding all the same names many times over within all the clues Zodiac has sent in his correspondences .

I also found directions within the code to a certain location. The starting location given was S.E. PA, Paradise. I will not go into the full logistics of the entire code and how it works. But here is a very small piece from my original work. It was done through a chronological method of matching letters, numbers and imagery similar to a card game like rummy but also different. Notice how the letters in SECRET PAL are all in big caps the same as how Zodiac wrote the back of the card message PARADiCE / SLAVES.

As I followed the directions I had decoded they lead me to a church where I had later found out a boy had been stabbed multiple times within his tent. The case is still unsolved. His initials are T.B. and the murder happened exactly six months and one day before the Halloween card was received. This would have given Zodiac ample time to create a well laid out coded card as well as deliver it on the 6 month anniversary of the killing.

Another interesting thing was the hand imagery and directions S.E. of PA, Paradise matched the hand with the 14 reversed. (Directions starting at Highway 1 then to 41 then to 30)

Remember how I had placed these numbers in this order 4130 reversed 0314 or 3.14

However the directions did not lead into Paradise. It was just the place that was shown within the Halloween card as the first location to look for. A more in depth look at this may be a post for another day. But I will say that it was up one big thirteenth. (113) Which coincidentally I found out this number is also linked to the number 3.14.

Part of the 13 hole punch postcard Zodiac sent October 5th 1970 within the same month he sent the Halloween Card

As of right now this is all speculation, but it is a strange and very bizarre path that I have found. Maybe one day we will find out if there is any truth in this. Until then all we can do is speculate and ask the question “what if…?”.

I’m sure there are probably a few more things that are similar within this comic book to the Halloween card but lets start looking at the characters of the comic book now.

About the Red Ryder Comic Book Characters

Astride his mighty steed Thunder, Red was a tough cowpoke who lived on Painted Valley Ranch in the Blanco Basin of the San Juan Mountain Range with his aunt, the Duchess, and his juvenile Native-American sidekick, Little Beaver, who rode his horse, Papoose, when they took off to deal with the bad guys. Little Beaver spoke in the pidgin English now considered an offensive caricature (for example: “Spinach heap good. Me like’m!”). Other notable characters were ranch hand Buckskin Blodgett, Red’s gal pal Beth, and bad guy Ace Hanlon.

So now for the question… who was Red Ryder?

Jim Bannon was who portrayed Red Ryder’s character in film. He was also well known for his most prominent acting role for being a detective called Jack.

Jim Bannon

James Shorttel Bannon (April 9, 1911 – July 28, 1984) was a radio announcer and Hollywood Western film actor known for his work on the I Love a Mystery and Red Ryder series during the 1940s and 1950s.

Bannon began his broadcasting career on local radio station KCKN, then briefly at KMOX in St. Louis. He moved to Los Angeles in 1937, beginning his show business career in radio as an announcer on The Great Gildersleeve, The Chase and Sanborn Hour, and Stars over Hollywood, among others, with his most prominent acting role being that of Detective Jack Packard in the serial I Love a Mystery.

Bannon is best known for being the last of four actors to portray the fictional cowboy Red Ryder in the long-running B-movie series, completing between 1949 and 1950 what would be the final four pictures in the franchise that were distributed by Eagle-Lion Films

What I noticed instantly when I saw this is the last name almost matches completely with the last name I had decoded in the Halloween Card with one difference; an o instead of an a.

(Bannon / Bannan)

The other thing I noticed was his initials. which are J.B. (Jim Bannon) and that his most prominent acting role was being Detective Jack Packard.

His sons name is also Jack Bannon.

John James Bannon (June 14, 1940 – October 25, 2017) was an American television and stage actor, known as Jack Bannon.[1][2] He was best known for his role as Art Donovan on Lou Grant, a role he played for the duration of the series, from 1977 to 1982.

At age 24, Bannon began working as a dialog coach on Petticoat Junction.[3] In 1963, he appeared in the Season 1 episode “Kate’s Recipe For Hot Rhubarb” of the series as Bobbie Joe’s date, Roger. In 1969, Bannon was seen again on Petticoat Junction (after his mother died in 1968) appearing as “Buck” in the episode “One of Our Chickens Is Missing”.[4]

Bannon’s signature role was that of Art Donovan on Lou Grant. The actor’s film career included What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)

Are these more coincidences and are they linked?

Perhaps Zodiac did use these comic books for his inspiration to create his Halloween card. Maybe he wanted us to find them and find the links. Or perhaps he didn’t think we would ever find them and he got off on never being able to be caught even though the clues were placed. It makes you think though.

I definitely see many similarity’s. And in my opinion I believe he used techniques of hiding things in plain site with multiple meanings using imagery similar to that of other things to help us make a connection. It draws our eye from one place to the next. Artists have been using this process for a very long time. And isn’t that what the zodiac is in a way; an artist?

