SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- Deborah Perez grabbed headlines last month by proclaiming that her late father was the infamous Zodiac killer who taunted authorities in 1970s by sending letters with codes and clues of his crimes and identity to the San Francisco Chronicle.
On Wednesday, police investigators plan to interview Perez about her claim that she has unique knowledge of those letters. She started researching the Zodiac killer in 2007 after she saw a composite sketch of the suspect that resembled her father, Guy Ward Hendrickson.
“To my surprise, I found cards and letters in evidence held by the police which were written by my father or by me,” she said before dozens outside City Hall in April. “There are unique facts about those letters which are not publicly known.”
In that news conference, Perez said Hendrickson often tried to explain away unusual incidents during her childhood that she found disturbing.
“I would hear shots and he would state that they were firecrackers. I would see a girl running and screaming and hear shots,” She said. “My dad said that the boy threw firecrackers at the girl, that the girl was OK.”
Perez even claims to have helped write and mail some of the letters that led to the sensational name, and to have glasses that belonged to one of the victims.
Hendrickson died in 1983.
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