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April 8, 2024
Time to update again. HorrorScope is on track and on time. I had found The Omicron Suspect, the name I gave someone who was inferred to exist but not proven to exist. He was somewhere in Leigh Allen’s past. A whole separate journey began there, one through the southern Cal murders and back to the Bay Area. The reader of HorrorScope will come to understand why the mere inference of this person haunted me and why I had to prove his existence and where he might fit. It is a journey if nuance and fact the reader will take to a very surprising outcome.
January 26, 2024
I have not updated for months, and I suppose the last post below should be followed up. In other words, it is time to explain so many delays. HorrorScope has become the result of a massive search. It is not just about Steve. The recreation of the crimes and times of the Zodiac was completely finished by the time I triaged. HorrorScope is about picking out the guilty from the context as I continue to explore many avenues— the southern Cal murders, Bates, the search for R.H. and the heavyset man with the beard. The search for a possible accomplice. Much of the delay is caused by outing the haunting specter of The Omicron Suspect. Was Leigh Allen a link to the real Zodiac?
HorrorScope is by no means about identifying a suspect on hand printing. I can’t tell you how many POIs I’ve encountered who wrote almost identical to Zodiac.
The samples above are just that. They are just samples. I’m not saying they represent Zodiac. But they underline a problem in triaging. There is hand printing and there is hand printing in context. This is a far different matter. HorrorScope is a search for context. It is not a variation off a median pole. I open up the evidence. I do not suspend myself precariously from the overproduced narrative and rehash it. As such, I must be bold and consider all possibilities the clues suggest.
The samples above are also good for context in another matter. They are far superior to anything written by the “morbid poet” or any letters in Riverside. R.H. may not even be a man. The traditional narrative is narrow and damning to uncovering the truth.
I detest the S.F.P.D. sketch. Zodiac looks like a skinny mongoose villain. Mageau described him as blonde and stocky, short. At Lake Berryessa, the young man wondering about had dark hair, stylized, close to 6 foot. Zodiac’s footprints prove he was heavy, about 210 pounds. At Washington and Cherry he is skinny and reddish brown hair, crew cut. Yes, the estimate of weight is by 13 year old kids who themselves probably weighed 65-80 pounds. They estimated the killer at 150 to 175 pounds. So to them that was heavyset. But they might also think an elephant weighs that much. They were only kids. However, the sketch artist, being an adult, draws what is a 150 to 175 pound man to him.
But what if there was more than one killer? Yet only one did the writing? Did two do the killing? Did one kill the other?
Then there’s the clues Zodiac had an “in” at S.F.P.D. When the Chronicle agreed to not publish Zodiac’s summer 1970 letters, why didn’t he write to the Examiner or Times-Herald? Did he know the fix was in and there was no point? Or is it all coincidence?
Who fits all the clues? Hand printing, even DNA, will not tell us in the end. Context will. The sheer weight of it all.
HorrorScope is about uncovering Zodiac and not just declaring Zodiac.
January 25, 2024
A reminder-- this is coming up next.
September 16, 2023
More pages have gone up here on Q Files— The Zodiac & Ray Davis and The Zodiac & San Diego. These are an examination of the Ray Davis cabbie murder in Oceanside in April 1962 and the double murder of  Johnny and Joyce Swindle in San Diego’s Ocean Beach area in February 1964. You will get an idea also of the new site design, as the overhaul continues.
September 3, 2023
Two new pages are up-- they are introduction pages to 2 upcoming sections. Murder, Most Queer— The Gay Murders of San Francisco 4 and Cruise to a Kill: The I-70 Killer. You will get a taste of the new website layout style as well.
August 22, 2023
Jack the Ripper section is now down. The link on the True Crime page goes to Amazon’s page. Bigfoot will remain since it only a series of a few pages fleshing out the basics of the contradictory evidence. The section, however, has been updated. The site continues its long overdue overhaul. New sections are being planned— Murder, Most Queer-- The San Francisco Gay Murders. Also, the “Zodiac’s” Southern Cal murder articles will be moved to the site so that I can shut down my old blog.
August 12, 2023
Q Files is now undergoing its facelift. Slowly but surely you will see pages converted to a new and standardized display. This will bring coherence to a site near 500 pages. It will make it easier to update and add new sections from long-standing investigations. When the site is fully overhauled, you will notice that the Jack the Ripper section and probably Bigfoot are gone. My work there has been condensed into books, and it is not necessary to have it online. My section on advertising my books will also be removed. The exact same bio and promo is on the book sellers’ websites, which get far more traffic, so it is redundant on my personal site. Also, this page-- UPDATES-- will go. There is no need for it. Updates will be posted on the home page from then on.
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