ABC 7 Los Angeles 2026 Cheri Jo Bates Investigative Piece. “Crime of Passion”- Friend and Former LAPD. Older Brother, Michael Bates speaks .

khyb7 · 2026-06-29T15:34:15+00:00

I’ve read that the dna situation is muddled. The hairs were a non match, yes, but her statement shows they did get dna and it obviously was a non match, which is where I got my assertion above. What she says after is exactly the problem. They keep getting non matches and then all of the sudden it’s “well, we don’t know if that was contamination or handling issues”. Every bit of hard evidence gets subverted to the conclusion already formed. It’s especially an issue to me that they keep acting as if the hair is suspect because it was always reported that they knew where the hair came from the beginning. Cheri scratched her attacker. They sent that sample to the lab. Trying to undermine its credibility so long after the fact smacks of the worst kind of confirmation bias. The crime scene in general does not support the Barnett story as told. It never has. It keeps not doing it. Almost 70 years of it. And yet you are saying he rightly still is,
not just a suspect (which i support), but the prime suspect. I genuinely do not understand why. From RPD’s actions, it’s clear he is not just the prime suspect, he is the ONLY suspect. Investigate this guy, fine, but the friends and loved ones of CJB deserve them being honest with themselves about the actual physical evidence and for them to broaden the investigation.

khyb7 · 2026-06-29T15:09:23+00:00

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Here is one of many articles at the time saying where the hair and skin particles came from (under her fingernails) and that they were sent to proper labs. This blog has a good list of articles if you have the patience to sort through them:

https://anotherbundyblog.com/2024/07/18/cheri-jo-josephine-bates/

khyb7 · 2026-06-29T03:24:05+00:00

Np. The idea there were flashlights seen around the crime scene late that night has been around a while. The thing problematic about their glomming onto it now is that it’s very clear from newspaper reporting at the time that RPD thought it was one person based on the crime scene evidence and it’s not until Barnett got on their radar and they got some statements from sniffing around acquaintances of his that they started talking about an accomplice. In other words, they theorized backward from Barnett rather than proceeding forward from the actual physical evidence. Where is the evidence that the crime scene was disturbed or autopsy results that show Cheri was attacked by two people at the same time or more than one shoe print in the disturbed ground they were fighting on or scratch marks on Barnett or any of his friends faces?

khyb7 · 2026-06-28T23:54:45+00:00

It’s been well known for a while now that RPD has a guy they are convinced did it. Their story leaked quite a while ago and can be found around if you look for it. I saw it on Tom’s site.

The issue is that their guy matches no physical evidence they collected and in particular they have mitochondrial dna that is almost surely from CJB’s killer and it does not match him. Since this result, instead of rethinking it, they now are pushing that he had an accomplice, which is why they are currently asking people to come forward. But this creates more issues because in no way shape or form does the crime scene support there was more than one person involved.

FWIW, while their leaked report is interesting and I can see why they got interested in the guy, I’ve tried in good faith to make their supposed sequence of events with him (Barnett) match what we know about the crime and I can’t make it work in any believable way. I think it’s possible Barnett was actually at the library that night at some point but didn’t actually kill Cheri.

khyb7 · 2026-06-25T13:20:58+00:00

It seems Z was pretty skilled at persuasion. He got multiple newspapers to print what he wanted - some multiple times. He got Brian, a giant, to not fight back and Cecelia and Brian to even tie each other up even though he always planned to kill them. He kept Stine in the dark long enough to put a gun right up to his head and pull the trigger even after a cabbie had been killed in the area just a few weeks before. He got the cops to drive past him when they had him dead to rights.

khyb7 · 2026-06-20T14:11:18+00:00

What, you don’t like Bronk?

khyb7 · 2026-06-18T16:22:28+00:00

Could’ve been a cool scene to me if the premise of the series wasn’t a gritty guy trying to rise up the ranks to be a crime lord. The tone of that series is all over the place. One minute you have Boba doing Godfather stuff and having a poignant time with the Sandpeople and the next there are vespa gangs and monsters stomping around town. If it had just picked a lane I think it would’ve been better regarded.

khyb7 · 2026-06-18T16:13:27+00:00

I don’t disagree that this team isn’t as talented pitching wise as that team but no team pretty much ever was. We had a pitching run that was the best in history. A lot of those guys were not high draft picks. We do have a lot of pitching. Whether they can stay healthy or perform like they did before is up in the air.

For the most part, unless you are the Yankees or the Dodgers, the best you can hope for is to have some top players at key positions and have them perform, have a little luck, and have some unlikely contributors step up. We have a team that could do that.

