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RE: Zodiac case solved? ‘Case Breakers’ group makes an ID, but police say it doesn’t hold up
Interesting, but if neither the SFPD nor the FBI codebreakers are buying it, I'd say it's far from conclusive. On the other hand, Michelle Wynn is an independent third party who agrees that the suspect matches the 1969 police sketch. Stay tuned, I guess.
It's also interesting that the Chronicle declined to publish the alleged suspect's name.
The Chronicle traditionally has not named Zodiac suspects unless law enforcement investigators confirm they are being actively looked into. The only man named as a suspect was Arthur Leigh Allen of Vallejo, who died in 1992.
More here from the UK's Independent and republished, here on the CaseBreakers web site.
I agree. From the little more that I read about it, it seems like this single theory out of a typical handful that emerge regularly got a little extra attention, maybe because of the potential interest of the sketch match aspect, and an asserted connection to another murder.
I found the refusal to publish a name interesting too. I wonder if there was a precedent for that, or if the zodiac case helped lay the groundwork for that as policy.
I was wondering that too. It seems like this policy might be specific to the Zodiac case, but as a matter of journalistic integrity, I think a policy like this might make sense when reporting on many/most criminal investigations. There is a need to balance between reporting news and reporting gossip.