The Death About a year ago, some residents at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles complained about the water quality. Sent to inspect the cause of the blackened and odd tasting water, a maintenance worker made a grisly discovery: the decomposing body of Elisa Lam in one of the roof’s water tanks. For about 19 days, residents at the Cecil Hotel bathed, drank, and brushed their teeth with corpse contaminated water. Even weirder, the hotel remained open and guests continued to check in and out as firefighters removed Lam’s body.
Lam was a 21-year-old college student visiting LA from Canada. An autopsy showed that there were no drugs or alcohol in her system and Lam’s death was subsequently ruled “‘accidental due to drowning, other significant conditions: bipolar disorder.'”
Many questions have been raised following Lam’s “accidental” death. How did she get to the roof without setting off alarms? How did she open the supposedly locked roof door? How did she manage to close the lid of the water tank from the inside? If she truly was having a psychotic episode, how did she get to the roof undetected?
Maybe it really was unfortunate circumstance. The alarms might not have been set (or malfunctioned). The door might have been left unlocked. In a frantic state, Lam might have figured out how to close the water tank lid (people have done stranger things with high amounts of adrenaline coursing through their veins). Maybe no one was around to see her.
Of course, my attempts to explain away the mystery might not satisfy everyone. I’ve seen some speculation that the murder was a “Twin Peaksesque twist [and] that her death was caused by the supernatural.” Others give the more practical explanation that a hotel worker was involved.
What happened to Elisa Lam? I’d read about her drowning on top of the Cecil Hotel in a water cistern. Some had speculated it was a suicide as a result of drug use. As there had just been a shootout in Orange County earlier in the week, I have to admit, her death slipped out of my mind. It was only after a few friends mentioned it to me that I read more about the suspicious circumstances surrounding her death. The cisterns where she was found weren’t easily accessible, and while they were unlocked, an alarm and a locked door would have to be passed for her to have gone upstairs.
To make the situation even stranger, the last recorded footage of her alive is viewable on YouTube. It’s from an elevator camera and is as inscrutable as the cause of her death. She enters the elevator and presses all the buttons. She peeks closely at what she’s pressed, seems confused why the door isn’t closing. Then she appears to hide alongside of the wall, moves to the corner, then peeks furtively out. She gets back in, pushes all the buttons again, confused as to why it isn’t moving. Her most inexplicable behavior happens when she starts flailing her arms, and it almost looks like she is arguing with someone or signaling something, though her finger gestures also imply an unusual state. One question that kept on coming back to me was, why wasn’t the elevator door closing? Why only after she left did it close?
Some have speculated in an almost Twin Peaksesque twist that her death was caused by the supernatural. Others say this indicates someone who worked at the hotel had to be involved. Honestly, the footage caused me shivers. Part of it was the silence, not knowing what she was doing. Another part of it was realizing these were the last known movements of this girl who was going to get killed shortly afterwards. It also occurred to me that it was possible she was extremely nervous and was hiding from someone. Speculation on the Internet has been rampant, and several Chinese on chinasmack.com (which translates Chinese reactions over the net into English) have suggested it could have been her flirtatiously playing hide-and-seek with a lover, or that she was in fear for her life as she tried to escape.
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It is hard to find any article on this woman's death without the banter about the video of her in the elevator and the fact that she was found in the water tanks. No articles are left anywhere that just describe her first missing and when and when she was last seen; everybody is busy trying to figure out what happened here. You can see the video on YouTube and about a thousand other websites; it is literally viral. Her death is a literal mystery with much conjecture about supernatural forces and whatnot. The police ruled her death an accident but, as everybody is pointing out, that is hard to believe. How did she end up on the roof in the water supply? There are a lot of locked doors before you get there and she was just a visitor at the hotel and did not work there. Many people think a hotel worker was involved but if this is possible, why is no one investigating this? Why is it just passed over? I think part of the reason is that she was Chinese from Canada and not American. She was just a "nobody". It's exactly this kind of case why I got interested in offering this blog, hoping to use Astrology to look into cases from a distance and possibly find clues. If nothing else, I can poke the monkey and maybe spark interest in reopening cases like this one and giving these victims some real consideration.