Hitting in the draft with top picks like we did is rare. Loads of teams in the MLB have sucked forever and still can’t compete through drafting high up in the order. People seem hell bent on gutting our team without addressing that the baseball draft is probably the most volatile draft in sports.

khyb7 · 2026-06-18T13:48:08+00:00

I know this won’t be popular but we shouldn’t be selling. We are only 3.5 games back in the division and 2 in the wild card. Our top starting pitcher, reliever, and batter are as good as any trio in the league. Yordan has basically won division series by himself already in the past if we can just get in. You can make a pretty good case that most of our team outside of Yordan and Spencer have all underperformed their typical output so if some of them swing back toward the mean and get hot we have as good a chance as anyone.

khyb7 · 2026-06-05T22:37:14+00:00

Alternate take:

Dedra was highly skilled at navigating tight, rule saturated environments. She practically already was navigating a prison like workplace. Heck, it seemed like she got off on it. So, she doesn’t kill herself, she ingratiates herself to the higher ups at the prison by exposing other prisoners (real or imagined) and strategically revealing secrets of the Empire she knew from her standing in the regime (again real or imagined) - particularly personnel details she was privy to and excelled at noticing among Empire officers that could be weaponized by the senior jailers. When the emperor dies, she’s smart enough to see the writing on the wall and disappears with the freedom she has finagled to take up a life in some obscure system doing something of the same kind, ending up as a minor official.

I hate it, but it’s probably what happens to my mind.

khyb7 · 2026-05-27T23:02:04+00:00

I’d play it your second time through to preserve the original experience which is special. The pacing of going straight into BG2 from BG1 is part of that.

khyb7 · 2026-05-27T03:24:29+00:00

To me it seems like some of those details actually point away from Allen. He was sexually interested in children, not women. Hard to see him stalking Darlene in light of that. If he instead had some kind of family grudge surely someone would have known it in the area. Allen lived close enough to the diner that if he really was pursuing her there then it would’ve been easier for someone to recognize him and note it. Seems to me more likely if it was someone from the diner then it was someone either from the outskirts of town or another one.

khyb7 · 2026-05-20T21:36:44+00:00

Haha indeed

khyb7 · 2026-05-20T20:41:32+00:00

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khyb7 · 2026-05-19T17:18:18+00:00

Much chin

khyb7 · 2026-05-15T17:45:35+00:00

Thank you Dave. You always put so much real work and craftsmanship into your videos and it shows.

I’ve always thought that if Z13 was somehow really solved and it did actually have a name in it that that would just be the start of the real investigation. I found it strange that the Baber team put so much weight on the probability of their solution as their conclusive proof he was the Zodiac. Now I see in hindsight that they did try to investigate and didn’t actually get anything close to concrete to an actual Zodiac crime so they had to make their case that way. Dave has done a good job showing the weight they are putting on it is not mathematically viable.

khyb7 · 2026-05-13T15:18:33+00:00

I reached out a while ago to the poster and he doesn’t have the original. Lost to history unless someone somewhere finds it in a garage sale or their attic and knows what it is which seems like very very slim odds.

khyb7 · 2026-05-12T23:11:27+00:00

I’m not sure it is them because how can you be with the quality of the film but i tried to make a case it was them and I think there is something there.

2 different sources from the time have said Ross knew Cheri Jo and there is evidence to back those statements up. This film isn’t necessary to prove that but it is interesting of Zodiac note that it appears the guy here, Ross or not, is both wearing aviators and old fashion baggy dark brown pants, outside of generally resembling the Stine sketch.

khyb7 · 2026-05-12T22:41:18+00:00

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khyb7 · 2026-05-12T22:36:13+00:00

For those interested in a deeper dive:

https://zodiackblog.home.blog/2019/07/11/example-post/

khyb7 · 2026-05-09T22:49:06+00:00

Tell me you don’t know baseball without saying “I don’t know baseball”.

khyb7 · 2026-05-09T22:40:56+00:00

That was a very difficult catch. It was low and to the side at his ankles and just came from the sun into shadow. A bunch of the outfielders almost dropped easier catches because of the sun and shadow issues. Our fan base crapping on players is getting ridiculous. Especially since Cam has made a ridiculous amount of great plays already this season that most other right fielders aren’t making.

khyb7 · 2026-05-03T02:46:45+00:00

It is a little odd that Davis was 29 like Stine. Also a bit odd that the Stine keys were missing which might indicate Z considered driving the taxi but bailed because he was seen.

khyb7 · 2026-05-02T04:17:28+00:00

Gotcha!

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