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ae . : ae t- sony : : 2 LA 62-6854 \yl"tne Riverside Police Department. Detective QM ciated "The Confession" described-details of the murder of CHERI JO BATES and the manner in which her vehicle was disabled which would have been known only to the unknown subject who mur- ~ dered her. - He advised the hand printed letters stating, in effect, "Bates had to die, there willbe more" had been received after "The Confession" letter had been. received. + as te ie a Detects ve stated that after*an®’article by 2.0: reporter PAUL AVERY in the San Francisco Chronicle in early. - ye: 120. which AVERY claimed the CHERI JO BATES murder had peen committed by Zodiac, Zodiac thereafter directed a let-. 0 - a ter to the Chronicle in which he claimed responsibility for -~ ... this murder. ne Looe Detective QM stated that several months after the CHERI JO BATES murder, the poem which starts, "Sick of . living/Unwilling to die...," was discovered in the library at Riverside City College, Riverside, California, where 7 _ > CHERI JO BATES was attending at the time of her murder. He "pointed out the night she was murdered she had left the: ~:~ library in which this poem was discovered. He said it‘had™ © apparently been written with a blue ball point pen into the soft wood of a plywood study desk. ~ Se Detective GMD «2 +00 that all latent fingerprints Lay in instant case had been submitted to the Identification ‘vision, Latent Fingerprint Section, on 11/4/66. Detective xhibited a letter from the Latent Fingerprint Section ated 11/15/66 which reflected Latent Case #73096 had been - assigned to the Riverside submissions. He added that from . the latents previously submitted to the Bureau, only four . 7 fingerprints and three partial palm prints remain unidentified. _ REQUESTS OF THE BUREAU The FBI Laboratory is requested to compare the .. . handwriting or hand printing of the enclosed documents with previously submitted samples of the handwriting or hand printing attributable to Zodiac.