The Only Time Richard Got Angry at Me

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The Only Time Richard Got Angry at Me: New Discoveries in the Zodiac Killer Case

Synopsis

Has evidence been found that the Zodiac Killer was on the Stanford University campus in 1969 and 1971 ? Or is it just “One F of a Coincidence?”

Are there reasonable explanations for discoveries in issues of the Stanford Daily and Stanford Chaparral? Or is the entire Zodiac case about to be upended?

Could these revelations shed light on the remaining cold case murders at Stanford, and change our conceptions of other cases and mysterious deaths of that era?

And will a single out-of-character moment of anger 30 years ago be the one mistake that leads to solving the Zodiac case?

These are questions asked by author James Bigtwin in his book The Only Time Richard Got Angry at Me, an account of his multi-year odyssey that began when he learned his past acquaintance, Richard Gaikowski, had been accused of being the Zodiac Killer.

Even though his memories gave him pause, he initially believed he had nothing to add that could help solve the cold case.

But years later, while researching for the 125th anniversary of the Chaparral, Zodiac research found him. A crazy hunch led to an incredible discovery–with the Missing Link, secretly hidden in the pages of the Chappie anniversary book!

The Only Time Richard Got Angry At Me is a firsthand account of the goings-on at Stanford, of pranking, raving, and the counterculture, art and computer scenes from the 1960s to the 80s, 90s and today. Ronald Reagan. Joan Quigley. Hippie protestors. Nineties ravers. And a secret society with a deathly name.

This book guarantees one Bay Area cold case solved, the 1986 disappearance of UC Berkeley’s stuffed bear, and may solve more.

Is it all just a coincidence? Or is it indeed the key that finally cracks the case of the greatest murder mystery of the 20th Century, The Zodiac.

About the Author

James Bigtwin grew up on a grain and livestock farm in Indiana; 6-time champion 4-H livestock showman for sheep and swine; HS class salutatorian and 4-year varsity athlete in basketball and track; earned a degree in Economics at Stanford University; Editor of the Stanford Chaparral and also Business Manager; floated a 35 ft. sheep balloon over the 1985 Stanford-Berkeley football game; one of three who freed Oskie from the Berkeley union; desktop publishing and 3D graphics pioneer; painter of mixed media dog and ufo Dukey paintings; founded the TechnoRomantics group and parties in NYC; co-founder of Disorient parties; drawn thousands of mandala designs on self-coded software; performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival with Virtual Reality founder Jaron Lanier, made virtual sets for ABC, Discovery Channel, TLC, and ESPN, winning a 1999 Broadcast Design Gold for SportsCentury; has gotten 3 different songs on Dr. Demento; created the website for Dr. John C. Lilly and presented with him at ICERC conferences in Tokyo and Paris; coded dolphin whistle recognition software and other programs for underwater touchscreen with Dr. Ken Marten; created Japan’s first VRML website for Digital Garage; designed many Joe Camel billboards and ads; earned an advanced degree in banking from the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado; branding and branch expansion expert for community banks and retail businesses; organized a Guinness World Record for the largest serving of fried chicken; ran a canoe race and festival drawing people from 31 states and three countries before being removed “for the good of the community”; is the basis for the cartoon character Jim Kuback on the cult TV show Mission Hill; appeared in The Onion under the name of Chaparral Field Marshal Mike Dornheim; and authored and designed The Chappie – 125 Years of Issues Chaparral anniversary book where he discovered evidence, or coincidence, of the Zodiac Killer on the Stanford campus in the 1960s and 70s.

