Feb 20th, 1964 Tiger Times “Construction on New Library To Begin in 1965; Meanwhile .. ” In ’64 they were letting unsupervised study happen in the Quad English Office and maybe the foyer of the auditorium. Perhaps Cheri was allowed to study in a room like this? It seems like Bach favored this sort of thing. But then why wouldn’t a librarian remember her?
Sept – Oct 1965 Nightimes “Night Library Use is Low: Bach”. Maybe I could see Cheri Jo not being noticed in this space although I’m not sure it existed in 1966 and RCC just had a lot more people attending in ’66. I still struggle to understand how she wasn’t seen for 3 hours if she was there.
ibid Riverside Avenue, about a half mile away, 1 am
1965 Nov Dec Nightimes “Night Students Aid Opera” Apparently this was a course credit kind of thing. With Zodiac’s love of the Mikado I thought this was noteworthy.
March 26th 1964 Tiger Times “Patton Party Held” According to the unofficial Ross Sullivan timeline from Jo Ann Bailey, this is right about the time Ross got out. Gamma Iota Alpha was a guy’s frat with some sort of military slant to its membership. Gamma Nu had a girl with the last name Sullivan, although I’m not sure if she had any relation to him.
Sept. 23rd 1966 Tiger Times “Construction Nears Hallfway Point”
Sept. 30th, 1966 Tiger Times “City official close Fairfax”
Oct. 7th 1966 Tiger Times “RCC blocks street”
ibid “RCC Library expands” & “RCC student police force will aid parking problems” Library hours are here as well as the head librarian Bach discussing books moved to the house on the alley in which Cheri Jo was murdered and the hours it was open. If you’ve read my other stuff you know that I think it’s a possibility that explains a lot, particularly the missing time, that Cheri Jo may have been allowed to study here or to retrieve books needed for the bibliography she had lost for her paper on the Electoral College.
Older articles from Sept. 23rd, 1965 Tiger Times, “Construction: A Way Of Life at RCC” & “RCC Library Plans Near Completion”
Take note the last paragraph Bach talks about less supervision. That could play a part in the librarians not knowing if Cheri Jo was there or not.
ibid an “Editorial” on the difficulties of parking and the differences for day time vs. night time students.
The September October Nightimes 1966 “Librarian recalls African safari” This is an article about Ross Sullivan champion Winifred Turner. I’m sure she discussed with Ross how man is the most dangerous game 😉
ibid “Night library use declines: Bach” Bach clearly required his staff to take notation of books lent out and students numbers using the building but only one librarian recalls he “might have seen” Cheri Jo, even though she checked out books. Hmm …
ibid “City okays college’s proposal to barricade Fairfax Avenue” and the famous CJB (? some questions have raised if this is really her) photo. The comparison is day vs. night.
Here is the “less used” study room in the library. Could CJB have gone unnoticed for 3 hours in this room?
April – May 1967 Nightimes “Library urges visits to Harvard” Talk of the annex in the alley Cheri Jo was killed. The article talks of storing books there and urges to use it to keep down overcrowding in the small library. There is a picture of the small library on pg. 2.
Could Cheri Jo have gone unnoticed in here for 3 hours?
ibid An article on custodians breaks up the above story but may be of interest to some researchers.
ibid Harvard annex article continued and talk of the new library. Note the last paragraph states the staff was “Five professional librarians and six non-professional librarian-clerks” plus “100 hours of student help per week”.
You might be getting sick of seeing Ross posts. I get a little tired of it myself. However, I’m going to drop some older photo finds that I’ve spread around a bit here for posterity.
First, we got a pic I believe from the ’64 – ’65 course catalogue. They reused photos for these so it’s hard to know when it was taken. According to the unsubstantiated Ross Sullivan timeline he was MIA in at Patton State from ’61 to ’64. I think this is probably a ’64 pic.
Someone pointed out that everyone else in the photo has a coat on but this guy.
