Now you know....Zodiac Killer identified (1 Viewer)

[Joseph DeMartino]

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Originally Posted by Dennis Nicholls /forum/thread/287330/now-you-know-zodiac-killer-identified#post_3586453

Well, in fairness to Mr. Tarbox, the article says the his license to practice law (in California) was suspended in 1975 for a period five years, not that he was ever disbarred. It appears that he left California at the same time and went to work for the Teamsters. The article doesn't specifically say what sort of work he did. It isn't clear if he was admitted to the Nevada bar and worked as an attorney or if he did other work that didn't require a license to practice.

His account doesn't strike me as being terribly implausible. Anyone coming in to discuss the matter would know that he was protected by privilege, so it isn't like he was confessing to some random stranger who could get him caught. Some serial killers do at least flirt with the idea of stopping and even turning themselves in. They almost never do, of course, which would also be the case here, if Tarbox's account is true.

Regards,

Joe

 

[Dennis Nicholls]

Joe,

He LIED LIED LIED in his story. I looked it up on the Cal Bar website before posting this.

http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/member_detail.aspx?x=25339

I'm a member of the CA bar and always look things up first before posting. Why don't journalists at the SF Chron do the same?

 

[Joseph DeMartino]

Why don't journalists at the SF Chron do the same?

In my experience journalists tend to be two things: Lazy, and ignorant. The average reporter would rather rewrite a press release or a spoon-fed story and stick his name on it than do any legwork, and most of them know so little about subjects other than journalism itself that they don't even know what questions to ask or when they are being conned. In this case it looks like Tarbox mentioned his 1974 suspension (for failing to pay bar dues) and conflated it with his 1975 disbarment (for failing to pay clients money won in a settlement.) Either that or Tarbox told the truth and the reporter simply took lousy notes and wrote a garbled story. (Given the state of reporting in this country I would not take bets either way. )

Regards,

Joe