Opening Soliloquy 3
Preface 5

ACT I ==THE SET UP ======== 9
No way. No way. 9
What Do You Do When You Find Out a Friend
Might Have Been a Serial Killer? 11
DNA or Other Possible Evidence 12
The Seeds of Coincidence 13
The Face of It 14
The View from Left Field 17
Stanford University 20
The Stanford Chaparral 21
A Brief History of the Chaparral and H & C 23
The Stanford Chaparral’s “Political Era” 27
1974 – The Resurrection 28
Chaparral Pranks 29
Who Shot R.R.? 31
Walk the Prank 32
The Instantaneous Prank 33
Damage = Evidence 34
Pranks are like Real Estate 34
People are Really, Really Literal 35
My Prank Career at Stanford 36
The Super Bowl 36
Lambo 37
File M for Meat 39
The Horrible, Horrible Pie Incident 40
The Summer of 1986 41
Oskie Bear’s Excellent Adventure 42
The Proposition 42
The Heist 43
What Do You Do with a Hot Bear? Part 1 50
Fresno 51
Oskie’s Broken Foot 52
The Ransom Notes 53
RF’s Spectacular Oskie Idea. 53
What do you do with a Hot Bear? Part 2 55
The Smoke-Filled Rooms of Madison Avenue 57
Hidden In Plain Sight 58
Night Shift 60
Technoromantics 60
San Francisco 1993 61
The Day I Met Richard 62
Politics. Art, Music. and Computers, but mostly Politics. 62
The Only Time Richard Got Angry At Me 66
The Day Richard Gave Me a Tarot Reading 68
My Second Tarot Reading with Richard 70
Another Day at Richards 71
2002 – Back to Indiana 72
Visit to San Francisco 2006 73
So What Would You Do? 74
I Needed to Organize This Stuff Anyway… 75

ACT II = THE FACTS AND THE ACCUSATIONS = 77
Richard Gaikowski Bio 77
Richard at Good Times 79
Richard the Filmmaker 81
Richard and Computers 82
The Zodiac Crimes ———- 84
Lake Herman Road 84
Blue Rock Springs 84
The 408-code 85
Murders in San Jose 86
August 4, 1969, Enter The Zodiac 86
408-code Solved – Mostly 86
The Concerned Citizen Letter 87
Lake Berryessa 88
Paul Stine Murder 89
Paul Stine Letter 89
San Francisco Examiner’s Message to the Zodiac 90
October 22, Oakland to Dunbar to Daly City 90
November 8, 1969 – The “Dripping Pen” and 340 Code 91
November 9, 1969 Letter 91
December 19, 1969 – Call to San Jose CHP 92
December 20, 1969 – Letter to Melvin Belli 92
April 20, 1970 92
April 29, 1970 93
June 26, 1970 – Mt. Diablo 93
Enter The Mikado 93
July 24, 1970 93
July 26, 1970 94
October 27, 1970, Happy Halloween! 96
A pause in Zodiac activity? 96
Los Angeles Times letter 97
Sierra Club card 97
Kathy Bilek 98
The 148 Code 98
Albany Letter 1973 98
The Exorcist Letter – Mikado Revisited 98
Other Possible Zodiac Communications 99
The Accusations ———- 99
My Observations on the Facts and the Accusations 101
Problem – Binary Thinking 101
Problem – Needing Singular, Monolithic Motives 104
Problem – Taking Assumptions as Facts 104
Earth, Water, Ball, Fish 105
Problem – Taking Snippets of Info and Expanding Them 107
Problem – Any AH can say “Zodiac” 108
Problem – Tribalism 108
The 2007 Movie, The Zodiac 108
Lake Herman Road 110
Blue Rock Springs 110
Michael Mageau 110
Men Wanting to Date Darlene Ferrin 111
Could Darlene and Richard have known each other? 112
Nancy Slover and the Voice of Zodiac 112
The 408-code 114
Good Times July 31, 1969 115
Paul Stine 116
Graduate Student 116
Paul Stine and the Haight-Asbury Switchboard 117
Could Stine and Gaikowski have known each other? 119
October 22, The Voice was Not Low Enough 120
7 Seconds of Fame 120
Specifically, Regarding the Accusations about Richard 121
Blaine 122
Blaine Did Write for Good Times 122
Blaine also wrote for Berkeley Tribe 123
Berkeley Barb, Berkeley Tribe, and Good Times 123
Richard Gaikowski’s Politics 124
What was it about Reagan and Astrology? 125
The Idea Zodiac Stopped Killing after 1969 126
Zodiac’s Handwriting and Quirks 127
Deaf / Punk 127
My Pieces of the Puzzle 129
Richard was a Computer Programmer 129
Richard wrote a Tarot Card program on his Amiga. 130
The Man going to Prison 130
Richard Getting Angry about Reagan and Astrology 130
The End of the Road 132

