Friday, May 16, 2008

Zodiac Hunter

Updated
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What you should know about Richard Gaikowski's accuser


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Meet Tom Voigt.
As Site Administrator of zodiackiller.com, Tom Voigt has spent ten years trying to solve the case of the serial killer, Zodiac, who terrorized the population of the San Francisco area in the late 1960's through early 70's. Over the years, Voigt has accused seven men of being the serial killer. At least six are not guilty.

Before Zodiac, Voigt was the BTK hunter. His chief BTK suspect was not guilty, but he accused him incessantly online until the case was solved. Interestingly, Voigt was in jail on the day they arrested BTK. More on that later. Like BTK and Zodiac, Voigt feels no guilt or remorse for killing the reputation of innocent men and humiliating their families. These false allegations can bring great shame to the suspect's extended family. In our information society, false charges can never be completely erased. But for Voigt, it's a great game. A who-done-it with great rewards for the person who cracks the mystery. (Voigt identifies the rewards in his comment, #46 in the Help Wanted post below).

Earlier this year, the tenth anniversary of Voigt's Zodiac website was approaching. The San Francisco PD had already officially closed the case. Just when it seemed that the Zodiac story was over, Tom Voigt introduced his next mark, newspaper reporter the late Richard Gaikowski, "The best suspect you've never heard of." When I saw Gaikowski's mugshot for his arrest after an altercation with the Zodiac's 2nd victim, my strong first impression was that Voigt and researcher Blaine had successfully identified Zodiac. A real life Holmes and Watson!

The evidence was rock solid. If only it were real.
As I kept reading, other zodiackiller forum members questioned the evidence and then the entire story fell apart. Many of us began to realize that the primary evidence was fake and Richard's sole accuser, Blaine, was not reality-based. Not this reality anyway. Richard Gaikowski was never arrested, the mugshot was fictional (created to illustrate a story Gaikowski wrote for the newspaper), and he never had an altercation with the Zodiac's victim. Forum members who questioned Blaine's evidence were dispatched by Voigt to the void, never to be heard from again. You learned that, to survive at the forum, you kept quiet and played along. Just like in prison.

Zodiac Hunter
We now know that in early 2008, Voigt began planning for the 40th Annimversary of the Zodiac's first killing. Tom knows the media will seek him out so he needed a new suspect fast. Preferably someone dead, to avoid libel laws. So, like two grave diggers, Voigt and Blaine dug up Richard Gaikowski and put him on trial on the Internet, in a courtroom of their own making, with false evidence permitted and no lawyer for the defense.

Seven weeks ago, this blog was created to invite discussion of alternative theories that could not be discussed at Voigt's site. In the following weeks, we found out that Tom Voigt and chief witness Blaine T Blaine are both convicted jailbirds and their top suspect, Richard Gaikowski, didn't have a record at all. We also discovered that the FBI examined and interviewed Gaikowski in 1988, in response to accusations by Blaine, and concluded that evidence presented by Blaine "proved negative." Voigt, in desperate need of a suspect for the 40th anniversary media circus, had dismissed the FBI findings and resurrected a suspect who had already been cleared.

Update:
Voigt's ability to add vulgar comments to this blog several hours a day wore me down. I can't keep up with censoring Voigt's obscenity filled rants so I had to shut down the comments section. At least for now.
If anyone wants to start an alternative zodiac forum at forumer or another anti-zodiackiller.com blog, I'll provide a constant link. Start a free forum here: http://www.forumer.com/
You can still contact me via the comments to let me know about adding a link.
Up next: Null and Void. A New Suspect


-Bystander

**The Multinomah Stalker mugshot was allegedly taken after an altercation with a female victim. A commenter sent a link to an alleged recent photo of Voigt. The caption is from a comment Tom Voigt wrote about your humble moderator.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Witness Detection Program



