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Post by ophion1031 on Oct 22, 2018 0:40:02 GMT -8
Some really good information on Marshall from the site zodiackillerfacts.com
Born in the state of Texas in 1928, Richard Marshall developed a fascination with electronics and old films, and he eventually worked as a projectionist at a movie theater. He also worked as an engineer for the Bay Area radio station KTM.
A ham radio enthusiast, Marshall talked with other radio buffs and once invited some listeners to visit his home. Upon their arrival, the guests found the host peculiar and soon suspected that Marshall was the infamous ”Zodiac killer.”
* Marshall reportedly lived in Los Angeles at the time that three women had been killed in the area. He also was said to be in the Napa area at the time of the stabbing at Lake Berryessa.
* Marshall allegedly told a witness that he had found something “much more exciting than sex,” and had a collection of pornographic literature.
* Marshall enjoyed watching old silent movies. One of his favorite films was titled “El Spectre Rojo,” or “The Red Phantom.” This name had been used in one of the 1974 letters attributed to the Zodiac.
* Marshall owned a teletype machine, similar to one believed to be used by the Zodiac, and liked to use “odd sized paper.”
* In 1969, Marshall reportedly lived in a basement apartment on Scott Street in San Francisco, several miles from the scene of the Zodiac’s last known murder. In one letter, the Zodiac mentioned his “basement.”
* Marshall was ambidextrous and, according to informants, “this suspect always uses, as did Zodiac, a black felt tip pen.” The Zodiac used a BLUE felt tip pen to write most of his letters. The suspect also reportedly owned a Royal typewriter similar to the one used to type the “Confession” letter in the Riverside case.
In spite of the list of damning links to the Zodiac, Marshall proved to be a disappointment. Much of the information contained in the report submitted by the suspicious informants was based on erroneous information about the crimes, and a fingerprint comparison did not match any of the prints believed to belong to the killer. Retired Zodiac investigator Ken Narlow said of the man often referred to as his “favorite” suspect, “Marshall makes good reading but not a very good suspect in my estimation.”
Richard Marshall shared his thoughts during a 1989 television interview. “Obviously, if they had been more forthcoming, I would have understood why they were investigating me,” the suspect explained. He acknowledged that he and the Zodiac seemed to share similar characteristics and interests. “My innocence notwithstanding, the details do fit.”
Robert Graysmith’s 1986 book ZODIAC featured a ”character” based on Marshall named "Donald Jeff Andrews." Graysmith’s chapter on ”Andrews” contained both fact and fiction, and effectively rendered a reluctant Marshall a permanent suspect in the unsolved murders. In the 2007 film adaptation of Graysmith’s book the Marshall-based character was named ”Rick Martin.” Like the book, director David Fincher’s version of the Zodiac story also departed from fact and once again cast the suspect into the spotlight. The man who loved movies and longed to be a character on the big screen was immortalized for film history as one of only two suspects mentioned in a movie about one of the most notorious unsolved serial murder cases in American history.
According to reports, Richard Marshall died in a nursing home in September 2008.
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Post by galaxie500 on Dec 16, 2019 18:14:07 GMT -8
Some really good information on Marshall from the site zodiackillerfacts.com Born in the state of Texas in 1928, Richard Marshall developed a fascination with electronics and old films, and he eventually worked as a projectionist at a movie theater. He also worked as an engineer for the Bay Area radio station KTM. A ham radio enthusiast, Marshall talked with other radio buffs and once invited some listeners to visit his home. Upon their arrival, the guests found the host peculiar and soon suspected that Marshall was the infamous ”Zodiac killer.” * Marshall reportedly lived in Los Angeles at the time that three women had been killed in the area. He also was said to be in the Napa area at the time of the stabbing at Lake Berryessa. * Marshall allegedly told a witness that he had found something “much more exciting than sex,” and had a collection of pornographic literature. * Marshall enjoyed watching old silent movies. One of his favorite films was titled “El Spectre Rojo,” or “The Red Phantom.” This name had been used in one of the 1974 letters attributed to the Zodiac. * Marshall owned a teletype machine, similar to one believed to be used by the Zodiac, and liked to use “odd sized paper.” * In 1969, Marshall reportedly lived in a basement apartment on Scott Street in San Francisco, several miles from the scene of the Zodiac’s last known murder. In one letter, the Zodiac mentioned his “basement.” * Marshall was ambidextrous and, according to informants, “this suspect always uses, as did Zodiac, a black felt tip pen.” The Zodiac used a BLUE felt tip pen to write most of his letters. The suspect also reportedly owned a Royal typewriter similar to