ACT III === ONE F OF A COINCIDENCE ====== 135
The Plague 136
Hammer & Coffin Zoom Banquet 1 136
December 2020 – The 340 Code Cracked 137
Hammer & Coffin Zoom Banquet 2 138
The Stanford Chaparral Magnum Opus 139
Loose Lips Sink Ships 141
How to Make a Zodiac Code 142
A Long, Tough Slog 144
That’s Not My Issue 146
Busted 149
Researching the Hippie Era 150
Stanford Macabre 151
The 1970s Stanford Murders, Solved 153
Janet Taylor, March 25, 1974 154
Arlis Perry, October 12, 1974 154
David Levine, September 11, 1973 – COLD CASE 155
Eric Abramson, Dec. 20, 1973 – COLD CASE 158
There are Always Two 159
Could Richard Gaikowski have known David Levine? 159
A Tale of Two Murders 160
The Zebra Killings 161
No more Zodiac research, just Chaparral 161
The Radical Libertarian Alliance 162
Fake Names in Good Times 163
Ben Dover 164
Goatkirk 165
Clandes Stine 168
revoman 168
Bear 169
Fake Names in the Stanford Chaparral 169
Chaparral Political Era Covers 170
“Good luck with that, buddy” 170
The Conventional Wisdom 173
Where Could You Find Computer in 1969? 174
I Asked a Computer 176
Computers in the 60s & 70s – Info from One Who Knows 177
The Missing Link 178
One F of a Coincidence. 181
Who was Dick Geikie? 182
Dick Geikie in the Stanford Daily 183
Richard Geikie 186
Where’s Dick? 187
The Flip was Total 188
My Dilemma 189
If Dick Geikie really is Dick Gaik 190
Stanford Daily’s Message to the Zodiac Killer 192
Coming On Campus 194
No One By That Name 195
Non-Students on Campus 196
Open Campus 196
The Midpeninsula Free University 198
Chaparral Staff Photo 198
The 408-code Revisited 200
408-Code Deep Dive 203
By Knife By Gun By Rope By Fire 206
By Fire 206
Stanford’s First Bomb Incident 207
1970 Arson at Stanford 209
Summer Daily 1970? 209
The Summer of 1971 210
Dinkelspiel Protest 210
The Riot 211
The Sunshine Express, or Maybe Brigade 212
President’s Office Bomb 213
Junipero Lounge Fire 213
More Bombs 214
Willy and the Poor Boys 214
Hospital-Related Bomb? 214
The Second Time Around 215
SLAC Bomb 216
1972 216
Stanford Rehabilitation Movement 216
Encina Fire 218
Knife Attacks 218
More Fire 219
Emma Sharon Brown 220
By Rope – Edward Alan McNeill 220
Same Day, Same Serial Killer, Different Paper 221
The Missing Pages 222
A Friendlier, Heartfelt Message to the Zodiac 223
Now There are Two of Them 225
Blaine’s Post 226
The DR-70 Astrology Computer 227
Fake Names in the Ithaca High School Yearbook 228
So Close, Yet So Far – April 2023 230
People Living in the Chappie Office 231
High Chaparral Films 233
Trip to San Francisco May 2023 233
In the Chappie Office 234
All Chaparral issues seen 237
The Mystery of the Blank Pages 238
2023 Trip Aftermath 238
The Oil Bird 239
Call with D 240
Blank Pages, Wrong Date, Fake Issue, WTF? 243
There was only one way it could happen 243

