Dodge_Sniper
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Zodiac Killer - The 1990 Christmas Card
While preparing for an article about the release of the new film, employees at The San Francisco Chronicle discovered what appeared to be a long forgotten communication from the elusive pen pal. Postmarked in Eureka, California in December 1990, the red envelope was overlooked amid the many hoax letters and forgeries that plagued the newspaper after the release of Graysmith’s first book and the sensational media coverage surrounding the crimes of a “Zodiac copycat” killer in New York. If the card was an authentic Zodiac communication, the killer was still alive as late as 1990, still taunting, and still at large more than sixteen years after his brief appearance in 1974.
Addressed to The Chronicle in pencil and with an eerily familiar style, the envelope bore a 25-cent that depicted a Christmas tree and contained a holiday greeting card. On the front of the card, a Snowman wearing a Groucho Mark nose, moustache and glasses stands in a snowstorm as a small rabbit watches. The text of the card was reminiscent of the Zodiac’s Halloween card to reporter Paul Avery more than twenty years earlier.
FROM YOUR SECRET PAL.
CAN’T GUESS WHO I AM YET?
WELL LOOK INSIDE AND YOU’LL FIND OUT…
The inside of the card read:
…THAT I’M GONNA KEEP YOU GUESSIN!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS, ANYWAY
The writer had also included a Xerox of two keys on a chain attached to a small pen-like cylinder. Marked USPS for the United States Postal Service, the keys had identification numbers of undetermined significance, leading to speculation that the Xerox might lead to a post office box containing the identity of the Zodiac, or some other clue that could provide the solution to the case.
Close-up Envelope Handwriting
Post Mark Eureka, CA
Card Cover
Inside
Xerox copy of a set of keys
Close-up of keys
Sorry if this is old news to some, but I had to repost this. It's pretty crazy that he could still be out there.
