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DID ZODIAC KILLER CALL SEGUIN HOME?
By Ron Maloney
The Gazette-Enterprise
Published October 17, 2008
By Ron Maloney
ron.maloney(at)seguingazette.com
SEGUIN — Did the psychopathic “Zodiac” killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area four decades ago quietly live in Seguin years later?
One man believes he did.
A little more than a week ago, FBI agents visited a Seguin woman to obtain a DNA sample of a relative that Californian Dennis Kaufman hopes proves his stepfather, Jack Tarrance, was the infamous serial killer.
The “Zodiac” killed at least five people in a grisly series of shootings and stabbings in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Special Agent Joe Shadler, spokesman for the FBI’s San Francisco field office, acknowledged the federal agency was looking back into the “Zodiac” case at Kaufman’s behest.
“I can confirm we sent someone to South Texas, took a DNA sample and did send some stuff to the FBI lab for DNA testing,” he said last week.
Kaufman said he came to believe after watching a television show about the case in 2000 that Tarrance, who from 1990 to 1994 lived in a mobile home park off Nelda Street in Seguin with his wife Nora and son, Charlie, was “Zodiac.”
He began trying to debunk the idea, but the more he investigated, Kaufman said, the more he found that suggested his stepfather, who passed away in 2006, was the elusive killer.
“The facts are accurate and undeniable,” he said.
“Zodiac” demonstrated a flair not just for bloodthirsty acts but for public relations as well.
The killer taunted news reporters and investigators with threatening and darkly elaborate letters and postcards that used codes and even included his own logo — and claimed credit for more than 30 killings.
Over the years, there have been suspects in the “Zodiac” killings — 2,500 of them according to America’s Most Wanted — but no one has been prosecuted yet.
Some believe Kaufman is perpetrating a fraud or using a con to capitalize on the Zodiac case, which he vehemently denies — although he does sell an hour-long DVD on his Web site for $24.95.
“I’ve worked to prove this for eight years,” Kaufman said in an interview with the Seguin Gazette Enterprise.
Others believe it was Tarrance who duped Kaufman — an old man taking pleasure in spinning wild stories to his grown stepson.
Kaufman hopes the pending DNA results will prove him right.
“We’ll know when the DNA comes back,” Kaufman said.
A few years ago, Kaufman says he found a stained, broken knife in storage with some of his stepfather’s things, and in the months since his stepfather’s 2006 death, Kaufman says he found a cape and a mask hidden inside his father’s old Ham radio transmitter and has obtained from a stepbrother a set of Tarrance’s false teeth.
Kaufman believes the knife could have been used in a killing not previously connected to “Zodiac.” All the items are purportedly being tested, but no complete profile of the killer’s DNA exists for comparison — and his body was cremated after his death in the Pacific Northwest.
And that, a Seguin woman says, is why she was approached by Kaufman about three weeks ago and then by the FBI to obtain a DNA swabbing from a longtime Seguin resident who is related to Tarrance by blood — and would share a substantial amount of his DNA.
“Dennis called up about three weeks ago and said, ‘I need your help,’” said the relative, who asked not to be identified. “He asked if I’d ever heard of the ‘Zodiac’ killer and I said I had not. He said, ‘I have reason to believe Jack was the ‘Zodiac killer,’ and told me to check his Web site. I could hardly believe my eyes and my ears.”
On the site, she read the do ents and the narratives and listened to taped telephone conversations in which Kaufman talked with Tarrance before his death and purportedly admitted the crimes, and she said she reached the same conclusion Kaufman had — that Tarrance, who she was related to by marriage and who had visited her home every day for nearly four years, was probably “Zodiac.”
“You listen to that recording, and there’s no doubt that’s Jack’s voice and that’s Jack’s laugh,” she said. “I have no doubt that recording is real.”
Wild, and I live just down the street
He probably drove up and down 46 ....I'm right there
good movie
I'd say the movie contained one of the more brutally realistic murder scenes I have ever seen.
Where he hijacks the couple by the beach and ties them up...
It was so damn real, not this Saw-bull , it still chills me. It was clean, simple, sadistic and loud.
Fincher doesn't get enough respect.
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