Why he could be the Zodiac: Richard Gaikowski

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  • @tarheellady23
    @tarheellady23 3 месяца назад +109

    I feel like at this point the Zodiac is every white guy with glasses in the 60s 😂

    • @bobross8786
      @bobross8786 3 месяца назад +3

      Yes indeed 🤓

    • @Augfordpdoggie
      @Augfordpdoggie 3 месяца назад +3

      which was pretty much of all of them

    • @aftertheheadlines
      @aftertheheadlines 3 месяца назад +8

      I grew up in Benicia the site of the first killing. My dad died at 49 in 1977 and the Zodiac never killed again. 😂

    • @PNWGuitar
      @PNWGuitar 3 месяца назад +5

      Oh shit it's me 😳👀

    • @sammyday3341
      @sammyday3341 3 месяца назад

      😂😂😂

  • @ryguy5929
    @ryguy5929 3 месяца назад +41

    Every time i watch one of these videos. I'm like, "Oh yeah, it's definitely him: lol

  • @HappyWanderer140
    @HappyWanderer140 3 месяца назад +22

    The bottom line is, there's no actual sound evidence that points to any person being the Zodiac

    • @aftertheheadlines
      @aftertheheadlines 3 месяца назад

      There is evidence but CA DOJ last tested the evidence 8 yrs ago or so. They need to send the items most likely to contain DNA to an advanced lab like Parabon NanoLabs. That is the last best chance. There are stamps and envelopes. Every thing is probably contaminated.

    • @norbertk9595
      @norbertk9595 3 месяца назад +4

      Right. The man simply has not been identified.
      One problem I think is that Graysmith set a bad precedent in pretending Arthur Leigh Allen was Zodiac. That was stupid and dishonest -- but it led people to think they could accuse people of being the Zodiac -- with no supporting reasoning.

    • @HappyWanderer140
      @HappyWanderer140 3 месяца назад +2

      @norbertk9595 Literally, hundreds of people have had their name dragged through the mud, with absolutely no evidence at all to support any of the claims. We'll more than likely never know his true identity

    • @dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653
      @dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653 24 дня назад

      @@norbertk9595Graysmith is one of the worst true crime writers.

  • @joshfactor1
    @joshfactor1 3 месяца назад +20

    you have to know this will never be over, at least not until someone finally uncovers incontrovertible evidence that cracks the case

  • @buzzedalldrink9131
    @buzzedalldrink9131 3 месяца назад +3

    there’s definitely something about this guy‘s eyes that make me look at him and think “oh yeah, this could be the guy”

  • @andreflowers5042
    @andreflowers5042 3 месяца назад +11

    Finally somebody with common sense..The victim that survived said the girl who was shot said his name was Richard ..that’s a important key piece of evidence that many who go over this case skip over or act like it means nothing when it’s everything I think ..Richard gaikowski ..or someone else named Richard is the GUY

    • @daishi4531
      @daishi4531 3 месяца назад +5

      Yes, a critical clue overlooked or ignored all the time. One has to ask themself WHY it's ignored 🤔

    • @andreflowers5042
      @andreflowers5042 3 месяца назад +2

      @@daishi4531 Right ‼️‼️‼️

    • @jmangi6221
      @jmangi6221 3 месяца назад +3

      Agreed, this guy is by far the most convincing person I've seen on this case.

    • @norbertk9595
      @norbertk9595 3 месяца назад +4

      No. Read the initial police report -- in which Mageau said *nothing* about a "Richard."
      It was after decades of substance abuse and homelessness in which a barely-coherent Mageau added the "Richard" part.

    • @andreflowers5042
      @andreflowers5042 3 месяца назад +2

      @@norbertk9595 bro I got a uncle who’s had years of severe substance abuse ..and he remember ever detail minor or major tragic thing of his life before and while high..He’s been said it years ago..He said he wasn’t sure at first if it was the same person who chased them which is who Darlene Ferrin Said was Richard and if he knew she told him about ihim being the zodiac killer he would kill her…He was scared duhh

  • @vibetech89
    @vibetech89 3 месяца назад +10

    It was Joe Biden.

