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Yeah, yeah. The criminology was sent over to the newspaper as we're inspectors and the two letters were examined and opened. one of them contains several pages rambling story about his intentions and what he'd been doing and so on. And the other one contained a a greeting

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card. The front side of it merely had picture of a fountain pen, but the the reverse side of it had some more information from him. These have been carefully examining everything. We asked the newspaper the consideration of not publicizing any of this for the two days

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between monday and Wednesday because we wanted to establish its authenticity. This one does contains implications of future accident actions, um, doing as quote his thing and there is possibility to such might happen. There are several little changes In the 10or of this letter as opposed to

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the others. For the first time he has demonstrated a a hostility toward police. Now we are blue pigs and such remarks as that he has never been particularly interested in our profession before. This he indicates also in his letter, that he no longer intends to correspond

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with us and give us a running account of the crimes that he has committed. We sent exemplars, for example, to the CIA in sacramento and to other agencies, examinations were made of handwriting examinations were made of the small piece of cloth that comes from the

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cab drivers shirt and from the from the Total Investigation. It is our judgment that this is a genuine note from a man known as Zodiac. Captain Leon. You assess his implication in this letter that he may have killed two girls in san Jose. I. I do

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not give that any credence at all, sir. The Mhm. There is absolutely no evidence linking that double murder with this man and in the absence of it, I certainly would not put it on him. He has a he has never bragged about that particular one. And

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yet he has bragged about all the others that we know of. The date of that one was prior to two other murders which he mentioned and He skipped that one. So while I wouldn't I wouldn't come out and without reservation say that he did not commit

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those. I would certainly not have him as a logical, certain contrary to some hints in the press. Captain Lee said he believes the zodiac is legally sane and as he said, police have a considerable amount of evidence to work with cattle brian for eyewitness news at

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the san Francisco Hall of Justice. Mhm. The Chronicle received the letters in car two days ago but did not open or publish them until police investigators had checked them. And that investigation convinced Chief of Inspectors Captain Martin Lee that the letters were indeed from the zodiac.

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The police don't have any clues to work with. Is this a correct assumption on his part? No. This is very, very incorrect on a kind of the dangers and in fact the illegality of pretrial publicity, we assume that one day we're going to catch this man

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and we are and certain evidence must be kept from the public. In other words, he cannot be tried in the press. The precise evidence that I'm speaking of I cannot even describe to you. But I think that I can say this much that there is considerable

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evidence of many different kinds. I don't picture him as a man who works with his hands. Where do you think? I never have? I think that uh, he's a no sir, A small job and possibly one where he does um work with paper possibly at a

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desk. These are guesses. I think that the rambling, careless appearance of his notes is also a disguise. The the crypto grams when he makes them can be absolute works of art, as far as alignment, both vertically and horizontally in space between. Uh the characters is concerned.

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I think that that goes more toward the true picture of the man than the rambling notes that we've gotten.