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Post by ophion1031 on Sept 8, 2018 19:49:32 GMT -8
On March 22, 1971, a postcard to the Chronicle, addressed to "Paul Averly" and believed to be from the Zodiac, appeared to claim responsibility for the disappearance of Donna Lass on September 6, 1970. Made from a collage of advertisements and magazine lettering, it featured a scene from an advertisement for Forest Pines condominiums and the text "Sierra Club", "Sought Victim 12", "peek through the pines", "pass Lake Tahoe areas", and "around in the snow". Zodiac's cross circle symbol was in both the place of the usual return address and the lower right section of the front face of the postcard. Lass was a nurse at the Sahara Tahoe hotel and casino. She worked until about 2:00 a.m. on September 6, 1970, treating her last patient at 1:40 a.m. Later that same day, both Lass's employer and her landlord received phone calls from an unknown male falsely claiming Lass had left town due to a family emergency. Lass was never found. What appeared to be a grave site was discovered near the Clair Tappaan Lodge in Norden, California, on Sierra Club property, but an excavation yielded only a pair of sunglasses. No evidence has been uncovered to connect the Lass disappearance with the Zodiac Killer definitively.
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Post by ophion1031 on Sept 8, 2018 19:56:49 GMT -8
Donna Ann Lass (born November 3, 1944-c.1970) was a nurse who went missing in September 1970.
Background: Donna Lass was the daughter of James P. Lass (August 28, 1897 – March 30, 1973) and of Frances Mary (Kukar) Lass (November 24, 1900 – August 5, 1982). Her father had been a farmer in the area of Beresford, South Dakota, and she was a 1962 graduate of Beresford High School. She moved to the area of South Lake Tahoe, California in May 1970.
Disappearance: Donna Lass worked as a nurse at the Sahara Tahoe resort casino in Stateline, Nevada. On September 6, 1970, she signed her last entry in her log book at 1:50 a.m. She was never seen leaving the Sahara, however her car was found at her apartment complex at Stateline. Lass, then 25, was never seen again.
The next day, Lass's landlord and employer both received calls from a man who told them that Lass was ill and had left because of a family emergency. The call proved to be a hoax.
A month later, a paste-up postcard was received by the San Francisco Chronicle, hinting that Lass's disappearance was connected to the Zodiac Killer. Six months later, on March 22, 1971, another paste-up postcard was received by the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, and the San Francisco Times. No evidence was ever uncovered to connect Donna Lass's disappearance with the Zodiac Killer.
Zodiac victim? Nothing solid connects Lass to the Zodiac case, other than perhaps the fact that she was living just a few blocks from the scene of Zodiac's Oct. 11, 1969 murder of Paul Stine in San Francisco. A postcard, supposedly from Zodiac, was received by the San Francisco Chronicle on March 22, 1971, with the implication that Lass was a murder victim. However, the postcard contained no proof, as Zodiac was known for including. In 1999 a retired detective revealed to me that a former Zodiac investigator had admitted to forging the Lass postcard.
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Post by ophion1031 on Mar 6, 2019 0:34:13 GMT -8
Anyone who watched the mini-series on the History Channel is probably familiar with Larry Lowe. He and his wife were friends and roommates with Donna. Some Zodiac researchers have spoken to him before, and to my knowledge he NEVER mentioned knowing Lawrence Kane. To me, something always seemed sketchy about the guy. And then in 2017 when History Channel did their mini-series on the Zodiac case, the two detectives actually interview Lowe. I would bet money that the things he is saying about Kane are not true. I have my doubts that he even knew Kane. Perhaps he just wanted to be on TV. Pay attention to him in this video and how nervous he appears to be.
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Post by galaxie500 on Nov 29, 2019 22:23:01 GMT -8
Anyone who watched the mini-series on the History Channel is probably familiar with Larry Lowe. He and his wife were friends and roommates with Donna. Some Zodiac researchers have spoken to him before, and to my knowledge he NEVER mentioned knowing Lawrence Kane. To me, something always seemed sketchy about the guy. And then in 2017 when History Channel did their mini-series on the Zodiac case, the two detectives actually interview Lowe. I would bet money that the things he is saying about Kane are not true. I have my doubts that he even knew Kane. Perhaps he just wanted to be on TV. Pay attention to him in this video and how nervous he appears to be. A few of the things that Lowe mentioned about Kane have been corroborated by other sources - 1. The detail about Kane keeping aquariums in his home (and collecting tropical fish specifically) has been verified by multiple people. Here's one such example from the Hines report: --and another from Rider McDowell's report: "(...)The new purchaser, a car dealer acquaintance of Kane’s, recalled a bumper sticker of some kind, but could not remember what it said. The man, however, related that Kane was a lover of tropical fish and had had a number of aquariums in his apartment."Furthermore, Larry Lowe did, in point of fact, operate a tropical fish store during the period described. It's possible that Lowe gleaned the tidbit about Kane being a tropical fish enthusiast from Rider McDowell's report and then capitalized on that coincidence to fabricate the History Channel anecdote, but it strikes me as being rather an obscure detail. 2. Larry Lowe correctly asserted that Kane's mom lived in the S.F. Bay area during the 1970's. Although this is correct (she lived in the San Mateo/Santa Clara area), it runs contrary to information that was available on the internet at the time the interview was conducted. Either this was a lucky guess on Lowe's part, or he was being truthful. 3. While I haven't been able to verify that Kane had an astrology/zodiac calendar, he did (according to the Hines report) have esoteric literature - specifically, books about extra-sensory perception and the occult - in his apartment.
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Post by amazingates on Nov 30, 2019 14:52:03 GMT -8
When they first sit down at the table to talk to Larry Lowe, it appears Larry's adrenaline is running like a run-away train. His whole body is trembling. Does anyone notice that beside me?
You are right Ophion, something is up with this guy. He has no idea what he is talking about. I watched it again, and his adrenaline is running 200 miles an hour all the way through that interview. He should not be that nervous. Does he has some kind of neurological problem or is that adrenaline?
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Post by galaxie500 on Nov 30, 2019 18:01:42 GMT -8
When they first sit down at the table to talk to Larry Lowe, it appears Larry's adrenaline is running like a run-away train. His whole body is trembling. Does anyone notice that beside me? You are right Ophion, something is up with this guy. He has no idea what he is talking about. I watched it again, and his adrenaline is running 200 miles an hour all the way through that interview. He should not be that nervous. Does he has some kind of neurological problem or is that adrenaline? Just venturing a guess, but it looks like he has Parkinson's disease.
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Post by ophion1031 on Nov 30, 2019 20:40:31 GMT -8
When they first sit down at the table to talk to Larry Lowe, it appears Larry's adrenaline is running like a run-away train. His whole body is trembling. Does anyone notice that beside me? You are right Ophion, something is up with this guy. He has no idea what he is talking about. I watched it again, and his adrenaline is running 200 miles an hour all the way through that interview. He should not be that nervous. Does he has some kind of neurological problem or is that adrenaline? Just venturing a guess, but it looks like he has Parkinson's disease. I was wondering about that as well. But it sure does seem like he is nervous. More than he should be. Could just be from being on TV, but something is definitely off about him.
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Post by ophion1031 on Feb 5, 2024 1:47:53 GMT -8
"A skull that was discovered in Placer County nearly four decades ago was recently identified through relational DNA tracing, and investigators say it belongs to a young woman who disappeared from a Lake Tahoe casino hotel in 1970." Wow. Placer County is in between Lake Tahoe and San Francisco. sfist.com/2024/01/05/zodiac-killers-possible-victim-12/
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