  • @ilepartanen4789
    @ilepartanen4789 3 месяца назад

    I am new to this channel, but now a subscriber. These are very interesting.

  • @daishi4531
    @daishi4531 3 месяца назад +4

    Excellent presentation BT:TC, you got the main points across. I never did understand why LE never took Gaik's palm print or fingerprints. DNA would be available if he was buried, if cremated one would have to research geneology to attempt a profile. But it was him, he named himself many times in his cyphers and codes, but you must understand how to decode them. It was his 'game' and he made the rules, you just get to play along...

    • @Rasputin443556
      @Rasputin443556 11 дней назад

      Law enforcement never took Gaikowski's palm print or fingerprints because there was no credible reason to do so. There is no reason to think he was the Zodiac.

  • @jonathanemerling1071
    @jonathanemerling1071 3 месяца назад +10

    It is so not pronounced “Magoo”

    • @francesmeyer8478
      @francesmeyer8478 3 месяца назад +4

      You are correct.

    • @MrsGypsumFantastic
      @MrsGypsumFantastic 3 месяца назад +1

      I was wondering about that, thanks for confirming.

    • @daishi4531
      @daishi4531 3 месяца назад +2

      It's 'Muh-zoe', like a French 'Magouix'

    • @coolcougar
      @coolcougar 3 месяца назад +1

      Leaving the same comment for the second time, 2nd upload.

    • @jonathanemerling1071
      @jonathanemerling1071 3 месяца назад

      @@coolcougarI did?

  • @andre595zero
    @andre595zero 3 месяца назад +3

    It’s not pronounced Magoo, Mageau is pronounced as Ma-jeow.

  • @kenrogers1948
    @kenrogers1948 3 месяца назад +3

    That scary blue couch and the pallet... Again!.... NOOOOOOO!!!!!

  • @HUMDUDE
    @HUMDUDE 3 месяца назад +7

    I've always thought it was Richard Gaikowski. He was a newspaper guy, looked like the composite and for me the clincher is the newspaper registration mark is literally just a Zodiac symbol.

  • @christopher7824
    @christopher7824 3 месяца назад +1

    The physical description in Lake Berryessa/hood and Stine are completely different.

  • @jacobrivers5728
    @jacobrivers5728 3 месяца назад +11

    There are currently over 100 Zodiac suspects, and 50 of them were only born last year.

  • @williammetz7500
    @williammetz7500 3 месяца назад +5

    What about Ted Cruz?

    • @djquinn11
      @djquinn11 3 месяца назад

      Lame political post.

    • @Tom-lc9ni
      @Tom-lc9ni 3 месяца назад +2

      Runs in the family, he's dad did murk JFK.

    • @DingDangg
      @DingDangg 3 месяца назад

      Lame ass joke, put it to rest

  • @TheBigfoot425
    @TheBigfoot425 3 месяца назад +8

    Gaikowski's name is in one of the ciphers. I forget which one but it's there. I think it's the 3rd cipher sent but whichever it is it has the letters G Y K E in it. G Y K E is solved to be C A U S. G Y K E = CAUS. What do you need to solve any cipher? The KEY..... GYKE CAUS KEY. Zodiac was known to misspell words.

    • @norbertk9595
      @norbertk9595 3 месяца назад +1

      No, it's not. The letters "Gyke" appear in a cipher -- and Gaikowski never referred to himself in this way.
      The Zodiac stated he would *not* divulge his name -- and there's no intelligent reason for doubting this.

    • @TheBigfoot425
      @TheBigfoot425 3 месяца назад +1

      @@norbertk9595It's there, I'm not saying he was the Zodiac but it's something to consider since he is one of the best suspects out there. The name is a puzzle inside of a puzzle, Zodiac said a lot of things that may not have been true ( his victim count could be one of them). To assume Gaikowski name isn't in the cipher because he never spelled his name that was is a bit closed minded on the subject. the Zodiac and whoever was the Zodiac could have been two completely different people. Look at the BTK killer, family man, church goer, at one time a code enforcement officer. Two different personas. Zodiac could easily have two different personas too. One a seemingly normal man and the other a murderer. Gaikowski's name is in the cipher for some reason.

