{"id":4045,"date":"2009-05-29T11:25:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T18:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2009-05-29T11:25:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T18:25:26","slug":"not-the-zodiac-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/05\/29\/not-the-zodiac-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"“Not the Zodiac Killer”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest issue of the Washington Monthly features an article about Michael O’Hare’s niggling frustration at being the Zodiac Killer\u00c2\u00a0suspect of a lone nut.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s right here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 His complete denial is seen here:<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to be cute about the murders, which not only left victims and grieving relatives in their wake, but also frightened a lot of people, and frustrated California and Massachusetts law enforcement. So, for the record: I am not the Zodiac killer, had absolutely nothing to do with those (or any other) murders. As far as I know, I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even in California when any of them happened. Similarly, I had nothing to do with the death of Joan Webster, a Boston college student whose murder Penn has also tried to pin on me. A note to Zodiac hobbyists and Penn aficionados: Please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bother parsing the foregoing for cleverly worded nondenials and numerological incriminating clues; if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like my choice of words, feel free to make up other language that you would take as a flat, comprehensive, unqualified denial, and assume I said that. What follows will tell you nothing at all about Zodiac or Webster; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a personal history of being struck by low-voltage lightning out of a clear blue sky.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sounds good.\u00c2\u00a0 BUT…<\/p>\n

Take out the\u00c2\u00a0print copy of this Washington Monthly article.\u00c2\u00a0 Start from the bottom, and go up.\u00c2\u00a0 Every sixth line, go backward from right to left and pick out the sixth letter.\u00c2\u00a0 Now arrange these letters in rows of sixes.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s nothing terribly esoteric about this pattern — it’s the typical “Mark of the Beast Six Six Six”.\u00c2\u00a0 Next, start from the top and do the mirror image:\u00c2\u00a0 sixth row, sixth letter from the left to the right, new row of sixes.<\/p>\n

What you want to do now is pick out the letters diagonally downward from left to right, zig-zagging your wayback right to left than left to right\u00c2\u00a0to the bottom.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, do the same with the mirror image — diagonally zig-zagging your way from the bottom, right to left, left to right, and etc.<\/p>\n

Next, go to the third row of letters, and go downward, picking out every third letter.\u00c2\u00a0 And then, from the fouth row (or, third row from the right), go upward, every third letter again.<\/p>\n

What you will find is a Zorastrian Myth — numerous misspellings for reasons that are unclear at this time — perhaps the encrypted code was hastily written.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s also a little unclear if it’s the fifth item on this list or the sixth<\/a> — applying new vowels and cutting off some constanants to this message is a little bit random.\u00c2\u00a0 But nonetheless\u00c2\u00a0the message would appear to contradict the flat out denial, or at least open up the suggestion that he knows something, or… something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest issue of the Washington Monthly features an article about Michael O’Hare’s niggling frustration at being the Zodiac Killer\u00c2\u00a0suspect of a lone nut.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s right here.\u00c2\u00a0 His complete denial is seen here: I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to be cute about the murders, which not only left victims and grieving relatives in their wake, but also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}