UPDATED 5/25/08

Duane's Confidentiality Agreement
Do you wonder why Tom Voigt suddenly changed chief witness Blaine's name to Duane on every entry at zodiackiller.com? According to an insider, "I found out why Voigt is so angry at you. Word is that Blaine, after reading your blog, screamed hysterically at Tom for revealing his full name and where he lives." Apparently, Voigt forgot that his rejection of Blaine as a witness was in the zodiackiller archive all along. Voigt probably deleted it by now but you can see it by typing Blaine T Blaine & zodiac into Google. In a panic, Voigt changed all references on his forum from Blaine to Duane. Tom Voigt is such a total screw up. It's Witness Protection, Tom!
Revised Stupid to Evil ratio: 82/18

Anyone who doubts that this is really Tom Voigt in the comments section should look at the comments on this post. You'll see that, in the course of fighting with Kiuki, Voigt was able to modify text on the zodiackiller site and then change it again. It must be Voigt or another moderator at the forum. (Update: I thhought it could be Ed Neil but according to a commenter, it's not Ed. He had a falling out with Voigt.).
-Bystander

Next Up: The colour Purple.

 
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Congenital Liars

UPDATED: A few days ago, clever con Tom Voigt, using a female alias, wrote to a website that linked to this blog. In the email, he/she complained about all of the offensive language on this blog. Of course, regular readers know that Voigt wrote all of the vulgarity. The website forwarded the email with a warning and I tried to censor his vulgarity but got delinked anyway.That's why Voigt keeps bragging that no one reads this blog. He's intimidating and threatening the sites that link to this blog.

Voigt seems to have a new witness named Duane.

Voigt is the con and Blaine is the genital
Blaine T Blaine is Tom Voigt's witness for the persecution of Richard Gaikowski.

Blaine T Blaine is Gaikowski's principle accuser. Blaine, is identified in a DOJ doc as Blaine T Blaine (aka Purple Blaine, Smith, Purple Blame).
Is Blaine T Blaine a credible witness?
Let's look at his greatest hits:
  • A FOIA FBI document revealed that Blaine, after failing to persuade the San Francco police that Gaikowski was Zodiac, went to the FBI in 1988 and showed them documents allegedly written by Gaikowski. The FBI investigated Gaikowski, eventually stating that the examination "proved negative."
Since then, Blaine has produced the bulk of evidence that Voigt and his fanboys use to lubricate their case:
  • Purple Blaine (via Tom Voigt) alleges that the mugshot of Gaikowski came from an altercation with the second female victim. Both allegations have been proven false.
  • Purple Blaine (via Tom Voigt) claims he stole a book from Gaikowski that was signed by victim Paul Stine.
  • Purple Blaine (via Tom Voigt) reveals a published article addressed to Zodiac. He claims that Gaikowski was the actual author of the article, and Gaikowski forced Blaine to sign his name to it.
  • Purple Duane claims that he witnessed Richard killing a man named Smith (same name Blaine has used as an alias) in order to keep Blaine quiet. Why didn't Richard just kill Blaine? That would keep him quiet.
Tom Voigt, a serial stalker who served hard time, knew that the FBI considered Blaine to be a crackpot yet Voigt based his entire case on Blaine's evidence.
Stupid to Evil ratio:
Tom Voigt........ 76/24
Blaine T. Blaine 22/78

Next up: The Stalker of Multinomah. Also, an examination of unsolved crimes in Portland since Voigt moved there from Multinomah to avoid detection.

-Bystander


Posted by Bystander at 14:05:49 | Permanent Link | Comments (134) |

Help Wanted Weighing the Evidence
Is there any real evidence?

 Help me compile the best evidence to prove Richard Gaikowski was Zodiac.
or
Help me compile the best evidence that would rule out Gaikowski as Zodiac.

Voigt's site is so full of deception, distortions and circumstantial confetti that it confuses even the most well intentioned researchers.
(Here's my list of false evidence published at zodiackillers that Voigt has used to muddy the evidence pool: http://by-stander.blog.com/2915907/)
Every allegation made by Blaine T. Blaine that can be verified has been proven false so NO Blaine based claims accepted.
I'll cull the BEST from your comments and post them here.

