Unsolved '66: Too Many Coincidences
Valerie Percy's killer murdered sixty-nine others, and it was covered up. (16th in a series)
After realizing that handwriting on the first page of a letter in my files might be further evidence that William Thoresen murdered Valerie Percy and was the Zodiac Killer, I searched for it.
The letter was mailed to Percy's neighbor Dr. Robert Hohf in 1967. When I found the letter, I discovered that its first page was missing. Pages two and three were there. But page one, which had handwriting on it, as documented in my first book, was nowhere to be found.
This was strange as I collected many documents and other materials in the process of completing two non-fiction books and had never misplaced one.
I wondered: Did the FBI learn when I revealed the letter’s existence, including its handwritten note to Hohf eight years earlier, that I had a copy of it and knew it was evidence of William’s many slayings?
Upon checking with Hohf’s widow, Nan, and her son, Bob, I learned that the first page of the letter was also missing from her files. (When people loaned me documents, I made copies of them and returned the originals to their owners.)
The author of the letter sent to Hohf wrote that a copy of it was was sent to Chuck Percy, who by then was a US senator. A member of the Percy family told me that anything regarding Valerie’s murder was routinely sent to the FBI, which is reason to believe they knew of the letter.
You may be wondering, whether I suspect that someone paid a visit to my home and also to Hohf’s to remove copies of the first page of the letter.
I learned from the memoirs of Chicago FBI agent Vincent Inserra that such a move would not be unexpected from the FBI, especially given the reasons to believe that William murdered Valerie, was the Zodiac Killer, and killed scores of others, also that many of his victims were murdered years after the FBI believed he was a violent killer but sat on this information rather than share it with police who were also investigating his killings.
Consider this: Only the first page of the letter, the one with handwriting on it, was missing. And I have William’s signature, which looks like the handwriting on an envelope believed to have been addressed by the killer of presumed Zodiac victim Cheri Jo Bates, who was murdered a month after Valerie Percy.
His signature also looks like the handwriting in a letter written by the killer of Illinois teens Mike Morrison and Debbie Means in May 1969, who were brutally murdered during a long lull between the Zodiac Killer’s first two attacks, a time many believed the infamous killer was up to no good…somewhere.
Evidence indicates that William murdered dozens of people, including Valerie Percy, whose murder case files authorities fought a costly court battle in 2016 to keep secret; that he was Zodiac; and he had the odd penchant (for a killer) to communicate, often by mail. It’s no coincidence that the only Percy-Hohf document that went missing has handwriting on it and is from a suspicious source, one “V. Kachur.”
I would wager that the name was a product of William’s sick, immature mind and stands for Valerie catcher—a way for him to take credit for murdering her. If so, it’s another reason to believe the letter was written by Valerie's killer.
You might wonder: If the feds were responsible for the disappearance of the first page of the letter, why was the document that contains William’s signature left behind? An answer is that document was sent to me electronically and could easily be replaced.
I believe page one of that letter going missing is further evidence that William, both a serial killer and a serial mass murderer and rich man’s son, played the US justice system for all it was worth. The revelation of his crimes and of a plot to cover them up would be more than embarrassing, even today.
There are reasons to believe, as part of the cover-up of William’s murders, prosecutors sent men to prison they knew were innocent, including John Collins, currently in custody in Michigan.
In other words, there is more motivating the cover-up that produced Louise Thoresen’s sham of a trial and book, bogus Zodiac letters, the firing of the lawyer in Florida who was investigating three of William’s murders, and the FBI’s implausible (and that’s being kind) planted story about who murdered Valerie Percy.
There is also the authorities' claim that the Percy murder case files must remain secret because the investigation is “active and ongoing,” or was five years ago, even though the time since then hasn’t produced jack squat.
There are too many coincidences. As history has shown, if it walks like a cover-up and quacks like a cover-up …you know the rest.
These are good reasons to believe why page one of the mysterious letter that was sent to Chuck Percy and Dr. Hohf a year after Valerie Percy was murdered disappeared.
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