Serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards really did leave writing on the wall, it was one way he signed his crimes. Some of those wrongly convicted for his crimes are still in prison, even on death row. Please share! And enjoy the song as well, Art mirroring Life.
A trailer for the film, I’m looking forward to seeing it, I reckon it’s a good one:
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A few months ago John A. Cameron sent me a copy of his book about Edward Wayne Edwards.
It’s an extraordinary and complex story, with nearly 100 murders, a big cast of characters, and the details cannot be absorbed easily or quickly. This article is about the basic thesis in the book : that Edwards was the Zodiac killer.
First some basic facts. Edwards was born on June 14, 1933 in Akron, Ohio. In 1956 after a series of armed robberies, he spent 3 years in Deer Lodge prison, Montana. In May 1962 he was sentenced to 16 years in prison. In 1967, he was paroled.
Now the thesis, and some of the evidence that supports it.
December 20, 1968, was the date of the first Zodiac Killer murders in California. The objective of Edwards was apparently to frame Frank Dryman, who he had met in Deer Lodge prison, 12 years earlier. The Zodiac Killer (Edwards) told one survivor that he had been in Deer Lodge prison, and wore a costume with a Zodiac symbol, as Dryman had done while in Deer Lodge prison.
Per wikipedia:
On August 1, 1969, three letters were received at the Vallejo Times Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The San Francisco Examiner. The nearly identical letters took credit for the shootings at Lake Herman Road and Blue Rock Springs. Each letter also included one-third of a 408-symbol cryptogram which the killer claimed contained his identity.
A week later, the cryptogram was decoded, including the statement “all that I have killed will become my slaves”.
The last confirmed victim of the Zodiac was cab driver Paul Lee Stine, 29: shot and killed on October 11, 1969, in the Presidio Heights neighborhood in San Francisco.
In 1972, Edwards wrote an autobiography titled The Metamorphosis of a Criminal: The True Life Story of Ed Edwards.
In this autobiography he describes an inmate in Deer Lodge prison, stating “He believed that anyone he killed would be his slave in the next life”, this is intended to be Frank Dryman, who was paroled to Vallejo in January 1969. Apparently Edwards made a mistake in committing the first Zodiac murder just before Dryman was paroled.
Also in the autobiography, (page 392) Edwards quotes his aunt asking him to get out the cab two blocks from her house, due to his noteriety. This apparently refers to Beatrice Bellett, the first wife of John Bellett, Edward’s uncle.
“It’s Me” page 87 shows a Christmas 1970 photograph of Edwards (referred to as Wayne), with Edith Bellett (described as Edwards’ aunt), Ediths’ brother-in-law, Annabelle Meyers (“Wayne’s grandmother”), John Bellett, and “Kay” (described as “Wayne’s wife”).
The photo was obtained from Dawn Bellett, John Bellett’s daughter from an earlier marriage, who Cameron interviewed. Dawn said her mother, Beatrice, worked at “Lefty O’Douls”, an Irish pub in San Francisco, close to the intersection of Mason Street and Geary Boulevard, the location where Stine picked up the Zodiac before being murdered. Dawn also said her mother lived two blocks from where Stine was killed by the Zodiac in October 1969.
So it seems likely that Edwards picked up a cab after leaving the pub where Beatrice worked, then murdered the driver Paul Lee Stine, when he was dropped off, perhaps over a dispute over the fare or for some other reason.
Edwards sent anonymous tips to newspapers, this (recovered from a box of paper Edwards left, It’s Me page 68) was published in 1971: 
On November 2, 2001, the day after Kent Heitholt was murdered, Edwards mentioned in a blog that it was the 35th anniversary of the death of CJB, meaning Cheri Jo Bates, who, aged18, was stabbed to death and nearly decapitated on October 30, 1966, at Riverside City College in Riverside. Bates’s possible connection to the Zodiac only appeared four years after her murder when San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery received an anonymous tip regarding similarities between the Zodiac killings and the circumstances surrounding Bates’s death. It seems that Edwards wanted to make this connection, as he was in prison at the time this murder was committed.