ACT IV = YOU WANT MIKADO? YOU FIND IT == 251
Stabford 251
The Greatest Cover Story of All Time 251
The Cavalry Arrives 255
The Year of Living Deathily 255
Laughing to Death 256
Doodles Weaver 257
Further examination of The Missing Link 258
The Double Exposures 259
Threes and Fives Again 259
March 1971 261
Even Further Examination of the Missing Link 261
Lynda Kanes 263
What Really Happened to the Chaparral in ‘69 265
A3Mania 265
Dawn of a New Era 266
The Secret Salaries 267
The Empire Strikes Back 268
I’ve Got a Little Listing 269
The Journalism Years 271
Defense of the Journalism Years 271
Where Do You Hide a Tree? 272
Page 394 273
Delay in the Chappie 125 Book 275
20 Days in November 276
Mea Culpa to the Mea Culpa 277
My Dilemma 278
Where Do You Hide a Tree? Part 2 279
Sending Off the Chappie 125 Book 279
The Halloween Stanford Daily – October 31, 1969 281
The Sparkling Mikado Review 282
The Layout of the Mikado Review 283
The Electric Zodiac 284
All of the Articles Aligned 286
White Spots on the Daily 288
The Recurring 3-Spot Pattern 290
The Main Spot on the Mikado Article 293
The Unique Spots on the Nov. 17, 1969, Daily 294
Slick Tracy 294
Who’s There? 295
2024 – CHAPPIE’S 125TH YEAR 297
The Dawn of the Second Renaissance 299
The Stanford Daily Archives 300
Return to Stanford – April 2024 302
That’s Heavy, Man 302
The Chaparral Office 303
The Stanford Daily Offices 304
The Stanford Daily MICROFILM 305
Stanford Daily Summer 1970 Volume 307
Watch Me Make These Spots… Disappear 308
Spots on Paper 310
Occam’s Coincidences 311
It’s Around 313

ACT V =THE BURRITO at the END of the UNIVERSE 321
What would you do? 321
Coincidence? Or CoincidenSe? 322
Observations and Conjectures 323
Conjecture: Zodiac worked in newspapers or printing 323
Conjecture: The Dick Tracy Zodiac comic
was a coincidental opportunity. 324
Conjecture: Zodiac was NOT a resident of Vallejo 324
Conjecture: Zodiac was a resident of San Francisco. 325
Conjecture: The Zodiac mostly told the truth. 325
Conjecture: There are indeed more Zodiac murders. 325
Conjecture: Zodiac killed by gun, by knife,
by fire, and by rope 326
Conjecture: Zodiac indeed used Fake Clews 326
Conjecture: The 408 Code is indeed solved
by the Concerned Citizen letter 328
Conjecture: Zodiac Planned a Mikado-themed Murder 328
Conjecture: The 340 Code was Computer Assisted 329
Conjecture: Zodiac’s interest in computers 329
Conjecture: The call to Palo Alto Times was authentic. 330
Conjecture: The Daily’s Zodiac Message suggested 330
Happy Halloween Eve! 330
How work Gets Done at a Student Publication 331
Conjecture: Later that Day at the Printers 332
Conjecture: Zodiac Calls November 4, 1969 333
The Seven Symbols – Chaparral Dec. 4, 1969 334
Stanford Murders – What If Zodiac was at Stanford? 335
The Bloody Handprint 336
A Lot of Strange and Bizarre People 337
David Levine 337
Conjecture: The Zebras did not kill Levine nor Abramson 338
Conjecture: Who killed David Levine? 339
Conjecture: Who Killed Eric Abramson? 340
By Knife 340
By Fire 341
By Rope 342
By Gun 342
Good Times – Stanford Coincidences 343
Chaparral Good Time Places 343
The Magus 343
William Hinton 344
Lanh Dao Caoboy 344
Kelsie 344
Oil Bird 344
A Warship Can Be Stopped 345
Who was Dick Geikie? 345
The Missing Link Issue of the Chaparral 347
Lynda Kanes 347
Etc. 349
National Treasure 351