    • @norbertk9595
      @norbertk9595 3 месяца назад +1

      @@TheBigfoot425 No, this was dealt with many years ago on the "San Francisco Slaughter" TV show. Gaikowski's friends debunked the nonsense in various ways, e.g., pointing out that Gaikowski abbreviated his name with "Gaik."
      One also got a sense from that show of twitchy and strange "Goldcatcher," the original promoter of the delusion that Gaik was the Zodiac, is.

    • @TheBigfoot425
      @TheBigfoot425 3 месяца назад +1

      @@norbertk9595lol I think you skipped on reading comprehension classes in school. Gaikowski's name is in the cipher. That's a fact. Go back and read S L O W L Y what I wrote, it may help ya deal with the fact his name is in the cipher.

    • @norbertk9595
      @norbertk9595 3 месяца назад +1

      @@TheBigfoot425 If you really believed the nonsense you're spouting you wouldn't resort to "lol"ing and acting condescending.
      Gaikowski seems to have been a decent guy. He is, however, laughable as a Zodiac suspect.

  • @jonvia
    @jonvia 3 месяца назад +3

    Dude looked a lot like the illustration...then again it could just be a coincidence.....................

  • @makielski
    @makielski 3 месяца назад +1

    You somewhat sound like someone who would host a podcast about urban legends.

  • @ficationsare6552
    @ficationsare6552 3 месяца назад +1

    Officer Narlow confirmed his passport. Eliminated.

  • @seviperman3584
    @seviperman3584 3 месяца назад +2

    He was gay and not skilled at cybers. Absolutely no real evidence.

  • @jasonwillis4819
    @jasonwillis4819 3 месяца назад +1

    His name was Arthur Leigh Allen.

  • @redrumhum
    @redrumhum 3 месяца назад +3

    I am zodiac.

  • @nantia07
    @nantia07 3 месяца назад

    Narrator, what is your name?? :)

  • @nathrogers7
    @nathrogers7 3 месяца назад

    Darlene Ferrin saying the guy's name was Richard to Mike Mageau is the biggest clue to me.

  • @bradenarville1
    @bradenarville1 Месяц назад +2

    I think it’s him

  • @smallies7154
    @smallies7154 3 месяца назад +1

    You guys should look Into Ralph spinelli

    • @nirajshuklaNL
      @nirajshuklaNL 3 месяца назад

      No please stop with the zodiac videos. Like there’s no new info. We all know the story.

  • @BlessYourHeart254
    @BlessYourHeart254 3 месяца назад +1

    Well if it’s on Reddit, it must be true 😂

  • @RR-bd4jp
    @RR-bd4jp 3 месяца назад

    Has anyone seen the episode of Forensic Files I believe it was that was about the Zodiac. I thought it was strange because they had caught the Zodiac on that episode. Although every other single source says he was never caught.

  • @tommytwostep9753
    @tommytwostep9753 3 месяца назад +2

    Absolutely...every bespectacled vanilla-face...

  • @tylerboudreaux9756
    @tylerboudreaux9756 3 месяца назад

    I always felt that the zodiac took Paul stines glasses after the murder and wore them. Hence the drawing with those type of glasses and why they were missing.

  • @paulmorissette5863
    @paulmorissette5863 3 месяца назад

    Did they find anything after he died? Guns, notes or such?

  • @Ricktony14
    @Ricktony14 3 месяца назад

    I believe it’s close I have nothing to bank this on at all just a gut feeling

  • @tonysmith3556
    @tonysmith3556 3 месяца назад

    This is the zodiac, is how the letters went....notably not this is the zodiac killer or murderer. When Arthur Leigh Allen rebutted the accusation saying I am not the (goddamn) Zodiac I thought that was a huge similarity and quite a weird way of saying it.