In 2010, the final part of the Zodiac cryptogram was finally decoded, it reads “I’m Edward E. Vexed I.Q. Hath You Greater Than I”, the final confirmation that Edwards was indeed the Zodiac.
In 2014, Cameron’s book was published. He stated that Edwards was responsible for the death of Laci Peterson.
In March 2015, a very similar Edwards cryptogram signature to a confession “I killed Laci Peterson” was decoded by myself, as “Edward E”. A final confirmation that Edwards was indeed the killer of Laci Peterson.
See also Edward Wayne Edwards : Relations.
Note 1 ( October 10, 2019 ): When I wrote this in 2015, I didn’t notice the Zodiac Killer Leads article had two unnamed sources not one.
Note 2 ( October 2019 ): It turns out Edwards may very well have been born on May 30, 1929, and not June 14, 1933. See for example here.
Another Ed Edwards case, headed for reversal, good to see things moving along,
Ingmar was wrongly convicted of the murder of Chandra Levy in May 2001. He was implicated by Edward Edwards as witness #10 in the arrest affidavit dated March 2009. Edwards was not identified as the author of the affidavit and did not appear at trial. Edwards blogged on ZodiacKiller.com from Levy’s hometown, four days before killing her. [ Source: It’s Me, page 338-339 ]. There is more detail in the book about Edward’s activities around this time.
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Summary: Edward Wayne Edwards, who later confessed to being a serial killer, constructed both the Zodiac code and the IKLP code.
The IKLP ( “I Killed Laci Peterson” ) Short Code is
Source : http://www.opordanalytical.com/pdf/The_IKLP_Investigation.pdf, Page 4 (Copy:The_IKLP_Investigation) See also IKLP posts updated 09-25-08
which is linked from http://www.pwc-sii.com/Research/editorials/games.htm
When will the games end?
Many of you may have been following the discussion on OPORD Analytical’s forum, based on the claims by its owner, Mr. Chris Farmer, to have cracked the IKLP code. For those of you who haven’t been, this is a brief background.
IKLP Code & Rhymes
From March 22, 2005 through August 6, 2006, a poster using the handle “I Killed Laci Peterson” posted 544 messages on the Fratpack forum. As is often the case, the handle was shortened to the acronym IKLP when addressed by other members. The 544 messages mostly consisted of rhymes about the Laci Peterson case, presented as “clues” to the identity of the murderer, and taunts and jabs directed at specific members of Fratpack.
IKLP outrightly claimed to be Laci’s abductor and murderer, not only by the handle but in the content of many of the rhymes.
So, take 28527-8240-791-94-7 and drop the 0 and every other digit ( the same as for the decoding of the Zodiac Short Code , which decodes to “I’M EDWARD E” ) and you have :
8 2 8 4 9 9 7
Take the letters of EDWARD E, remove duplicates : EDWAR
Assign the used digits from the short code, descending order
9 – E ( “e” is similar to mirror image of “9” )
8 – D ( “8” can be made with two D’s – see Zodiac code )
7 – W ( W can be made from two 7s )
4 – A ( “A” when tilted to the right becomes “4” )
2 – R ( “R” is slightly similar to “2” )
Apply cipher to string 8 2 8 4 9 9 7 => D R D A E E W
Unscramble ( Anagram ) D R D A E E W => E D W A R D E.
To look at it the other way, suppose Edwards wants to sign himself “Edward E” using numbers, in a memorable way.
He needs digits for these letters “EDWAR”.
He thinks 987654321 – how shall I assign, to be memorable?
E = e reversed is 9.
D = 8 ( he used this before)
W = 7 7 ( if you rotate the sevens )
A = 4 ( if you tip the A over )
R = 2 ( not that similar, but slightly )
So he takes these codes and gets 9874289
Now change the order 8284997
Finally, mix in arbitrary alternate digits (2,5,7,2,7,1,4) and a “0” ( the same Steganography as used in the Zodiac short code ) and you get ( note : this is the even digits, then zero, then the odd digits ).
You might quite reasonably ask : how arbitrary is this decoding?