ACT VI == THE END (FOR NOW) ===== 355
The Tower 355
Coinc’o’dences 356
Cover Story 358
THE END – As of October 9, 2024 358
31 Questions 361

EXTRA STUFF ===== 366
Acknowledgments 367
Bibliography 369
Websites 369
Video and Film 369
About the Author 370
My Credentials 370
Endnotes 372
Index 380

Blog posts

The Links

These links are intended to help the reader find more information about many names and terms used in the book. Unless denoted as local, all links are from external sources, not maintained by the author. In many cases, links are on subscription-based services, and individuals wishing to see those links must acquire said subscription. Link addresses may change over time. The author is not responsible for content found on these external sites.

—	1969 ——
	Good Times – July 24, 1969 – Gaik and Blaine articles on page 6
	Good Times – July 31, 1969 – Three Part Cover
	Good Times – September 18, 1969 – Paul on Switchboard list on p 19
	Palo Alto Times – October 21, 1969 – Zodiac call to Palo Alto on Oct. 20 (paywall)
	Stanford Chaparral – October 9, 1969 – “You want Mikado? You find it” listing on p 27
*	Stanford Daily – October 24, 1969 – p 2 – Message To The Zodiac Killer
*	Berkeley Tribe – October 24, 1969 – p 10 – A Message For The Zodiac Killer
	Stanford Daily – October 31, 1969 – p 1 – Bomb Hoax at Stanford
*	Stanford Daily – October 31, 1969 – p 2 – Letter to the Editor
	Stanford Daily – October 31, 1969 – p 3 – 3 spot pattern on reverse side
*	Stanford Daily – October 31, 1969 – p 4 – Mikado Review
	Stanford Daily – October 31, 1969 – p 4 – The Electric Zodiac review, with ‘Electric” missing from the photo, leaving just “The Zodiac.”
*	Stanford Daily – November 5, 1969 – p 1 – Zodiac Calls, and says he is coming on the Stanford campus
*	Stanford Daily – November 5, 1969 – p 1 – Secret Salaries article with spot from printing press
	Stanford Chaparral – November 20, 1969 – Spot on Secret Salaries article on p 3
	Stanford Chaparral – December 4, 1969 – Seven Symbols lay out on p 3

–	1970 ——
*	San Francisco Chronicle – October 12, 1970 – Mikado clue revealed
	Los Angeles Times – October 12, 1970 – Mikado clue revealed
	Good Times – November 26, 1970 – Michael Sweeney article on p 2

–	1971 ——
	Good Times – January 22. 1971 – R.I.P OFF; with Oil Bird on cover (see 11/11/1971 Chaparral)
*	Stanford Chaparral – March 5, 1971 – as archived by Stanford libraries and the H & C (including 4 page Missing Link at end)
	Good Times – May 7, 1971 – Kelsie Cover. Kelsie cartoons are in the Chaparral from 1961 to the mid-1970s. Sometimes entire sections of issues were Kelsie cartoons. In May of 1971, the cover of Good TImes was a Kelsie cartoon.
	Stanford Daily – June 25, 1971 – p 7 – Dick Geikie byline, Work-Study Programs
	Stanford Daily – July 7, 1971 – p 1 – AAUP article; this article was reproduced in Chaparral Missing Link issue
	Stanford Daily – July 9, 1971 – p 1 – Missing Link photo original; this photo was reproduced in Chaparral Missing Link issue
	Stanford Daily – July 9, 1971 – p 3 – Daily staff box with Dick Geikie and blank space; also “Ripped-Off” Opinion
	Stanford Daily – July 9, 1971 – p 4 – This full page of the Dailiy was reproduced in Chaparral Missing Link issue, also as page 4. The second article on this page says “Continued from page 3.” This spurred me to look at page 3 of the Daily, where the blank space in the staff box is located, and the continued article is titled “Ripped Off Opinion.” These pages are the bookend to the Chaparral Missing Link Issue, and July 9 was the night of opportunity for the majority of this prank.
	Stanford Daily – July 9, 1971 – p 8 – Dick Geikie byline, Computer Music article; this article was reproduced in Chaparral Missing Link issue
	Stanford Daily – July 9, 1971 – p 11 – Women’s Club article; this article was reproduced in Chaparral Missing Link issue
	Stanford Daily – July 13, 1971 – p 1 – Dick Geikie byline, Campus Hosts Sixty Summer Workshops
	Stanford Daily – July 13, 1971 – p 6 – Radical Libertarian Alliance meeting in the Chaparral office.
	Stanford Daily – July 23, 1971 – p 1 – Grad Meets Premier article; this article was reproduced in Chaparral Missing Link issue
	Stanford Daily – July 27, 1971 – p 6 – Dick Geikie byline, Midpeninsula Free University article
	Stanford Daily – July 30, 1971 – p 2 – Staff Box with “Night Lackeys” and those “who wished to remain anonymous”
	Stanford Daily – July 30, 1971 – p 6 – Dick Geikie byline, San Jose Med Clinic article, with photo credit for him too
	Stanford Daily – August 3, 1971 – p 7 – Staff Box with Richard Geikie listed under “Other Lackeys”
	Stanford Daily – August 3, 1971 – p 7 – Radical Libertarian Alliance meeting in the Chaparral office
	Stanford Chaparral – November 11, 1971 – Oil Bird photo on front page (see 1/22/71 Good Times)

