- woodenigloo wrote:
- Rand, you posted this on another board in January;
Raithby Husted wasn't Z; Houghton, IMO, was. Husted was a blond-haired 23-yr-old kid. I think, however, that he may have been related to Lt. Jim Husted of the VPD.
I'm just saying....
Precisely what I say in this thread. Houghton was, IMO, Z. No doubt in my mind. I'm only posting this thread because others are not as convinced as I am that Houghton was Z. Raithby Husted is a POI. Not my favorite POI, but a POI.
Morf: the picture of Husted was taken in 1960. He didn't look like that in 1969. I couldn't disagree with you more that RH looks better on paper than Houghton. I've amassed around 40 items that link Houghton to Z. These things are, IMO, beyond coincidence. Husted has none of these links other than the Roosevelt stamps, the rh on the desktop, and the Adventist church connection.
As for not being able to place Houghton in the Bay Area, he disappeared -- vanished. I can't place him anywhere after May 1967. But that doesn't mean he wasn't Z. Hardly. What I can do is show that Z's references, motifs, themes, etc. are entirely consistent with important things in Houghton's life. That Houghton's background fits what we know of Z.
Here's a partial list of things that connect Houghton to Z (no other viable POI comes close to this list):
TH shot out the tires of a woman's car in 1964; Z talked about shooting out the tires of a school bus.
TH targeted young girls to flash; Z talked about targeting "kiddies"
TH was written about in a nationally syndicated column with Little List in the title
The MM were compared to G&S in a series of articles on the MM in the Arizona Republic in 1968. DePugh thought this expose was important enough to respond to with a letter when he was a fugitive in NM.
TH fits the composite in terms of height, weight, stocky, widow's peak, age, brownish curly hair
TH was speaking at the Jolly Roger Inn, CA when guns were drawn and this incident appeared in the LA Times and other papers. Z sent a Jolly Roger greeting card.
TH's wife and father-in-law owned art supply companies; the MM did their own publishing
TH was convicted twice of flashing. The image on the HC is, IMO, of a flasher
The by gun, by knife, by rope, by fire image forms a tH. The MM decal has by knife, by rope, by fire and a crosshair symbol. By fire: Houghton committed arson at age 14. His lawyer died in a fire after failing to get him an
appeal -- a lawyer who TH claimed sold him up the river
TH had a class A license in explosives. He owned a company called Trojan Mining and Blasting Co.
In The Minutemen, Harry wrote: "Houghton sported a button on his coat reading 'S.O.B.' -- for 'Sweep Out Brown.'"
So TH wore snarky buttons, while Z insisted people wear his button and spoke of silly buttons like Melvin Eats Bluber
TH was a member of the White Knights of the KKK. A Dragon is portrayed on the original KKK flag (Dragon card). The Good Citizen was a KKK publication. 5 of the 7 elements of the KKK are water, hood, robe, sword, cross (represented as a Celtic cross in a circle). All elements present at LB. The other two are god and country.
The MM decal talks about a poison pen. The dripping-pen card may be a poison pen letter.
Most of the murders were committed on days and/or in places that are symbolic of the Revolutionary period.
TH talked about 13 bullet holes in his car. The postcard has 13 holes punched in it.
The MM flag was a Betsy Ross flag with 13 stars. 13 eyes on the HC.
The FBI suspected the Minutemen were in the hills in Deer Lodge MT when the escaped Deer Lodge convicts were up there as well. Z claimed to be an escaped convict from Deer Lodge prison.
The MM were trained in codes, ciphers, mail deception, letters to the editor, making bombs, how to use a rifle, and other guerilla tactics. All of these are consistent with what we know about Z.
TH had a shortwave radio in his office that he relied upon for his safety. (THIS IS THE ZODIAC SPEAKING).
TH was a regional coordinator for the Minutemen. Z placed a clock-stamp on the envelope of the Exorcist letter:
http://www.zodiackiller.com/ExorcistEnvelope.htmlTH's name can be found in the 408; and +he Minutemen can be found in the code when the last 18 letters of the translation are recoded.
The Minutemen(crosshair symbol) fits the My Name Is cipher in terms of letter and symbol distribution.
TH's voice was described as "toneless" in the Look Magazine article.
Z put 13 eyes on the inside of the HC. TH was featured in LOOK magazine.
TH says in the Look article in 1966 that he and the MM were apolitical -- beyond politics, which had let them down too many times to care about anymore.
TH was on the front page and pages of the LA Times dozens of times. Z said that he was writing to the LA Times because they don't bury him on the back pages like some of the others.
TH said right before he disappeared that he had a list of people who would be murdered.
TH was arrested on a concealed weapons charge and a Federal weapons charge for using a silencer.
TH was accused of harrassing Mosk, who in response to these and other MM activities introduced a bill to ban mail-order guns in CA. The bill was successful. Z talked about acquiring one of his guns prior to the mail-order ban.
The MM put decals of a crosshair on cars. Z put a crosshair and wrote on Hartnell's door.
TH drove a beatup white car. Z was said to be driving a light-colored or white car; there were four different tires on his car at LB.
BRS occurred on July 4th, LB was on Adam's birthday (Paul Revere's ride to warn Adams); Stine occurred on Columbus Day weekend; LHR occurred 4 years to the day when TH shot out the tires of the woman's car and was the night prior to TH's first son's, Troy's, 13th birthday.
The San Diego Honeymoon murders seem very similiar to Z's murders. TH lived in San Diego.
CJB's murder occurred on the very night when a large MM bust occurred in NY. A watch (Minute man) was found at the scene. The teletyped letter reads very much like the MM decal (Harry noticed this). TH was most probably in LA with DePugh that afternoon at a MM fundraiser. The CJB murder and the MM bust appeared together on the front pages of the Southern California newspapers.
TH was booked for malicious destruction of property for clipping out two pages from a library book in 1966.
CJB was murdered when she left the RCC library in 1966.
In July 1969, Belli represented a murderer (the trunk murderer) who had gone underground using a fake identity for over 35 years, and this appeared in all the California newspapers, esp. Bay Area ones.
https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img96/6051/houghtonbellifugitive19.jpghttps://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img651/6051/houghtonbellifugitive19.jpgBelli was also Jack Ruby's lawyer. The MM were implicated in the JFK assassination TH said he immediately went underground after the assassination. Oswald himself mentioned the MM several times in his writings.
Eleven days after the JFK assassination, a letter postmarked Lancaster CA was sent to Dallas that looks very much like a Z letter:
http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/04/0403-002.gif Houghton's right-hand man, Dennis Mower, lived in Lancaster, CA. JFK can be seen in the backwards letters in the Diablo code.
And while the TH handwriting is inconclusive because it's cursive and Z didn't write much in cursive, there are some very compelling, IMO, comparisons:
Haughton's TH
TH from Bates Letter:
Troy's T with distinctive curl at the end:
The R in Riverside on the Hautz envelope with distinctive curl at the end:
This is from this envelope
Another very odd and characteristic similarity is that Troy makes his t's without crossing them. He comes back at the end of the word and crosses it.
Notice that in the Hautz envelope, the writer started Enterprise but then crossed it out. The t was made just as Troy makes it: a loop but there is no cross, as if that would be made at the end of the word coming back.