  • @davidball699
    @davidball699 3 месяца назад +8

    I believe the zodiac killer was two people

    • @SpinningCracKFisT
      @SpinningCracKFisT 3 месяца назад +5

      I always thought that it was more than 1

    • @DaveBall-li1tn
      @DaveBall-li1tn 11 дней назад

      @@SpinningCracKFisT cause we all know the Paul Stein description doesn’t match the first killings so it had to be two people

    • @DaveBall-li1tn
      @DaveBall-li1tn 11 дней назад

      I believe the police know who it was all along or who they were all along and if it got out, it would ruin their reputation. I don’t doubt one minute that they got DNA and they’re just sitting on it and they will continue to sit on it.

  • @dakotaasher2196
    @dakotaasher2196 3 месяца назад

    How is the subject not esoteric? Wow
    It was no doubt an esoteric matter to whatever person(s) committed the crimes.
    Why dress up as an executioner? Clearly what that meant, especially given character's name in the Mikado.
    Why write letters in code? Admittedly, its a good way to narrow the chance of being convicted of specific crimes. It created a huge obstacle...
    There is definitely an esoteric aspect to the case. I think there should be more weight attributed to the things mentioned in the letters, etc. The Mikado connection. (There are a few suspects connected to mikado in sf...) which is strange when you look at Ross Sullivan. Very far fetched, but at least two suspects in this case were obsessed with Mikado and lived/worked very close together. The locations of stines residence and the cab pickup. Could be personal.
    The name gaik appearing in the ciphers, the mention of the name by Darlene... Though mageau did point out allen...
    The mugshot is certainly a revealing look at an individual. What was he arrested for in 1965(it appears) ?
    Really wouldn't be surprised if the Zodiac really did commit a lot more murders as they claimed.
    Someone needs to figure out who was in Riverside at the time. No doubt really with "the confession" and subsequent zodiac letter using the exact phrasing and identical misspelling "twich" and the "z" symbol on letters to bates' family.

  • @dakotaasher2196
    @dakotaasher2196 3 месяца назад

    Hey Blue Pig...
    Interesting

  • @aaacomp1
    @aaacomp1 3 месяца назад

    lol, at calling mike, Magoo

  • @toddaulner5393
    @toddaulner5393 3 месяца назад

    It was DB Cooper I just know it!

  • @alanhindmarch4483
    @alanhindmarch4483 3 месяца назад

    Like Jack The Ripper, there will always be possible suspects, but there will never be a an answer to who really was The Zodiac or Jack. The only persons who know who they were/are. Will have died as victims or the Perpetrators themselves.

    • @maddyc2412
      @maddyc2412 9 дней назад

      There is physical evidence, I believe it's blood, that links to one of the suspects for Jack the Ripper, on a old piece of clothing from one of the victims. It was a Polish immigrant, his name was Aaron but I don't remember his last name. He used to be a doctor, and he was insane and committed to as asylum, which is why the murders stopped. Don't know how more people aren't aware of this

  • @hellaevil
    @hellaevil 3 месяца назад +3

    I'm not saying this isn't him, but the last quote sums it up, this is just a bunch of coincidences. I like The Mikado too!

  • @rondale4004
    @rondale4004 3 месяца назад

    Not sure how a person who wasn't in the country at the time could commit these crimes? Almost everything in there was either wrong or incredibly misleading. So clearly not him

  • @lunch7735
    @lunch7735 3 месяца назад

    Mr blobby did it

  • @winterhaydn
    @winterhaydn 3 месяца назад

    My uncle is the Zodiac.
    I mean, he fits as well as the dozens and dozens of other suspects.

    • @qdp03
      @qdp03 3 месяца назад

      ok

    • @randallreid424
      @randallreid424 3 месяца назад

      Well tell us about him if you are being real,

  • @tomvoigt
    @tomvoigt 3 месяца назад +5

    I'm the Zodiac expert this episode focuses on. And therefore I can say with 100% certainty this video is garbage. It's not enough to get basic facts wrong about the Zodiac killer, they also got basic facts wrong about Gaikowski AND about me. As usual, this remains a shi* channel.

