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At the time Bates was killed, Allen was 32 years old, and his permanent residence was 32 Fresno St. in Vallejo, Calif. (In 1970, Zodiac would create a cipher that contained 32 symbols.)

Allen was given a Zodiac watch as a Christmas gift from their mother in 1967. (Allen's estimation of when he received the watch was July or August 1969.)

call himself "Zodiac."

Allen is alleged to have made these claims to his friend

people would be more challenging to hunt than animals, since they "have intelligence."

ithin days it was solved and stated that killing man was "(sic) more fun than killing wild game in the forrest because man is the most dangeroue anamal of all to kill."

hunting a man "like an animal."

Additionally, Allen was known to use the same unusual spelling and phrasing as Zodiac later used, such as spelling "Mery Xmass" instead of Merry Xmas and saying "trigger mech" instead of trigger mechanism. Allen would intentionally misspell words to be funny.

"bussy work," which is jargon used by elementary-school teachers.

Allen wore size 10.5.

On Oct. 13, two days after killing Stine, Zodiac mailed a letter threatening school children.

Amazingly, the address Stine was headed when he encountered Zodiac was 500 9th Ave., the Allen Arms Apartments.)

he might have noticed that the issue date was Oct. 13.

n his basement, handwritten diagrams for bombs comprised of ammonium nitrate, fertilizer and gravel. Also found were mail-order catalogs for bombs, guns and booby traps.