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On
April 19, 1970 a beautiful, young,
Eurasian girl was found hanging from a tree near Bootjack Camp. After some investigation the girl's name was
discovered - Pat Tan. She was found on Mt. Tamalpais in Northern
California, not far from Bolinas
Lagoon. See
Map. Think of Zodiac and Mt. Diablo (Devil's Mt.).
From Mt. Tamalpais, on a clear day, one can see Mt. Diablo. These two mountains overlook the Bay area.
The girl's last name, Tan, is similar to the
mountain's popular name
"Tam." Think of Donner Pass and Donna Lass and "poet" Zodiac. Now, do we have
Pat Tan and Mt. Tam?
The Zodiac imperative of
water
or its symbol is there
(of course there are streams and lakes on
Mt. Tam) or water somewhere in the name. It seems "Tam" means either "coast"
or "bay". Both meanings can imply water. "Pais" (Pat?) means mountain. The Indians
of that area thought the mountain was sacred.
The sharp investigator that found out the girl's identity was Marin
County coroner / investigator Keith Craig. Craig found a key in Ms. Tan's pocket and traced it to a Greyhound bus
terminal locker in the area.
In that locker he found an address book with phone numbers. One of
those numbers was to the University of Chicago. There was a professor there that
had met Tan in 1966. Tan had been living in San Francisco since March
22, 1970 (the day Kathleen Johns was abducted).
When she was found she
was wearing a military field jacket,
(A military theme can also be found in the name Bootjack Camp.) three sweaters, (like Mageau), blue jeans, and sandals. She was hanging by a rope and an electric cord from a tree branch on a steep hill. Officials thought the girl had committed suicide!
Well that double clove hitch knot would have been very difficult
for her to tie and hang herself from. Oh
yes - they also found leaves in her long hair.
One is reminded of
Zodiac's chilling
remarks - ". . . I shall change the way the collecting of slaves.
I shall no longer announce to anyone when I commit my murders, they shall look like routine robberies, killings of anger, &
a few fake
accidents, (Suicides?) etc.
. . ." Zodiac said "By rope" in his 10/27/70 Halloween card. Rope was used in the
1963 murders and also at Lake Berryessa. In his sick torture letter he writes of
hanging his slaves, ". . . others will hang by their thumbs & burn in the sun".
Was
Pat Tan, found on Mt. Tam, one of Zodiac's
"etceteras"?
The Marin Coroner's office probably still has the address book of Tan's containing names (no surnames) and phone numbers. This would be a good project for a local
resident to see if any of those names look familiar!
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