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Melissa Rose

The August 4, 1969 Connection









I've finally had some time to review LD's military records to add documented events from his records to my timeline.


A few more discoveries jumped out at me regarding the dates of August 3 & 4, 1969....


  1. On Monday, August 4, 1969, LD signed his discharge paper at NAS Alameda on August 4, 1969, with the intent to re-enlist- The form is signed the exact SAME DAY the Zodiac Killer wrote his 3-page follow up letter to the SF Examiner. Within his follow-up letter he describes that the witness saw he had a brown car. LD had a brown/tan/gold station wagon (the same one that Kathleen Johns describes the following March of 1970). LD immediately leaves California and arrives in Ohio with his family by August 8, 1969. He spends three weeks there before returning (without his two oldest daughters) by September 8, 1969, to report to duty for his next enlistment. After an intervention by the family, his two oldest daughters remained in Ohio and then moved with their mother to Chicago. On September 27, 1969, the Lake Berryessa attack on another young couple occurred. Then cabdriver Paul Stine on October 11, 1969. The following spring, we see the Zodiac threaten school buses.


2. ONE DAY BEFORE, On Sunday, August 3, 1969, Debra Furlong (14) and Kathie Snoozy (15) were stabbed over 100 times while having a picnic in their Almaden Valley (San Jose) neighborhood, on a hill-top. There was no sign of sexual assault and these murders fit the M.O. These two young ladies were the exact same ages as LD's two oldest daughters whom lived with him. Unfortunately, Toschi pushed for Karl F. Werner (18) to be investigated as the Zodiac.

The knife was allegedly found on Werner's premises, but could the "Dripping Pen" letter on Nov 8 1969 (pen that looks like a knife) have been a confession that the Zodiac framed Werner by letting him get convicted for Furlong and Snoozy?

3. Additionally, Kathy Bilek is murdered in the same manner, in Saratoga, CA - the same name as the USS Saratoga carrier he served on a decade prior, when he was "killing time in 1959."

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