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. because they can’t prove a thing.”

“He had fal en face down,” Bawart told me. “I rol ed him over. He had a little injury to his head that I was at first a little bit concerned with. He hadbleeding. Usual y when you have a heart attack, if you die right away you don’t bleed anymore. So I got the coroner and the medical.”, the prime suspect, with a lump on his head, his bathrobe open, lay with newspapers about Zodiac spread about him. In addition toabout the case, Al en possessed everything the experts had expected Zodiac to have—an arsenal of guns, bombs, a portable typewriter,knife scabbard with rivets.... I recal ed when Rita Wil iams had interviewed Al en the previous year, he had been dressed as he was today—in abathrobe and rubber boots. He had attempted to shock her, waving his arms and shouting that the police had persecuted him. Bawartto the humming Epson Equity 1 computer. “The thing that interested me,” he said, “is that when I got there there was a bunch of computerout on the table and they said ‘Zodiac’ on them and stuff like that.”discs were scattered by the printer. Bawart ejected a disc stil in the machine. It was labeled “Zodiac.” What was on the discs and in theand what was the significance of those particular Zodiac newspapers? Apparently the computers had been added since the last search

—an Avstar computer, an Epson Equity 1 computer, and al accessories. Then Bawart spied a videotape marked with the letter “Z” lying on aat the east wal. Bawart was excited over the tape. They would need a warrant to view that. As soon as they could, they played it. Al theshowed was Al en mooning the police, cursing them, and complaining about the case—nothing incriminating.some time Bawart had known Al en had been il —suffering from diabetes, heart troubles, severe arthritis, and kidney failure. So the end wasonly expected, but might be easily explained. The detective consulted the coroner, and he established the facts of death: “Found August 26,

at 3:10 P.M. Immediate cause of death: Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease. Other significant Conditions Contributing to Death But Not Related toGiven: Diabetes Mel itus, Cardiomegaly, heart disease heart disease.” And the bump? “The coroner determined,” said Bawart, “that whenen hit the floor he banged his head.”.A. Mike Nail had already scheduled a meeting on Arthur Leigh Al en sometime earlier. With the death, the parley would stil proceed. “About abefore we went to meet with him, Arthur Leigh Al en dropped dead. So that at this meeting, this D.A., being kind of a half-assed comedian,, ‘We’ve got good news and bad news. We’re not going to file on Shawn Melton’—they didn’t want to spend the money on that—‘but I’m goingfile on Arthur Leigh Al en.’ He was natural y joking because he knew he couldn’t file on a dead man.

“The good news is that I’m going to indict Arthur Leigh Al en as the Zodiac. The bad news is that he’s dead.” “Mike Nail,” George told me later,

“had political aspirations as a superior court judge [which he realized]. I’ve known Mike Nail my entire career. He started out as a rookie D.A.out of law school. He and I didn’t socialize together, but we would joke and stuff. He probably would not have filed on Al en, to be honest with, because he was going for a judgeship and would not in any way want that to be compromised. The gist of it is we were going to file on him andpromptly died on us. The problem was the district attorney didn’t want to file on a dead guy. But they won’t one hundred percent clear it.

“When we were getting ready to charge Al en with the case. I compiled a list so we could go to the district attorney’s office. When Jim Lang andand I met with Mike Nail. We were doing two things that day—there was a kind of infamous case from our county; a kid named Jeremy, a six-year-old, was abducted and ultimately found dead in the Delta. The responsible on that was a guy named Shawn Melton.

“Melton’s father at one time al uded to the fact that Melton wrote letters to the newspaper [like Zodiac] and his terminology was somewhat similarthe Zodiac. Somebody came out with this harebrained idea that he was the Zodiac. But he wasn’t, I can assure you of that! We were meetingNail, at that time, to see if he would refile on Shawn Melton. There had been two trials on him and there had been two hung juries. We weremeeting at the same time to see if he would file on Arthur Leigh Al en.

