THE ZODIAC KILLER

 

 

SECOND LETTER

On the six-month anniversary of Bates' death, the Riverside Press, the police, and the victim's father (whose name and address had appeared in the local newspaper the day after the murder) were each sent nearly identical copies of another letter, this one written in pencil on lined notepaper.

Instead of a signature, two of the letters bore a symbol that resembled a letter Z joined with a numeral 3.  In what would become a hallmark of the Zodiac's epistolary style, the envelopes were franked with excessive postage: in this case, they each carried two of the necessary four-cent stamps.

30April 1967.

The letters sent to the police and Press read as follows:

The copy without the hieroglyph signature, sent to Joseph Bates, substituted "Bates" with "She." follows:

  

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