  • @187umkillah
    @187umkillah 3 месяца назад

    Wow this makes it so obvious.... how was this all missed so long?? But i guess that woulda been the case no matter what... crazy this all looks correct and it does sound like him 4 sure

  • @jenniferbreaux7385
    @jenniferbreaux7385 3 месяца назад +4

    I've heard of this theory. It's as good a guess as any.

  • @gianlucamai
    @gianlucamai 3 месяца назад

    Giuseppe joe Bevilacqua...

  • @beagle-t6m
    @beagle-t6m 3 месяца назад

    In the water

  • @MrBeckenhimself
    @MrBeckenhimself 3 месяца назад

    Don't worry guys. They'll soon solve this mystery and the man they will coin as the Zodiac will be some guy born in the 1980s.

  • @s.tavares3257
    @s.tavares3257 3 месяца назад +3

    It’s either Gaikowski or Arthur Leigh Allen to me.

  • @am74343
    @am74343 3 месяца назад +12

    In September 1964, Catherine Blackburn, a 50-year-old woman from Albany, NY, was brutally raped and sadistically murdered inside her home by an, as-of-yet unidentified assailant. Blackburn had posted a newspaper advertisement looking for a tenant to rent an apartment in the building she owned. A small number of locals have theorized that Richard Gaikowski could have been Catherine's muderer, since he was employed at the Knickerbocker Newspaper which was not very far from Catherine Blackburn's house. She was loved by the entire community, and her murder shocked the entire Capital District of New York for many years.

    • @darkside7802
      @darkside7802 3 месяца назад +5

      Not Zodiac’s MO. At all.

    • @norbertk9595
      @norbertk9595 3 месяца назад +4

      Zodiac was not a sexual offender. And, BTW, Gaikowski was gay.

    • @aaacomp1
      @aaacomp1 3 месяца назад

      Zodiac killed people...somebody was murdered in the US. MUST BE ZODIAC.

    • @dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653
      @dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653 24 дня назад

      Could be. These types start out until they perfect it.

  • @Trev-jz6yw
    @Trev-jz6yw 3 месяца назад

    Watch the twist is there were 5 different people who killed every and all claimed the zodiac MO!!

  • @trishemerald2487
    @trishemerald2487 3 месяца назад +1

    I feel so old. He felt the need to explain what a switchboard is.

  • @andrewsmith4854
    @andrewsmith4854 Месяц назад

    I’m not the zodiac and even if l was l certainly wouldn’t tell you

  • @thomasprim8274
    @thomasprim8274 3 месяца назад

    Didn't they get DNA from some of scene's? They can test his

    • @user-gk8ru4zr7f
      @user-gk8ru4zr7f 3 месяца назад

      The only DNA was recovered from behind a stamp on a zodiac letter many moons later. None of the finger prints recovered at the crimes scenes matched each other or any suspect.

    • @thomasprim8274
      @thomasprim8274 3 месяца назад

      @@user-gk8ru4zr7f but could technology solve it? Read fbi had parial DNA from Gary Francis poste

  • @MegaAppl3
    @MegaAppl3 3 месяца назад

    I don't think it was this guy.

  • @dannysee1
    @dannysee1 3 месяца назад

    Mike Magoo no relation to Mr Magoo.

  • @HalfEatenDimSim
    @HalfEatenDimSim 3 месяца назад

    LET'S GO BRANDON

  • @thomasmoshier3920
    @thomasmoshier3920 3 месяца назад +1

    The story I head was that Gaikowski was gay. And the theory went gay men kill other gay men and not heterosexual couples. I’ve had never heard that Mike Mageau said Darlene Ferrin identified her killer as “Richard.” I’ve seen multiple interviews with Mageau and due to his injuries his recounting of events that night is highly unreliable and has changed multiple times over the years. His testimony would never hold up in court. Also, the operator who took the call the night of blue rock springs homicide said that the recording of Gaikowski could be Zodiac. Not that he was Zodiac. Tom Voight has put a lot of time and effort on this. And I generally agree with his conclusions. And Gaikowski is a more viable suspect than most. But I’m still not convinced.

