More Zodiac Parallels as Las Cruces Threats Persist
In my post of September 22, 2006 I wrote about some apparent parallels between the Las Cruces extortion letters and the Zodiac Killer. Now there is another letter and, it seem, even more resemblances of the Zodiac’s cowardly threats. The Las Cruces extortionist seems ever the more inspired by the Zodiac killer of the 1960s and 70s.
To follow up on the threats made in August (with deadlines of September 1 and September 22), the Las Cruces letter writer is playing poker with the police again. A letter received October 30 by the Las Cruces Sun News states:
“If you blow your chance Nov. 3 to deliver, more bodies will fall. Now they will fall in schoolyards. Don’t believe us? Try us again.”
Notice the similarities to October 13, 1969 letter sent to the San Francisco Chronicle by the Zodiac killer:
“School children make nice targets, I think I shall wipe out a school bus some morning. Just shoot out the front tire + then pick off the kiddies as they come bouncing out.”
The police believe the Las Cruces letter is written by the same person who wrote earlier this year because he writes his letters in the same odd fashion, using an unusual style of block lettering.
Excerpt From Earlier Las Cruces Letter
At this time, there is a reward of $51,000 for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the person writing the Las Cruces Extortion letters. In the Las Cruces area, call Crimes Stoppers at (505) 526-8000, or outside the Las Cruces area at 1-800-897-2746 if you have any information concerning this case.
The Zodiac case has never been solved, but law enforcement recently said “case closed” regardless of this disturbing fact.
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