It might seem reasonable to be sceptical, until you realise Edwards used a similar scheme in his Zodiac short code. To some extent the coding is “mnenomic”, associations that could be remembered, mirroring, putting two symbols together, etc.
The conclusion: IKLP was Edward Wayne Edwards, and likely he was involved in Laci’s abduction and murder.
See also Notes on Edward Wayne Edwards and Killer of Laci Peterson identified?
Also published as a Facebook Note at Scott Peterson is Innocent
October 1972
Prison interviews, Part 1:
Part 2 :
John Cameron talks about Edwards July 2014:
Some notes I made while listening to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/dan-zupansky1/2015/03/19/its-me-john-a-cameron
A Zodiac cryptogram decodes to Edward Edwards name. “I’M EDWARD E”
In most cases, someone else was convicted of Edwards’ crime.
He was FBI informant from 1950, on his own murders.
His family moved, he would make friends with the police, using an assumed identity. He used “Wayne” as his first name when assuming an alias.
He used police uniforms, and sent setup letters.
Some setups executed, some still serving.
Jon Benet Ramsey is tied in by signature on letter. Victory SBTC.
The MO is kill on Christian holidays. Letters suggested look for a satanist.
In 2000s he was blogger. On murder sites.
1st killing 1946, Chicago. Young girl, lured to basement, dismembered. Taunted press. 13 years old. Started aged 11.
He put up websites on early killings. Black Dahlia. Put up 2002.
John Anthony Cameron has been working on it for 5 years.
Ideas from Satanism, carried out.
Deb Laveson The number of cases he didn’t put into the book, George, is an amazing number, not because Edwards didn’t do them, but because they never got the sensational news stories like Laci did and so researching them was much more difficult. It took him awhile to figure out how to get the media attention, but once he did, he did it EVERY TIME.
John had no idea where it was going to go, magnitude.
Died aged 77, natural causes, in 2011.
Sent him Candy in prison ( diabetic, may have contributed to death? )
Count in 1996 – 500 people murdered.
Deb Laveson “Highly unlikely. Edwards probably used the candy for favors in the prison hospital.”
Psychology is contempt for “system”.
After Edwards died, John thought he would just write a book.
Big years 1946 – 1996. Announced 500 people murdered.
BlackDahlia website has details of codes ( confirmed earlier racking ).
Started to make timeline of killings. Took 3 years. Still finding more murders.
Zodiac killer was always false leads, haha, smarter than you.
Edwards sent John Walsh letters, revealed in 2006.
Edwards would go to towns and create terror.
“Scorpion” letters.
Zodiac sign written in lipstick. bathtub murder, 2010. Last setup. False confession, setup plead guilty, due to death penalty.
Commonality – biggest, tied to book, “Metamorphis of a killer”, published 1972. Establishes where he was.
He was in every major city in the US.
He was informing FBI.
Sent letters to press or victim’s family.
Comments originally posted at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ScottPetersonOpen/permalink/952059548140385/.
See also Killer of Laci Peterson identified? and Scott Peterson – Edward W. Edwards – IKLP Code Cracked ?
There is a very interesting development in the Scott Peterson case, a credible person ( retired cold case detective John A. Cameron) believes he has identified the killer.
Briefly, Cameron claims Laci Peterson was murdered by Edward Wayne Edwards (June 14, 1933 – April 7, 2011) , a known serial killer.
The claim is that Edwards was a psychopath killer, who not only killed, but planted bodies and used letters to confuse and taunt the police. Part of the claim is that Edwards was the “Zodiac Killer“.
Cameron has written a book and website about Edwards.
A link to Scott Peterson is a mysterious document sent to the judge and defense in May 2004, which references the Zodiac Killer. [Edit: 24 March, 2015] This document is actually not very relevant, more relevant are BB posts by “IKLP”, including a Short and Long code, typical of Edwards. See here and here. See Scott Peterson – Edward W. Edwards – IKLP Code Cracked ? ! [End Edit]
Cameron says Edwards also killed Chandra Levy.
It’s early days, but I find Cameron’s claims to be credible.
Other unsolved cases attributed to Edwards:
See also Notes on Edward Wayne Edwards
Discussion on unscrambling the short code.
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