I don't think this was supernatural, as tempting as that drama might be. I also do not think she went up there and got into the water tanks, regardless of bi polar disorder. I have known lots of people with bi polar disorder and the depression they suffer is really deep, so that many of them do consider suicide. But I do not believe they get this creative just because they are bi polar; jumping off a roof or hanging oneself is easier and quicker than making ones way to the water supply, something, in fact, few visitors to hotels even think about, much less know where it is. I just don't believe she got there on her own, had some sort of weird accident, was kidnapped by ghosts or demons or was on drugs. The elevator video looks to me that she is playing around with someone, perhaps someone she is hiding from, trying to attract, spy on or just play around with. We never get to see the other person but I strongly believe there was somebody else there. Down the hall or in the doorway of a neighboring room, perhaps. And even though there were many deaths in the hotel and serial killers stayed there from time to time, this is true of many hotels and residences. This death is one of the strangest I've ever heard of and that makes it impossible for me to ignore. I just have to see what the charts tell me.
One problem I have is no time line. She was last seen on January 31st, in the hotel by witnesses. She was due to check out on February 1st and never did but then this video of her surfaced and this is where she was actually last seen on the date she was supposed to check out. Here is a generalized time line of her activities:
Jan. 26: Traveled to California Jan. 31: Last seen at The Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles Feb. 1: Lam is recorded acting strangely in hotel elevator Feb. 1: Lam was due to check out of hotel, but never surfaced Feb. 6: LAPD hold press conference about disappearance, family attends Feb. 19: Body found on hotel roof in a water tank
By the time they found her, she had been missing for two weeks. I do not believe they know exactly when she ended up in the water supply. Everybody keeps saying that she died shortly after she was in the elevator and this is based on the known fact that she never checked out on that date. So she died at some point on that same date... or she was kept from checking out for some reason and maybe held or trapped for an unknown period of time before she was dropped in the tank. It is my starting argument that she was dead when she was dropped in the water tank and no one knows for how long. So this is my problem with the timeline. This leaves me with no other recourse than to start running charts early in February and then keep going until something makes sense. Let's hope it gives us some idea of what happened.
Looking on Booking.com and TripAdvisor, I find the check out time at the Cecil Hotel is anytime before noon. But after much searching, I found a website that documented the actual timestamp on the video and gave 2 pm as the time when she was seen making hand gestures. You can see this page here: CAFEMOM .. Anyways, I will work with this and see what I can discover.
I want to point out a few things right off. Now, this documented time for 2 pm is already two hours after her scheduled check out time. So she was already planning to stay longer? Or was she detained by someone else, perhaps the same person she is seen gesturing to in the video? Almost everything about this case is a mystery that raises more questions and nothing provides any answers. It is beyond fascinating.
Looking at this chart, you can see that the first house cusp is changing from Gemini to Cancer. The changing of the Ascendant and it's ruler is a marker for imminent change. So there is no doubt that her circumstances were already in flux. Cancer on the first makes the Moon her ruler in the chart, as it is always the co ruler of any chart and in this one the first house ruler as well. It is positioned in the fifth house and the fifth house is a common marker for hotels, restaurants, bars and dance halls. The Moon is in Libra and is disposed of by Venus in the eighth. The eighth house rules sex and death; the fifth house also commonly rules romance and sex; romantic opportunities especially (as those you find in hotels, bars and dance halls). Saturn rules the seventh house and is a marker for anyone else who might have been in her company. Since it seems as if she is gesturing someone, hiding from someone, maybe even playing around with someone, this idea of another person looms large for me. Saturn is also in the fifth house of hotels and lodges as well as romance and sex. Was this other person an unnamed lover? Someone she was flirting with? Or actually having sex with? With these markers, this is possible. There is also no doubt that both this girl and this other person were in the hotel at the same time.I do not like Pluto in the seventh, it is a marker for chaos, disruption and violence and plays a role in rape and sexual assault. There is no aspect between the Moon and Saturn so there is no definitive descriptor of their relationship so it may be that they had only recently met each other. The node in the fifth, near to Saturn, indicates planning in advance. So was someone plotting and scheming in this instance? Was their meeting that morning something planned or, at the least, wished for?
Other factors I must note is that the fourth house ruler is Mercury, which is a strong marker for temporary housing and short term residences, which includes hotels. Mercury is in the ninth house and the ninth house is a descriptor for foreign places, foreigners, tourists, travelers, exchange students, etc... and we know this girl was Chinese from Canada and was a tourist in LA. This much in the charts dovetails with the known facts, which helps us determine that the charts are viable.
