He claimed that the three 8's when totalled up, pointed to the killer's birth year of 1924, which unsurprisingly corresponded with the birth year of Lawrence Kane of April 26th 1924. Harvey Hines believed Lawrence Kane to be responsible, and highlighted the name Kane in the 13-Symbol cipher to bolster his arguments, which was clearly evident on the left hand portion of the code. Along with Mary and Don Pilker, the sister and nephew of Donna Lass, they became convinced that the Zodiac Killer was responsible for the abduction and probable murder of the young nurse in South Lake Tahoe. Harvey Hines , who retired from the California Police Department in 1992, had an avid interest in the Donna Lass case and remained resolute in his determination to solve her disappearance by forming a close association with the Lass family members. Harvey Hines, a retired law enforcement officer from Groveland, pitched in with his theory on the cipher with respect to Lawrence Kane, one of the high profile suspects in the Zodiac case. This news was likely what prompted the Zodiac Killer to open this communication with the words " I am mildly cerous as to how much money you have on my head now". In addition, the Teamsters Union which represents the Yellow Cab Company were reported in the San Francisco Chronicle to be considering offering a further reward on February 8th 1970 in the case of Paul Stine and Charles Jarman (another taxicab murder victim). On January 29th 1970, the Yellow Cab Company put up a thousand dollar reward for any information leading to the arrest of the Zodiac Killer. This carries a measure of credibility because the Zodiac Killer may have chosen his moniker based on the 12 signs of the Zodiac horoscope and therefore including them in his ciphers may not be too surprising. Some people have considered that the circled 8's are actually circled Taurus symbols. The code has a degree of symmetry in its design in the form of 8 alphabetical characters, three identical symbols at the center which appear to be circled 8's, and two characters arranged four in from either side (crosshairs and an Anchor). In the letter, the Zodiac Killer was referring to the murder of San Francisco police officer Brian McDonnell on February 16th 1970, who suffered devastating and sadly fatal injuries two months earlier, when a bomb packed with fence staples exploded on an outside ledge of Park Police Station in the Upper Haight neighborhood. I invite Zodiac to send The American Cryptogram Association a cipher code - however complicated - which will truly and honestly include his name". Zodiac has not done this, because to tell the complete truth in relation to his name - in cipher code - would lead to his capture. Zodiac has not told the truth in his cipher messages to the Examiner, the Chronicle and the Vallejo Times-Herald. He knows, to quote Edgar Allan Poe, that any cipher created by man can be solved by man. Marsh, who told the San Francisco Examiner on October 22nd 1969 : "The killer wouldn't dare, as he claimed in letters to the newspapers, to reveal his name in the cipher to established cryptogram experts. This letter, including the Zodiac Killer's coded reply to the newspapers was very likely prompted by Professor D.C.B. On April 20th 1970, the Zodiac Killer mailed a 13-Symbol cipher to the San Francisco Chronicle, in addition to a bus bomb diagram threatening to blow up a school bus.
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