the one used to type the “Confession” letter in the Riverside case. In spite of the list of damning links to the Zodiac, Marshall proved to be a disappointment. Much of the information contained in the report submitted by the suspicious informants was based on erroneous information about the crimes, and a fingerprint comparison did not match any of the prints believed to belong to the killer. Retired Zodiac investigator Ken Narlow said of the man often referred to as his “favorite” suspect, “Marshall makes good reading but not a very good suspect in my estimation.” Richard Marshall shared his thoughts during a 1989 television interview. “Obviously, if they had been more forthcoming, I would have understood why they were investigating me,” the suspect explained. He acknowledged that he and the Zodiac seemed to share similar characteristics and interests. “My innocence notwithstanding, the details do fit.” Robert Graysmith’s 1986 book ZODIAC featured a ”character” based on Marshall named "Donald Jeff Andrews." Graysmith’s chapter on ”Andrews” contained both fact and fiction, and effectively rendered a reluctant Marshall a permanent suspect in the unsolved murders. In the 2007 film adaptation of Graysmith’s book the Marshall-based character was named ”Rick Martin.” Like the book, director David Fincher’s version of the Zodiac story also departed from fact and once again cast the suspect into the spotlight. The man who loved movies and longed to be a character on the big screen was immortalized for film history as one of only two suspects mentioned in a movie about one of the most notorious unsolved serial murder cases in American history. According to reports, Richard Marshall died in a nursing home in September 2008. It's a minor point of contention, though I do think it bears mentioning - despite claiming a birth date of April 7, 1928, Marshall was actually born on March 13, 1926. I think the identity fraud angle makes him a "compelling" suspect, even if not a particularly likely one.
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Post by galaxie500 on Dec 21, 2019 14:58:19 GMT -8
Since Marshall seems to be the subject of renewed interest on the ZK forums, I'm going to repost some of the material that I've collected on him over the years. My original posts on the subject can be found at the following link: zodiackiller.forumotion.com/t389-miscellany - _________________ Military enlistment record: _________________ (Ballinger (Runnels Co., TX) High School Yearbook Photo, 1944.) _________________ Amateur Radio Call-book listings - 1947: 1948: _________________ Newspaper references - (The Slaton Slatonite. 01/17/1930.) (Hamlin Herald. 06/07/40.) (The Hamlin Herald. October 18, 1940.) (Hamlin Herald. 11/22/1940.) (". 01/17/1941.) (The Big Bend Sentinel (Marfa, TX). Oct. 30, 1942.) (". Dec. 18, 1942.) (The Post (TX) Dispatch. Feb. 04, 1943.) (The Abilene Reporter-News. July 06, 1975.) _________________ Transcript of letter written to Photography Magazine, 1952-1954: "was my face red! Graduate Student For some reason, I was the only man on Kwajalein Island with a press camera and, consequently, I was frequently called on to photographically cover athletic contests, USO shows, and other events. It was at a USO show that my downfall came. I had spent the afternoon at the outdoor theater where the show was being held and during my shooting was approached by a young sailor carrying a simple reflex-type box camera equipped with a flash. “You seem to know what you’re doing,” he told me. "Mind if I follow you around?” I, of course, did not, and took him under my wing to show him the best angles and how to make the most of poor conditions, even perhaps growing a bit (but only a bit) magnanimous. That night, in the hobby-shop darkroom, we again found ourselves together, and after development of our two sets of pictures, I was secretly glad he was there. The next morning when I saw the USO troupe off at the airstrip, I handed them a promised set of pictures, all printed from my young sailor protegé’s negatives. I, you see, had neglected to pull my lens board all the way out to the infinity stop. —Richard Reed Marshall, USS Castor"
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Post by amazingates on Dec 21, 2019 15:30:03 GMT -8
hmm, says he is a conductor on the Presidio -Fort Stockton Run... what is that?
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Post by galaxie500 on Dec 21, 2019 20:04:26 GMT -8
hmm, says he is a conductor on the Presidio -Fort Stockton Run... what is that? It was a stretch of railroad (no longer extant, as far as I can tell) that ran from Presidio, TX to Fort Stockton, TX.
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Post by amazingates on Dec 21, 2019 20:34:36 GMT -8
hmm, says he is a conductor on the Presidio -Fort Stockton Run... what is that? It was a stretch of railroad (no longer extant, as far as I can tell) that ran from Presidio, TX to Fort Stockton, TX. ____________ hmmm thank you for that info... so he was in Texas. do you know where and when? and when did he leave there and come to california, do you know. was he in the military, when and where. I'll try to help look up some of this stuff too. just trying to see if he is connected up to anything going on.
