I was doing a search for a book I dimly remembered as involving a crazy sister (it turned out to be My Sister From the Black Lagoon, by Laurie Fox), and I came across this page of e-mails to Zodiackiller.com, a site dedicated towards finding the Zodiac Killer that terrorised San Francisco. I guess if you run a site like that, the conspiracy theorists come out of the woodwork, but this letter is a particular gem:
In 1990, the General Manager of the Blue Jays said that he was the Zodiac Killer. He phoned me at Dorothy Stickle’s home, because I used to live with Dorothy, from September 1989 to January 1991. The Wild Country (formerly All Hit Country) had a contest going, or wagering on who was going to win the World Series. I phoned them and guessed the “Phillies” were going to win. I started getting calls from a Blue Jays player named Joe Jancowski, I don’t have the exact spelling of his name. Anyways; he was a Chekaslovacian, he had a rare Cancer and he was the star player. He told me that he had to take lots of medication. I also got calls from the GM, I don’t know his name, he told me that he is the Zodiac Killer. He was arrested in 1999, by the Williams Lake RCMP; he confessed to the fact that he was the Zodiac Killer.
So, Pat Gillick (GM, Blue Jays, 1983-1994) was the killer, and he confessed in 1999? Yup, it all makes sense now. Must have been hard for Gillick in 1999, juggling all that confessing with settling in as the Mariners’ new GM.