be interested in
women,” he said. “Eventual y he gave up even that slender pretext.” Various women Leigh had dated afterward voiced the same opinion—their
relationship with him had only been platonic. In most cases sexual psychopaths have few social or sexual affiliations, and might never have
experienced normal sexual intercourse. In these uncommon individuals, for reasons unknown, aggressive and sexual impulses intertwine early in
childhood. Ultimately, these confused feelings find expression in vicious sexual assaults and sadistic murders. Lacking a conscience, Zodiac had
no remorse for the pain he inflicted on others. Their pain brings him pleasure.
Karen disclosed that, after her marriage to Ron, it became apparent that Leigh viewed her as an intruder. He believed she had come to separate
him from his brother, and actual y made threats against her. “He was spoiled and pampered by his mother,” she said with a trace of bitterness.
“She does his cooking, washes his clothes, cleans up after him, and gives him money. She even paid for his two cars and two boats.” It was odd
that Al en intensely disliked his mother no matter what she did for him, and even stranger that he had expressed such feelings to Karen, whom he
viewed as an interloper.
As for Bernice Al en, she had never forgotten her son’s squandered Olympic potential. Leigh had been a talented diver. “She’s always ragging
me about my weight,” he had snarled to Cheney and Panazarel a. A competition photo of him in a Val ejo paper depicted a slender, almost
handsome young man with blondish hair. Other pictures from the 1960s showed how much he resembled the younger, unamended San Francisco
Zodiac composite drawing. If Leigh had not been steadily gaining weight, he would have been a dead ringer for the sketch. Al en’s altered
appearance reminded Mulanax of a line Zodiac had written:
“I look like the description passed out only when I do my thing, the rest of the time I look entirle different. I shal not tel you what my discise
[disguise] consists of when I kil .”
Mulanax passed copies of Zodiac’s bizarre notes to Karen. She studied them and said she had noticed a paper with similar printing in her
brother-in-law’s hand in November 1969. “What is that?” she had asked. “This is the work of an insane person,” Leigh replied. “I’l show you later.”
As with the Tuckers, he never did. However, while the printing on the Zodiac letters was not familiar to her as being that of her brother-in-law, some
phrases were. Leigh had used the expression “trigger mach” instead of trigger mechanism. Final y, she thumbed to a copy of an authenticated
Christmas card Zodiac had mailed to attorney Melvin Bel i during a period when the master criminal wanted to give himself up.
An FBI report, December 31, 1969, noted the note had “not been written as freely as the other threatening letters in this matter.” However, an
enclosed blood-blackened portion of a victim’s shirt validated it. Zodiac’s handwriting was subject to change and in the space of months. At 1:59
P.M. the fol owing day, a man identifying himself as Zodiac cal ed the switchboard operator at FBI headquarters in Sacramento, then hung up after
beginning to name someone he had just kil ed. “‘Happy Christmass,’” Karen read aloud from the photostat. “I definitely recal having received a card
at Christmas from my brother-in-law,” she said. “‘Happy Christmass’ was spel ed exactly the same way.”
Karen, like Tucker, confirmed Al en was left-handed. “His elementary school teachers attempted to make him right-handed,” she said. “He
learned to write that way, but soon reverted to writing with his left hand.” While Morril believed the letters were written right-handed, he suspected
that Zodiac was natural y left-handed. The obscuring effect of a felt-tip pen and a left-handed man printing firmly and unnatural y with his right
women,” he said. “Eventual y he gave up even that slender pretext.” Various women Leigh had dated afterward voiced the same opinion—their
relationship with him had only been platonic. In most cases sexual psychopaths have few social or sexual affiliations, and might never have
experienced normal sexual intercourse. In these uncommon individuals, for reasons unknown, aggressive and sexual impulses intertwine early in
childhood. Ultimately, these confused feelings find expression in vicious sexual assaults and sadistic murders. Lacking a conscience, Zodiac had
no remorse for the pain he inflicted on others. Their pain brings him pleasure.
Karen disclosed that, after her marriage to Ron, it became apparent that Leigh viewed her as an intruder. He believed she had come to separate
him from his brother, and actual y made threats against her. “He was spoiled and pampered by his mother,” she said with a trace of bitterness.
“She does his cooking, washes his clothes, cleans up after him, and gives him money. She even paid for his two cars and two boats.” It was odd
that Al en intensely disliked his mother no matter what she did for him, and even stranger that he had expressed such feelings to Karen, whom he
viewed as an interloper.
As for Bernice Al en, she had never forgotten her son’s squandered Olympic potential. Leigh had been a talented diver. “She’s always ragging
me about my weight,” he had snarled to Cheney and Panazarel a. A competition photo of him in a Val ejo paper depicted a slender, almost
handsome young man with blondish hair. Other pictures from the 1960s showed how much he resembled the younger, unamended San Francisco
Zodiac composite drawing. If Leigh had not been steadily gaining weight, he would have been a dead ringer for the sketch. Al en’s altered
appearance reminded Mulanax of a line Zodiac had written:
“I look like the description passed out only when I do my thing, the rest of the time I look entirle different. I shal not tel you what my discise
[disguise] consists of when I kil .”
Mulanax passed copies of Zodiac’s bizarre notes to Karen. She studied them and said she had noticed a paper with similar printing in her
brother-in-law’s hand in November 1969. “What is that?” she had asked. “This is the work of an insane person,” Leigh replied. “I’l show you later.”
As with the Tuckers, he never did. However, while the printing on the Zodiac letters was not familiar to her as being that of her brother-in-law, some
phrases were. Leigh had used the expression “trigger mach” instead of trigger mechanism. Final y, she thumbed to a copy of an authenticated
Christmas card Zodiac had mailed to attorney Melvin Bel i during a period when the master criminal wanted to give himself up.
An FBI report, December 31, 1969, noted the note had “not been written as freely as the other threatening letters in this matter.” However, an
enclosed blood-blackened portion of a victim’s shirt validated it. Zodiac’s handwriting was subject to change and in the space of months. At 1:59
P.M. the fol owing day, a man identifying himself as Zodiac cal ed the switchboard operator at FBI headquarters in Sacramento, then hung up after
beginning to name someone he had just kil ed. “‘Happy Christmass,’” Karen read aloud from the photostat. “I definitely recal having received a card
at Christmas from my brother-in-law,” she said. “‘Happy Christmass’ was spel ed exactly the same way.”
Karen, like Tucker, confirmed Al en was left-handed. “His elementary school teachers attempted to make him right-handed,” she said. “He
learned to write that way, but soon reverted to writing with his left hand.” While Morril believed the letters were written right-handed, he suspected
that Zodiac was natural y left-handed. The obscuring effect of a felt-tip pen and a left-handed man printing firmly and unnatural y with his right
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