Deep Real Estate
Been thinking about the “DEEP REAL ESTATE” mystery, which concerns ominous-sounding personal ads placed in the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner in 1976, apparently addressed to “ZODIAC.” Hard to say if the cryptic ads really are Zodiac communiqués, but I here summarize a case for that idea and offer a theory as to an event whose anniversary the ad campaign might be “celebrating.”
UPDATE 6/11/23:
We can probably discount the DEEP REAL ESTATE ad based on some recent findings which link it to another classified placed about 18 months earlier. The earlier “r.a.” ad was outed by an Examiner columnist as an effort by a college student to “smoke out” the killer. See my Twitter post below. I say “probably” because we know the Zodiac monitored his press and responded to it slyly and mockingly. The DEEP REAL ESTATE ad is much more cryptic and allusive than the original “r.a” ad. Also seems odd that the student would repeat the “r.a.” ad gambit after it was demystified by an Examiner columnist. I wonder if he is still around to definitively clear this up.
https://twitter.com/luigi_warren/status/1666949398818099200?s=20