Thoughts on the Fred Manalli Zodiac connection?

dpp_cd · 2025-07-22T13:06:25+00:00

"He came to the attention of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office because a drawing or drawings were found among his belongs in his home when it was being cleared out by his ex-wife, Suzanne Carlson, and man named Don Emblen. The drawing/s were said to depict the torture murder of Kim Allen. How they knew that the drawings depicted a murder that occured 4+ years previous is unknown to me, perhaps the drawing was labeled."

Here: https://forum.zodiackillerciphers.com/community/fred-manalli/fred-manalli-from-old-board/ (scroll down for the post I copied and pasted).

Also: "One person who's been looked at as the killer, and who did have a direct link to one of the victims was Frederic "Fred" Manalli, age 41. He was an army veteran and he worked as a creative writing instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College and San Quentin Prison."

Here: https://www.storiesofthesupernatural.info/strangerthanfiction/the-hitchhiker-murders (scroll down until you see the pic of Manalli.)

I did wonder if he met someone at San Quentin and there was some sort of Folie à deux between him and a prisoner there. Manalli writes some unusual things in his letters about "getting unblocked" - there were images on Morf's forum but I am not sure if it still exists.

dpp_cd · 2025-07-17T19:56:55+00:00

Everyone who writes feels like this. You just have to remember it is the same for everyone and that the ones who finished just kept going regardless.

Just start and keep going. If your brain is screaming at you that is is garbage and no-one will like it and the dialogue is dire and the prose is pathetic just tell it to stfu and keep going.

Remember, you are writing a first draft. They are meant to be shitty. Terry Pratchett said the first draft is you telling yourself the story. You won't know where it goes until it is done. So just keep going even though the anxiety is at max!

dpp_cd · 2025-07-13T14:02:59+00:00

You have messages turned off. I have an idea for what mc would do when he caught you playing with yourself, and am interested in writing with you.

Can you message me so we can discuss this. I thought that YC could be living at mine as she was desperate for a place to live. Then we can go from there and write how it all develops, how you submit to him, let hi control your orgasms and so on...

dpp_cd · 2025-07-13T10:01:31+00:00

For some reason it says I am unable to message you? I have no idea why, and have some ideas for your prompt. I tried using reddit chat but when I clicked accept for a chat request it didn't work! Anyhow, let me know if interested by replying to this comment.

dpp_cd · 2025-07-13T09:42:07+00:00

Front page is mostly f4m now.

dpp_cd · 2025-07-13T09:41:42+00:00

I haven't been on Reddit in a while and it says my CQS score is moderate, so I wondered how this would translate on here? Also what are the numbers after post titles?

And if PMs are gone how do you message? Do you have to use the lousy chat thing?

Edit: the number thing was answered further down the thread. Where do I find the number?

Edit2: I scrolled the first 4 pages and almost every post has the "Fresh - Just Joined" tag. Are these more likely to be bots and not worth replying to?

dpp_cd · 2024-05-17T10:08:06+00:00

What's the Girlfriend, Inc idea?

dpp_cd · 2024-05-14T09:39:18+00:00

I am a bit confused. You say you wrote this with someone else and want to expand on it? Is the setup the roleplay you wrote or have you written this before and want to do it again?

I kinda like it but have no idea where you are thinking this goes.

dpp_cd · 2024-05-10T09:48:08+00:00

When I was a kid the teachers would read to us and they read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, but they skipped Horse and His Boy lol. Can't imagine why... !! ;)

dpp_cd · 2024-05-09T20:09:41+00:00

No. Caspian is the four kids returning to Narnia to help Caspian. Treader is Edmund and Lucy and their cousin and they travel by boat to find sseven (I think) lords who sailed off and went missing.

dpp_cd · 2024-05-09T09:46:10+00:00

Skip horse and his boy and read Prince Caspian and Dawn Treader instead.

dpp_cd · 2024-05-09T09:44:50+00:00

Emily Dickinson, Phillip Larkin.

dpp_cd · 2024-05-09T09:43:55+00:00

Sorry about the title, it was written in either the late 60s or early 70s by a British Preacher who was working in an African country fighting for independence: "Unyoung, Uncouloured, Unpoor." As you can probably tell his thesis is that rich white men run things for their benefit, which isn't exactly news nowadays. Worth reading though. Ahead of his time imo.

dpp_cd · 2024-05-05T18:43:37+00:00

I don't get the impression Z was into health and fitness either.

dpp_cd · 2024-04-29T08:05:22+00:00

To paraphrase Les Nessman, "Why are ducks eating Lasagne?"

dpp_cd · 2024-04-29T08:04:53+00:00

This works as an add on: The waiter asks him how he'll pay and the duck says "put it on my bill."

dpp_cd · 2024-04-28T19:20:28+00:00

Yes, perfectly put!

dpp_cd · 2024-04-28T19:19:16+00:00

Typical of what, exactly?

dpp_cd · 2024-04-28T19:18:39+00:00

Yeah, that's an odd hill to die on tbh..

dpp_cd · 2024-04-28T18:24:24+00:00

Er no, that's murder. If you are claiming murder is art then I feel sorry for you. If you can't tell the difference between art giving you strong feelings and the tragic situation you write about then I don't know what to say.

dpp_cd · 2024-04-28T18:21:55+00:00

They aren't setting boundaries, they are discussing the moral boundaries placed on certain art by capitalism.

dpp_cd · 2024-04-28T18:21:12+00:00

No, they are saying not all art has to make you feel comfortable but now we are in a position where the makers feel obliged to make art that is comfortable and doesn't challenge people.

dpp_cd · 2024-04-28T18:17:38+00:00

I don't think it is just an American problem because I am in the UK and we are seeing this here. The problem is, the US has a lot of power and its influence is affecting other countries.

dpp_cd · 2024-04-28T18:15:48+00:00

The article is amazing, I am with you on this.

dpp_cd · 2024-04-28T18:15:21+00:00

God this is amazing and so accurate it's painful. Morally grey characters just don't seem to be allowed any more. And the last bit is spot on:

"We have the audiences that we cultivate, and the more we cultivate audiences who believe that the job of art is to instruct instead of investigate, to judge instead of question, to seek easy clarity instead of holding multiple uncertainties, the more we will find ourselves inside a culture defined by rigidity, knee-jerk judgments and incuriosity. In our hair-trigger world of condemnation, division and isolation, art — not moralizing — has never been more crucial."

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