“Those thirty points were made to give to him to have something firm in his hand rather than us tel ing him each and every point. That report wasy made to present to the district attorney’s office, but wasn’t intended to be part of the case file per se. I don’t remember al thirty of them.of them, when you’re putting together something like that, I didn’t intend for it to end up in the case file. It was more of a working file. One oror three of those points a defense attorney could pick up on and real y hammer because there was some supposition where I real y didn’t havelot of background to back them up. But the meat of the thing I could back up.”, August 27, 1992signed an affidavit for a search warrant. “As you know,” Bawart told me, “I wrote another search warrant and searched his house againthough he was dead. There was a computer system and the videotape. The purpose of the search warrant was to view that tape and,to the affidavit, determine if it contained evidence related to the so-cal ed Zodiac kil ings.”ejo police descended to the lower apartment at 32 Fresno Street—as dark, dank, and museumlike as it had been the previous year. In theprinter was Al en’s partial y completed “Polygraph Agreement” for the Val ejo police. Conway took possession of numerous videotapes andcontainers of discs and manuals for the printer stacked there. Near the computer lay an index of computer discs labeled “Polygon” and a yel owcatalogue with discs labled “Plolams” [Al en’s intentional misspel ing of “Programs”]. They discovered a “Fruit Juice Recipe” bomb formula andbox with blank notepaper. Strips of paper were covered with math. A last wil and instructions for the computer were on the east wal bookshelf.wil and instructions read:

“Being sound in mind, if not in body, I hereby put to paper my last wil and testament. I wil update this document as conditions warrant, socomputer version wil always be the last and most current wil and testament. In cases of printed copies, the date on the copy wil determineit is the most recent version of the wil. Al pages must be signed and dated by me, as wel as the end of the last page.

“First and foremost I wish to have it known that, due to whatever circumstances, I enter a vegetative state, that al life support systems beand whatever of my body organs that can be used to help others be utilized for that purpose upon my death.

“The procedure for obtaining the most recent version of this wil is as fol ows:” The detectives fol owed the procedure laid out—they turned on thescreen (the bottom rol er on the lower right side of the monitor casing). They inserted the MS-DOS working copy.

“Diskettes are located in the yel ow-loose-leaf binder next to the printer into the top slot of the computer,” Al en had instructed. “This is knownthe ‘A’ drive. With the elephant log on the top right toward you until it clicks. Push the ‘push’ button in so it clicks also. Push the power buttonso the red light goes on. Insert the DATA disk into the lower slot (the ‘B’ drive) until it clicks, then push the ‘Push’ in as wel. Now press the

‘enter’ key on the keyboard. A smal light wil appear on the ‘A’ drive and the computer wil hum. Some printing wil cycle onto the screen. Whenrequest for the date or time appears, press the ‘entry’ key a couple times until the ‘A Prompt’ (A>) sign appears.”instructions entailed seven complex maneuvers in detail to access the most current wil: “I bestow upon my good friend, Harold Huffman, theof executor of this Wil and Power-Of-Attorney....” the document began. Al en left his Epson Equity 1 computer, al accessories, “porgrams”

(as Leigh spel ed it in his last wil), and related literature to his tenant. Leigh concluded on a sad note and more lies.

“As for my Brother, Ronald Al en... I was very deeply hurt by the total lack of support by his whole family during my recent conflict with the. I stil love my brother very much, which made the hurt al the deeper. I was hurt (but not surprised at al) when my sister-in-law took pains tome several times to tel me they were so broke that I couldn’t expect any financial help from them at al. Then they went right out and3 Hondas, including a brand new Accord. Some poverty case! Stil, if there is anything he wants for himself after al the above is sorted, he is welcome to it. He’l be getting the house anyway, which should be worth a couple bucks.”had four more cars, including a Corvair. He wanted his dentist to get his Rol s, but Ron got that. The cops studied a letter to the Val ejoon the computer. “In the letter,” Bawart told me, “were references to letters he was gonna write about how he was gonna sue us for this, that,the other.”

“The return to the warrant says you found a knife and a knife scabbard with rivets,” I said to Bawart.

“I don’t remember the scabbard at al,” he said. “I think we just took it because it had a knife. It wasn’t anything real y earth-shattering. As for thetypewriter we found, that pertained to the Riverside murder and I had discounted Zodiac for that.” So had Conway. Riverside detectives wereto I.D. the typewriter used by the kil er as a portable Royal typewriter, Elite type, Canterbury-shaded, such as found in Al en’s basement. Morrilruled that Zodiac wrote the handwritten Riverside letters mailed, but if he typed the confession letters too, then Al en’s typewriter might stil offerclue. I doubted it. The typewritten letters had been distant carbon copies.