A little bit of filtering now:
This one is from the ’66 Yearbook. This guy is writing and looks to have a black wristwatch on. The hair is pretty dark to be Ross but his hair does appear dark in some photos. I still am very unsure it’s him. I do think it’s a decent Zodiac sizes and shape. The jacket looks similar to artist renditions.
Filtered:
Comparison photo. Props to the person who compiled the images on the right. I didn’t do those.
This was another video I discovered and posted a while back on another site. For once it’s great quality!
I recall finding out before it was 1965 but the video heading simply places it in the ’60’s.
First, here is link to the video:
A fella wanders into the shot about 20 seconds in.
Could be Ross Sullivan.
I found similarity in the mouth, ears, and jawline in particular. If you mentally close the video caption guys mouth he looks a lot like the above photo. Ross has a very oval shaped chin where the mouth appears like it sits low. The ears are attached lobes and appear shaped similarly.
This guy is wearing a blue windbreaker type jacket and his weight is hard to judge. These were descriptions of Zodiac.
Zodiac Clothing Comparison
What gives me pause is the mark on his upper right jaw. Is it a mole? Ross in the photos we have inclines the right side of his face to the camera. It’s hard to tell if he has a mole or not but I get the impression he didn’t. Maybe the mark is a cut or a pimple.
This is a link to video footage from a 1969 Presidio Halloween party fairly recently uploaded to YouTube:
Obviously the Presidio is linked to Zodiac and Halloween was a time he operated. There are some interesting things in this video which I’ll include below. What stands out to me, however, is a woman seated on the couch at around 3:15 in. Here are some screenshots:
Is this Donna Lass? I believe she worked in the Presidio area at this time.
There is one guy with a slight Zodiac profile at the party.
Upon posting this video 6 months back some thought he looked like Zodiac suspect Jack Terrance.
I see the resemblance. However, the side profile comparison shows it’s a different person. Party guy is a bit rounder with a more pronounced forehead. Z was never described as balding from what I’ve been able to find so I don’t think this guy is a Z candidate.
To finish, not unusual decorations but we’ve got some articulated skeletons and cut out eyes around the party. I added the Z card below for comparison.
And this odd geisha looking advertisement hung up that I can’t quite figure out.
The is the 1965 Riverside Yearbook. I passed over this picture many times before noticing the big fella in the middle right.
The hair threw me off. It’s grown out here. Out of all of the unconfirmed pics I’ve viewed looking for the elusive Ross Sullivan, I’d say this one is the one I’m most convinced is him.
Side by side with the sketch
(Addendum 10/20/21)
This got a little traction on reddit on 10/20/20 so let me add some more photos of Ross to use for your own comparison. In the end, you’ll have to make up your own mind.
For what’s its worth from a guy you don’t know on the internet, I’ve spent a LOT of time with the known Ross Sullivan pictures. Ross is interesting. At first glance, he seems like a guy who looks like a lot of other guys. But, when you look closely, Ross has several distinct features. Among others, foremost, Ross has a prominent, unusual mouth. It’s large and the bottom lip protrudes a bit when his face is resting. When he is smiling, his top lip bows a bit. His mouth sits lowish on his face and he has the appearance of a large forehead, likely because he has a higher, widow peak like hairline. His ears have very little lobe to them. He has a less usual body shape: a quirky, stocky build.
I’ve also spent a LOT of time looking at 60’s decade pictures of Riverside College. While it’s certainly true that it’s surprising when you start researching Z heavily just how many guys looked like Zodiac back then – that buzz cut, black rimmed glasses look was popular – I’ve sifted through hundreds of pictures and if the face is clear, none of them look like Ross but Ross. I’ve added clear pics in other posts of Riverside students who had a Z like profile. I didn’t for one second think they were Ross. If the hair in this Christmas pic was his usual hair, I would have immediately known this is Ross.
(Edit 11/14/20)
I didn’t notice this before but JP down below in the comments section did. Check this out.
Ross’s brother Tim
I haven’t ever seen a picture of Bonnie so I’m not sure if that’s her but that’s Tim.