Most of the blog posts I read said that this video was taken only minutes before she was killed. I do not know how they know this; the police have been unable to say exactly when she ended up in the tank nor how long she had been there. Just because she had not been seen since does not prove that she was killed right away. Running the charts for 4 pm on the same day, the charts are telling us something else:
In this chart you see the first house ruler, still the Moon, is in the fourth house along with the seventh house ruler, which is still Saturn. This is her and her friend in the residence, most likely his room in the hotel. The Moon is disposed of by Venus, which is now at the seventh house cusp, and this shows Elisa in the company of someone else (the seventh house always depicts the "other person" in any instance). The seventh house ruler, in turn, is disposed of by Mars in the eighth house of sex and by Pluto in the sixth house. This placement leads me to believe that this person she is with is interested in sex with her. This person may well have worked at the hotel (Pluto in the sixth), possibly in maintenance or construction. The sign Capricorn is an earth sign that has an affinity for wood so perhaps this person was a carpenter or worked on the wood finishes in some manner.
The Moon, which marks our victim, is disposed of by Venus in Capricorn, which in turn is disposed of by Saturn, which describes her "partner". This type of complimentary loop often indicates that the two of them came together because of mutual desire. It would seem that she was there because of him (or her) and had not been forced or coerced. Since Saturn co rules Aquarius we might also note that Mars and Saturn are in mutual reception. This adds aggression to the personality as well as discipline and determination. This person she was with was strong and determined and could be hard to resist. Mars is getting ready to change signs, to move into Pisces, so watch what happens with the rest of the chart (most especially the angles) when this occurs.
The node in the sign Scorpio in the fifth house and disposed of by Mars in the eighth, there is no doubt that sex played in role in this event. And the chart for 6 pm, makes it perfectly clear. From here on in, I will describe her friend as a male, assuming she was heterosexual and that no other claim was made about her sexuality.
Here, you can see the seventh house ruler is Uranus, so expect something unexpected from her "friend". As Uranus is in the eighth house, this person is either a criminal or capable of lawless behavior. Sun is now ruling the first house cusp and it has moved into the sixth. This placement, the first house ruler in the sixth, is a known descriptor for disappearance; in charts where someone has run away and you see this placement, you must conclude that the person will never be seen again. In this instance, it is saying she will never been seen again, at least not alive. The Sun here is disposed of by the seventh house ruler, Uranus, so you can be sure she is doing his bidding and that he has plans for her. She is with him because she wants to be with him and now he is in complete control. She may have been so enamored of him that she had been coerced into doing something illegal (such as using drugs) in order to go along; although the tox screen did come up clean. Uranus in the eighth is, in turn, disposed of by Mars, in the seventh house, and this certainly looks like an assault, an attack, a situation that has turned to force. He is attempting to do something illegal by force and since Pluto is in the fifth house as well, I would say that he raped this girl. At the very least, he assaulted her.
So we know that she was still alive and in the company of an unknown person at 6 pm that evening. So she did not die "within minutes" of the video.
Another point I wish to make is about her bipolar disorder. First of all, this is not a reason for her to have an accident or to end up in a locked tank. This is not a magical condition that allows you to do magical things nor does it predispose to an accident. The police must have learned about her condition from her parents, which would mean she had been diagnosed and probably was being medicated. When they are on their medication, bi polar people are just like the rest of us. If she fell off her medication, this may explain some of the components here. For instance, they tend to get "high" on delusional ideas for sure and perhaps her infatuation was a bit extreme due to mania. She may have been convinced that she had found her soul mate or that she "belonged" with this person, which is a common misconception among people with delusional disorders. She may have made bad choices because of mania and ended up with a dangerous individual. She may have been convinced to use drugs as well, especially since mania makes bi polar sufferers feel invincible (but, again, I must note that the tox screen came up clean). She may have been likely to do all sorts of things she would not ordinarily do. Now, I realize the argument has been for depression but, for one thing, she does not look depressed in the video and it is unlikely she would have left her room to begin with if she were severely depressed. I do not believe this was suicide, no matter how conveniant that explanation seems, mostly because she got through several locked doors and ended up in a tiny. locked tank. Who on earth could believe this was an accident?
