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Paul Doerr—the #zodiackiller suspect developed by author Jarett Kobek (in his remarkable book HOW TO FIND ZODIAC)—is the best Zodiac suspect that's ever surfaced.
Here’s an absurdly long thread outlining why.
Here’s an absurdly long thread outlining why.
1. It's not any one data point that sells Paul Doerr (b. 4/1/1927, d. 8/2/2007) as Zodiac, but rather, all of them combined that make it appear probabilistically impossible Zodiac was anyone other than Doerr.
2. Let's start with Doerr's favorite pastimes: writing letters to the editor (mostly to zines), which he'd been doing since his youth. To the extent his letters—and the many mimeographed zines he made himself—are archived digitally, they offer a wealth (understatement) of info.
Spending my Saturday evening indulging my passion for #TrueCrime, & learning more about the #history of the crimes & murders that helped to shape the San Francisco Bay Area #TheMurdersThatMadeUs
First @bob_calhoun opens his presentations by thanking the libraries for their efforts to stay open during the pandemic & highlights their importance in his researching of the book #TheMurdersThatMadeUs
Calhoun used to work in a library in San Mateo County around the time of the 1989 earthquake; jokes his first thought was relief that his shift finished "so he wouldn't have to pick up the books", but says the library actually closed for months due to damage #TheMurdersThatMadeUs
A note on this #ZodiacKiller news.
In 2015, I was called upon by a team of producers for the History Channel to pressure test a suspect in the DB Cooper case that a group of investigators had zeroed in on. They paired me with Tom Fuentes, former asst. director of the FBI.
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In 2015, I was called upon by a team of producers for the History Channel to pressure test a suspect in the DB Cooper case that a group of investigators had zeroed in on. They paired me with Tom Fuentes, former asst. director of the FBI.
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We spent months going through the DB Cooper case—as well as the suspect’s background. And we concluded that there was no concrete proof that the suspect—Robert Rackstraw—was the man known as DB Cooper. The head of the investigators, a man by the name of Tom Colbert,
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was pretty upset, but there was just nothing there, just a lot of shadows and circumstantial evidence. The investigators couldn’t even place Rackstraw in the area at the time of the hijacking. You can watch the show on the History Channel: "DB Cooper: Case Closed." It was
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