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noe “This last letter ‘that turned up ois definitely by the Zodiac we knew " . in the past,” Morrill said. “I exam- “sined it. The characters and hand- » game. ; a ‘Morrill said that he, John Shi- i” ; Writing are just -dead- a-bang the: ~ ; ‘moda, head of the Postal Service 7 y crime laboratory in San Bruno, and * Pleasant Hill handwriting expert - David DeGarmo “all agreed this last letter was real.” Morrill added, “y think Toschi’ s :. had too much publicity and some ~ Beople may not like it.” 4 He also deprecated Prouty’s ” expertise. “He was .in polygraph : operations for the San Diego Police . Department and had very little | experience in this,” Morrill said. - “He doesn’t even have all the material I had. I've caught him - wrong two or. three times since I ’ retired to private practice.” . Morrill said that from now on ‘he won't work on any Zodiac ‘matters for the “San Francisco - department. “Armstrong and Toschi made - the first contact with me and I was “doing it for them,” he said. “I feel ‘Pm absolved from doing any more. Sure, I'd like to be the guy who - identifies Zodiac, but this is too : much. ” - whom he dealt or when, * Maupin said this morning he { received a number of letters from Toschi after he made the inspector 1a a figure i in his serial. _N “Although Toschi used fictitious * names, Maupin said he suspected -.they were from the inspector. “I fommemene ; Andrew Curtin and Larry D. Hat- : rey men ateme LPIA p sie cece “OT ty " noticed that the margin Stops ¥ were |. . Similar, the same type in the typewriter: and the D’s in the yh signatures were much the same.” : He said he 1 became ‘suspicious { _ of the last Zodiac letter in April “because I saw certain parallels” - between it and Toschi's “fan” notes -: ‘and “it was the only one that _: mentioned his (Toschi’s) name ... I felt there was enough evidence . there to at least warrant an investi- - gation and the police apparently : did too.” 4 He said he and his co-author on a New West article about the - matter, scheduled for publication : - Monday, made the complaint to © police but he would not say with’ | ’ Maupin denied the current’ : controversy was part of either the |: New West article or his upcoming : book, “Tales of the City.” ~ “As a matter of fact, the irony , about it was that because my book is coming out ... in August, I was - worried people ‘would think I had -- done this as publicity,” he said. “I waited two years before acting upon this because_I though David Toschi is a nice guy. I’m sorry for the discomfort that this may be - - causing him and his family. ‘ “The fan letters are a harmless . vanity.” Maupin said -he put a veiled 7 , Message in his plot line in the serial ‘ to let Toschi know he was onto him “but did not pursue it.” 4, This story was written. by: . “field and is based on reporting by-' them, John Jacobs, Malcoim Glover, | * Baron M uller and Nancy Day. tenes ey a oe Pion bee Bae