-Bystander

from commenters
THE BEST EVIDENCE - Richard Gaikowski was Zodiac
1. "Gyke" is in the friggin cipher!
2. I Dont' know why you think him being in another country over the seas rules him out as a suspect. Because flying back to kill people is something the Zodiac would do! duh.
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from commenters
THE BEST EVIDENCE - ruling out Richard Gaikowski
1. Richard wasn't in the area during a confirmed Zodiac attack on December 20, 1968. He had been in Albany and then traveled to Europe during the second half of 1968.
2. Real cops, who had access to Gaikowski's vital records ruled him out as a suspect over 20 years ago. They had access to records about his height, weight, date of arrival in San Francisco, model of car and the ability to surreptitiously get fingerprints and hand writing samples.
3. The FBI has already looked at Richard and cleared him. You can go here http://foia.fbi.gov/zodiac/zodiac5.pdf.
Check page 371. They black the names out, but they are talking about Blaine accusing Richard back in 1988. In 1991, Blaine even turned in an envelope and card and some code solution thing that Blaine was accusing Richard of making. Blaine accusing Richard of the code solution book was on Void's site at one time, but appears to have been deleted or moved. That is because Richard didn't make the solution booklet. The friggin' FBI saw no merit in it and most definitely finger printed Richard.
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He would have had to be on the moon
A zodiackiller.com fan just wrote: "I Dont' know why you think him being in another country over the seas rules him out as a suspect. Because flying back to kill people is something the Zodiac would do! duh."

Here's the original "duh" test. Weigh your statement using Occams Razor. Occams Razor is often paraphrased as "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best."
Ask yourself. Is it likely that in December 1968, Richard Gaikowski, vacationing in the U.K after quitting a difficult three year stint as a reporter in New York, interrupts his R&R with an expensive ele ven hour, 5,000+ mile trip to San Francisco, kills two teens in a remote lovers lane, flys back to the U.K in another expensive eleven hour, 5,000+ mile flight and resumes his vacation?
I can see why you don't like his alibi. It's one hell of an alibi and it completely kills Voigt's case. Remember, Voigt spent an earlier decade falsely accusing several men of being BTK. 0 for 20. That's one hell of a record to defend.


Previous posts
Stalk Stalk All you ever do is stalk (Voigt did jail time!)
Unrequited Love? (Purple & Gike 4ever)
Tom + Purple Is it all about the donations?
Null and Void Step 1. Fingering a suspect
Null and Void Step 2. Weighing the evidence
Purple Haze and The Purloined Book
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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Null and Void - Step 2.

Null and Void Step 2.

The Void and sidekick Purple Blame weigh the evidence


Stupid to Evil ratio:
Tom Voigt 74/26
Blaine T. Blaine 23/77

Bystander
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Stalk Stalk

Stalk Stalk
(all you ever do is stalk stalk*)
(updated 4.25.08) In the original Null and Void post (comments section), vulgarian Tom Voigt wrote "Hey fucko, grow some balls and tell us your real name." Grow some brains, Tom. Do you really expect me to give you, a convicted stalker, my name? You are one restraining order away from going back to jail so stop threatening me. http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/1735321.html (thanks to an annoymous commenter for the great tip)

You can stop sending me Blaine's identity (it's in the comments section already via a zodiackiller.com DOJ doc). Anyone know his email address?

Question for convicted serial stalker Tom Voigt. In your two(?) decades as a vigilante/BTK and Zodiac hunter, have you ever apologized to any of the men or their families that you have falsely accused of being serial murderers?

Bystander

* stalk stalk

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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Unrequited Love? (Purple & Gike 4ever)

Unrequited Love?
Purple & Gike 4ever
Anyone who doubts that Gaikowski was stalked by Purple Blaine should go over to Voigt's site and read about how Blaine manipulated Zodiac victim Darlene Ferrin's sister. You will see how Blaine has been getting other people to harass Gaikowski for decades.
Hey Blaine, rejection is a bitch but you've got to get over it. He's dead. Is Voigt is using his readership to harass Gaikowski the same way Blaine used Ferrin's sister?

A commenter calling himself Tom Voigt (with an IP from his city of residence) attempted to post six rants. A couple of them are laced with profanities aimed at me. Voigt's little fiefdom doesn't allow use of profanities so why would he think it's okay to curse me at my own site?
Update: 4/18/08 Voigt wrote again to verify that the comments were his so I let them through unedited (in the Null and Void post).

