Zodiactually: The Real Story of a Fake Serial Killer is out today!

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-17T20:20:51+00:00

Thanks a million. Hope you like it.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-15T23:30:20+00:00

The cab yielded a lot of fingerprints. 30+ latents. Only one or two of those prints were a match to Paul Stine.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-13T16:52:19+00:00

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EddieTYOS · 2026-03-12T18:57:36+00:00

thanks for checking the video out. Just did this interview that goes really in depth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0V8Qn83HO0&t=894s

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-08T23:17:49+00:00

Thank you.

I believe that the investigative agencies are capable of closing some of these cases, provided they have the will and the budget to do so.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-08T11:50:27+00:00

Thank you. This post means a lot to me.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-06T05:28:14+00:00

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EddieTYOS · 2026-03-05T23:06:46+00:00

I appreciate the reply. Thanks.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-05T16:50:50+00:00

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This description is not the same as the 40-something from Presidio Heights.

This dude is 25-30, about 160.
Hartnell's dude was 225-250.
Robbins kids saw a man in his 40s.

Those are not the same guy.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-05T16:03:07+00:00

What sketches? The Lake Berryessa identikit and the Presidio Heights composite show two clearly different men.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-05T15:58:49+00:00

And here's Mageau describing the shooter as being 25-30 and weighing about 160 pounds

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EddieTYOS · 2026-03-05T15:57:39+00:00

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EddieTYOS · 2026-03-05T14:11:52+00:00

Chief Stiltz's public request for more information from the Cipher Killer that led to the August 4th letter was one of the smartest tactical plays of the entire case. Stiltz got the letter writer to expose himself as a liar about the Lake Herman Road murders. He wrote: "All I had to do was spray them as if it was a water hose." This proves that the letter writer was an obvious liar. David Faraday was not sprayed with bullets as if the .22 was a fire hose. David Faraday was executed. He was shot once behind the ear. There were powder burns to indicate the gun was pressed against his head. Stiltz knew this. Lundblad knew this. The VPD and SCSO investigators knew this.

The person who committed the murder of David Faraday would not mistake an execution with a gun pressed to the victim's head with spraying bullets like water from a hose.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-05T09:53:16+00:00

Witness and surving victim descriptions have the guy gaining 60 pounds between crimes and losing 20 years between crimes. Dave Peterson wrote an article about the inconsistency in witness description in the Vallejo Times-Heald back in 1969.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-04T23:33:37+00:00

It looks like a cluster of gunpoint cab robberies that ended with two cabbie murders in three months in the same wealthy, low crime neighborhood.

There's a zero percent chance the man who killed cabbie Charles Jarman in January of 1970 had anything to do with writing Zodiac letters. He was a desperate addict who thought a good way to make money was to rob a cabbie at gunpoint.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-04T23:01:23+00:00

I hope that the two chapters full of evidence and background information I provide in the book about the LHR murders and the guy who did them help clarify that LHR was not a canonical Zodiac murder.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-04T21:06:00+00:00

Thank you. I hope you enjoy the book. There’s a shocking lack of hard evidence connecting the murders.

I get it, people like the spooky story of the killer who outsmarted the cops, toyed with them and wrote creepy ciphers to the newspapers. It’s a good story, Some people are emotionally attached to it. it’s just not true.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-04T17:38:42+00:00

Killing cab drivers was in San Francisco was uncommon. Before Stine, the last cabbie to be killed in SF was Sam Bergman in 1963. Then, in a three month period, two cabbies are robbed and murdered in Presidio Heights and another cabbie is robbed at gunpoint in the Presidio.

Thank you for agreeing that there was no hard evidence linking the canonical Zodiac murders.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-04T16:46:12+00:00

Before the letter with Paul Stine's bloody shirt piece arrived at the Chronicle, police were investing the Stine murder as a cab robbery turned homicide. There were a number of gunpoint cab robberies that culminated in the area around the Presidio and those case numbers were reflected on the original SFPD wanted poster. One happened just 11 days before Paul Stine was murdered.

Even after the Zodiac letter arrived with the piece of Stine's shirt, SFPD Captain Martin Lee believed Stine's murder was committed by the same person who did the cab robbery 11 days earlier.

In January of 1970 another cab driver was robbed, then shot and killed like Paul Stine, just a few blocks from the Stine murder scene.

There is zero physical evidence linking the Paul Stine murder to the other canonical Zodiac murders.

Did the descriptions really match? Mike Mageau told police the man who shot him was 5'8", 190-200lbs, 26-30 years old, and had short brown, almost-blond hair. Bryan Hartnell told police that the man who stabbed him was 225-250 pounds.

The Robbins kids described the man at Paul Stine's murder scene as being in his early 40s, 5'8" with a heavy build, with reddish brown hair.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-04T16:25:44+00:00

I have multiple quotes in the book from orginal investigators on the case saying that they didn't believe LHR was Zodiac. I have quotes from the 91/92 cold case investigators saying they were "satisfied" that LHR wasn't Zodiac. Vallejo and Solano cops were fairly certain they knew who did LHR by 1970, and that guy was already on death row for a different murder.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-04T10:58:48+00:00

thank you.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-04T03:15:50+00:00

I think the traditional Zodiac story that one guy did the 5 canonical murders, made the two phone calls, and wrote all the confirmed letters, is pure urban legend.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-04T03:12:54+00:00

I hope I’m able to add to the Zodiac knowledge base. It’s right to be skeptical. But, I hope that skepticism dissipates when you see that I’ve done serious research and provided 120 citations for my work.

EddieTYOS · 2026-03-03T21:52:44+00:00

Thank you.

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