“I got about four or five phone cal s when Al en died,” said Toschi glumly. “San Francisco was kind of curious why Val ejo didn’t just close the. They told an inspector that the Val ejo district attorney chose not to close the case because Al en was terminal y il and was expected to dietwo weeks. They had already scheduled a conference to discuss that decision in the next month after his death, so they went ahead and had.”, August 29, 1992day before, a Val ejo police property report on Al en had been filed in the municipal court clerk’s office. Now that the press realized who had, they ran with the story. Erin Hal issy reported in the San Francisco Chronicle:

“Man Once Suspected in Zodiac Case Dies—A man once suspected of being the Zodiac kil er, who taunted police and terrorized Northernwith threats of murder, died Wednesday in Val ejo of a heart attack at the age of 58.

“In 1971, attention focused on Arthur Leigh Al en when relatives and friends told police that he was acting erratical y and that they feared hebe the sadistic slayer who kil ed at least six people and perhaps as many as 37 between 1966 and 1974. In his book “Zodiac,” formereditorial cartoonist Robert Graysmith described Al en under a fictitious name as the “the gut-feeling choice of most detectives” forZodiac kil er.... Al en had reportedly told some people that he was the Zodiac kil er.”, September 3, 1992

“In the mid-1970s Al en was convicted of child-molesting charges and sentenced to prison,” Conway said publicly. “Last year, we searcheden’s home in Val ejo as a part of a fol ow-up investigation into the unsolved case. We found some writings, some pipe bombs, some il egal. None of it was sufficient to make an arrest for him being the Zodiac.... It is stil an ongoing criminal investigation. His death has notthat. I can’t discuss an ongoing investigation. I don’t have any reason to believe that Al en’s death was a suicide and there has been noevidence that foul play was involved.”San Francisco, Dave MacHalhatton, KPIX-TV anchor, bannered the suspect’s death on the evening news. He and his wife, Bonnie, hadthe first hour-long show on Zodiac with me back in 1986. “Al en died this week,” he said, “leaving behind the unanswered question, ‘Wasreal y the Zodiac?’” Tomas Roman reported that “the only thing the police are certain of is that their case remains unsolved. His death has littleon the ongoing investigation into the man known as the Zodiac, the man who taunted police by claiming to have kil ed as many as thirty-seven.... But even after an extensive search, police stil did not charge Al en... with any crime linking him with the Zodiac kil ings.”

“I am not the Zodiac,” Al en had told KPIX. “I have never kil ed anyone. They have me questioning myself.... The only way I could clear myself isthe real Zodiac to confess—if he’s stil alive.... Al I can do is suppose on that. The only way I can get peace for myself is when I am final y deadgone.” Toschi could say was, “Mr. Al en was a very, very good suspect. We looked into Mr. Al en very closely.” The FBI, on noting the death, said in a, “The San Francisco case is closed at this time.”

“This retired cop who was working on the case told me he’s out of work now,” Pete Noyes told me. “They found a lot of computer discs in Al en’s. They went in there and picked up a lot of stuff. The psychologist, Thomas Rykoff, apparently has some deal going with a guy down here toa book. I don’t know if that’s ethical or not. Rykoff interviewed him at Atascadero.”Woolridge, a good friend at Time-Life, cal ed for an update on Zodiac. “Inspector Toschi cal ed me at home for a chat,” he said. “I’ve beendown al this stuff that’s been going on in Val ejo. McCochran at the Vallejo Times-Herald has told me that the police apparently found aafter their second search warrant of Mr. Al en’s house. I don’t know what any of this means and I don’t think Val ejo police are talking. I’mto try and speak to Captain Conway at Val ejo a little later this afternoon. I hope he’l give me a hint at least. But if I hear anything I’l certainlyyou know.”soon as police could, they played the videotape. Al it showed was Al en mooning the police, cursing them, and complaining about the case.hinted more was on the tape, but “nothing incriminating.” Though Leigh had specified close friend Harold Huffman to be executor of his, the task fel to Ron Al en who “sort of took over.” Karen “took first dibs on al his stuff, not Ron,” a friend claimed. “Huffman only met her after’s death, but quickly took a disliking to her. I’ve read how Ron cooperated with the police, helped gather some information. I got the feelingRon knew his brother was involved in this type of activity. They have people in the media who have tracked them down. Ron’s a hard guy to. Usual y, his wife won’t let him near the phone. I thought, since the guy died suddenly, maybe he left something behind. Maybe he did. I, a good chance they found something in that house.”Al en was not embalmed. Though he was cremated, samples of his brain fluid were ordered preserved. It might al ow future DNA testing.’s ashes were to be scattered off the coast near San Rafael. The Vallejo Times-Herald headline a week after Al en’s death said:

“SUSPECT’S DEATH WON’T HALT ZODIAC INVESTIGATION.” Death would not stop an investigation into the truth. We owed it to the victims tothe missing pieces. I could not stop. None of us could., October 2, 1992’s sister, Pam, claimed that she had confronted Al en before he died and, after his death, was in his home. In his bathroom she claimedhad observed “a weird sexual device held with suction cups to the side of the tub.”

