While a number of investigators stayed on the case, the Zodiac would not compose to the Chronicle once again tillJan 30, 1974, when he assured, “if I do not see this note in your paper, I will do something nasty, which you know I’m capable of doing.”
The tiniest possibility that any message would hold a hint regarding his identity or location showed too attractive to neglect, however his sign-off–“Me-37 SFPD-0” was likewise a cooling suggestion that they didn’t truly understand that he had not eliminated lots of individuals.
By 1976, the bowtie-and-suspenders-wearing Dave Toschi, who came onboard the examination when Stine was eliminated, stayed the only San Francisco investigator still technically on the case– however was gotten rid of in 1978 when he confessed to sending out a couple of letters to papers utilizing a phony name to applaud his work. He confessed was “a foolish thing to do.” (He rejected ever composing a letter supposed to be from the Zodiac.)
On April 24, 1978, a letter to the Chronicle mentioned, “This is the Zodiac speaking I am back with you…That city pig toschi is good – but I am smarter and better he will get tired then leave me alone. I am waiting for a good movie about me. who will play me. I am now in control of all things.”
Toschi passed away in 2018 at86 He acknowledged to the LA Times at one point, “Looking back, I feel mostly frustration. That case took so much out of me.” And like Graysmith, he believed Allen was their male.
