Fight Club

2009 October 1
(updated 10-6)
Sad to witness the decline of the History Channel. Sweeps week grave robbing? Haven’t seen quality investigative journalism like that since Geraldo’s Secrets of Al Capone’s Vault. Hurm.
If you want to try and understand who and  what is behind these allegations about Richard Gaikowski, read this blog, then read Michael Butterfield’s excellent, riveting summary of the Blaine/Gaikowski story and then go join the Bystander Message board and hunt for the real Zodiac.

Unsub, founder of the Bystander Message Board posted the chilling ”Blaine Goldcatchers Confession.mp3

While listening to the audio, remind yourself that Blaine T. Blaine (aka GoldCatcher, Eddie, Smith) is the primary source for most, if not all of the allegations against Gaikowski. He is Tom Voigt’s chief witness for the persecution of Richard Gaikowski. He is also MysteryQuest’s  “confidential informant”.

The two hour audio monologue (set to a looping Hawaiian soundtrack) reveals that Blaine, an ex-con, first met Gaikowski during the late sixties in Northern California. Gaikowski, editor of a popular San Francisco alternative weekly, rejected Blaine’s story submission by suggesting Blaine take it to another alternative weekly. From that early rejection, according to Blaine, their relationship blossomed.


“I was forced in to be a witness to these murders”
…”He would kill someone where I was at and he would tell me about the killing”
-
Blaine


Along comes a spider

Tom Voigt, an ex-con and the warden at zodiackiller.com, needing a new suspect for the 40th anniversary of the Zodiac killings (with its prime media potential), used carefully selected excerpts from this audio to build most of his case against the late Richard Gaikowski. Voigt knew dead men can’t sue.

Gaikowski says to me, Blaine, you’ve been involved in these killings from the beginning.”
-Blaine


Voigt also knew there were too many unbelievable allegations so he hand picked several useful charges and buried the rest. Voigt knew that we would dismiss Blaine’s allegations if we were aware of Blaine’s incredible claims that Gaikowski, an “evil genius”,  was also the Green River Killer, the Unibomber and part of a Beider Minehoff Gang plot to murder President Reagan.
All while maintaining his day job as an editor and his night life reputation as a bon vivant.

“…a murder I was linked to in prison”
-Blaine
More about the Goldcatcher confession MP3: Bystander Message Board

If you want to understand the tragedy of this Blaine/Gaikowski mess, read Michael Butterfield’s insightful summary: http://www.zodiackillerfacts.com/kane.htm

Breakout quotes (from Blaine) “What happened next was that [Detective] Ken Narlow rushed over to Gaikowski’s house, confronting him, taking fingerprints, and hand writing samples, and then cleared him! “.

“He [Ken Narlow] wrote the his first letter, but told Pam Suennen he had cleared Gaikowski, he was not the Zodiac. I called him [Ken Narlow] and he was in a most angry mood at me, and he began to berate me.”

“He said that he [Ken Narlow] had cleared Gaikowski because he [Gaikowski] had shown him a passport with a London, England date for December, 1968.  He [Ken Narlow] said that that proved that he was not the Zodiac.”

“…Narlow suddenly said that he was too busy for me, that I had not a shred of evidence, that the Ms. proved nothing, and when I told him that the Suennen family [a victim's kin] did not believe me wrong he began to threaten me. He said I must not see them again, that I was an agitator, that I was the problem, and he further declared that I was harrassing Gaikowski!”

I found two minor technical errors. Butterfield listed the url of the goldcatcher audio recording incorrectly. It should read:  http://www.humyo.com/F/3199147-473519785
The Bystander Blog is www.by-stander.blog.com

-Bystander

Previous posts
Stalk Stalk All you ever do is stalk (Voigt did jail time!) http://by-stander.blog.com/2008/04/23/stalk-stalk/
Unrequited Love? (Purple & Gike 4ever) http://by-stander.blog.com/2008/04/17/unrequited-love-purple-gike-4ever/
Tom + Purple Is it all about the donations? http://by-stander.blog.com/2008/04/03/tom-purple/
Null and Void Step 1. Fingering a suspect http://by-stander.blog.com/2008/04/13/null-and-void/
Null and Void Step 2. Weighing the evidence http://by-stander.blog.com/2008/04/26/null-and-void-step-2/
Purple Haze and The Purloined Book http://by-stander.blog.com/2008/03/25/purple-haze-and-the-purloined-book/



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