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Post by galaxie500 on May 2, 2020 20:59:47 GMT -8
It was a stretch of railroad (no longer extant, as far as I can tell) that ran from Presidio, TX to Fort Stockton, TX. ____________ hmmm thank you for that info... so he was in Texas. do you know where and when? and when did he leave there and come to california, do you know. was he in the military, when and where. I'll try to help look up some of this stuff too. just trying to see if he is connected up to anything going on. Here's a timeline ophion and I put together back in 2017 - March 13, 1926: Joe Don Dickey born in Lubbock County, TX to Jewel Silvester Dickey (8/31/1892 - 6/17/1975) and Ollie Mae Scarborough (1/1/1892 - 1/9/1930). Jewel and Ollie were married June 11, 1916. His older brother, Aubrey Dale Dickey, was born April 2, 1919 in Raton, NM. Aubrey lived in the Sacramento area at some point. Joe Don's father remarried, to Minnie Mae Wilson. She passed away July 4, 1975, just a couple weeks after Jewel's death. -August 1941: Joe Don Dickey (of Hamlin, TX) enlists with the Navy in Dallas, TX. -August 1941: Joe Don Dickey (Hamlin) accepted for enlistment in the marine corps by Abilene recruiting office. Transferred to Dallas. I take it he didn't end up getting into the Navy for whatever reason. -October 1942: Joe Don Dickey (of Hamlin) attending school in Marfa, TX. His father, J.S. Dickey, is conductor on the Presidio-Fort Stockton Run. -December 1942: J.S. and Joe Don Dickey leave Marfa for their home in San Angelo, TX. -February 1943: Joe Don Dickie of McCamey, TX accepts position with the Garza Theatre in Post, TX. -June 8, 1944: Joe Don Dickey of Runnels Co., Texas enlists in the military... again. -1946 & 1947: Dickey is going to college in Phoenix, AZ. -1948: Dickey is living in Marfa, TX. at the Marfa Army Air Field. This base became in airport in or before 1948, so I would assume that Dickey was an employee of the airport and not of the U.S. Army. July 1950: Richard Reed Marshall (of Hamlin) enlists with Navy in Dallas, TX. Is this Dickie using a fake name or is this the REAL Richard Reed Marshall? -1954 (possibly 1953): Richard Reed Marshall (of USS Castor) writes a letter (a snippet of which is available on google books) to Photography Magazine. -1954: Working for Boeing Airplane Co. in Seattle, WA. I'm not sure which name he is using, but the Social Security application he filled out in Seattle was for the name of Richard Reed Marshall. It's hard to read the date on the application, but it looks like April of 1950 or maybe April 1954, I really can't tell. - 1961: Residing in Fullerton, CA. - 1966-1967/68: Callbook listings place Marshall in San Jose, CA. Per Robert Graysmith, Marshall was an employee with S.F. International Airport during this period. -September 8, 2008: Rick Marshall dies at a nursing home in Sacramento, CA.
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Post by ophion1031 on May 3, 2020 22:16:49 GMT -8
Thanks for posting that. Dickey also worked at a movie theater in Roswell, New Mexico, but I forget what year(s) that was.
EDIT: I just noticed you posted some documents from Roswell.
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Post by ophion1031 on May 3, 2020 22:34:15 GMT -8
Take a look at those registrar reports..... The one from Roswell has his DOB as 3-13-1924, and the one from Texas says 3-13-1926. What are those forms exactly? Military registration cards? The Roswell form was from 1942 and the Texas one is 1944. This would make him 18 years old for each. The Texas one was filed on his 18th birthday. I assume that his real DOB is 1926 and that he lied to make himself older in Roswell. That would make him only 16 years old during his short stay in Roswell, explaining why he only had two years of high school. He put a DOB of 4-7-1928 on the SSN application he filled out as Richard Reed Marshall in the 1950's in Seattle. Where did he come up with that for a DOB? Rumor is that Dickey killed a hitchhiker named Richard Reed Marshall and stole his identity. I can not find a birth record for such a person. Dickey was living in Roswell in June 1942, but he must not have lived there very long based on his timeline. Joe Don Dickey (Hamlin) accepted for enlistment in the marine corps by Abilene recruiting office. Transferred to Dallas.That was August 1941. He is attending school in Marfa, TX in October 1942. I have seen one old article that mentioned that Dickey was very smart. He only went to high school for two years somehow. This article here mentions him as being a senior so he must have graduated.
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Post by ophion1031 on May 3, 2020 23:38:19 GMT -8
In the 1940 census, Dale Dickey (Joe Don's brother) is not listed. I think he may have been right around 18 so maybe he had just gone off to the military? ..... www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/Texas/Jewel-Dickey_5kc0wy/ampThere is an 18 year old cousin of Joe Don's, Glennell Johnson, listed. His father, Jewel, is listed. And Jewel's wife, Lena, is listed. Joe Don's mother, Ollie, passed away in 1930. When did Jewel and Lena get married and how long were they married for? In 1945, Jewel married Minnie Mae Wilson. They died within a few days of each other in 1975. Was Minnie also known as Lena or was Lena wife #2 and Minnie wife #3? Glennell Johnson - www.findagrave.com/memorial/132152421/glennell-johnsonLooks like her parents were Andrew Cummings Johnson and Joe Irma Dickey Johnson. Her siblings (also Joe Don's cousins) were Andrew Josh Johnson and Frances Jewel Johnson Cole.
