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The
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Nancy
Marie Bennallack, 28, and Judith Ann Hakari, 23, lived in Sacramento,
California. Ms. Bennallack lived a block north and a block west of
Ms. Hakari. Both were engaged to be married. Both were murdered in
1970 in ways which led local detectives to believe they were
possibly murdered by the Zodiac. This is the first time the
following recently acquired articles (August 2004) from the Sacramento Bee
newspaper have been made public since 1970. |
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Nancy
Marie Bennallack |
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On
Sunday, October 25, 1970, 28 year-old Ms. Bennallack, a court reporter, fought
for her life. She was brutally slashed and her throat was cut. This
is very much like the murder of Cheri Jo Bates - which also happened
on a Sunday. (See the Victims
section and the Autopsy
Files.) A Deputy
Sheriff said the killer was "agile" as he had to
climb up to the victim's second floor apartment and then jump down
again. Bruce Davis hiked in the mountains around Death Valley where
temperatures reach upward of 120 degrees! Reports indicate he was
very "agile." |
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Ms.
Bennallack went to San Francisco the Friday before she was murdered.
Zodiac had San Francisco connections. Bruce Davis frequented both
San Francisco and Sacramento. Both he and Charles Manson had friends
in both places. In the Zodiac
/ Manson Connection
book there is a photo of a paste-up letter Zodiac sent to the
Sacramento Bee. Also in 1970, a call came from Sacramento
relative to the Donna Lass case. But the caller hung-up. |
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What
is really interesting is that Zodiac mailed his Halloween card that
claimed a possible 14th victim on 10/27/70 - the day
after
Ms. Bennallack's body was found. |
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Sacramento
Bee, 10/26/70, Page A1 |
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Sacramento
Bee, 10/27/70, Page A1 |
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Sacramento
Bee, 10/27/70, Page A20 |
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JUDITH
ANN HAKARI |
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Ms.
Hakari was last seen after she got off work as a nurse at 11:30 PM
on Saturday 03/07/70. She was not discovered missing until very
early Sunday morning just like Donna Ann Lass who was believed to
have been abducted around 2:00 AM on a Sunday after also getting off work as a
nurse late on a Saturday night. Ms. Hakari's body was discovered in
a canvas bag in a shallow grave on 04/26/70. (Some believe that the
shallow grave site of Donna Lass has been found and that because it
was shallow, marauding animals raided the grave.) It was observed it
was almost as if someone had wanted Hakari's body to be found and it was
surprising it had not been discovered sooner. |
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Ms.
Hakari, like Cheri Jo Bates. had been severely beaten. In the
"Confession" letter Zodiac said he started attacking Bates
by strangling her. Hakari was found with a stocking around her
neck. |
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Sacramento
Bee, 03/09/70 |
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Sacramento
Bee, 03/10/70 |
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Sacramento
Bee, 04/27/70, Page A1 |
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Sacramento
Bee, 04/27/70, Article 2 |
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Sacramento
Bee, 04/27/70, Article 3 |
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Sacramento
Bee, 04/27/70, Article 4 |
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