Please notice Jupiter in Gemini in the tenth. Now, Jupiter does not rule any angles nor does it dispose of any angular planets but it's placement in the tenth must be studied. It is disposed of by Mercury, which is angular at the descendant, and is key in describing this "other person" Elisa was with. Gemini implies two people. Mercury at the seventh describes somebody young, such as an older teen or young adult perhaps. Mercury stands alone and is not connected to the other planets in the seventh so I believe this is one or two people, young people, who live and/or work at this hotel. The other planets in this house are Neptune, which rules the eighth house and Mars, which rules the fourth. Mars is telling us they are still in the hotel in a room. A room where somebody lives. Neptune, the ruler of the eighth, is telling us that either sex or death was a part of the purpose in this event. Sex has been mentioned by the charts more than several times now, so it was likely a sexual attraction that brought Elisa to this room with this person. Pluto co rules the fourth from the fifth, another marker for sex. With Pluto, it could easily be forced sex or sexual assault. I am getting more and more convinced that Elisa was raped and possibly by more than one person. I am just wondering if they even checked her for this since they seem to have assumed she climbed in there on her own. But, to excuse this apparent misstep on their part somewhat I must admit that water tends to wash away body fluids and makes it hard to prove that flesh is damaged. Immersion in the tank might have made a rape kit useless.
Now, to save time I will resist running a ton of charts past you as I look for the next big moment in this event. The charts I run for the remainder of this night are reflecting small events, such as eating, drinking or sleeping and are boring and unproductive. But running the charts forward, I find that she is still alive and in this same room days later. There are placements in the charts along the way that reflect captivity or restraint. It is possible, if he lives in the motel and does not require maid service, that she was kept in this room for quite some time. Her body was not recovered until the 19th. The next best prospect, under these conditions, is to run a chart for the time of her discovery and see what it reveals.
I ran charts for the day they found her and discovered that, at around 3:30 pm, the planets are lined up to describe what we know to be true. Here the tenth house ruler, Mars, is in the eighth. The tenth house describes authority, such as the police or even hotel management, and the eighth house shows us death. The first house ruler, Elisa's marker, is here in the eighth along with Mars, in the water sign Pisces and all disposed of by Neptune, also in the eighth and in Pisces. Neptune is in dignity so it is the strongest marker here and it is known to describe "hidden things". Pisces describes the water in the tank and Neptune shows her submerged and hidden there. Saturn, which always describes dead bodies in death cases, is in the water sign Scorpio in the fourth. She is definitely still at the hotel (the fourth) and hidden in water (Scorpio). DARK water as was described many times in this case and Scorpio always describes DARK places and places that are hard to navigate or where darkness hides things. So this chart is reflecting what we already know; she was discovered in the water tank, dead, on February 19.
Now I cannot help but be curious about when she was put there, knowing that the charts have been telling us she was in the room for weeks. So I run charts backward to see when the first house ruler enters the eighth and then when it enters the sign Pisces. This is the chart I discovered:
In this chart, at this time, the first house ruler is Cancer and the Moon has just entered the sign Pisces at 1 degree. This is when she was dropped into that tank; maybe not the exact moment but within this time frame. The Moon is closely adjoined to Neptune, reflecting the need to hide her. The seventh house shows us the person who put her there and this is ruled by Saturn. Saturn is still in Scorpio and in the fourth house. Again, he lives at the motel and he wanted her for sex and then he needed to hide her (Neptune and the sign Scorpio both reflect secrets). The node is in the fourth, having just passed over Saturn, telling us that he planned this in the recent past and had already chosen the hiding place. Something he does at the hotel allows him access to the water tanks. He may well have been among those that "discovered" her. So I think I would be willing to say that she was already in the tank by Feb 10. Which means she actually died within that 10 day period. So I am going to run charts for that period and see if I can find the time of death. From that, we might be able to determine both how she died and who killed her.
I did occur to me that they probably killed her either early on the 10th or in the days preceding that date. I believe she has already been placed in the tank on that day (or within the 24 hour period prior to this event, mainly because I can't imagine them keeping a dead body around for a long time). So I started with the 9th of February and hit on the first death pattern right away. It is present at 3 pm on February 9th and I cannot duplicate it at any other time on any other day. The pattern actually started at 2 pm on that day and then continues until 3 pm and then disappears.
