Those cards were turned over to homicide detectives, and ultimately kept on file at the Hall of Justice. Made by fans in Aotearoa New Zealand. Indeed, through his professional channels he offered a private reward for information on the killer. According to this witness, his fantasies always involved attacking people too weak to fight back. She died just before she could celebrate her 25th wedding anniversary. Anthony Harris received his promised $30,000 reward after the convictions, and may have been given a new identity to protect him. Witness identities remained protected due to an order banning extrajudicial statements. He explained that he had lied earlier because he was afraid his parole would be revoked. The chief of police had assured the public that officers were interested only in information related to the Zebra killings, and that lesser offenses would be ignored, but Prentice Sanders remembers that this was not how things worked: Instead of just stopping people and questioning them, they were spread-eagling them against walls and busting them for anything they found: a joint, a penknife that was too long, even unpaid traffic tickets. [209]. A public reference to this special team was made by Chief Scott on April 23, 1974. Two months later, on December 22, 1973, Simon and Moore interfered while an officer was conducting a traffic stop. Ironically, the Zebra killers had already been in custody for over 12 hours. He survived the attack, took the gun away from the man, and shot him three times, in the arm, shoulder, and stomach. [51] When questioned about the letters he wrote to defense attorney White, Harris said he "just made up" the story because of pressures on his wife and anger towards the district attorney's office. The press coverage of the Zebra Murders did not mention the other possibility related cases. There were a number of radical groups besides the Nation of Islam (NOI) in the Bay Area at this time, including what was left of the Black Panther Party and such offshoots as the Black Guerrilla Family and the Black Liberation Army. Indeed, the killers may have meant to provoke retaliation. [8] Within a few minutes, and a few blocks, of Moynihan's murder, Mildred Hosler, 65, was shot four times at point-blank range. "DEATH ANGELS," a kind of reverse Ku Klux Klan, is based on the muddled aberrations clearly outside the mainstream of Islamic religions.
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