The main operations day of the Good Times newspaper, when its staff were on heightened workload, was the only day of the week the Zodiac Killer failed to mail a letter to authorities. That day was Wednesday.
Richard Gaikowski trained as a medic in the army, interesting on two fronts, firstly, military style 'wing walker' boot impressions were found to and from the crime scene in the Zodiac Killer's third attack at Lake Berryessa on September 27th 1969, and after the brutal murder of taxicab driver Paul Stine in Presidio Heights on October 11th 1969, the killer tore off a neat, rectangular tailpiece of the victims shirt. This was a practice medical personnel were taught in the field, especially during war, when bandages and tourniquets were…show more content… She had been strangled and thrown from the nearby road. Almost three years earlier Donna Ann Lass disappeared from the Sahara Tahoe Hotel on September 6th 1970 after finishing her shift as a nurse. A few months earlier in June she had moved to South Lake Tahoe, from San Francisco, where she had previously been employed as a nurse at the Letterman General Hospital in the Presidio, near the Paul Stine murder scene. Curiously Rosa Vasquez was also employed at the Letterman General Hospital as a keypunch operator. A keypunch is a device for delivering punch holes at specific locations on a card face, to carry information for a relevant task. This was apparent on two cards possibly sent by the Zodiac Killer, when the 13 Hole Postcard was received on October 5th 1970, along with the Pines Card on March 22nd 1971, albeit prior to the murder of Rosa Vasquez. She lived at 834 Bush Street, close to the collective of the Good Times newspaper at 2377 Bush Street, where Zodiac suspect Richard Gaikowski worked as an editor for the publication, although the Good Times had produced its last offering by the turn of