In my next post I will be taking a closer look at the Dripping Pen Card Zodiac sent. Did you know dripping pens link back to the same names?

Pen leakage

Meanwhile, many inventors turned their attention to the problem of leakage.[20] Some of the earliest solutions to this problem came in the form of a “safety” pen with a retractable point that allowed the ink reservoir to be corked like a bottle. The most successful of these came from Francis C. Brown of the Caw’s Pen and Ink Co. and from Morris W. Moore of Boston.[21]

In 1898, George Safford Parker released the Parker Jointless, named so because its barrel was single-piece to prevent leakage. The section assembly fit into the pen’s end like a cork stopper; any leaked ink was kept inside the nib.[22]

In 1908, Waterman began marketing a popular safety pen of its own.[23] For pens with non-retractable nibs, the adoption of screw-on caps with inner caps that sealed around the nib by bearing against the front of the section effectively solved the leakage problem (such pens were also marketed as “safety pens”, as with the Parker Jack Knife Safety and the Swan Safety Screw-Cap).[24][25]

If you feel that I missed something that should be added to this blog please leave a comment. I will update with things that are needed.

If you would like to see a more in depth look at how the comic books help to unlock the Halloween card signature please take a look at a previous blog here.

A few links to Jack.

A few links to George – This is a name that can also link with the Halloween card.

Links to Frank – I have not written this blog quite yet as Frank comes up allot but here is an added link to the name Frank from the stamp on the envelope of the Halloween Card.

The Zodiac Killer – Exploring the comic book theory and how two of them might have been the inspiration for his Halloween Card. Allot of speculation has been going around that the Zodiac might have used a few comic books as his inspiration for the creation of his Halloween card.

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I found the code! My Name Is Letter and Bomb Diagram - The bomb is on the page.

I found the code! My Name Is Letter and Bomb Diagram – The bomb is on the page.

I wanted to try and show how the My Name Is Letter and the Bomb Diagram the Zodiac created and how they match.

Learn more about the My Name Is Letter and Bomb Diagram here.

I first started seeing this code just by seeing the similarities in the pages. I went over to a friends house and showed her what I had found. It gave her an idea and she showed me that maybe they could both be placed together…

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When adding up quite a few of the clues that the zodiac has left over time to give us an idea of his name you find certain things that when linked together they tell a story. All of these things point to the name George. I was first clued into this while researching ideas about a certain comic book linked to The Zodiac Killers Halloween Card.

Let’s look at the Tim Holt’s Issue #30 Lady Doom Comic Book.

This comic book has been linked to the zodiac killer. It is said to be an inspiration for his work on the 1970 Halloween Card he created which is said to have his name hidden within the card.

Learn more about the Halloween Card here.

It would seem the Lady Doom comic is all about a wheel of torture and death.

If you look at page #8 and #9 of the comic book you see the REDMASK is placed on an actual wheel of torture.

On page #9 I also noticed REDMASK is freed By a Knife! This could be a clue to part of the Halloween Card solution for those interested.

Through some of my research while I was working on the Halloween Card I believe the Zodiac Killer was trying to depict himself as REDMASK by showing his initials within the skeleton that had the red mask. The second skeleton on the card I believe is his Secret Pal.

You can find some of my work on the Halloween Card here.

While I did come to a different name conclusion I do believe he wanted to confuse us by changing his names around over time all while giving us clues to his different names.

Linking the wheel of torture to the name George.

Here is depicted Saint George being tortured upon a wheel.

YSt. George being tortured on the wheel, from Decani Monastery

Learn more about Saint George on the wheel here.

This one clue alone is not much to go on so i did a little more digging about Saint George and I found other interesting links associated with things the Zodiac Killer sent over time.

The Zodiac Killer would use a symbol of a circle with a cross as part of his .

Saint George’s is well known under the term Saint George’s Cross.

Symbols associated with St George. St George’s Cross is a red cross on a white background, (red as the colour of blood symbolizing the martyr)

Here he is depicted with his shield and cross.

Byzantine icon of Saint George, Athens, Greece.

The term “Saint George’s cross” was at first associated with any plain Greek cross touching the edges of the field (not necessarily red on white).[66]Thomas Fuller in 1647 spoke of “the plain or St George’s cross” as “the mother of all the others” (that is, the other heraldic crosses)

Another card the Zodiac Killer Left us with is the 1970 Dragon Card.

Learn more about the Dragon Card here.

This card was received in the mail on April 28th in 1970. It just so happens that Saint George’s Day is celebrated on the 23rd of April, only five days before this card was received.

First notice the bag being carried on the donkey. It is also similar to saint george’s cross symbol.

Saint George is also well known for being the slayer of dragons.

