Sam Fisher
3 min readMar 11, 2022

The Zodiac Killer Is Joseph Paul Franklin: Halloween Card

I just wanted to go over a few clues in the Zodiac Killer Halloween Card in which there are clues pointing to Joseph Paul Frankin as the Zodiac Killer. I will elaborate on what I mean here.

First part we see inside here is the By Fire By Rope By Gun By Knife on the inside. This has been speculated to be from a comic book called “Redmask” in which a “Wheel of Death” was used by the villain to terrorize Redmask. The resemblance of the words are pretty striking. Joseph Paul Franklin later stated that he saw himself as a sort of vigilante of sorts much like the old outlaws of the old west. I believe that this could be confirmation of the use of this comic book featuring Redmask.

Next page in here we see “From your secret pal” and at the bottom “I feel it in my bones you ache to know my name so I’ll clue you in”. Notice that the skeloton is holding the hand signal for “Ok” with the number 14 on the hand. In some new Nazi circles the number 14 has signifigance which means either AD for Adolf Hitler or it could mean “The 14 Words” used by some white supremacist organizations. The 14 words goes something along the lines of “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”

Notice also the different “eyes” in this skeloton. I believe the Zodiac Killer was giving a clue as to himself and this clue would make sense in Joseph Paul Franklins case in that Franklin was blind in the right eye due to an injury in his childhood.

The inside of the card:

Inside of Halloween Card from The Zodiac Killer

On the inside we have some interesting finds. We see “Happy Halloween” with a strange Nordic looking symbol along with the “Z” for Zodiac and the Crosshairs symbol here which is the trademark symbol of the Zodiac.

I’ll start with the Nordic looking symbol here. My interpretation is that this stands for “JPF” or Joseph Paul Franklin. Reason being is the left side of this symbol almost forms a “J” with the bottom curve missing. Next we have 4 dots = Paul which is 4 letters. Then the “F” which you can make out somewhat for Franklin.

The “Z” obviously is for the Zodiac and the circle and crosshairs is interesting because that symbol has some meaning which I will get into in another article.

Last but not least lets have a look at the envelope:

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On the envelope you can see the symbol that is on the inside. As you can also see the symbol is in the place of the Return address where the name usually goes. It is not a huge jump to say that this symbol is indeed a “name” or at least the initials.

It makes sense that this stands for Joseph Paul Franklin.

I realize that there are many counterarguments to Joseph Paul Franklin being the Zodiac, however, I will over the course of months show that these counterarguments are not enough to prohibit the mountain of coincidences and evidence that Franklin is the Zodiac.

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