Looking at this chart, you can see what I am referring to. Cancer rules the first house cusp and is Elisa's marker. Here it is in the eighth house of death. It is under the Sun's beams, which is a marker for danger and for misfortune. The twelfth house ruler, Mercury, is in the eighth house as well and Saturn, the marker for the dead body of the victim, is in the fourth house, showing her body to have expired in that room. Saturn also, curiously, marks the "other person" in this event. I am not sure what that means outside of a "togetherness". I won't comment on that. The tenth house ruler, Mars, is also in the eighth. All of these placements indicate death and the presence of a dead body. I must also note the mutual reception between Pluto and Saturn, which has several meanings. One, that the dead body died by violence. But another is hate. Pluto and Saturn disposing of each other can often mean murder for hate, or, in other words, a hate crime. She may have been targeted because she was Chinese.
This pattern stays in place during the same trending time for the next 24 hours or so. And then the charts show the dumping in the tank event. So she was killed around the 9th and then dumped on the 10th. So she was in the tank for 9 days before she was discovered. She could have ended up in there for months if no one had complained about the water. And just because she had "bi polar disorder" and was Chinese and not American, her death was chalked up to suicide and dismissed, even though the known facts just don't support that theory. Whether or not you believe in Astrology, you must admit that not much attention was given to the death of this girl.
The last chart I was to study is the one drawn for the day before she was discovered. I want to show you something.
Notice that Uranus rules the seventh house. Notice that Uranus is in the ninth house, showing someone who may be foreign or from another country. And then Uranus is disposed of by Mars, which rules the tenth house and Mars is in the eighth. The person who killed Elisa and knew she was dead and in that tank was among those who "discovered" her. I thought this might be the case when I saw the first charts I studied but I could not reveal it until I had more clues. But now it is obvious to me. He worked at the hotel, lived or used rooms at the hotel, raped and abused women at the hotel and was among those who discovered this girls body. He may have never killed a girl there before or if he had he may have taken them elsewhere. But the rooftop tanks, behind locked doors, were safe and hidden and if he had access to them, easy for him to take advantage of. This man is the person who kidnapped her, held her, raped her and killed her and then dumped her in the tank, only to "discover" her later.
How can we tell more about him? Perhaps find more clues as to who he is and how he can be brought to justice? First of all, I seriously doubt that he will ever be caught for this or punished. I do not think the police will ever change their story or, if they do, it will be many years from now with new people. But the charts say he works there and lives there and has access to the tanks. This should narrow it down to some degree, if anyone were to care. And the markers are there to describe him in other ways as well. Using the chart I drew for her actual time of death, I can draw some details from the seventh house. Saturn in the fourth describes someone who lives at the hotel, which we already know. Saturn in Scorpio describes someone older with dark features. This person is secretive, quiet, apparently shy and reclusive. He is not friendly with others at the hotel and spends a lot of time alone. Saturn is trine both Mercury and Mars so he has said little to others that would raise suspicion, is very careful in his words and actions and has not ever drawn fire or anger from others at the hotel. He will avoid confrontations at all costs. He gets along with everyone on a superficial level but no one knows anything about him. He does not incur their curiosity, either. He stays to himself.
He is probably thin and small in overall size. Dark features, closed up features, does not smile much. Does his job, doesn't forget or shirk responsibility but prefers to work alone and has gone out of his way to get other people out of his job. This should give people some information helpful to singling him out. I very much doubt anyone is looking to do this at this point but attention should be given to other women who either may go missing or may end up dead. The Saturn and Pluto connection here gives a tendency towards violence and Mars in Pisces trine to Saturn as well can point to perversities and exotic desires.
On November 14, 1970, 18 year-old Robin Ann Graham spent her Saturday night hanging out with friends. After she dropped her one of her girl friends off, she dropped her car off at Pier One Imports where she worked part time in Los Angeles, CA around 1:45 AM. She left the store driving her boyfriend's car. The car was known to have stalled out around 2:00 AM on the Hollywood Freeway going south near Santa Monica Boulevard and Vermont Ave. A California highway patrol man says he saw her standing next to her car carrying a leather purse, and pulled over to see if she needed help. She claimed that her parents were on the way after she called them and told them she had ran out of gas. Her sister answered that phone call and relayed the message to her parents who arrived home around 2:30 AM.
