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Zodiac's Benicia High School Note Confirmed?


I have been all over these past weeks between Maps, Symbols, Weather patterns and Geography, once you go down the rabbit hole you come across so much material but every now and then something gives and I think I have found something which may confirm the Benicia High School Note left on the School doors at Benicia High School which was noted in the Newspapers on 17th May 1974, though it is thought the event may have occurred earlier than this, possibly in 72/73. Two youths were held accountable for the Letter and Bomb Threats which were made several times by telephone calls, causing the school to evacuate each time.


The Benicia Letter has not been put into the Confirmed Zodiac Letters with many thinking it a fake by the youngsters mentioned above but I found an interesting correlation between the note and a Silent Movie Actor/Director of the name Thomas H Ince born Nov 16th 1880 on Rhode Island, he is better known as the Father of the Western movie and he died in what some believe to be suspicious circumstances whilst a guest on William Randolph Hearst's Yacht in 1924.


The Benicia note read as follows -


"(I'M SORRY) BUT BY SON SOULD HAVE SAID

ANYTHING ABOUT TIME BLOW UP THE

SCHOOL SO I WILL DO IT BETWEEN NOW

AND THE 22 DEC SO I KILL BY SON AND

YOU WILL FIND HIM UP BY LAKE HERMAN

ROAD. IF YOU GET UP THEIR IN TIME YOU

WILL FIND HIM BEFORE THE DOG EAT HIM

UP I HOPE THEY DO"


GUESS WHO THIS HIS BLOOD

OFF YOU

DIE ZODIAC I'M GONA DO MY

THING AT AIR SCHOOL


What I found interesting apart from the Hearst link was that Thomas H Ince was the first Movie Producer/Director to buy his own ranch full with Actors, Actresses, Cattle, even a Native tribe of 200 Sioux men all living on site. It was the first of it's kind in Hollywood and many followed suit turning into the massive Studios they are today, the Triangle Motion Picture Company, Goldwyn, Warners to name a few. You can find out more about Thomas H Ince here Thomas H. Ince - Wikipedia



Thomas leased extra land from the Miller Bros of Oklahoma and they would soon start to call the Ranch Inceville but the actual name of the Ranch Thomas purchased was Bison Ranch, located at Sunset Boulevard, LA, the "Miller 101 Bison Ranch Studios which later became known as the Triangle Ranch.


In the Benicia High School note when you read By son it does automatically make you think of Bison and I feel it should be considered along with the inclusion of William Randolph Hearst who also connects with the S.L.A Letter and Thomas H Ince, I think it's a good possibility that the Benicia Letter was from the real Zodiac.


That Thomas H Ince was the Father of the Classic Western Movies we all know so well and know Zodiac had an interest in I think adds to the By Son reference . Ince's death mysterious though his wife believes he died from a heart attack, there is still a conspiracy surrounding his death today. The age at which Thomas Ince died was 44 a number that is seen in Zodiac's communications. I do think that Zodiac was connected to Ranches in someway, whether he worked at Ranches or owned one I think it could be a possibility. You could also say that the Bison Ranch was like an Art School which could relate to the "Gona do my thing at air school".


I know it's only two words but by connecting By son with the Bison Ranch may just confirm a connection to the real Zodiac and not the two youths who were charged with the crime. I find the correlation between Ince, Hearst and the By Son/Bison Ranch all point to Zodiac's characteristics which I doubt two youths would have come up with on their own.


As to if there was ever a bomb I doubt it but I did find an arsonist who on the 22nd Sept 1970 put a lit match to dry grass in Oakland, two hours later 36 homes were destroyed and 37 more homes damaged. Strange that the date is the 22nd, I have not found any information as yet as to when the note was originally found on Benicia's School Door, you can read about the case of arson here California was on fire 50 years ago, too - The San Diego Union-Tribune


The wildfires raged for 13 days that fall — from Sept. 22-Oct. 4, 1970 and became a notorious chapter in California's history of natural disasters, leaving 16 people dead, destroying 722 homes and burning around 576,508 acres. In all, a reported 773 wildfires were documented throughout the state, the one that swept through Iverson Movie Studios, sometimes called the Newhall-Malibu Fire or the Chatsworth-Malibu Fire, was huge, burning down virtually all of the remaining manmade sets at Iverson.


Zodiac did say by Rope, by Knife, by Gun and by Fire, could the Arson fire of 1970 have been set by Zodiac years earlier with the Benicia School Note left a couple of years down the line, a riddle to solve like so many of Zodiac's communications? Zodiac enjoyed toying with the Police , making them think an attack was imminent when to all intent purposes Zodiac had already committed these crimes months/years earlier, keeping some distance between himself and the crimes he committed. Bomb Maker? I'm not so sure, Arsonist? Yes, I believe it's a possibility.



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