Earl Van Best Jr in my strong opinion was the Zodiac google his name and look at his pic compared to the composite of the infamous killer, plus on another not Robert Richard Lepsey was more than likely DB Cooper or Dan Cooper the 1971 Washington Sky Jacket who dissapeared
shareI just watched a video about this on YouTube.
shareEarl Van Best.....definitely NOT the Zodiac
shareI wouldn't be that sure at all the guy looks just like the only pic we ever had of the Zodiac he could pass for his twin it's crazy
shareI've lately had an interest in the case only cause I'm visiting SF for the first time. I was a Zodiac buff from 2002 until 2011. I think once I came to the realization the case won't ever get solved and definetly not while he's alive my interest died down a little,
Anyways I've been back on zodiackiller.com lately and reading about other suspects and it bugs me when peiple talk about the composite sketch and how so and so suspect looks just like it and their age, etc.
1. Almost everyone looked like that during that era. Bryan Hartnell and Paul Stone (if he wasn't losing his hair an lose the stash) can look like that. Even look at Stines younger pictures he looks like the composite.
2. If you live on thr 2nd or 3rd floor and look across the street you think you can describe accurate physical features of a total stranger in total darkness?
3. Even the 2nd composite that the police made when driving and may have saw Zodiac. Again it's cops driving looking for a black man, take a quick look at a white man and move on. Again I don't think all the composites are accurate.
I remember Mike Rodelli had an interesting suspect named Mr. X, San Francisco Businessman and my favorite Citizen Q. Those nicknames are for one man who probably died in the last 5 years cause I think he was over 80 in 2003. I think he provided DNA for ABC primetime Zodiac episode and didn't match. Same show that also tested Allen's DNA.
Anyways, Rodelli came up with a theory that Zodiac loved writing so much that he probably has written an article in the paper under his own name. He and someone I think Ed from zodiackiller.com did some research and found someone who wrote similar to Zodiac in a citizens section giving his opinions on something. They then did more research and found out he lived in Presidio Heoghts where Paul Stine was killed.
So far so good,
Apparently, at his business either the building next to him or his building had a logo similar to the Zodiac symbol.
Interesting? I was.
Then Rodelli kept talking over and over about some stupid scar in the composite resembling a scar on the forehead of Mr. X....
I just ignored everything after that.
They did look alot alike back then in that Era I'm still pretty convinced it's Best
sharethis crime is exactly like jack the ripper. it will never be solved, which means that some researcher or another will solve this crime every 12 years or so, as long as there's anybody out there who cares enough to buy a book.
i confess. i'm the zodiac killer. i have now piled up enough slaves for the afterlife and before i depart, i'm going to write a tell-all. pre-order it on amazon today: "Zodiac in the Age of Aquarius: It Finally Got Too Tedious".
I think anyone who writes a book and sells it for profit to prove so and so is a kille loses credibility. If they really want to get their info out there and solve the case then do a YouTube video. I'm sure they'll make money from hits I'd the video goes viral but they're not selling anything.
Robert Graysmith I'll give him a pass since although he accuses someone of being Zodiac the point of the book was more about telling the story.
I heard Jack the ripper was recently solved through DNA. Someone used a new method that vacuumed DNA from a cloth or blanket from one of Jack's victims, she was a prostitute so people are saying the DNA could have been from any of her Johns but it matched some barber who spent time in a mental hospital and was seen with most of Jack's victims before they died.
sharethis crime is exactly like jack the ripper. it will never be solved,
I don't see anything listed on Wikipedia regarding Jack the Ripper being identified.
sharefar be it from me to argue with a Go rilla, but this is exactly what i'm talking about. it was solved 1-2 years ago? well, if you say so. but i'm pretty sure someone else will "solve" it again, in 10 years or so.
but seriously, i am interested in the latest on the ripper. it's always interesting to read about. so who solved it this time?
Chances are it would get solved but maybe they will get lucky. It took DNA technology to catch up with the Green River Killer.
BTW, DB Cooper died while trying to parachute out of that plane. They found some of the cash in the riverbed.
Wrong, the case is NOT solved. Earl Van Best was NOT the Zodiac. You want to see people in the late 60's who look like the Zodiac composite? I can show you hundreds of photos of guys who looked like the composite. Gary Stewart is full of crap, but I'm sure he is happy since he sold quite a few copies of his book.
Robert Richard Lepsy is a guy I don't know much about, but will look into him as a DB Cooper suspect.
I read the book on him written by his son, and I thought it proved that he WASN'T the Zodiac.
Much like conspiracy theories of every ilk, it seemed he made the facts fit his theory, instead of his theory fitting the facts. And some of the so called proof was kind of ridiculous- like you would have to suspend common sense in order to believe it.
Shame, too, because the guy was an interesting criminal in his own right.