Unsolved '66: Coincidence or Censorship? Part II
My e-mail accounts are down, and calls to news tip hotlines appear to be blocked. Is this because my new book contains credible information that the Zodiac Killer's crimes are still being covered up?
My new book, Super Killer, is the second book in series that documents how the US government covered up dozens of murders, ones committed by a serial killer who hailed from a rich, Chicago-area family.
It’s also about how the killer, William Thoresen III, a presumed serial killer, was the infamous criminal who called himself the Zodiac, a killer whose crimes some have long argued were covered up. Thoresen blew through as much of his family’s wealth as he could while traveling the country to bludgeon, shoot, strangle, stab and in at least one case bomb (a case that is in Super Killer), as many people to death as possible, starting in the early nineteen fifties.
Thoresen also murdered entire families, up to six people at a time. As I reported last week, the release of Super Killer happened with some suspicious delays. But a few people have told me since that they’ve been able to obtain a copy of it.
Other strange goings on, however, have occurred regarding since its release. As of yesterday, I have not been able to sign into either of my two email accounts, one at AOL, the other at Yahoo. I’ve requested AOL call me with a code, a service that AOL provides, so that I can access my email account there. But a call never comes—this at a time when independent journalists and writers are reporting unprecedented levels of censorship.
Meanwhile, today, all of the contacts in my phone disappeared, this though nothing seems to be wrong with the phone itself. Because Super Killer has no promotional budget behind it, I have tried to make people aware of it. Earlier this week, I called the news tip hotlines at the Journal Sentinel newspaper in Milwaukee to let someone there know that Super Killer includes information on several unsolved murders of Milwaukee area residents, including Cheryl Packard and Sharon Malone, in 1967, and Stephanie Casberg, in 1969. There are numerous reasons to believe they died at the hands of Thoresen.
But when I call the Journal Sentinel’s local news tip line, I get a message that says “I’m sorry, but the person you’re trying to reach has a voicemail box that hasn’t been set up yet.” When I call their toll-free number tip line, I get the message “your call cannot be completed as dialed.”
This has gone on four days though I doubt that a paper like the Journal Sentinel has tip lines that would be out of order for days. I suspect this, along with my email accounts not working, may have to do with someone not wanting me to be able to spread awareness of my books. This isn’t the first time this appears to have happened.
But you can try for yourself. The number of the Journal Sentinel’s local news tips line is (608) 405-9777. Their toll-free one is (800) 456-5943. If you have a second, give them a ring and see if these lines really aren’t working. If you get through to someone, please tell them that Super Killer is a new book that contains credible information about who murdered Cheryl Packard, Sharon Malone and Stephanie Casberg near Milwaukee in the nineteen sixties
It’s high time that these victims’ families knew the truth. If someone at the Journal-Sentinel asks about me, you can tell them my first book is about another one of William Thoresen’s victims, Valerie Percy, who was murdered fifty eight years ago this coming Wednesday. She was the daughter of former US senator, Chuck Percy. And, if they try to reach me, they may not be able to for what seem to be increasingly obvious reasons. You also may want to see if Super Killer remains available at Barnes & Noble dot com. Thanks to everyone who has purchased a copy.
Called both numbers, same results as above. Very puzzling for a legitimate publication...
Mr Wall. I live here in Pauline, SC. Working as a truck driver for 17 years, I am probably on the ‘final stretch’, as they say. I’m 70 years old. Truck drivers don’t live that long. So I am making up for lost time. All those years living in a truck were a great sacrifice.
I think you know, as a writer, what it means to make sacrifices. Just like mothers- who love and raise children make sacrifices knowing children have no knowledge of what that even means; i.e., mothers know there will be little recompense beyond the work of motherhood itself, I suppose.
I am interested in your book, and look forward to reading anything about Mary Ellen Kaldenberg. I lived next door, and was a close family friend of the Kaldenberg’s, in Kenosha. She was murdered in 1967, when I was 12 years old.
You write about a cover-up. I believe it can be said, if someone knows who killed Mary Ellen, and doesn’t speak of it, that is a cover-up. The late Mr Ed Baumann, who I knew, wrote about this murder in a context which suggested it resembled a Mob murder. He did not say so in words, but he called these murders ‘unsolved,’ whatever that means. It remains to be seen.
Well, thanks again for your work. It is strange to me how cold and uncaring people are for people they supposedly love. I should write about it, I suppose.
JK