“Of course, I’m not actively working on the case anymore,” said Bawart. “I used to get al those letters, and since Arthur Leigh Al en died, nothingon it anymore. Someday down the road we ought to put our heads together. I’ve got every file that Fred Shirisago had. And al our files and the original stuff on Zodiac. I’ve got it up in my attic along with a bunch of stuff of Al en’s. It might be interesting to go over it someday down theif you ever write a sequel. What was real y interesting is if you read this report—from then-Sergeant Lynch, in the center of another report on apiece of paper—I don’t think there are more than a hundred words in it. He talks about 1969 just after the Berryessa kil ings going andArthur Leigh Al en as to his whereabouts at the time of the kil ing. Arthur Leigh Al en makes the statement about...”

“About the chickens? Two chickens...” I said.

“Yeah! And he was going to Berryessa on the day the kil ings took place, but he changed his mind and went to Salt Point. This was in 1969,Toschi and Armstrong had even looked at him. I hadn’t read that until I got reinvolved in it in early 1992. So I go back and Lynch is stil alive.has since died. I go ask him, ‘John, you don’t say in the report why you’re going talking to Arthur Leigh Al en. What prompted you to pick out this? You don’t say—and he couldn’t remember. Somebody—somehow, his name came up in 1969 just after the Berryessa kil ing.

“Usual y—I’d write a report and say, ‘Pursuant to John Doe tel ing me that Arthur Leigh Al en fit the description and claimed he was going toon that day, I went by to talk to him.’ Then at least I’d have John Doe to go back to and talk to later on. I’d ask him, ‘Why did you accuseguy?’ Of course your book came out much before I went and talked to Lynch. When I talked to him, he had quit drinking. But he wasn’t in theof health. He just couldn’t remember.

“John Lynch was a prince of a guy. He was a very honest, straightforward guy, but he had a hel of a booze problem. When John would get off duty

—it was spooky—he lived in an old house in an old section of town. It wasn’t real y a Victorian. It was sort of a Tudor. If you had to go by and talk toabout something, he never would answer the phone. You go by and you knock and he’d come to the door and there were no lights on and it was. He would always talk to you on the front porch. He’d be drunk from the time he got off duty to the time eight hours before he was to come on.

“My guess was this: Al en told a family member or friend he was going to Berryessa. Later that unknown person read of the murders. Al en mustsaid something or been acting erratical y enough for them to tip the police. My money is on a family member.” Would we ever discover whoearly tipster had been?

“From our last two conversations, I’m truly amazed at your background information on Zodiac,” said Toschi. “Some of the information you have onLeigh Al en in the Riverside area real y got my attention, and I wish that the Riverside P.D. had given me the fact that Al en was actual yaround their town. It would have given me a stronger case to discuss with our D.A. and the other detectives working on the Zodiac case.”, May 15, 1994

“There is one specific detective [Harvey Hines] who has since retired from a very smal police department,” Conway explained, “who is absolutelythat he solved the Zodiac case and it happens to be a guy who has a lengthy criminal history and he’s living in Tahoe. Again there is nomatch, no handwriting matches, there’s nothing more than a whole bunch of coincidences.” Chronicle ran a two-part story about Hines’s suspect in its This World section. The article upset Toschi. “It was cheap journalism,” he told. “I wouldn’t even cal it journalism. I remember talking to Hines in the seventies, and he was very strange then. He had tunnel vision. He wouldn’tlisten to other suspects and keep an open mind. Hines has had twenty years to find out where his guy was on the dates of the murders. Itbe easy to prove one way or the other. Paul Avery cal ed me, and he too was upset.”

