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Mike was born on October 29, 1949 in Vallejo, California. He was only 19 when his life changed forever.

Around midnight on July 4–5, 1969 Mike and 22-year-old Darlene Ferrin were sitting in a parked car at the Blue Rock Springs Park parking lot in Vallejo. A car pulled up behind them and then drove away, but it soon came back. The driver got out, walked toward their car with a flashlight, and shined it at them, temporarily blinding them. He then fired several shots into the car with a 9mm Luger. Mike was shot four times, suffering serious injuries to his jaw, shoulder, arm, and abdomen. Somehow, he survived. He managed to crawl out of the car and get help. Darlene, however was pronounced dead when she arrived at the hospital.

The attack left a lasting impact on Mike. Back then, there wasn’t really much awareness of how much care and support survivors needed after going through something like that. In a lot of ways, the Zodiac completely changed his life.

Even after everything he went through, Mike was still able to give the police a description of the Zodiac and tell them what happened that night. Mike then tried to stay as far away as possible from anything related to the Zodiac. It took time, but eventually he was able to rebuild his life and even appeared in documentaries to talk about his own experience.

I hope he knows how many people still remember him and care about what he went through. Just a little appreciation post for Mike Mageau, sending him lots of love and support.

Well done, they restored the pipeline and resumed operations quickly. 🎉

After Ukraine’s largest- drone- attack on Moscow’s oil refineries, Russia deployed an air defense system in the middle of a highway next to an oil refinery as a last ditch effort to protect it.

https://x.com/hormuzletter/status/2100974628856270986?s=46

Allen stated that he had read the book The Dangerous Game in high school and left a lasting impression on him.

The story about a big white hunter, Sanger Rainsford washes up on the shore of a private island after a boating accident and meets its owner, General Zaroff. The general is a shifty but polite character who introduces himself as a fellow hunter and claims to be after the titular "most dangerous game". After a lot of dialog it is finally revealed that he is actually hunting human beings, and Rainsford gets picked to be the next prey. The hunt itself takes only a few pages, during which Rainsford outsmarts his pursuers, confronts Zaroff and kills him.

The Most Dangerous Game connection with Zodiac is certainly interesting to think of. The similarity between the two definitely makes me and others wondered. Was this just another Leigh coincidence with the Zodiac?

In the Z408 cipher, Zodiac says: I like killing people because it is so much fun, It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest. Man is the most dangerous animal of all.

I. Killing people vs. killing wild game:
Zaroff becomes bored with hunting animals and starts hunting humans instead. Zodiac similarly compares killing people to killing “wild game.”

II. Man is the most dangerous animal:
Zaroff considers humans the ideal prey because they have intelligence, Zodiac’s wording man is the most dangerous animal of all fits well with that concept.

III. The thrill of hunting, Zodiac wrote: To kill something gives me the most thrilling experience. The story is also built around the excitement and challenge of hunting humans. So killing and hunting humans is presented as something more thrilling than ordinary hunting.

IV. The idea of game:
Zaroff literally treats human hunting as a game. The victim gets a chance to escape and Zaroff hunts them down. Zodiac repeatedly used hunting and game language when discussing his killings.

I know that the similarities do not prove that Allen was the Zodiac and that the book was obviously a well known. But how much of this can realistically be dismissed as a coincidence if Allen really was the Zodiac?

This was my first impression of the notes. They seem like they were written by a woman. The writing style reminds me a lot of how my female friends and I write, especially the apologetic part.

I know a lot of FBI experts have said the same thing, describing it as a kind of “mothering” way of writing. Dr. Brucato also said that it has a feminine writing style.
What do you think about this? And let’s say they’re spot-on in their analysis. What would that imply? Could it have been a couple 🥴 a man who carried out the kidnapping and a woman who wrote the note?

I don't know. I would like to hear your thought on this.

I know we’ll probably debate forever over whether Allen was the Zodiac or not, but I’m very curious to hear from both sides who believe he was and those who don’t believe he was involved.

You know It's been 34 years since Allen passed away, yet the police still keep him at the top of the list despite his DNA, fingerprints, and handwriting not matching.
What do you personally think is the reason?