Zodiac Killer case breakthrough???

[SsM]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090430/twl-mystery-zodiac-killer-was-my-father-3fd0ae9.html


A Californian woman has claimed her late father was the infamous Zodiac Killer who terrorised the San Francisco Bay area four decades ago.

Mystery Zodiac Killer 'Was My Father'


Detectives said they will check into the information from Deborah Perez.
The 47-year-old insisted her dad, Guy Ward Hendrickson, killed at least two of the known victims 40 years ago.
The Zodiac Killer is believed to have murdered at least five people, and possibly as many as 36. But his true identity has never been confirmed by police.
Sergeant Lyn Tomioka said the investigation into the 1969 death of San Francisco taxi driver Paul Lee Stine related to the Zodiac killer remains ongoing.
The case inspired a hit movie in 2007 starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr.
Sgt Tomioka said: "We get a significant number of calls a year. We will look into whatever evidence that is presented to us."
Hendrickson, a carpenter with six children, died in 1983 from cancer.
Many believe the killer was Arthur Leigh Allen, a convicted child molester from Vallejo who died in 1992.
But Ms Perez reportedly alleged, as a young seven-year-old girl, she helped her father write and post some of the letters that earned him the Zodiac nickname.
The Zodiac Killer sent letters to local newspapers, including The San Francisco Chronicle and The San Francisco Examiner.
They taunted police, media and the public with clues and riddles of his identity.
Ms Perez also claimed to be with her father at the Blue Springs Golf Club in July, 1969, when he allegedly killed Darlene Ferrin, 22, and wounded her companion Michael Mageau, 19.

 

[SsM]

I've seen the story on CNN and Fox News as well as the local news.. Whether it will be confirmed or not is still up in the air.

 

[Wiseman]

It's bs. They used to get tips like this all the time from crazy people who say they knew the zodiac killer. Relatives especially. I'm suprised this one became public

 

[SsM]

It's bs. They used to get tips like this all the time from crazy people who say they knew the zodiac killer. Relatives especially. I'm suprised this one became public

Probably.. but it would be totally awesome for this case to finally get solved.

 

[Motown Marvel]

no, it was MY dad who was the zodiac killer!

see how easy it is to claim that?

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Didn't someone else claim their father was the Zodiac killer last year?

 

[Addendum]

Dad was not the Zodiac, second daughter insists
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/02/MNP217CT9B.DTL

A Southern California woman's accusation that her long-dead stepfather was the Zodiac killer just took on a bizarre twist: Another daughter of the man popped up Friday to angrily denounce the charge.

Janice Hendrickson said her father, Guy Ward Hendrickson, "couldn't hurt a fly" - or at least couldn't kill one.

"My father was real bullheaded, and he did have a temper, and he did hit me ... slapped the crap out of me," Hendrickson, 65, told The Chronicle. "But did he kill people? I don't believe he did."

She added, "I have fond memories of him, even though he went off on me now and then."

On Wednesday, Hendrickson's stepsister Deborah Perez, 47, held a news conference outside The Chronicle to say her stepfather was the Zodiac. She said she also had fond memories of him - but that as a 7-year-old, she had tagged along a couple of times in the family car when the Zodiac gunned down his victims, although she didn't see the slayings and didn't know what the popping noises or moans she heard were.

The Zodiac killed at least five people in 1968 and 1969 in the Bay Area, taunted the press and police with cryptic, boasting letters, and remains the most infamous uncaught killer in American crime lore.

Perez, a real estate agent who lives in Corona (Riverside County), said she wrote one of the Zodiac's letters, a 1969 missive to the late San Francisco attorney Melvin Belli asking for his help. She also said she owns a pair of glasses her stepfather kept as a trophy from the Zodiac's last known killing, the shooting of cabbie Paul Stine in San Francisco in 1969.

Perez said Friday that she will be sending the glasses soon to San Francisco investigators.

Janice Hendrickson - a former home caregiver who now works with children in the Bay Area - said she, her two siblings, 12 grandchildren and one great-grandchild "are very mad" about Perez's accusations regarding her father, who died of cancer in Orange County in 1983.

As she held a picture of her parents on their wedding day in 1943, Hendrickson shook with rage. In the frame, Guy Hendrickson cut a dapper figure in a brown suit and tie, his hair slicked back.