Question for Tom Voigt. In your two(?) decades as an amateur vigilante/BTK and Zodiac hunter, have you ever apologized to any of the men or their families that you have falsely accused of being serial murderers?

Could Bob be TV's next suspect?
Bystander
Hound dog




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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Null and Void

Zodiac Hunters

Step 1.The Void and sidekick Purple Blame finger a suspect.
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.......To be continued.
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Thursday, April 03, 2008

Tom + Purple

If you are new to this site, first read the post below this one titled "Purple Haze".

UPDATED 4/9/08




Tom +

According to associates of Richard Gaikowski that I easily found, Tom Voigt never contacted them for handwriting samples (or anything else). It appears that Tom Voigt didn't try to verify any allegations before he made them because he doesn't want the Good Times to end. Or the "donations" to stop rolling in. Is that taxable income?
To reiterate: NO ONE CONTACTED THEM. So much for Tom, Davidmm, Bill and others claiming to leave no stone unturned searching for handwritng samples and other evidence.
Tom Voigt made up a real rip snorter today. He just discovered (Blaine again?) that Richard Gaikowski wrote under several pen names. It's a pretty convenient device to allow all kinds of sludge into the evidence pool by claiming Richard Gaikowski is the author no matter who signed it. Showing no proof that Richard Gaikowski is "goatkirk", he says that "goatkirk" admits to using several pen names.
A few days ago, Tom Voigt wrote: "... According to Blaine, Gike told Blaine that his arrest was the result of an altercation with Darlene. We know that's not true, but it's what Gike claimed. It doesn't make Blaine a liar."
That statement makes my head spin. It isn't what "Gike" claimed. It is what Blaine said that "Gike" claimed.


Purple's reign of terror

Update on my speculation about the Tom+Purple axis. Blaine does exist. I was wrong. Friends of Richard Gaikowski have known about Blaine for years. The serial stalker has been accusing Richard Gaikowski of outrageous crimes for decades.

Two more questions for Tom Voigt. Is Blaine the source of your latest revelation about "goatkirk"? If Blaine told you what he told Ed Sanders, that he also witnessed Richard/Zodiac making "sweet love" to Charles Manson, did that raise a red flag about the man's credibility?


Gullible's Travels

Tom Voigt has taken his family on a week long vacation, touring Zodiac's gruesome crime scenes. Doesn't that sound like the disturbing behavior people are trying but unable to find in Richard Gaikowski's personality?

Can't wait for all of Blaine's new revelations!


Reply to comments

A commenter to my last post wrote "Tom is also very quick to curtail posts concerning discredited information, even when he was the original source."

I appreciate your defense of the well intentioned members of the forum but are you sure about Tom being quick to curtail posts? The now discredited allegations about Richard Gaikowski, implying that the mugshot was connected to an altercation with Ferrin, are still on the introductory post. Can't you see how it deceptively sways the novice reader toward Richard Gaikowski's guilt? The other circumstantial evidence that follows becomes icing on the cake but there is no longer a cake under the icing. Do you see what I mean?

There is more evidence against Blaine than there is against Richard Gaikowski. Blaine claims to have witnessed a Zodiac murder. He claims to be in possession of a victim's book. Why is it absurd to question someone who claims to know Zodiac?

Doesn't it seem that Voigt is getting desperate and sloppy? He peaked in 2005 with a movie credit, a radio interview and a busy internet forum. It's been all downhill since then. His decade-long investment has not panned out. It was time to admit failure or find a new suspect.

Tom wanted something big to happen for the tenth anniversary of his site and he knew Purple Blaine could deliver the goods.

Bystander
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Purple Haze and The Purloined Book

New suspects are right out of a made for TV movie

Tom Voigt, the Site Administrator of zodiackiller.com has introduced a new suspect, Richard Gaikowski, mostly based on the word of Purple Blaine. Blaine claims to be an extraordinary insider. The Forrest Gump of the Zodiac case who even claims to have witnessed a Zodiac killing.

Click here to read Blaine's accusations: http://zodiackiller.21.forumer.com/
The 'best evidence' presented on the site is startlingly compelling at first, but falls apart under scrutiny.
It is also interesting that all of this 'evidence' comes from Purple Blaine via Tom Voigt. Keep an eye on how clueless (or ruthless) Voigt must be to believe Purple's prose.

