Mount Diablo looms over Suisun Bay, in this view from Benicia. Diablo towers over northern California, but here it is omnipresent. When The Zodiac left the stage of crime, he made “Devil’s Mountain” his personification. In this way, his game forever mocks San Francisco’s Bay Area. But Diablo and one other minor clue may unmask this villain at last.

    

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   For the details and solution pleas read Gian J. Quasar’s book HorrorScope.

The turnout on Lake Herman Road on December 20, 2012. The spot is at the apex of the plateau overlooking Benicia. The road continues on toward Benicia.

Contrails and space age.

   Benicia is a part of the industrial underbelly of the vast San Francisco Bay area. Here freighters load and unload goods. Trains bring and take supplies. Warehouses stock goods for the limbo in between. The small town of Benicia is sequestered under old trees on the bayside hills, almost out of sight; but the industries, the train yards, the shipping docks, are visible to all. They are the backyard of Benicia, and Old Lake Herman Road is the backdoor.

     It is here that Zodiac transposed into the night. It is here he intended to flee after the killing, with his .22 caliber still smoking. Where could he go here? Old Lake Herman Road ends on East 2nd at the industrial area. The main road here is appropriately called Industrial Way. But industrial sections of towns are graveyards at night. It’s fairly easy to spot a loner here. But if he held some kind of job here, or occupied a level of trust, he could hide his car in some establishment behind the cyclone fences. If not here, then he drove into Benicia on East 2nd Street.

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The Hayward Times for October 15, 1969. The Zodiac seemed to have a limited knowledge of newspaper reporting. He followed the Chronicle and yet still seemed ignorant of some reports. The very idea he was an “astrological assassin” merely stems from his name. In substance there is nothing in his crime spree that indicates astrological inspiration. Was his name chosen to be a ruse as well?

The old Gaviota Terminal Company in Santa Barbara county in relation to the first headland.

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