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Post by galaxie500 on May 6, 2020 20:22:42 GMT -8
The one from Roswell has his DOB as 3-13-1924, and the one from Texas says 3-13-1926. What are those forms exactly? Military registration cards? The Roswell form was from 1942 and the Texas one is 1944. Draft registration forms. If you look carefully at the Roswell form, you'll notice that there's a notation from the registrar - it reads, "Cancelled. Registered when he was 16 years old." The year before, he had attempted to enlist with the Navy and then the marines, but was presumably discharged from both once they determined that he was lying about his age...
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Post by ophion1031 on May 10, 2020 19:47:22 GMT -8
Thanks for that info. I was wondering how he kept enlisting in different branches of service. So March 13, 1926 is his real DOB then?
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Post by galaxie500 on May 10, 2020 20:10:53 GMT -8
Thanks for hat info. I was wondering how he kept enlisting in different branches of service. So March 13, 1926 is his real DOB then? Correct.
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Post by galaxie500 on May 11, 2020 16:24:10 GMT -8
There is an 18 year old cousin of Joe Don's, Glennell Johnson, listed. His father, Jewel, is listed. And Jewel's wife, Lena, is listed. Joe Don's mother, Ollie, passed away in 1930. When did Jewel and Lena get married and how long were they married for? In 1945, Jewel married Minnie Mae Wilson. They died within a few days of each other in 1975. Was Minnie also known as Lena or was Lena wife #2 and Minnie wife #3? Jewell's findagrave entry has Lena's name recorded as Lena Maberry Bridges, but I haven't been able to independently verify that.
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Post by ophion1031 on May 17, 2020 2:11:35 GMT -8
There is an 18 year old cousin of Joe Don's, Glennell Johnson, listed. His father, Jewel, is listed. And Jewel's wife, Lena, is listed. Joe Don's mother, Ollie, passed away in 1930. When did Jewel and Lena get married and how long were they married for? In 1945, Jewel married Minnie Mae Wilson. They died within a few days of each other in 1975. Was Minnie also known as Lena or was Lena wife #2 and Minnie wife #3? Jewell's findagrave entry has Lena's name recorded as Lena Maberry Bridges, but I haven't been able to independently verify that. Oh, ok. So Jewel must have been married three times. That old hound dog!
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Post by zodiacmaniac on Jul 23, 2020 15:38:40 GMT -8
He also was said to be in the Napa area at the time of the stabbing at Lake Berryessa. What is it with the info regarding some of these suspects? Since when is "...was said to have..." whatever been a credible thing to write, or report. Who/what's the source? Otherwise that could be said about anyone.
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Post by ophion1031 on Oct 27, 2020 22:19:28 GMT -8
I wonder if Dickey/Marshall ever witnessed the Marfa (TX) "ghost lights" while he was stationed there.
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Post by galaxie500 on Dec 30, 2020 8:56:32 GMT -8
Found this while perusing California's Unclaimed Property index... www.hartenergy.com/companies/clearly-petroleum-llc"Clearly Petroleum is an independent oil and gas company focused on the development and acquisition of properties with exploration and development upside in the onshore domestic U.S. The company operate over 500 producing wells in Texas and Louisiana covering over 33,500 net acres with exposure to the Olmos, Caddo, Frio and Miocene."
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Post by ophion1031 on Dec 31, 2020 3:36:14 GMT -8
Wow, what a cool find! If anyone had a doubt that Dickey and Marshall were the same person, you just proved otherwise.
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Post by galaxie500 on Dec 20, 2021 20:50:24 GMT -8
San Angelo (TX) Standard-Times. Jan. 05, 1941: San Angelo Evening Standard. April 26, 1951: ^ The P.O. Box number given for Richard Marshall in the article above (Box 1248, San Angelo) was registered to a George M. Boswell. Boswell was Joe Don Dickey's maternal uncle. See clippings below:
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Post by galaxie500 on Dec 22, 2021 17:32:17 GMT -8
Here's a reference to Marshall in the 10/15/1954 issue of the Carmel Pine Cone (this is a weekly newspaper serving the Monterey Peninsula/Carmel Valley/Big Sur region of California):
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Post by galaxie500 on Dec 22, 2021 21:09:17 GMT -8
(snip) San Angelo Evening Standard. April 26, 1951: (snip) S.F. Examiner. Feb. 06, 1951:
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