  • @djpuplex
    @djpuplex 3 месяца назад

    I think there was more than one killer you may or not have been connected Reno Magoo and the cops that stopped the killer of Ruby Stein picked different suspects.

  • @norbertk9595
    @norbertk9595 3 месяца назад +1

    No one has ever given a reason for supposing that Gaikowski was murderous.
    Voigt's reason for promoting the delusion that Gaikowski was the Zodiac is the (incoherent) word of a nut who calls himself "Goldcatcher." Goldcatcher has never provided a *single* reason for supposing Gaikowski was the Zodiac.
    It's an absurdity. Gaikowski was a benevolent hippie type. The Zodiac was likely military or military-related.

    • @tomvoigt
      @tomvoigt 3 месяца назад +1

      You're a tool with bad info.

  • @boombringer4078
    @boombringer4078 3 месяца назад

    I feel like I may be the zodiac and I wasnt even born till '82.....🤣🤣

  • @peregrinemccauley5010
    @peregrinemccauley5010 3 месяца назад +1

    All roads lead to Rome. Richard Gaikowski looks the prime suspect.

  • @T-Lynn3824
    @T-Lynn3824 3 месяца назад

    I think maybe a cop..

    • @randallreid424
      @randallreid424 3 месяца назад +1

      Also I believe that they will have a military background as well, I am curious of the overall skill the zodiac actually had, I believe he or they were very intelligent I also believe they had luck on their side

  • @maureenjacobs3697
    @maureenjacobs3697 3 месяца назад

    The zodiac and D B Cooper are one and the same.

  • @davidball699
    @davidball699 3 месяца назад

    Also, I believe Cheri Jo Bates was a zodiac victum

  • @larsonfamilyhouse
    @larsonfamilyhouse 3 месяца назад

    Dick Gaikowski is 13 letters

  • @1FokkerAce
    @1FokkerAce 3 месяца назад

    Of course he would be a “Gaikowski”…. And of course the authorities were unable to touch him.

  • @discoviolenza1984
    @discoviolenza1984 3 месяца назад +2

    I thought Ted Cruz was the Zodiac killer

  • @Dunkaroos248
    @Dunkaroos248 3 месяца назад

    I think gaik is a better candidate than Allen

  • @Rasputin443556
    @Rasputin443556 3 месяца назад

    There's actually NO reason to think Gaikowski is the Zodiac, other than he looks like the composite (as do a lot of people). The ONLY reason anyone is even talking about Gaikowski is a mentally ill man, Blaine Blaine aka Goldcatcher, became convinced Gaikowski, a friend of his, was doing all kinds of weird things to him and threatening him to not reveal that Gaikowski was the Zodiac. Like, you know, the Zodiac totally would let someone who knew his secret live. Seriously, you need to look at a scan of the Goldcatcher manifesto (or whatever he was calling it). It looks like a crayon drawing of things we would make for D&D campaigns in junior high.
    Delete this video.

    • @tomvoigt
      @tomvoigt 3 месяца назад +2

      No, Blaine is not the only reason. WTF is wrong with you? Just because you are poorly informed doesn't mean everyone else is, too. Paul Holes even did a documentary about Gaikowski. Delete your comment.

    • @Rasputin443556
      @Rasputin443556 11 дней назад

      @Cole____ You are wrong. For starters, there is no official website on the Zodiac. And I guarantee you I've read far more on the case than you. Actually read up on the case, and read the actual accusation that Goldcatcher makes against Gaikowski. Only genuinely stupid people would believe such tripe.

  • @TRUMP20Z4
    @TRUMP20Z4 3 месяца назад

    This is the Zodiac apeaking.

  • @merikatools568
    @merikatools568 3 месяца назад

    It was Trump