May 22, 2001
We met in Santa Rosa and saw (and copied) Allen's court records from the 1970's, which, as far as we know, have never been seen by any other investigator. At $1.00 a page, it was worth every cent; those documents are a goldmine of information and give greater insight to who Allen really was. We then left for Moscowite Corners (where "Andrew Todd Walker" was allegedly seen on 9-27-1969, nervously asking how to quickly leave the lake) and Twin Oak Ridge at the Oak Shores Recreation Area, the site of the Lake Berryessa attack. Locally, the place is known as Zodiac Island, but is otherwise connected to the shoreline by a narrow spit of sand and mud; when it rains and the lake level rises, it actually becomes an island, as it was when Tom and I visited there in May 2000, but today was the first time he had actually set foot on the island. Most of the pictures below are of Zodiac Island, but one is of a small island (seen in the distance behind a tree) off Shale Point, unnamed and incorrectly identified in Graysmith's book as the site of the Z attack; it is approximately half a mile south of the actual site, which was identified to me by none other than Ken Narlow in October 1999. Two of the three trees there in 1969 are long since gone, and the site is rather ignominiously commemorated by a nearby picnic bench. The final pic is of the ridge to the west that I have previously suggested that Z might have spotted Bryan Hartnell and Cecelia Ann Shepard from. All in all, it was a most productive day.
Just click on the thumbnails for the larger pics
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