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Se Father Finds , Stabbed Body: in Saratoga - BY JIM STINGLEY | Times Staff Writer | An 18-year-old Saratoga girl was! found stabbed to death in a Santa’ Clara County park Monday and au! thorities said the murder “could! well be the work of the so-called Zodiac killer." The body of Kathy Bilek, a Sara- toga High Schoo! honor student, was' tound by her father, Charles Bilek, an IBM engineer who brought his! family to this country as refugees| trom Hungary. He began a search with 30 Santa Clara County deputies after the girl failed to return home Sunday from an afternoon of bird watehing in nearby Villa Montalve Park. ; The girl had been stabbed 40 times with a short-bladed knife, authori- ties said. Checking Connection Santa Clara County sheriff's homi- cide Det. Sgt. Robert Malone said that “it's possible the Zodiac did this. We ave checking right now for any connection." The murder is almost a carbon copy.of a.gouble killing indhe same area less than two years ago, Malone) RTC pe wonderment as to why their daugh- miei ~_ Of Sunday, Aug. 8, [969 the. hut®eret™bodies of Dehor aay! Furlong, 14, and Cathy Snoozy, 15, both of San Jose, were found in a rural area about six miles from Villa! Montalve Park. ' Autopsy surgeons told police) Monday that "it appears the death of | Miss Bilek and the deaths of the Furlong and Snoozy girls are relat-| _ ted." "Both cases were instances of psy- chotic, frenzied-type killing," Ma- lone said. The Zodiac was last heard from a month ago when he wrote a taunt- ing, bragging postcard to The Times, indicating that the body of one-of his victims could be found in, an avea of the snow-covered High, ~ Sierra. The killer wrote also that his mut-| ders now totaled "17-plus." Police of-! ficially link only six to him, five of them in Northern California. ‘ Lack of Motive Noted ° 1 While authorities did not have any! {substantial proof that the latest kill ing was Zodiac's, they could not help} {but note similarities in the case that! leaned toward the Zodiac style. ° One similarity was the apparent! jlack of motive. It wasn't robbery,| ‘and according to the autopsy report, it wasn't rape. Whatever it was, it was enough to cause concern for their children: to; spread throughout Saratoga—and enough to cause the family of Kathy Bilek to go into mournful, secluded ter diet