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Captain Ken Narlow
- Ken Narlow: We really should have been in on the handwriting.
- Inspector William Armstrong: I apologize. You know, things have been moving fast. Listen we're gonna need your scene photos.
- Ken Narlow: Can't help you.
- Inspector William Armstrong: Ken, I don't want to get into a jurisdictional thing here.
- Ken Narlow: No, no, no, no, no. We didn't have a crime scene. The ranger that found the kids literally swept everything into a picnic blanket. All we have are the Wing Walker prints.
- Inspector William Armstrong: The what?
- Ken Narlow: Boot prints to and from the crime scene were made by size 10 1/2 Wing Walkers, military-style boots sold only at military PXs designed to walk on the wings of planes.
- Inspector William Armstrong: And you can't buy at a PX without a military ID, so our suspect could be military. Did you guys narrow your list off of this?
- Ken Narlow: Yeah.
- Inspector William Armstrong: Did Vallejo?
- Ken Narlow: I don't know. I don't work in Vallejo. I work here.
- Robert Graysmith: I just want to help.
- Ken Narlow: What are you, some kind of boy scout?
- Robert Graysmith: Eagle Scout, actually... First class.
- Inspector William Armstrong: I'm gonna need photos of those boot prints.
- Ken Narlow: Sure, if you send me the handwriting.
- Inspector William Armstrong: I thought Questioned Documents already did.
- Ken Narlow: Nope. Vallejo's got 'em, not us.
- Inspector William Armstrong: All right. I'll have Questioned Documents... forget it. I'll telefax it to you.
- Ken Narlow: We don't have telefax yet.
- Inspector William Armstrong: Okay, I'll put it in the mail.
- Ken Narlow: We'll mail ours, too. And call Mulanax in Vallejo. Maybe he can get you a mimeo.
- [Graysmith visits with Ken Narlow in Napa]
- Robert Graysmith: Does the name Rick Marshall mean anything to you?
- Ken Narlow: [it does] What are you after?
- Robert Graysmith: What have you got?
- Ken Narlow: Hypothetically, you just named my favorite suspect in the whole case. This is off the record. Couple of years back, I was trying to get Marshall's prints. I handed him a photo. He looks at it. He's about to give it back and he says, "My goodness, I got fingerprints all over this." And he wipes them off.
- Robert Graysmith: Why didn't you test him for handwriting?
- Ken Narlow: Because when they finally did run his prints... they cleared him against the one in Stine's cab.
- Robert Graysmith: So it's not him?
- Ken Narlow: Maybe yes, maybe no.
- Robert Graysmith: No? What do you mean?
- Ken Narlow: Zodiac left gloves behind at the scene. If he had the foresight to bring gloves with him, how the hell's he gonna accidentally leave a print behind?
- Robert Graysmith: But it was in the victim's blood.
- Ken Narlow: Could have been one of the bystanders, or a cop just reaches out... Boom. False print.
- Robert Graysmith: But that print disqualified 2,500 suspects.
- Ken Narlow: Which is why we used handwriting.
- Robert Graysmith: But not for Rick Marshall.
- Ken Narlow: S.F.P.D. saw a handwritten sign in the window of his house, decided it looked nothing like the Z letters, so they moved on.
- Robert Graysmith: How do they know Rick Marshall wrote the sign?
- Ken Narlow: [smiles] My thoughts exactly. Rick Marshall was a Navy man. He received code training. He was also a projectionist at a silent film theater.
- Robert Graysmith: How do I get a copy of Rick Marshall's handwriting?
- Ken Narlow: Three ways. One, get a warrant; which you can't. Two, get him to volunteer; which he won't.
- Robert Graysmith: Yeah, and three?
- Ken Narlow: Get creative.