((Above) From the Riverside College 1964 Yearbook. The guy on the right is captioned as “Sam Milam”. This is his only picture. He is not photographed as a student or listed as a student who missed the yearbook photo session. I thought he looked a bit like suspect KJC.)
When you do this sort of thing you end up with bunch of photos that are probably duds but you can’t bring your self to delete. Here’s some of my collection. I don’t take these too seriously and, probably, you shouldn’t as well.
I’ll start with a photo is a regularly photographed guy at RCC around ’63. He looks bit like the Zodiac sketches. I’ve seen it mentioned that everyone does. I don’t quite agree. Z’s look wasn’t rare, necessarily, but uncommon enough that people who do look like him stand out. But there certainly have been a few that have caught my eye looking through the archives. The context of this photo is people mourning JFK’s assassination.
Here’s another RCC guy – this time staff I believe – who has a Z look. A bit skinny but he looks a lot like the Z sketches, in my opinion.
Here’s another fella that has a Z type build, this time from the back. This one might be Ross Sullivan in a skinnier moment.
Another Z like profile:
This is an interesting one. We have RCC librarians here including Winifred Turner who is a bit famous for being the one who brought Ross Sullivan to work in the library. Bach is holding the Henry Miller book Tropic of Capricorn. Bach seems to have been a fan of Miller as he is noted in other publications for having singled out other books of his.
Miller was a bit of a wild man. He was into astrological signs. Tropic of Capricorn in general is a wild book. I’ll leave a quote from it after the picture and a couple interesting links.
“If I longed for destruction it was merely that this eye might be extinguished. I longed for an earthquake, for some cataclysm of nature which would plunge the lighthouse into the sea. I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. (I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a change to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard – and in order to forget. I wanted something of the earth which was not of man’s doing, something absolutely divorced from the human of which I was surfeited. I wanted something purely terrestrial and absolutely divested of idea. I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and the light out of my system. I wanted the dark fecundity of nature, the deep well of the womb, silence, or else the lapping of the black waters of death. I wanted to be that night which the remorseless eye illuminated, a night diapered with stars and trailing comets. To be of night, so frighteningly silent, so utterly incomprehensible and eloquent at the same time. Never more to speak or to listen or to think. To be englobed and encompassed and to encompass and to englobe at the same time. No more pity, no more tenderness. To be human only terrestrially, like a plant or a worm or a brook. To be decomposed, divested of light and stone, variable as the molecule, durable as the atom, heartless as the earth itself.”
This is the only anonymous submission to a publication at RCC. This is Expressions, a magazine compiled of poetry and literature submissions through the year that stopped shortly after this 1962 copy. Sadly no “rh” authors. Pomponazzi was a theologian whose ideas may have meant something to the Zodiac. There is a slightly disturbing picture below it but that one is linked in the magazine to an author and was not anonymous. I’ve linked a description below.
Accredited to a person but kind of an interesting addition in this Oct. 15th, 1964 Tiger Times RCC newspaper. It’s on the right. Then again, reading Expressions, these types of poems/short stories were uncommon but not rare.
Caught this one hiding in the background of the photo. “Editor” Just had to add this one!
Man was I excited when I caught this in Bryan’s video interview after the attack.
Then I wasn’t when I saw someone else had previously caught it and posted it online. (Would love to credit this person but can’t remember where I saw it. Leave me a note if you know and I’ll link it.). Still there aren’t many photos of it flying around and I don’t see it discussed so here are some screenshots.
Check out the middle right card.
This style seems familiar …
Did Zodiac send Bryan a card? I’ve seen a little research looking into it that indicating, if I recall correctly, that that card Bryan received was published by the same company.
Here is the link for the full interview with Bryan:
These screenshots are from the Nov – Dec 1966 Nightimes magazine.
General Reaction:
Note the back cover heading. Here’s a blow up of the photo they took of where the crime happened.
And here are two blow ups of the alley after the lights were added. I struggle to understand the perspective of where this was taken. Still very creepy if you ask me.
Please Rush to Editor 