He later saw her with an unidentified white male in his twenties who had his light blue hard top 1957-1960 Chevrolet Corvette parked behind Robin's boyfriend's car. The unknown man was wearing bell bottom trousers and a white turtle neck top. He stood at about 5'8" in height. The highway patrolman watched the unidentified male get Robin's boyfriend's car started, then they rode off in his car together. The patrolman says it appears Robin got into the man's car willingly.
The next day, her parents searched for Robin and found her car, locked up and abandoned on the side of the freeway. Robin has never been seen or heard from
Robin was a student at Pierce College when she vanished. She also had brown hair and brown eyes, and is 5'6" and weighed 125 lbs. She was last wearing a blue corduroy jacket with gold buttons, blue jeans, red clog shoes, a red Jersey blouse along with last being seen carrying a leather purse.
Months later, a woman came forward and said her car had also stalled alongside the freeway, and a man driving a Corvette stopped and offered to help her, saying he was an off duty detective. She refused his offer, and he left. There's been no proof this is the same man last seen with Robin, but it is probable. The woman later identified this unknown man as Bruce Davis, who is one of the numerous people suspected of being the Zodiac Killer.
Davis was a serial killer who held California in terror in the late 1970s. He continues to be a suspect in numerous unsolved disappearances and murders in California, including that of a couple that was found in an alley in the Silver Lake district not too far from Los Angeles. Each had been stabbed over 40 times. Not to mention, the realm concerning Davis' connections with Charles Manson, which is a whole different rabbit hole to jump into.
Being there is speculation Robin fell victim to the Zodiac Killer or Bruce Davis (or both, if they are one in the same), there are other cases we must look at that could be connected to Robin's disappearance.
Robin Graham was last seen by California Highway Patrol officers at approximately 2:00 a.m. on November 15, 1970, beside her car on the shoulder of the southbound Hollywood Freeway near the Santa Monica offramp; she was in the presence of a dark-haired white man estimated to be in his mid-twenties who drove a late 1950s model Chevrolet Corvette C1, pale blue or green with primer. Graham used a call box to ask that a CHP emergency operator let her parents know she had run out of gas. Graham's younger sister took the call and relayed the information to her parents upon their return home at approximately 2:30 a.m. They went immediately to the location where they found Robin's car, but she was not there. There was no note found on her locked car. The CHP officers had stopped several times earlier and spoke with Graham but did not stop again when they saw her talking with the young man; the patrolmen assumed he was family, the help for which she'd called. The CHP officers were acting in accordance with policy; as a result of this case CHP policy was changed to ensure the safety of stranded female motorists.
Graham had been out Saturday night with friends. After dropping off a girlfriend, Graham was dropped off at her car in the Pier 1 Imports parking lot, at approximately 1:45 a.m. The initial report had Graham leaving voluntarily in the Corvette, but the CHP officer who made that report was requestioned and said he saw her in the presence of the young man but did not see them leave.
The case was handled by detectives at the Rampart Division of the LAPD who thought Graham's disappearance was possibly linked to three other similar cases involving young women over the previous two years, including Rose Tashman, an Israeli-born student at San Fernando Valley State College who disappeared in 1969. She had a flat tire on the Hollywood Freeway, a few miles from the location of Graham's car. Months before Graham's disappearance, another young woman, Cindy Lee Mellin disappeared on January 20, 1970; her car was found with a flat tire, she has never been found. None of the other cases were solved and all the other victims were found dead in the Hollywood Hills. In 1975, a similar disappearance took place from the San Bernardino Freeway, in El Monte. The skeletal remains of Mona Jean Gallegos were found nearly six months later in a Riverside ravine. At the time of her disappearance Graham had long brown hair, brown eyes, fair skin and was 5'6 in height.
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Although it was the possible tie between this murder and the Zodiac killings of the 1960s that first attracted me to this case, I tend to dismiss this tie after thinking it through. This case has none of the hallmarks attributed to the Zodiac. For one thing, her body was never found and the Zodiac was not one to hide his kills. In fact, not only did he leave them out in the open but he wrote letters to the media and the police, bragging about them. I cannot see what he would gain by killing this girl privately. It just doesn't fit his method of operation. And I have done some of the known murders of the Zodiac to try and see if I could find a thread. I wanted to figure out similarities in the killer to shed more light on who he was but I could not find enough similarities to bring them together, which was highly disappointing. In fact, the charts all look as if different killers were responsible. I have no way of knowing if that could be the case or not so I just let it go. I promise, however, that as I work on my system and refine it, I will return to the Zodiac cases and look again. I would like nothing better than to help shed light on that mystery. As far as this case goes, I am seeing similarities in several others I am currently working on, including the last case I posted, Cindy Lee Mellin. In fact, this case and the Mellin case sometimes get me confused because they are so similar.