“Conway is equal y certain that the Zodiac is someone else,” reported the Chronicle. “I’l tel you what I told Harvey [Hines],” said Captain Conwaythe Val ejo Police Department. “He’s wasting his life barking up the wrong tree. [His suspect] is not the Zodiac. I can’t tel you how much time I’veHarvey over the years, but he has nothing of any evidentiary value. I believe as I always have that the Zodiac was Arthur Leigh Al en. If I couldHarvey what evidence we have on Al en today, he would get off this kick immediately. Unfortunately, I can’t do that for legal reasons.” Addedabout suspect Al en, who died in 1992, “If Al en were alive today, we would file charges against him as the Zodiac. Unfortunately, we ranof time making a case against him and he died.”

conference, April 26, 1993

“The subject today is the Zodiac kil er,” Judge George T. Choppelas said solemnly. A gray-haired, whip-smart Municipal Court magistrate, helike Fred Astaire, and kept as trim with regular workouts on his rowing machine. The perplexing case fascinated the judge, and he haded a special discussion on Zodiac to rethink the case and satisfy his own curiosity. The meeting convened at a San Francisco State auditorium1:30 P.M. in front of a large audience. Choppelas, acting as moderator, introduced Rita Wil iams, KTVU-TV newsperson. “She interviewed the, the one suspect,” he said, “that Val ejo and San Francisco investigators and Robert Graysmith, former political cartoonist turned author,others believe to have been the Zodiac kil er.”then recounted Cheney’s story of Al en’s vow (a year before there was a Zodiac) to tie a flashlight to his gun barrel, shoot couples inwoods, and write taunting letters signed Zodiac to the police. He explained how Al en was in the Riverside Col ege area when Bates was, and how Darlene Ferrin was stalked by a friend named “Leigh.” He told how there were no letters from Zodiac while Al en was confined atand how the Santa Rosa murders ceased during that time. Captain Roy Conway, immediately on the scene of the Ferrin murder in

, had been associated with the case ever since. “I was a patrol sergeant that evening and I was dispatched to a place that was in a remoteof Val ejo on July 4, 1969. Both victims were stil alive at the time. The male survived, the female died. I tried to talk to her and talk to him both.was unable to speak or do anything, and had been shot with multiple gunshot wounds. The passenger in the car had been shot multiple timeshe has survived. He’s stil alive to this day.

“Because I was a patrol sergeant at the time, I was not initial y assigned as the investigator on the crime. It was not til several years later when Ipromoted to captain that I was given responsibility for the case. The primary investigator who’s been working on this case the longest of al lawpersonnel that’s ever been involved is Detective George Bawart, who’s sitting over there in the corner.” George stood and waved.

“What we’ve done over the years—every time there’s any kind of media attention given to the Zodiac case, there’s al kinds of information that flows[the] police department, or departments, and other departments and [the] California Department of Justice. There’s al kinds of people cal ingwho say I know who the Zodiac is.”pointed out what he considered some of the misinformation about Zodiac. I didn’t agree with al of it. “It’s not intentional,” he said. “Onethe pieces of misinformation is the Riverside homicide. I’m here to official y tel you that the Riverside Police Department never believed thatwas involved. We have since more than satisfied ourselves that Zodiac had nothing whatsoever to do with the Riverside kil ing.” Riversidetheir local suspect had committed the homicide. But a handwriting examination had already proven Zodiac wrote letters to the Riversideclaiming responsibility for Bates’s murder.Conway played his case conservatively, focusing unequivocal y only on those cases where it was absolutely certain that Zodiac hadinvolved. “There are only three of them in that category. The reason we know the three are unequivocal y the Zodiac is because he givesevidence or verbal evidence that only the kil er would know.” He pointed to the Paul Stine cab kil ing as most striking—Zodiac had swipedportion of Stine’s shirt, enclosing fragments with his correspondence. “In our case [the Blue Rock Springs murder] Zodiac went to a pay telephoneafter the homicide. In fact, I would have had to have passed him because it’s a long road out to where this homicide occurred. I probablyhim, although we went to great lengths to try and time everything. The people who discovered the people who were shot took a long time toto a telephone—probably more than a half hour passed before we even got a phone cal.

“Shortly after [12:40 A.M.], a male voice cal ed from a pay telephone, which we subsequently located [traced to Joe’s Union Station at TuolumneSprings Road by 12:47 A.M.], tel ing that he just committed this homicide and how he did it and some other details to cause us to know thisreal y the guy who did it. One of the examples of misinformation is that we had no recording devices in the police department in those days.was in fact no recording of that phone cal.” Former Val ejo Patrolman Steve Baldino disagreed. On Now It Can Be Told, with Geraldo, on July 14, 1992, he had said, “I heard the tape—the dispatcher let me hear it. I believe it was the next night. Apparently the tape is nohere, but it did in fact exist, because I did hear it.” Nancy Slover, the police operator, had heard it too.