1. Purple Blaine (via Tom Voigt) alleges that the mugshot of Gaikowski came from an altercation with the second female victim. Members of the forum (not Tom Voigt) discredited that story. In reality, the mugshot was part of a staged newspaper assignment. No one other than Purple Blaine (via Tom Voigt) has ever claimed there was a link between Gaikowski and the second female victim. Voigt still has the misleading mugshot posted on the first page.

2. Purple Blaine (via Tom Voit) claims he stole a book from Gaikowski that was signed by Paul Stine. Purple Blaine claims to be in possession of the victim's book. Although being a thief doesn't make you a killer, if the book is authentic, you have to wonder how he really got the book.

3. Purple Blaine (via Tom Voigt) reveals a published article addressed to Zodiac. He claims that Gaikowski was the actual author of the article, and Gaikowski forced Blaine to sign his name to it. The article, published in some unaccredited newspaper, sympathetically urges Zodiac to lay low. Blaine starts sounding like Son of Sam when he blames "Gyke" (probably the name of Blaine's dog) for writing the letter to Zodiac and making him sign it.

So far, every charge made by Blaine (via Tom Voigt) that has been investigated has proven to be untrue. We now know that Blaine made up the primary charges leveled against Gaikowski. We know by Blaine's own admission, that he is a thief. Why is Tom Voigt naming Gaikowski as a suspect and not Purple Blaine? At the very least, Blaine's misdirections are impeding this effort to bring the killer to justice.


 More faulty circumstantial evidence
In the first post of the "Best suspect" thread, Site Administrator Tom Voigt writes: "Gyke instructed staffers at his San Francisco newspaper to write stories about the Zodiac, etc, and told them specifically what to write." Later, we find out (via Tom Voigt) that the staffer Gaikowski allegedly instructed was Purple Blaine. Blaine is not listed as a writer for the Good Times newspaper that Gaikowski edited. Tom Voigt never tells us where (or if) the article was published.

Tom Voigt goes on to state "Gyke's mugshot allegedly stemmed from an altercation with Darlene Ferrin." Again, much later in the thread we find out that Blaine was the source of that lie. Gaikowski has no known arrest record. The allegation was loosely based on a fact that one of Ferrin's previous boyfriends had been involved in an altercation with the victim. Tom Voigt, a decade(s) long expert in the killings, must have known about that from the beginning.

In the Questions forum Tom Voigt states "As the story goes, the book was originally in the possession of Gaikowski." Several days after introducing "new facts", the language has morphed into "as the story goes". Now it is a story? The story he created about a purloined book? As a storyteller, Purple is no Poe.

On Easter, Tom Voigt accused Gaikowski of another killing via Purple Blaine: "According to Purple Blaine, he and Gaikowski knew Smith, and Gaikowski killed Smith " If Blaine is a constant witness to the Zodiac's killing spree, why didn't Gaikowski (if he is the Zodiac) kill Purple Blaine?


 What's the motive?

The decade-old website has been getting fewer visitors over the last two years. Inspector Voigt's dreams of becoming the hero who cracks the case are slowly diminishing. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a new witness named Purple Blaine comes forward to introduce "the best suspect you've never heard of."

Tom Voigt wanted something big to happen by the tenth anniversary of his site. It's hard to believe Voigt didn't quickly figure out that Purple Blaine's sensational stories about Gaikowski were fictional, yet he published them on the first post of the thread, aggressively swaying the reader toward an impression of guilt. The reader is overwhelmed by the evidence and only finds out gradually that the primary 'facts' are all untrue.


Crime and Punishment

 There is much renewed interest in Voigt's aging site and all is well. Except for the falsely accused dead, who, conveniently, can't fight back.

Did Tom Voigt intentionally commit libel* by accusing someone of heinous crimes based on flimsy, implausible evidence? Or, is Tom Voigt just dimwitted and easily fooled by Purple Blaine's highly improbable "story"?


-Bystander

Please leave a comment.
*A commenter has informed this lowly lumberjack that you can't libel the dead so the firm answer to my question is that he did not legally commit libel.
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