But continuing on to the case at hand, I drew up charts for the various times reported and read them all. But for this post, I will start with the time last seen by a credible witness, which was 2 am and 2:30 am where the police officer saw her with her abductor. Let's see what these charts have to say:
This chart, run for 2 am, which is the time her car apparently broke down, is very revealing. I have always wondered about the car thing. If it ran out of gas, then the problem was money, not the car. So her boyfriend must have run out of gas or was low on gas and could not afford to reup so he left the car. Robin got in it and quickly found out it was out of gas but apparently she didn't have the money to fill it up which she could have done easily, even having the cop help her. But she had called her parents, assuming they had the time and money to get the gas and go get her but it appears they weren't even home. Or at least not for another half an hour. This is the 1970s and nobody had cell phones. So she would have to wait for her parents to return for her sister to relay the message. But my real question is this. If she didn't have a cell phone and was out on a highway without means to get to a payphone, which were, even back then, hard to find, how did she make that call? That's what I would like to know. I guess no one has answered that question. Oh, and the idea that she had walked to a payphone from a major highway, which would mean a gas station, I suppose, then why couldn't she have gotten some gas? And how did she pickup the car at 1:30 am and then be seen at 2 am on the highway and still have time to walk to a gas station and walk back? Hmmm.... I feel like Columbo right now. LOL.
Looking at the chart, I see that Pluto is right at the first house cusp at 2 am. The seventh house ruler, Neptune, is in the third house with Mercury, showing this other person to be with her car. Mercury also rules the first house cusp so Robin is there with this person with the car. So the cop was telling the truth. I had, for a moment, thought that maybe the cop had lied and that he was the actual killer but the charts proved that wrong. Anyways, you can see that the Moon is in the ninth house in Gemini. This puts her out on a highway. The Moon in Gemini is disposed of by Mercury which is, as already noted, in the third house. So she is on a highway, concerned about her car. And then Mercury and Neptune are both disposed of by Jupiter, which rules the fourth house cusp. This tells us that both of these people are discussing how to get her home, to HER home, as shown by the fourth house which is always the residence of the subject. So this explains why she got into his car willingly; he was promising to take her home. But there are already omens in this chart which will have to be watched. Pluto is right at the first house cusp and moving across it. Saturn has appeared in the eighth. Now, Saturn does not rule any angles at this time and therefor has no real value in the chart but the presence of Saturn in a moving chart is scary because at any time, Capricorn can move onto an angle. And then it would have real meaning. The other thing we have to watch is the Moon in Gemini, now in the ninth, but probably moving into the eighth house in a short while. This while Pluto crosses the first house cusp into the twelfth and Mars moves through the first towards the cusp. Notice that Uranus is traveling with Mars and that Uranus disposes of the node. There is no death pattern in this chart and she is not dead yet but these omens indicate she may be very shortly.
I do not know how much later the police officer drove by the second time and saw her still there, but the next chart shows what happens to her.
Pluto has crossed the first house cusp into the twelfth and notice that Aries is now on the seventh and Mars is in the first. Mars with Uranus rising to the first house cusp with Uranus disposing of the node. This may have been a surprise attack but he had planned it. He knew exactly what he was going to do and how he was going to attack her, surprising her and throwing her off balance. That was his game. The first house ruler is now Venus and notice how Mars and Uranus are disposed of by Venus, showing her to be his purpose at this point. The whole reason he is out there, on this highway, looking to do this sort of thing, is to have the opportunity to kidnap a vulnerable girl. And here she was. So as soon as she is in that car, on her supposed ride home, he attacked her. And notice Venus. It has been in the second house for awhile but now it rules the first so it shows us her location. To me, when people are in a car, the second house is the storage area or the trunk. I think he knocked her out (Pluto and Mars in the first) and then put her in the trunk. And notice that, just as I had feared, Saturn has moved into the eighth house and now it rules an angle, the fourth house. So everything is coming together. The death pattern is emerging. But it won't be complete until the Moon joins Saturn in the eighth. It will do this in a chart or two, but for the meantime, this girl was alive in the trunk for a period of time. But I believe she died in that trunk. He left her there, with a serious head injury, and she died.
