Posted on 05/03/2009 3:45:16 PM PDT by Jim W N
The Zodiac killer, it turns out, was a Jekyll and Hyde carpenter from Orange County who dragged his 7-year-old daughter along for thrills as he carried out his reign of carnage in the Bay Area 40 years ago. At least that's what the daughter, Deborah Perez, told reporters and a frenzied mob of Zodiac buffs Wednesday.
Somewhere in between all the yelling and jostling for face time on TV cameras, an actual press corps listened to Perez, now 47, and her representatives lay out a case that the Zodiac was her father. Their guy: Guy Ward Hendrickson, a resident of Santa Ana in 1968 and 1969, when the Zodiac killed his five known victims before seemingly dropping from the face of the earth.
Perez said her father took her along on murder jaunts because the two were unusually close. She was young, unaware of exactly what her dad was doing, she said. Her father explained that the gunshots she heard as she sat in the family car nearby were "just firecrackers."
Hendrickson died of cancer at age 68 in 1983, Perez said. Her mother and five siblings had no idea of what was going on, she said - and indeed she said she had no inkling that her dad might be the Zodiac until she saw a sketch of the killer on the TV show "America's Most Wanted" in August 2007.
"I recognized the individual as my father," she said.
She said it never occurred to her to call police until she saw the TV show because she had not heard of the Zodiac before then. Work with a forensics psychologist helped her clear up some of the memories, she said, "but remembering what happened really wasn't a problem. I just had no idea what they all meant."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
You must be so proud of your father......
She is being interviewed now on Fox News.
She's the same age as I am. I only remember Charles Manson because some of his buds were locked up in CMC (just north of San Luis Obispo - and many people in San Luis were not very happy about that). I remember nothing at all about the Zodiac killings.
http://zodiackillertruth.com/hendrickson.htm
[snip] Perez claims that her stepfather, Guy Ward Hendrickson, took her along on at least two of his attacks in the late 1960s... Perez also claims to have a pair of horn-rimmed glasses taken from Stine... Chris Sorensen, the former mayor of Norco, California, calims that Perez told him that she was an illegitimate daughter of President John F. Kennedy, going as far as to describe her memories of the Kennedy compound. Amazingly, Perez, according to Sorensen, also claimed to have been with Bobby Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel —where the New York Senator and Presidential candidate was assassinated. [pnis]
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