Saint George Killing the Dragon, 1434/35, by Bernat Martorell

The traditional iconography of George is based on his most famous miracle – the killing of the dragon. As narrated in the Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine (also known as Legenda Aurea by Jacopo da Varagine), the event is well-known: Selem is besieged by a horrible monster and, to keep it away from the Libyan town, the citizens drew lots to decide whom among the youngest in town to sacrifice to the monster. As the daughter of the king has to be sacrificed, St. George appears riding his horse and he manages to neutralise the dragon (the scene immortalized by artists). He then invites the princess to rope the dragon, now domesticated, to lead it into the town: witnessing this prodigious event, the king and the whole population converted to Christianity and, at the end, the dragon is killed.

Learn more about Saint George the dragon slayer here.

Linking all of these clues together.

One of the last clues to go together with this mix is the 1990 Eureka Christmas Card.

The Eureka card was sent much later than many of his others. I believe he went by one name when he sent the Halloween Card but then also gave more hidden clues to the name he was going to change his name to in the future. The Eureka card might tie this theory together.

Learn about the Eureka Christmas Card here.

In the Christmas card he clues you in to the letter G with imagery as well as what is written within the card. The main focal point of the text is the letter G.

FROM YOUR SECRET PAL.

CAN’T GUESS WHO I AM YET?

WELL LOOK INSIDE AND YOU’LL FIND OUT…

…THAT I’M GONNA KEEP YOU GUESSIN!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, ANYWAY

I believe the Zodiac Killer used tequniques of steganography and pareidolia when creating his codes.

Looking at the imagery with an artists eye you can depict G’s as well.

The card even leaves out the G at the end of the word Guessing. Instead it says “Guessin’!” Also if you count the letters of the word “Guessin” you get the number 7. Counting from the letter A in the alphabet, the seventh letter is a G.

Sent with the card was also a xerox photo of an image of two keys.

Two keys could be a code for you need two keys to crack this code.

Looking back to his previous cards that are similar to this one and you find the Halloween Card.

Two cards…two keys. Could this be the link?

While I did not personally find the G initials within the Halloween card, others have.

Halloween Card Envelope Zodiac’s Signature

How the symbol links to the letter G

On the left is the Zodiac Killers initials written on the envelope of his Halloween Card.

On the right is how the initials link to the letter G. Which I found from The Monster of Florence’s post. While the original post seems to be gone i will leave a link to one of his blogs that is similar here.

Quoted from the original post by Monster of Florence.

How the symbol links to the letter G

Hidden in the symbol on the left there is a Yodh.The tenth letter of the semitic alphabets (j) is the ancestor of the english JAY. It sounds like the “J” of Jesus.

PHOENICIAN AND BRAILLE Zodiac used a couple of alphabets easy to find in a well-stocked library: Phoenician and Braille alphabets.As you can see here, there are no doubts on the fact that the four dots drawn by Zodiac in braille mean “I-E”.AT DOES IT MEAN “GIEI”? JAY

The strange “V” grapheme is a composition of two phoenician letters: Gimel and Yodh – which is well recognizable even if it has been twisted (it is the third twisted letter in this postcard …). Gimel is the latin letter G. In the Latin alphabet Yodh corresponds to I or J (long I). According to the position of the letters in Braille, the word written by Zodiac is: G-i-e-i (G-i-e-y or G-i-e-j).

Italian readers have already understood. For an italian speaker is really easy understand what Zodiac wrote. It is not the acronym of a mysterious american agency, but the spelling in Italian of Gei [dʒeɪ], also known in English as Jay. According to the standards of the International Phonetic Alphabet (thanks for having helped me, Cris Vienna of imostridifirenze) the spelling of the letter Gei (Jay) in Italian is: [dʒɪ] + [e] + [ɪ].

An Italian speaking spell GEI “GI-E-I”, like the word written by the Zodiac killer. Secondly, with this symbol Zodiac also made a wordplay in Italian, in fact the word he drawn can also mean “sweet G”. In fact “Gi and I” = [dʒɪ] = G.

In short, the symbol of Zodiac in Italian can mean J (Jesus) and G (Gesù). It can be the J of Joseph or the G of Giuseppe, like the name of the man I charged (as citizen, as friend) for his responsability in the murders of the Monster of Florence. Am I wrong, Joe?

The J listed within Monster of Florence’s post also draws me back to another theory I have about the Zodiac killer. Another post I made about the name Jack. I believe the Zodiac Killer had a secret pal helping him named jack and you can find a link to that post here.

While the name George is just one of many theories out there it is something to think about. I hope you ponder this over with an open mind. It is an odd set of coincidences.

The Zodiac Killer probably went by more than one name to elude being caught over time. I believe one of his aliases was the name George. When adding up quite a few of the clues that the zodiac has left over time to give us an idea of his name you find certain things that when linked together they tell a story.

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