–	1972 ——
	Good Times – January 1, 1972 – Good Times Group Photo

	1973 ——
	Stanford Chaparral – September 25, 1973 – Tim Coburn quote about the Free University
	Stanford Daily – September 28, 1973 – Murder of David Levine on Sept. 11, 1973. This is the first mention in the Stanford Daily because this is the first issue since the crime. the first of the quarter.

	ZODIAC CODES ——
	408 Code
	340 Code

	FILM AND VIDEO ——
	History Channel MysteryQuest: The Zodiac: San Francisco Slaughter, 2009
	The Zodiac Killer – 1971 movie
	ABC NEWS, October 22, 1969 – Individual walking towards camera
	The Mikado – 1966 Movie – Little List song
	Groucho’s version – audio only

	WAY BACK MACHINE ——
	Richard Gaikowski Site – Click on “Who,” then “Reality,” then “Eye Candy” for a link to the Bigtwin webpage
	Bigtwin Site – My website’s Links page from 2001

	STANFORD CHAPARRAL ——
	The Chappie – 125 Years of Issues on sale at Stanford Bookstore and Kepler’s and Bell’s Books and BooksInc in Palo Alto.
	Chappie125.com – Chaparral anniversary website

	Easter Eggs in the Chappie 125 book:
	P 394 – Missing Link Issue
	P 395 – Missing Link Issue
	P 214 – The words “ritual murder” are whited out, in homage to the July 9, 1971 Daily staff box
	P 270- Marilyn Monroe pic from Niagara, where she plays a murderess, paired with Doodles Weaver from The Zodiac Killer 1971 movie
	P 355- Daily Message to the Zodiac writer on staff salaries list
	P 475- DR-70 astrology computer mentioned


	Stanford Daily – May 2, 1980 – The Dead Bowlers
	Stanford Chaparral – Spring 1981 – Who Shot RR? on pg 27
	Stanford Daily – March 31, 1981 – Who Shot RR?
	Stanford Daily – May 19, 1986 – File M for Meat
	Stanford Daily – May 28, 1986 – Pie Incident
	Stanford Daily – August 8. 1986 Page 1 Oskie Bear
	Stanford Daily – August 8. 1986 Page 3 Oskie Bear
	Stanford Daily – August 12, 1986 – Oskie Bear Editorial
	Stanford Daily – August 12, 1986 – Pie Incident Article
	Stanford Daily – August 12, 1986 – Oskie Bear Empty Case
	Stanford Daily – October 5, 1987 – Oskie Bear Ransom Note