Pacific Union College
“His voice, I can remember, almost like I’d heard it before.”
— victim Bryan Hartnell on the Zodiac killer
By Tom Voigt | Founder: Zodiackiller.com | tomvoigt@zodiackiller.com
Two Zodiac victims: Bryan Hartnell and Paul Stine
A couple of weeks after he survived a knife attack at the hands of the Zodiac killer, Bryan Hartnell was reinterviewed by detectives at his college campus. The very next evening, the Zodiac killer struck again, murdering cab driver Paul Stine in San Francisco.
Timeline of events from official police report
Could the Zodiac killer have been affiliated in some way with Pacific Union College — either as a student or faculty member — and then quickly moved on to attack in San Francisco as misdirection after police had gotten too close for comfort by visiting the college?
If the Zodiac killer was connected to Pacific Union College, it would explain why his voice was familiar to victim Hartnell. It would also explain why the Zodiac had such an extreme change in victimology, from exclusively attacking couples to choosing a lone male cab driver…a quick and easy victim for diversion.
Over the last three decades, I have received numerous reports about a suspicious individual from the college who was thought by some to be the Zodiac killer. I’ll report more on that in 2026.
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