(Richard Gaikowski, 1965)
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*Gaikowski was born in Watertown, S.D. on March 14, 1936.
*During the late 1960s/early 1970s, Gaikowski was the editor of an anti-police,
counterculture newspaper in San Francisco called Good Times.
*As early as January 1969, the Good Times newspaper advocated murdering white
suburban youth.
*The Good Times "switchboard" was located only yards from the
residence of Zodiac victim Paul Stine on Fell St. in San Francisco.
*Nancy Slover, the police dispatcher who spoke with the Zodiac in July 1969, has identified Gaikowski's voice.
*At the very time the Zodiac wrote his only letter to the Vallejo Times-Herald, Gaikowski's best friend, Bob, worked at that very newspaper.
*Gaikowski's nickname, "GYKE," can clearly be seen in
Zodiac's three-part cipher.
*Eventual Zodiac victim Darlene Ferrin of Vallejo, Calif. got married on Jan. 1, 1966 and
moved to Albany, NY. Gaikowski quickly followed, moving across country from Martinez,
Calif. (near Vallejo). Ferrin's husband worked at the Albany Times-Union newspaper;
Gaikowski worked at the rival Albany Knickerbocker News.
*On March 13, 1971 the Zodiac sent a letter to the Los Angeles Times. Coinciding closely with the mailing, Gaikowski was involuntarily committed to the Napa State Hospital after "going
berzerk." He was then diagnosed with a mental illness and began treatment at Mount
Zion Hospital in San Francisco. The Zodiac didn't write again for almost three years.
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