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Good Morning, True Seekers and true crime junkies. Welcome back
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to another episode of Hit the Roadjack Finding the Zodiac.
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I'd like to welcome to the show today, Harriet Souchet.
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Good morning, Good morning. Can you hear me? Okay, I
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can hear you?
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Okay. How are you doing?
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Oh, I'm doing okay. I'm going to put you back
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on loud speakers. That's probably gonna work better today.
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Okay.
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I hope, good, good good. We were finally at the
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Exorcist letter, which I was extremely excited. I thought we
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were going to get there last week, but unfortunately we
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ran a little bit over. So I know that when
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we left off, we were reading Dennis Kaufman's book, in
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which case he was discussing the fact that his mother
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was set up on a date with Jack Terrence with
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her sister Martha and her new brother in law Ronald.
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I don't know if this was the blind date, the
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date that they were introduced. Again. I hadn't really had
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any information that supported her showed that Jack was in
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Nora's life at least not as early as nineteen seventy one,
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even though we know he made that transfer to the
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South Lake Tahoe area. Dennis's recollection was nineteen seventy one.
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But now in seventy three, seventy four, we're starting to
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actually see pictures with Jack and Dawn in the mix
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of what's going on with Nora and Dennis Kaufman. And
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of course one of the biggest memories that Dennis had
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was of him of Jack and Nora seeing the Exorcist movie,
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and then this subsequent letter coming out in January thirtieth
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of nineteen seventy four. I don't know how much information
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you have or what you were aware of as far
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as Dennis was concerned with meeting Nora, but you were
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under the impression that was nineteen seventy one as well, correct.
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Yeah, yeah, that was I think before Exorcist letter. But
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because Dennis says he will never forget at that that
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night that Jack comes home with a busted up shoulder,
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and uh, you know that Jack is saying, well, I
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have to be here, blah blah blah. So Dennis said
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he never forgot that part. So we got two things
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going on here. And and as far as the extrace
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I don't know.
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I don't think. I don't think. I don't think I've
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hit the accident yet with the busted shoulder, So I
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know that we talked.
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Well that's what That's what I'm saying. That The Exorcist
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came out after that alleged accident, which we know he
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had something happened to him. So that's because I I
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just what I'm getting at is the movie. I went
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to see The Exorcist, and I was a teenager. Any
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kid that even heard or saw it, even the previews,
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it left an effect on your on your mind and
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your memory. So so anyways, uh, you know, that's what
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I'm getting at, because that was pretty pretty horrific.
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Let's cover this. We do know that they do admit
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in the FBI Foya Archives that this is one of
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the known letters from the Zodiac Killer. It had a
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postmarked date of one twenty nine nineteen seventy four. It
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was received January thirtieth of nineteen seventy four. The FBI
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or the SFPD lab was able to pull and process
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for DNA. They did find cells, does not indicate how
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many or where the cells were lifted from. But we
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also see a new addition to self gummed stamps at
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this point with this letter, so licking of the stamps,
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which we know that Jack had his little spittoon that
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he had everybody spit in, so that when he would
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seal an envelope or or wet a stamp, he would
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just stick his fingers. This makes me almost want a gag.
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Stick his fingers in this pot a spit and seal
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his envelopes or his stamps.
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Rather great, did that.
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I don't know about being drunk by any means, but
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to have people smooth, I can't even Okay, I get,
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let's just go past it. I can't do that. So
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the letter says I saw and think The Exorcist in
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quotes was the best satirical comedy that I have ever seen. Now,
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of course, based on what you just said, Harriet, I
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mean this was a scary movie for back in the day.
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I mean I remember it having an impression on me,
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but a satirical comedy. I thought we've seen them make
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saterial satirical comedies from it since then. But I don't
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think that anybody else in their right mind would have
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seen that as a comedy. Yeah, he says, or so
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the letter goes. The letter goes on to say, signed
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yours truly, he plunged himself into the billowy wave and
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an echo arose from a suicide's grave. Tit willow tit
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willow tit willow ps. If I do not see this
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note in your paper, I will do something nasty, which
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you know I'm capable of doing. And then we have
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these funky little doodles or drawings that we have at
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the bottom of this, and he says me thirty seven
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and SFPD zero. So he's now giving the tally saying
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SFPD has nobody and he has thirty seven victims. I'm
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taking it from this particular communication. Let's see here. So
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it's a So some of the things that make it
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consistent with other letters that we've seen so far is
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the media and movie reference, which is something we saw
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on the Patrisa House letter in regards to Sherry Joe Bates.
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We see that it's a suicide note, much like the
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Lipstick Killer Black Dahlia with the Sorry Mary letter and more.
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And of course the Sorry Mary letter was attempting to
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make it look like he had walked off into his
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own billowy grave, if you will, by walking off into
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the ocean to come at suicide, so plunged himself into
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a billowy wave. From this particular communication is a cross
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reference to the pretend suicide note Dear Mary and the
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Dear draft Board letter that talks about the waves of rabbits.
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So we're seeing waves is another one of those commonalities
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through the actual communications. Now Plunged was also used in
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the Sherry Joe Bates murder letter to describe how he
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used his knife when he plunged it into her chest.
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And the characters that we're seen, or this doodle drawing
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that we're seen at the bottom is very similar to
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characters that were found on a soy barrel bottle that
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was taken from victim Kim Allen. And we know that
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Kim Allen was most recently one of the victims that
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we've spoken about in the last couple of weeks, So
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it is kind of keeping in connection with the crimes
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that we're talking about and the letters. Now it did
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go ahead when I'm.
