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    'Zodiac Killer Was My Dad' Lady Actually a Kennedy Nut

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    Image of NotReadyForPrimeTime NotReadyForPrimeTime
    05/02/09

    In reply to 'Zodiac Killer Was My Dad' Lady Actually a Kennedy Nut
    Call me crazy, but what kind of serial killer takes his young child along when he commits his crimes?
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    05/01/09

    In reply to 'Zodiac Killer Was My Dad' Lady Actually a Kennedy Nut
    And Jesus talks to her, I'm certain. With crazies he's nearly always the third point in a triangle.
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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    05/01/09

    @City_Dater: Unless she IS Jesus.
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    Image of Iceland Spar Iceland Spar
    05/01/09

    In reply to 'Zodiac Killer Was My Dad' Lady Actually a Kennedy Nut
    The Zodiac Killer was a woman who later became a man?!
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    05/01/09

    In reply to 'Zodiac Killer Was My Dad' Lady Actually a Kennedy Nut
    'I'll take a lifetime of mockery for fifteen minutes of infamy for six hundred, Alex.'
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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    05/01/09

    In reply to 'Zodiac Killer Was My Dad' Lady Actually a Kennedy Nut
    "Sorensen wrote her off as a kook. When he saw the kind of coverage regional and then national media had afforded Perez's claims, Sorensen says he was shocked. Like me, he wondered 'how legitimate news agencies could run with this story without doing any background checking into the source.'"


    Giggle, titter, snicker, snort, chortle, guffaw, etc.

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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    05/01/09

    @SarahHeartburn: That's kind of a fallacy, though. The news is that there is a woman who claims to be the daughter of the Zodiac. Not that she actually is. It would be a much bigger story if it turned out that her claim was actually true. As of now, the claim was the only news, but it is actually newsworthy.


    I'm all in favor of old media bashing, but at least the old media I read didn't actually get this wrong. Though it is possible some others might have, which is probably why I don't read those publications.

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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    05/01/09

    In reply to 'Zodiac Killer Was My Dad' Lady Actually a Kennedy Nut
    This proves that Marilyn Monroe was killed by the Zodiac!
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    05/01/09

    @BullfightsOnAcid: aaaaand full circle.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    05/01/09

    In reply to 'Zodiac Killer Was My Dad' Lady Actually a Kennedy Nut
    Knew it. Please move her into Octomom's house, it will be gripping reality television.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    05/01/09

    @Baroness: Throw the Hipster Grifter in the mix, adorn them all with house arrest ankle bracelets (oh, what the hell for Octo, why not?) and you have a partay.


    First episode: Blago, gentleman caller.

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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    05/01/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: Extreme mirth at that last bit! Ratings gold.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    05/01/09

    In reply to 'Zodiac Killer Was My Dad' Lady Actually a Kennedy Nut
    Um, I believe we're ignoring the real humdinger here: the Zodiac killer... was the zombie corpse of John F. Kennedy.
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    Image of RandomLunatic RandomLunatic
    05/01/09

    @Perhaps Not: I think I love you.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    05/01/09

    @RandomLunatic: I love you, too, Random Lunatic.


    I wish I could stop saying that...

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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    05/01/09

    In reply to 'Dad Was the Zodiac Killer' Lady: Wacko?
    I wonder if Jenna and Barbara will have the same recovered memory experience in 25 years or so.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    05/01/09

    In reply to 'Dad Was the Zodiac Killer' Lady: Wacko?
    I just find it hard to believe that a 47 year old who grew up in the Bay Area claims never to have heard of Zodiac until 2007. Beggars belief, unless she's an astoundingly dense, incurious person. Hm.
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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    05/01/09

    @Baroness: I grew up in the Bay Area in the '70s/'80s. Some of my friends' parents, when we were on hikes or playing in public areas, would say things like "careful, there are serial killers out there".
    So yeah, I'd agree with your point.
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    Image of Catty Is Cumbersome Catty Is Cumbersome
    05/01/09

    @Baroness: I think she knew of the Zodiac killer, but couldn't connect the dots (?!?)til she saw the sketch: "Perez said she realized her father was the Zodiac killer when she saw a police drawing of the suspect on television in 2007."


    I'd like to see a picture of her father and also the sketch. Anyone know where to find this?

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    05/01/09

    @Baroness: Yeah, it was impossible to grow up in the Bay Area without Zodiac Terror striking every halloween, with parents forming neighborhood watch groups, etc.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    05/01/09

    @Catty Is Cumbersome: She didn't provide a picture of her father, at least according to the original article about it yesterday.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    05/01/09

    @DahlELama: Thing is, in the article I first read about her, she said she had never even heard of Zodiac. Ever. It wasn't just connecting the dots. It's like a kid in 70's NYC never having heard of the Son of Sam- her whole life. If anything, kids are the one who hear these stories, share them with each other to scare the bejeezus out, about a crazy killer on the loose in their area.
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    Image of Iceland Spar Iceland Spar
    05/01/09

    In reply to 'Dad Was the Zodiac Killer' Lady: Wacko?
    Doesn't being wacko add credence to her story that she was raised by a sociopath?
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    05/01/09

    In reply to 'Dad Was the Zodiac Killer' Lady: Wacko?
    I hear she also <3 beards.
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    05/01/09

    In reply to 'Dad Was the Zodiac Killer' Lady: Wacko?
    "As a young child I witnessed my father brutally murder several people, and have kept the horrible secret for thirty years of anguish and torment. But, no, guys. I'm totally sane."
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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    05/01/09

    @Richard Lawson: Didn't she supposedly recover the memories in therapy? (And no,not all recovered memories are necessarily bogus.)
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    Image of Breamworthy Breamworthy
    05/01/09

    @SarahHeartburn: You could tell she was trying to avoid the whole "recovered memories" argument, because she went to great trouble to specify that she already had the memories when she went into therapy, the therapy just helped her figure out what they meant or something like that. But yeah, it still sounds like she would have been pretty suggestible.
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    Image of applejuice applejuice
    05/01/09

    @Richard Lawson: I thought she said she went along, but waited in the car?


    Whatevs. She'd crazy any way you look at the situation.

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    Image of JinxyMcDeath JinxyMcDeath
    10/31/08

    In reply to Ex-Scientologist Says Tom Cruise Bribed Judges
    Sadly, if he winds up dead of "suicide" then I think he'll finally be vindicated. That's COS's modus operandi.
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    Image of JeanBrodie JeanBrodie
    10/31/08

    In reply to Ex-Scientologist Says Tom Cruise Bribed Judges
    Mr. Letterese is probably full of Xenu re: his claims; however, Paul Barressi is one of the shadiest folks around, a former porn star and director of gay porn flix who famously outed John Travolta years ago. His employment by Tommy Girl rather boggles the mind.
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    Image of WGARefugee WGARefugee
    10/31/08

    @JeanBrodie: They audited him back to "normal."
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