"If the evidence proves that my father was the Zodiac, I will apologize, but if not, I will sue for defamation," she said. "Sure, Deborah might have written that letter (to Belli), but that doesn't prove anything."

She said her father had married Perez's mother when Perez was young and brought the family to the United States. Perez confirmed that in an interview.

"My father found Deborah and her mother, a dime-a-dance girl, in Tijuana, Mexico, and brought them up here to live," Hendrickson said. "They lived in a place with dirt floors. That woman had seven kids. ... She was a gold-digger. ... How can you believe Deborah?"

Her father, Hendrickson said, was a carpenter specializing in repairing schools, and lived in many places during three marriages, from Oregon to Orange County. "I just can't see him finding the time to do all those Zodiac killings," she said.
Read the Bible nightly

What's more, she said, "my dad read the Bible every night of the week, and he was always preaching that every man should support every kid he fathers. He didn't even like guns much. The most I ever saw him do was shoot a frog with a .22, and he felt bad about that."

Not that he didn't hang out with some shady characters, Hendrickson conceded. "If anything, it would have been his best friend ... who carried a sawed-off shotgun, who might have done something like the Zodiac," she said. "But not Dad."

Hendrickson said she has spoken with an FBI investigator, and she intends to give him a box of her father's belongings. The box has his writings, a tape recording of his voice and could yield fingerprints, she said. She was grown and out of the house when the Zodiac killings happened, she said, but remained close to her father throughout his life.

Hendrickson contended Perez was coming out with her accusations because she and her associates are making a documentary they say will prove their case. She called Perez on Friday, and as the two spoke for the first time in many years, the conversation became heated, both said.

"I told her she's full of crap, that she's making this movie and she's just trying to make some money," Hendrickson said. "I am so upset."
Sanity rumors

Perez said she had tried hard to protect the family's privacy, and found Hendrickson's accusations "painful." She added that other rumors circulating about her motives and sanity since her news conference were "not even worthy of responses."

"Janice can do whatever she wants," Perez said. "She said abusive words to me and called my family ******ed. That really offends me. I have a son with Down syndrome, and that is insensitive.

"And how in the world would being born in poverty in Mexico have anything to do with my credibility? My father did a wonderful thing bringing us to America.

"I'll say this, though," Perez added. "I am ecstatic that Janice is bringing forth this new evidence (the box of belongings) that might help. That makes it all worth it.

"This whole thing is devastating to my family. ... But this is all about helping the families who never received closure."

 

[Ghostvirus]

LOL! Evidently he woiuldn't hurt a fly, but he will smack the ***** out of his daughter. Thank god the flies are safe.

 

[imdaly]

Why do killers always go by all 3 names?

 

[zahanbil]

Everyone's always claiming their dad did it. These people either think very highly of their fathers or hate them.

 

[Mike_D202]

Yea I remember there was an article on another man who claimed his father was the zodiac and that the FBI have been studying the evidence (he went thru his father's belongings and found the zodiac mask hidden in a tape recorder, old undeveloped film of corpses, etc.). He claimed he thinks his father murdered his mother, thats why hes been trying to find proof. Or something.

 

[The Battousai]

^ Stepfather. Otherwise, yes.

Creepily enough, the guy's name was Jack Terrance...

 

[Figs]

Didn't someone else claim their father was the Zodiac killer last year?

Yeah, that was some chump trying to get his 15 minutes after the Zodiac film came out in theatres/DVD.

 

[xisaacx]

shes in the housing industry, the housing industry is doing bad. So she trumped up the lies to get money, get on tv, become famous, sell books and make money. I call bs, good plan on her part but bs. I am whose REALLY going to come out and be like "NO YOUR LYING, MY DAD WAS THE ZODIAC" ha

 

[Nivek]

She's full of it. I'm not sure if it really was Arthur Leigh Allen or not, but this is more of a flake seeking attention.

 

[xisaacx]

She's full of it. I'm not sure if it really was Arthur Leigh Allen or not, but this is more of a flake seeking attention.

Exactly how convenient is it, she comes out with this JUST when the economy is crap and shes probably doing bad in her career. Shes trying to secure income, were talking movies, books, tv interviews.

 

[The Guard]

Maybe, if this turns out to be lies, she'll write a book about perpetuating a hoax.

 

[AnorexicBatman]

So when is the new movie Zodiac 2 coming?