# Woman Claims Dad Was Zodiac Killer
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-claims-dad-was-zodiac-killer/494805
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 30, 2009, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-claims-dad-was-zodiac-killer/494805 "2009-04-30T02:39:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2013, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-claims-dad-was-zodiac-killer/494805/21 "2013-10-29T08:35:30Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#):
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> Probably, at some point, though you may be thinking of a more recent story and book – [Black Dahlia Avenger](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article865027.ece), released in 2003, which has an LA private investigator accusing his deceased father.
This was one of the crappiest books that I have ever read in my life. Boring, and a complete waste of time.
Because of this book, I can almost 100% guarantee who \*wasn’t \*the Black Dahlia killer!
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-claims-dad-was-zodiac-killer/494805/22 "2013-10-29T14:56:02Z")
> [@Mislav](#):
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> I still believe Zodiac was Arthur Leigh Allen. I don’t think the fact that his fingerprints didn’t match to bloody ones found in Paul Stine’s car mean that he was innocent. Forensic science wasn’t the same as it is today. Fingerprint comparison was made by people at that time, there was no computer program for that, and people make mistakes, like in Clifford and Alma Merck murder case killers weren’t arrested until ten years later because during initial investigation fingerprint comparisson expert made a mistake and failed to link their fingerprints with those found in victim’s home…
People, not computers, still match finger prints. Computers find prints with points of similarity to the exemplar, but AFAIK the methid of determining an actual match hasn’t changed.
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### Author:  [@llcoolbj77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llcoolbj77)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-claims-dad-was-zodiac-killer/494805/23 "2013-10-29T18:25:27Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> People, not computers, still match finger prints. Computers find prints with points of similarity to the exemplar, but AFAIK the methid of determining an actual match hasn’t changed.
Correct. And one of the forensic fingerprint experts here in Virginia talks and testifies exactly like the maid on Family Guy. It is almost impossible not to get giggly during trial when she is testifying. Gigitty.
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### Author:  [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-claims-dad-was-zodiac-killer/494805/24 "2013-10-29T18:29:54Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#):
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> This was one of the crappiest books that I have ever read in my life. Boring, and a complete waste of time.
> Because of this book, I can almost 100% guarantee who \*wasn’t \*the Black Dahlia killer!
Similarly, after reading Patricia Cornwall’s book, I would swear on a stack of bibles that there’s no _possible_ way Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper.
OT: presumably, the various Zodiac fingerprints are all sitting in a file somewhere. Did they get scanned into databases or were fingerprint databases only built up as they went?
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-claims-dad-was-zodiac-killer/494805/25 "2013-10-29T18:44:58Z")
> [@Mislav](#):
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> I don’t think the fact that his fingerprints didn’t match to bloody ones found in Paul Stine’s car mean that he was innocent…
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> DNA doesn’'t clear him either. He said it himself: he never licked stamps by himself…
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> And about handwriting… I think he was able to change it…
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> The fact that his guns didn’t match to balistic evidence doesn’t clear him either. He could change gun barrels/firing pins…
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> Witness identifeid him.
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> Logo on his watch was almost identical to sign that Zodiac left drawn on few of his murder scenes.
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> His shoe size was 10 1/2. Boot prints found on Lake Berryessa crime scene were size 10 1/2.
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> His glove size also matched to gloves found in Paul Stine’s car. He was charged for child molestation in 1971, and Zodiac stopped killing two years prior.
So you discount fingerprints, DNA, and ballistics evidence, but are willing to convict based on eyewitnesses, a logo matching a design, boots the same size, gloves the same size, and killing ceasing two years before your guy went to prison?
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-claims-dad-was-zodiac-killer/494805/26 "2013-10-29T18:57:56Z")
I find the recent trend of people seeking publicity and money by accusing deceased parents of unspeakable crimes to be depressing.
I remember hearing about at least one _man_ who claimed his daddy was the Black Dahlia killer. It doesn’t surprise me that another man’s daughter has gotten into the act.
For the record, I am convinced that my father did **not** kidnap the Lindbergh baby.
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### Author:  [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2013, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-claims-dad-was-zodiac-killer/494805/27 "2013-10-29T19:59:08Z")
[From Wiki:](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer)
_In 2009, Deborah Perez claimed that her father, Guy Ward Hendrickson, was the Zodiac.[65] However, **Perez also allegedly previously claimed that she was the illegitimate daughter of John F. Kennedy,** so her claim that her father was the Zodiac has been viewed as unlikely.[66]_
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-claims-dad-was-zodiac-killer/494805/28 "2013-10-29T20:03:08Z")
> [@Doyle](#):
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> [From Wiki:](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer)
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> _In 2009, Deborah Perez claimed that her father, Guy Ward Hendrickson, was the Zodiac.[65] However, **Perez also allegedly previously claimed that she was the illegitimate daughter of John F. Kennedy,** so her claim that her father was the Zodiac has been viewed as unlikely.[66]_
This makes perfect sense to me. John F. Kennedy faked his own death in order to become the Zodiac Killer!
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### Author:  [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-claims-dad-was-zodiac-killer/494805/29 "2013-10-29T20:11:07Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> This makes perfect sense to me. John F. Kennedy faked his own death in order to become the Zodiac Killer!
Yeah, this being leader-of-the-free-world is OK for a job and stuff, but what I really want to do is…!!!
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### Author:  [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-claims-dad-was-zodiac-killer/494805/30 "2013-10-29T20:39:01Z")
> [@llcoolbj77](#):
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> Correct. And one of the forensic fingerprint experts here in Virginia talks and testifies exactly like the maid on Family Guy. It is almost impossible not to get giggly during trial when she is testifying. Gigitty.
The secret ingredient in fingerprint powder is lemon Pledge.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-claims-dad-was-zodiac-killer/494805/31 "2013-10-29T20:51:09Z")
> [@Icarus](#):
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> Yeah, this being leader-of-the-free-world is OK for a job and stuff, but what I really want to do is…!!!
As president he could kill millions, of course, but they wouldn’t let him personally go out and … get his hands dirty, so to speak.
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### Author:  [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2013, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-claims-dad-was-zodiac-killer/494805/32 "2013-10-30T08:46:00Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#):
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> This was one of the crappiest books that I have ever read in my life. Boring, and a complete waste of time.
> Because of this book, I can almost 100% guarantee who \*wasn’t \*the Black Dahlia killer!
I also tried to read it and gave up about halfway through.
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