Lately, I have been doing some more research on the Zodiac Killer. The other day, I was flipping through channels and found a documentary series on the Zodiac Killer called “The Hunt for the Zodiac” on the History Channel. (It’s not a great show and I’ve only caught a few episodes. If you’re in for a good laugh, maybe take a look, but I can’t be bothered to do a review on it.)
The episodes I watched were mostly about finding the Zodiac Killer, however, they did talk quite a bit about a case I had never heard of. Because of this, I will be more or less be splitting this story into three parts; a part about the Zodiac calendar, a part about Ross Sullivan, and a part about Donna Lass.
These are a few leads I had never heard of. I’ve done a quite a bit of research on these cases, and like what I have found. I’ve decided my information up into a few different postings, which I’ll be sharing with you all over the next few weeks.
….Stay Tuned….
First, I would like to address that the documentary brought to my attention the Zodiac calendar. This is a calendar that splits the year up into thirteen months based on the moon cycle. The days of the week are also named differently according to this calendar and they do not match up perfectly with our own. For example the first day of the week, according to the Zodiac calendar is “Dali”, but every Dali day is not Sunday, due to the incongruence of the twelve month Gregorian Calendar (the one most often used in the western world) and the thirteen month Lunar cycle/ Zodiac calendar.
The importance of this Zodiac calendar to this case is in fact the Dali day. The symbol for Dali is a circle with a cross at the center. It is the exact same symbol as the one used by the Zodiac. A coincidence? Perhaps. As the Queen of Mystery, Agatha Christie, herself once wrote, every situation is allowed one coincidence.
But when it comes to the Zodiac case and the Zodiac calendar, we have two coincidences. Not only did the Zodiac sign his letters with the Dali day symbol, but all of his known killings happened on Dali days. Yes, that’s right, all four known attacks were committed on Dali days. From what I understand, all the other crimes listed in my previous posting about the Zodiac Killer were committed on Dali days.
Could this just be another coincidence? Personally, I think not. The Zodiac was not just some crazy lunatic. I think he was more of a true “lunatic”, if you look at the historical definition. Lunatic come from the term “lunar” meaning moon. Lunatic meant someone whose madness was driven by the moon. I think in the Zodiac’s warped perception of reality, there is a connection to the moon and the lunar cycle. I think he was cold and calculated in all the crimes he committed. He knew what he was doing and that’s what makes him so horrifying.
Because of this new information, I would like to edit what I initially said about the killer in my profiling. I don’t think he ever stopped killing. He just didn’t feel the need to draw attention to himself anymore. They only reason he began contacting the police was for the thrill, and when that thrill went away, he allowed himself to disappear back into obscurity.
….. Stay Tuned (for Part 2)....
Sources and Further Reading:
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/lunatic
Next up is the documentary’s outing of of Ross Sullivan as being a new Zodiac Killer suspect. Again, I’m not saying he did it. I’m just saying repeating some information that’s out there.
According to the documentary, he matched the physical description and looked like a picture of the killer. Sullivan also worked at a library and studied ciphers. He was suspected of murder in a completely separate case.
The murder that he was suspected in what that of Cheri Jo Bates. Back on October 30th of 1966 Bates was attacked just outside of the Riverside City College Library. And just like the Zodiac killings a few years later, the killer wrote a letter to the newspaper admitting to the killings.
He signed his name “Z”.
Sullivan was allegedly a student at Riverside City College at the time of the murder, but does that mean he’s connected to Bates’ murder? Who can really say. To me, he looks like the sketch, but so do a lot of people (including Ted Cruz). I’ve done some research on Sullivan’s personal life and found a nice timeline that I’ll link below, but not much else. Everything says that he died back in 1977. At one point, his brother referred to him publicly as a “schizophrenic” and I don’t know if that’s a fit for the Zodiac. I’m not a mental health professional, but from what I understand of schizophrenia, people fall into fits of delusion and madness. Hollywood has portrayed people with schizophrenia as crazed killers, but in reality, that couldn’t be further from the truth. I see it as being too difficult for a person with schizophrenia to be as focused as the Zodiac Killer. People with schizophrenia might believe some odd delusions, but from what I understand it is usually too difficult for them to follow through with these delusions in a big way. A person with schizophrenia might think their neighbor is tapping their phones, so they might be paranoid. What they wouldn’t do is fashion themselves into a killer that has to kill people on certain day of the week using an archaic calendar and a creating impossible cyphers. Sullivan could have been the killer. It was strange that he had ties to both cases, but, again, many people were tied to the Zodiac case.
I will say that I do think Cheri Jo Bates’ Killer was the Zodiac. There are too many coincidences there, mostly when considering the letters that were written. The only thing that gives me pause, is that October 30th, 1966 was not a Dali day on the lunar calendar.
….. Stay Tuned (for Part 3)....
Sources and Further Readings:
http://zodiackillerciphers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Ross_Sullivan
Zodiac Killer Documentary: Part 3
Donna Lass was a woman who went missing back on September 6th, 1970. She had
Lawrence Kane: He worked with a woman named Donna Lass. She went missing on September 6th, 1970.
According to the Zodiac 13 month calendar, the first day of each week is called “Dali day” The symbol for that day is the symbol the Zodiac Killer used. (A circle with a cross through it.) All of the Zodiac victims were attacked on a Dali day…. and so was Donna Lass.
Larry Law was also a suspect in the Donna Lass case. She had lived with him and his wife just before she disappeared. Law also knew Kane. Law traveled south from Lake Tahoe to San Francisco once to twice a month to visit his mother.
Sources and Further Readings:
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