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What I'm getting is the way this has all been done.
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You're even finding it. It's a version of code recapping
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to try to get the message out. This is from Jack,
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and he's got something to say.
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He's always got something to say.
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Yeah, so.
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He's got the printer or else statement, which is again
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one of those things that instilled in my mind as
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a document examiner, that these messages were in order to
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get messages elsewhere. So he's consistently saying, you're going to
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print this, You're going to put it on the first page.
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I was watching something the other day it was kind
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of interesting, and they were talking about some some mob
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guy that had been killed and how he and how
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the media picked these up so quickly. And they had
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mentioned that the newspapers never missed a mob killing. That
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was great for their paper. You know, if if if
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somebody had been killed in the mob then that was
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making front page some where. It was a very interesting concept.
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But something we see that's actually happening here with the
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Zodiac case. The nine four zero ZIP code that is
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found on this is, and I've been finding this out lately,
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and I know that you helped me with the l
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which was something to do with nothing flammable obviously because
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it was air mail. And the zip code nine four
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zero is basically kind of like a master location where
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whenever any mail is dropped into a mailbox outside of
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a person's home or at a business or something like that,
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these are all gathered and taken to a central location.
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And the nine four zero was one of those zip
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codes that I found for the San Francisco area where
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an anonymous letter had been mailed, and of course, because
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it had been dropped in a mail box, it was
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then shoveled off to this particular central location and the
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mailed from there. So the nine four zero was actually
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addressed in a newspaper clipping and that says to the
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editor from the postmark and the zip code numbers nine
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four zero. It was determined that the letter was mailed
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Tuesday from somewhere in either San Mateo County or Santa
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Clara County, which is consistent with we know Jack is
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now going to Santa Clara County to pick up Danny Reynolds,
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which was his last wife. So now he's dating Nora
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and with Nora, and he's picking up Danny Reynolds from
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Cya at around about this time.
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Correct, Yeah, I believe.
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So I think this is when they're already reunited.
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So you're saying that you found that the SLA letter
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envelope they believe was nine four zero nine one zero.
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I'm on the exercise. I'm not on SLA of the Exorcist.
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My bad. I will shut up now, that's okay. I've
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got a whole year's book step in this from nineteen
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seventy four, just in six months. But anyways, keep going, all.
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Right, So we can see on this particular envelope that
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there is a couple of extracurricular steps that are on
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here that are not actual postage stamps, but likely some
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of the little messages that they like to put on
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these new pregummed stamp booklets. And we can see over
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here there's wording, and then there's the eight sense Eisenhower stamp,
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and of course that kind of brings me into the
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whole You've already been talking about these things being plied
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with something on the other side, right, So these stamps
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had something on it, some remedy on it or some
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peyote on it or some something.
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Right, Yeah, he's screaming, especially under Eisenhower's what happened under Eisenhower.
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So I do have the extras this envelope decoded part
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one end part two, because that was huge. If you
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don't you have that or don't? Yeah, do you want
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me to read that? Because that was.
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Well I'm not there yet. I will usually introduce when
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I'm ready for you to do that, So let me
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just continue on. So I did actually pull this up
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so you could see what was going on here. These
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are these are those extra little sticky parts that are
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found on the book of Stamps, and it says stamps
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in this book have been gummed with a matt finish adhesive,
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which permits the elimination of the separation tissues. I didn't
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understand what that meant. It permits the elimination of this.
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It was just to make it so when if I
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understand correctly, when you were going to tear off the stamps,
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it was going to tear off perfectly, and you weren't
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going to be separating certain things. So you can because
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this was all new, these self adhesive things. So or
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I'm trying to understand that party. But it all fit
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into a code believable and well.
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And it says this book contains twenty five eight cent stamps,
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four on this pain and seven each on three additional pains,
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selling price two dollars two dollars, but twenty five stamps.
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What a thing, all right, so it said so January
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twenty ninth, nineteen seventy four, Exorcist Letters, handwritten. Some of
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the things that are consistent with the rest of the
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Zodiac communications is we have the use of a poem,
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which we've seen this many times. We have hyphenation, which
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has been a huge thing for both Jack and the Zodiac. Killer,
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comedy is split, suicides is spelled incorrectly, well, comedy is
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spelled incorrectly. The demand to print or he's going to
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do something nasty, claims thirty seven victims. I had not
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tallied the victims at this point because we have so
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many unsolved murders. I don't know that our numbers are
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going to collectively match since we appear right, And so
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I was I was gonna say if I.
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Go ahead, I was just saying I'm agreeing. But I
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found it all the code just unbelievable. This one. The
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letter itself was easy for me to do.
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And can all right, so the envelope.
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Can I quickly point out something about what we think
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are the ink blobs? I got this years ago. Somebody
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was saying, and I think it's associated with they don't
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like us dot com that when you rearranged it, it
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came out as j f k Q. So I ignored
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that for years. But once I thought I applied this,
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it came out as jfk Q, and it really fit
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and helped. It was like a code keep. It helped
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complete the solve.
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Well. Aside from the actual little images that he drew
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on there, we also see this this ink dot with
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a trail coming down it and another ink dot. These
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were the These were those little tiny pieces of doodlings
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that were occurring, especially on the letter where Dennis was