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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Following a high-profile announcement by a squad of backstage investigators naming deceased Tuolumne County nonmigratory Gary Poste arsenic the Zodiak Killer, a Sacramento-based lawyer and his backstage researcher accidental their ain probe years agone reached the aforesaid conclusion.
Attorney Mark Reichel and backstage researcher John Kennedy accidental proceeding Poste’s sanction again gives them a consciousness of validation.
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“It’s a bully feeling but determination was a spot of, you know, sadness to it that we really erstwhile helium was inactive alive, we were talking to individuals successful instrumentality enforcement, about, you know, we were assured it was him,” Reichel said.
“This came from a tip, a telephone telephone tip,” Reichel said.
“And past erstwhile you commencement to get a scent that possibly there’s thing going connected here, you go, well, you can’t truly locomotion away, from looking into this,” Kennedy said.
Kennedy showed maine the integer files of his ain Zodiac Killer investigation, tied to Gary Poste.
He compiled records wherever Poste was stationed successful the Air Force successful Indiana earlier the Zodiac Killer spree successful the 1950s, and wherever Poste whitethorn person picked up a knack for codes.
“In these places, determination were encrypted messages being sent and received,” Kennedy said.
Kennedy besides recovered a paper clipping of a deadly car clang Poste was progressive successful conscionable extracurricular the base, that helium believes whitethorn person interaction his thinking.
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“Or the affectional scars,” Kennedy said.
He besides saved a notable image, from Poste’s Facebook leafage successful 2011, linking to a study of different infamous execution case, the Casey Anthony trial.
During the Zodiac Killer spree, Kennedy besides tracked Poste moves done the Bay Area.
“I could enactment him, by conscionable looking done aged telephone books, and erstwhile was the past clip anyone looked astatine an aged telephone publication for anything, but going to the library, that simple, and going done Bay Area telephone books that enactment him successful the Bay Area astatine the close times,” Kennedy said.
“And determination was conscionable nary mode you could get astir it that it wasn’t this person, everything matched up including worldly that wasn’t public, that we had benignant of found,” Reichel said.
The long-unsolved Zodiac Killer case, and a high-profile announcement putting a sanction to the suspect’s face.
It’s nary astonishment for this Sacramento researcher and attorney.
“You know, erstwhile you person that feeling similar you enactment truthful overmuch clip into something, you enactment truthful overmuch assets and effort into it and past you find retired respective years aboriginal you were right, and others were wrong,” Reichel said.
Both Reichel and Kennedy judge Poste is the Zodiac Killer, though they admit what they person is circumstantial grounds and they anticipation immoderate benignant of forensic subject volition yet beryllium they are right.
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