I dunnoooo ... Both Hen(d)ricksons are very square of, err, jaw.
Posted on 04/29/2009 1:10:38 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO — A woman stepped forward today to claim her late father was the infamous Zodiac Killer and that she as a 7-year-old wrote some of the letters that taunted local police, a local television station reported.
Kevin McLean, the former law partner of the late Melvin Belli, said he has led a two-year investigation into claims by Deborah Perez that her father, Guy Ward Hendrickson, was the Zodiac killer, according to KTVU. Hendrickson, who lived in Orange County, died in 1993 of cancer.
"He was a Jekyll and Hyde," McLean said of Hendrickson. "He was nuts. He set out to kill people. Some of these killings were not random." As a youngster, Perez said she sometimes accompanied her father on his killing sprees to the Bay Area. The family lived in Santa Ana, but McLean said Hendrickson may have worked at one time at the Mare Island Naval shipyard in Vallejo.
"There were strange events with my father," she said. "I would hear shots and my father would say it was firecrackers. I would see a woman running and then hear shots and he would tell me someone threw firecrackers at her." Perez said that she wrote and stamped the letters to the San Francisco Chronicle following the murder of San Francisco cab driver Paul Stine in October 1969. Those letters have been in the possession of the San Francisco police since 1969.
She also claimed to be with her father when he allegedly killed Darlene Ferrin, 22, at the Blue Springs Golf Club in July 1969 and wounded her companion, Michael Mageau, 19.
"He had a vicious argument with Dee that night," she said. "My father grabbed his gun. He goes up to the passenger side. I heard shots. I heard screams and moans.
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Call me a cynic, but I’m not buying this.
I don't know the Guy. No relation. Last name not even spelled the same.
Some of the press leading up to the announcement had me thinking this may be legit, but after reading this I agree with you. Sounds like BS to me.
Nor am I, and I LIVE in Vallejo. It smells so wrong on so many levels.
Count your blessings.
She has had a number of years to come forward. Sounds kinda weird, doesn’t it? Why hold back for 16 years when the Daddy is dead?
“I am Spartacus!”
Sure. And my dad was the 2nd gunman on the Grassy Knoll.
‘Not the Guy Ward Hendrickson I knew.’
Yeah, and he was probably ELCA, to boot.
(tinfoil in place)
I’ve heard that there are people who know who the zodiac killer really was and that it’s being covered up.
This story would be pretty convenient for them.
Exactly why in all cases great and small the cops keep details to themselves that no outsider would know. I suspect that they can figure this one out pretty quick - either she knows things that no one else can know or as others have said it’s BS. OK she was only 7 and not the killer but around the killer but still.
I dunnoooo ... Both Hen(d)ricksons are very square of, err, jaw.
I thought there was a man who claimed his father was the Zodiac killer. He seemed to have a lot of evidence, including the mask the killer wore which he found hidden in a stereo amplifier.
The family that slays together, stays together.
DNA from the envelopes, which failed to match to a suspect and his accuser, might bear this out.
If so ...
I don’t want to “search the archives” tell us what else it said.
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