The thing about the Zodiac-Mikado coincidences and the spots in the Stanford Daily, is that unless you can explain, by my count, 15 incredible coincidences, all of them just being random events, one is left with the conclusion that they had to be done BY the Zodiac.

To deny that this was done or influenced by the Zodiac, one must maintain that all of the following “just happened.” One must:

1. Hold as “just a coincidence” that a Mikado review and a letter to the editor about Zodiac were in the same issue, October 31, 1969.

2. Hold as “just a coincidence” that the Mikado review on page four was exactly aligned over the letter to the editor about Zodiac on page two.

3. Hold as “just a coincidence” that on the same page as The Mikado review there is a review for the album THE ELECTRIC ZODIAC.

4. Hold as “just a coincidence” that in that review, the photo of the album has the word “ELECTRIC” missing, leaving just “THE ZODIAC”.

5. Hold as “just a coincidence” that the three-spot pattern occurred for the first time in the October 31, 1969, Stanford Daily with two spots on the Mikado review, one on each column.

6. Hold as “just a coincidence” that the largest spot of the three-spot pattern on page four of this issue, occurring on the Mikado review, fits even more perfectly over the Letter to the Editor about the Zodiac on page two.

7. Hold as “just a coincidence” that this main spot seems to be oblong and has an extension to the upper right, so it appears over the words The Zodiac as well as the word Stanford.

8. Hold as “just a coincidence” that the layout of the Mikado review looks hurried, slapdash, with strange mistakes that could have been easily fixed.

9. Hold as “just a coincidence” that the next appearance of the three-spot pattern is in the November 5 Stanford Daily, which also includes on its front page a unique and prominent spot on an article about the secret salaries, as well as an article headlined Zodiac Calls.

10. Hold as “just a coincidence” that the night before, November 4, 1969, the Palo Alto Police received a call from someone who identified themselves as The Zodiac and said they were coming onto the Stanford campus, thus putting the Zodiac article on the front page of that November 5 Daily.

11. Hold as “just a coincidence” that this unique blemish on November 5, 1969, Stanford Daily, is found only one other time, on the November 20, 1969, Stanford Chaparral and both are on articles about the Stanford professor’s secret salaries.

12. Hold as “just as a coincidence” and view as a prank the October 20, 1969, call to the Palo Alto Times from someone identifying as Zodiac who said they were coming to the area because it was getting too hot in San Francisco.

13. Hold as “just as a coincidence” that the Stanford Daily and Berkeley Tribe both ran editorials addressed to the Zodiac on the same day, October 24, 1969.

14. Hold as “just as a coincidence” that on the same page as the Daily’s Message To The Zodiac Killer, there is a Letter to the Editor that uses a death metaphor as its topic is signed by N okNok, which can anagram to koko ZZ.

15. Hold as “just as a coincidence” and view as a prank the fake bomb under the Willow Avenue bridge on the Stanford campus, and subsequent call to the Stanford Fire Department October 30, 1969, which gained a front-page story on the October 31, 1969 Daily, the same issue with the Mikado review. This incident is the first bomb event, real or fake, on the Stanford campus, and was only “fake” because the tubes were just filled with dirt, not explosives, the rest of the device, timer, wiring and mechanism were all real working bomb parts. The perpetrator was indeed threatening that they had the capability and know-how to make a real bomb. Zodiac starts writing about bombs in his letters just one week later.

If you poo-poo this section, disavow the spots on the Stanford Daily as too fantastical, too far-fetched to be real, if you can’t get your head around an individual who may have both volunteered at the Daily and worked nights at the printing presses, know that you must adopt all of these points.

At some point Ocaam’s Razor cuts in. The solution is indeed fantastical, but I ask you, which explanation is the simplest now?

If you do not believe all these points were just random coincidences, then The Zodiac, whoever he was, was responsible for these things.