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Hi-I just got the link to the high-res versions of the letters. It looks to me that when Z applied multiple stamps to a letter, as he did prior to the June 26, 1970 Mt. D letter, he applied them as a...
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Hi.Mike, in regards to the testing of the stamps for the amylase, it is my understanding that only a small portion of the stamp (usually a corner) is used. Do you know if that is correct? My...
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Hi. "One commonly used double concealment attributed to World War I spies was to draw a symbol such as a type of war weapon with an invisible liquid, let it dry, then cover it with an...
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Hi-The only thing I know to be concealed behind a stamp is the reddish brown hair.The DOJ currently has the July 31st VTH cipher letter in its possession for analysis. So if there is something behind...
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Nice observation on the stamps, Mike, and it definitely offers a plausible reason for why there may be little to no amylase present.And that's an interesting idea about the stamps having something...
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I'm pretty sure I read or saw somewhere that they obtained DNA not just from saliva, but also skin cells and possibly a hair. Can anyone confirm if this is true or not. How samples of DNA did they...
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I believe the hair had no root. There are others with experience and knowledge far beyond my understanding of DNA who can fill you in better, but here is a link to an old, outdated DNA report...
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They found a little reddish-brown hair behind the stamp of the October 13 1969 letter claiming Paul Stine as a victim. It hasn't been tested for DNA.
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On page 319 of his book The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up Lafferty states that David Allen Keel, a former lab expert for the SFPD who conducted the tests on the Zodiac letters told Lafferty in October of...
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On page 323 of his book, Lafferty relates a conversation he had in October 2002 with SFPD Inspector Michael Maloney a few days after ABC's Primetime tv show had announced that DNA tests had ruled out...
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Mike Rodelli had quoted an article from the SF Examiner's May 18, 2001 edition which discussed the DNA testing being conducted in late 2001. A technician, Bonnie Cheng, versed in how DNA is gathered...
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Mike Rodelli posted:On February 23, 2007, I was fortunate enough to speak to a former member of SFPDâs lab, who is aware of (and who participated in) all of the preliminary DNA work on the Zodiac...
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I found this older thread with two articles, one from 2002 and the other from 2007, about the 2002 DNA testing.http://zodiackiller.fr.yuku.com/reply/129038/PERFORATIONS#reply-129038I will also post...
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According to the DNA technician in that 2002 article, she got some DNA from a stamp on one of the envelopes. It was too small, so she magnified or multiplied it to have a big enough sample to compare...
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If the only evidence recovered was from one forged and one anonymous letter then ALA, Mr X, etc are back in the running, right?
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Hi m13-Why such a long face? ;) You should be happy that people like me and, as seen in his book, LL, have done the hard miles for everyone else to show that the 2002 DNA cannot be used to exclude...
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m13, if you end up double posting (happens to the best of us) just pm Tom or one of the mods and we'll see it gets deleted.
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