Size 10.5 and Mysterious Phone Call From Pay Phone and No confession From Prison to Being Zodiac
I finished reading “Blood in the Soil” about the shooting of Larry Flynt down in Georgia on March 6, 1978.
His shoe size was 10.5
Mysterious phone call after the shooting
After the Larry Flynt shooting according to this book, Franklin went to a pay phone somewhere and phoned the lawyers office prosecuting him and said they need not worry about Larry Flynt as “Jesus Christ has taken care of that” something along those lines. The mysterious caller then hung up.
Authorities had no idea who shot Flynt, the descriptions were all over the place, none of the initial descriptions were accurate either or described Franklin. Granted he was good at changing appearance also.
They even went so far as to arrest the wrong person and released him. The Flynt shooting remained a mystery until Franklin confessed to this mainly to get away from Marion Correctional Facility and this was his way of trying to leave one prison facility for another. Otherwise I don’t believe he would have ever confessed to this shooting.
Additional interesting info: According to the book, he had a difficult time convincing authorities mainly because he was not “believable” and the FBI must have thought he was playing games with them as he was constantly wanting to “confess” to various crimes. FBI wasn’t interested in hearing it. The confession was validated because the local authorities were willing to spend the time and money to listen to Franklins confession when in the end they conceded only the shooter would know such details. Adding to their frustration was Franklins insistence that Jimmy Carters brother had put him up to the shooting of Larry Flynt for some reason. I can’t remember the details of his “conspiracy” theory but in the end he did confess to the shooting and they conceded it had to be Franklin.
If Franklin was the Zodiac Killer why wouldn’t he confess to such a massive crime? If you read about his time in prison what he was trying to accomplish while in prison was to get transferred to the prison of his choice so he was careful to confess only to crimes in which he would receive something he wanted. Either a prosecution in another state which would get him out of Marion Correctional Facility or an opportunity to possibly escape while in route to his place of prosecution or other various reasons. He has stated he would never confess to a crime in which the death penalty is on the table, but on the other hand he would go on to say he wanted the death penalty, but the prosecution for which he was executed for he later confessed he never wanted the death penalty only a transfer to a better prison in which case he felt his chances of getting transferred out of Marion would outweigh being on death row. He did mention he would never confess to any murder or crime in which either the gas chamber or electrocution was on the table.
He was closer to his daughter in Marion or Potosi Correctional Facilities as well, so confessing to any crime in California was off the table as this would put him even further away from his daughter and perhaps other people that were giving some type of support.
He always had some type of belief that somehow he would get out of prison as well, so not sure how this would play into thinking.
He believed that if he was to die in prison he preferred to be killed by the state, not by some random prisoners as he felt that if he was to die that it would not be at the hand of some random low level prisoner.
I write all this to show that simply confessing to being the Zodiac killer would not have been in his interest while in prison as this would mean most likely a transfer to California where he most likely or maybe would have been in general population again, and a good chance he would be killed by another inmate which is what he didn’t want.
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