“The other homicide we know positively for sure,” continued Conway, “is the Lake Berryessa homicide. Again the kil er gave some very pertinentthat only he would know. There’s only three. The other kil ing, on Lake Herman Road, happened [seven months] before the Zodiacing. We had some very good suspects in that case, and Detective Bawart and I are satisfied that the Zodiac didn’t real y do that case, althoughdon’t have unequivocal proof on that.

“The other interesting thing about the Zodiac case is that there are several people who have become obsessed with solving the case. We haveseveral in our own department. There are private citizens who became obsessed with the case and have convinced themselves they havesolved it. They are very absolute about it. Neither one of the suspects that they have are our suspect.

“Al three have written lengthy documentation about it. One is an attorney in our city who claims his brother, his dead brother, is the Zodiac [Jack]. Another used mathematics to prove it. In his mind he is absolutely convinced he’s solved the Zodiac case. He thinks it’s a col egeat Boston University who now works for the University of California at Berkeley. If you talk to that man and give him any time, he is, unequivocal y convinced. He says its mathematical y impossible for anybody to be the Zodiac except [his] suspect.

“We have two other individuals, both in law enforcement. One of them is now retired just recently... he’s been working on it twenty years and’s absolutely convinced he knows who the Zodiac is. And his Zodiac is living in Tahoe. Then we have another person in another state agency thaton the Zodiac for years. He happened to be on duty. He stopped and did a field interrogation of a person he believes to this day is the. So everyone of these people, if you talk to them, independent of anything else, you would say he must be right. It’s only logical that he’s.

“One of the major reasons that the Zodiac case has not actual y been solved to the point of somebody being actual y arrested and tried is that lawdidn’t do a very good job of coordinating information.... One of the most tel ing points in Mr. Graysmith’s book—he asks the questionthe search warrant wasn’t served at two locations, and only one location—and that was twenty years ago that happened. If they had served awarrant at the right location at that time, they probably would have solved the Zodiac case. But they didn’t.

“Twenty years later, Detective Bawart and I served that search warrant! And we did that a couple years ago. We found a lot of information thatus to believe we were on the right track, but that person subsequently died and we don’t have any legal mechanism to say we’ve solved thebecause we can’t bring the suspect to trial. He’s referred to in Robert Graysmith’s book as ‘Robert Hal Starr.’ His actual name is Arthur Leighen.

“He’s worked in Val ejo al his life. At the time [1971-72] San Francisco Police Department developed information that we subsequentlyand gone over every piece of it. That information would have al owed them to serve a search warrant on his primary residence inejo, but at that point of time he was living part-time in a little trailer in Santa Rosa. And so they served the warrant on his little trailer in Santainstead of his home in Val ejo. I’m fairly convinced that if they had served the search warrant on that home in Val ejo, they would have foundactual smoking gun, but that didn’t happen. It’s primarily because they were working on their own and made no effort to coordinate informationour agency.”

“There’s a lot of instances that occurred in this case that happened in one area and the other area didn’t know about it,” added Bawart. “Thosethe kind of errors in the case the various police departments made. Roy and I, in hindsight, taking al this stuff down twenty years later, put it aland made us seem like we’re real smart, but we’re not. We had the benefit of al those reports.”judge asked me how I came to write the book. “The way I got interested in this,” I said, “I was political cartoonist for the Chronicle and everyyou try to do a cartoon that’s going to make a change in the world. I looked at the Zodiac case and thought, ‘Here’s a guy no one seems to beto catch. If I go around the state and put together as many facts as I can and put a book out there, somebody’s going to solve this.’ It’s prettywhat I decided to do, and I did over a ten-year period. At the end of that time I had a book of considerable length. An editor and I spentthree years taking out five hundred pages. Maybe we took the real suspect out. It’s possible, but not likely. We did place Mr. Al en as aat Riverside and in that library the night Cheri Jo Bates was slain. Perhaps, as Captain Conway believes, Riverside wasn’t a Zodiac kil ing,of al the 2,500 suspects in the case, Al en was the only one at the scene.”discussed the prints in Stine’s cab.

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