The Case For Allen's Innocence
"[Donald] Cheney, who had been friends with Allen for years until he moved to southern California, told the detectives that he and Allen had had a
conversation in Allen's Fresno Street basement in December 1968 that started on the topic of recreational hunting but soon took a turn for the
bizarre....After broaching the idea of hunting humans, Allen is said to have given a hypothetical account of"(paraphrased so its brief) how he would
commit all these murders and crime identical to how zodiac did it. "Allen also allegedly stated that he would call himself "Zodiac."
ohhhhh tough break for allen. a friend ratted him out. its pretty damning, no one can deny that.
EXCEPT "Allen had touched Cheney's young daughter inappropriately on a camping trip years before, and Cheney had complained to Allen's brother
about it. (In one report, a VPD detective wrote, "This might be a motive why Cheney would make such an accusation against Arthur Allen") "
that detective might be right..he MIGHT be. or cheney could be telling the truth even though he had reason to lie. having a reason to lie doesnt mean
you are.
[source:
www.trutv.com...]
EXCEPT
"The Chief of Manhattan Beach Police contacted the San Francisco Police Department soon after the interview, and SFPD Inspector William Armstrong
spoke to Cheney on July 26. During the eleven intervening days, Cheney began what has become an interesting trait of recovering memories that are
increasingly elaborate in their indictment of Arthur Allen." long story short, his story changed. just about every time he talked to the police he
had something new or changed what he said.
"It has become clear over time that Cheney's account cannot be relied upon for accuracy."
[source:
www.trutv.com...]
(After the police gained warrants to search his trailer and cars...)
Major case prints - inked impressions of the entire hand, fingertip to palm - were taken, as were samples of his left- and right-handed writing. All
were tested by state experts against the Zodiac evidence. In no case was there a match. California handwriting analysts even went so far as to state
that Allen's writing "definitely was not that of the Zodiac killer". 2 He was given a polygraph test and passed it.
[source:
www.trutv.com...]
"In December 1990, when Ralph Spinelli was arrested for armed robbery in Lake Tahoe, NV, his bid for leniency included a tip to the Zodiac's
identity: none other than Arthur Leigh Allen. Facing 30 years in prison, Spinelli claimed that Allen had told him in 1969 that he was going to San
Francisco to kill a cabdriver. Perhaps not coincidentally, Allen's only arrest before his child molestation charge was for a fight with
Spinelli...."
(after the police gained another warrant a did another search)
[the police] "Seized were bomb-making materials, newspaper clippings, several firearms, a knife, a typewriter, and Allen's Zodiac watch. Of these,
the knife and one handgun could have been Zodiac evidence (it is widely believed that the Zodiac was not responsible for the murder of Cheri Jo Bates
or the typewritten confession that followed it), but neither led to charges or an arrest, and it can be assumed that they were unrelated. Allen's
prints were submitted to the FBI Laboratory, and again the comparison came back negative. According to one newspaper report, "Allen was dismissed as
a suspect"."
[source
www.trutv.com... ]
"A convicted child molester, Allen was, like the Zodiac, interested in "little kiddies" - but pedophiles that kill outside of their target group
are incredibly rare."
"Allen is said to have had access to a car like one seen by a victim - but the truth is that Allen had lost access to that car when he was fired from
a job three months before the attack." (no specifying which car or attack unfortunately)
"Allen passed a grueling 10-hour polygraph test"
[source:
www.trutv.com...]
"...upon his death, investigators retrieved brain tissues for DNA testing. The technology at the time failed to prove anything."
in 2000 a new[er] team working on the case compared DNA on stamps and envelopes to allen's
"In October 2002, the findings were announced. Allen had been eliminated as a donor of the DNA on the envelopes. At this time, they announced that
they had three more letters to test, which could assist with creating a complete DNA profile, but those, too, failed to yield convincing
evidence."
[source:
www.trutv.com...]
Allen's palm print did not match prints lifted from Zodiac-related items, either, or his handwriting. In fact, there has never been a way to
conclusively pin the crimes on him.
[source:
www.trutv.com...]
ON A SIDE NOTE the site did not exactly present all of these fact in a way that could really be called "objective" (some pages had a pro-innocence
slant for allen) but that does not make them untrue.
this is all. i will update this if i find more
