While a couple of detectives remained on the case, the Zodiac wouldn’t write to theChronicleHe promised to return on his word until January 30, 1974. “if I do not see this note in your paper, I will do something nasty, which you know I’m capable of doing.”
The slightest chance that any message would hold a clue as to his identity or whereabouts proved too alluring to ignore, but his sign-off—”Me-37 SFPD-0″It was also a chilling reminder of the fact that they didn’tIt is reallyKnow that he hadn’tNumerous people were killed.
By 1976, the bowtie-and-suspenders-wearing Dave Toschi, who came onboard the investigation when Stine was killed, remained the only San Francisco detective still technically on the case—but was removed in 1978 when he admitted to sending a few letters to newspapers using a fake name to praise his work. It was. “a foolish thing to do.” (He denied ever writing a letter purported to be from the Zodiac.)
A letter was sent to the Secretary of State on April 24, 1978.Chronicle stated, “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 was 86 when he died. Toschi acknowledged that he had been ill.LA TimesOne point: “Looking back, I feel mostly frustration. That case took so much out of me.”Graysmith was right, too. He believed Allen was their man.