So I am wondering what he wanted with her? I mean, only to kill her and put her in the trunk? To what end? It almost makes me afraid to look at the other charts. But onward we go none the less.
And here you see the death pattern complete. The Moon slips into the eighth along with Saturn. You can see Venus still in the second, surrounded by other planets. This shows her still in the trunk and it looks like there's a lot of junk in there with her. None of these other planets rule angles so we know these don't represent people but they represent objects. Just for the sake of understanding Astrology, I will make note of few things here. Saturn, the death marker, is opposed to Venus, the first house ruler and Jupiter, which just represents some object. I would guess that her death was facilitated by an object put in the trunk with her, such as a blanket to smother her face or something heavy set down on her chest, as examples. This is truly unimportant in the progress of this analysis, but it does help shed light on Astrology in general.. and I can rarely resist doing that.
So now I am curious but also fearful. She has died in the trunk, perhaps on purpose, perhaps on accident. Did he want to have her alive? Or was his purpose to just kill her? What will he do with her now? I have to move on to find out.
It isn't until I ran this chart that I saw her being taken out of the trunk. The death pattern is still in place so he didn't revive her or anything like that. She was still dead but you can see the first house ruler, Venus, has moved out of the second and into the first house. Venus is in Scorpio, which is disposed of by Mars and Mars rules the seventh house from the twelfth. He takes her body to a private place, some place hidden from view. It is a place where he hides himself at times. Scorpio can imply crawlspaces, underground plumbing reservoirs, standing water and retention ponds, landfills, sewage runoff areas, places with lots of insects, etc... so I'm thinking maybe some place pretty nasty. Looking at the chart otherwise I note that the node is now in the fifth, her body markers are in the eighth and his markers are in the twelfth so there is possibility that he was a necrophiliac or some other such pervert and wanted to spend time with a dead body. Pluto, Mars and Uranus remain in the twelfth which makes me think that there is something about death and dieing that intrigues him. Saturn describes fear so perhaps a fear of dieing drives his interest in death so he satisfies himself by killing others. And yet there appears to be a sexual component here, too, so I would assume he only entertains himself this way with women. The node is in the fifth and Uranus rules the fifth with Uranus conjoined his marker, would indicate a sexual interest. I don't see aggressive markers with the sexual markers so I do not think he actually had sex with her. Still, Pluto disposes of Venus and is also changing signs, so her transition from being alive to being dead has some meaning for him.
The Moon rules the tenth house (a marker for authority) and is closing in on a trine with Mars, which is a sign that he will never be caught. Whether they know it or not, the authority has done things that have kept him free. Moon in Gemini hints at disagreements and two trains of thought that conflict. The ninth house depicts the lawmakers and lawyers and it, too, is ruled by Gemini and the planet Mercury. Confusion was a problem for the police and the lawyers could never agree on how to handle this case. It looks like they were more concerned in connecting it with other cases than solving it on it's own. I think the Zodiac idea grabbed them and kept them on the wrong track. The Moon went through an opposition to Neptune, which created clouds of doubt and possibly misleading clues. What people thought they saw may not be what they actually saw at all. Somebody may have outright lied about times and places. Both Neptune and Pluto are in the process of changing signs, so there were greater forces at work at the time that either clouded the clues in this case or turned people's attentions elsewhere. It never got the treatment it should have; that is not a personal assessment or judgment by me but is in fact shown in the charts.
The only change in the chart for 4 am (15 minutes later) is that Saturn has moved into the seventh house, showing her body to be in his possession. And the chart for 5 am seems to show that he put her body in an area close to his home and probably some place where she would not be accidentally discovered. Saturn is in Taurus and Taurus rules gardens and trees close to the home or even right next to the house. It also rules and describes dark closets, trunks, low rooms with thresholds under dirt, in fact, any dark place low to the ground. Taurus has this in common with Capricorn and Virgo. Pluto is still in Virgo here so this supports the same scenario. Pluto is in the eleventh house which actually describes hallways in the home and areas inside and outside the home where people gather. Outside, this is usually the patio. So I am thinking the charts are saying that she is buried in muddy ground close to the home and possibly around the patio. If the patio has pavers or other concrete or brick flooring, then that would fit as well. Especially if the area gets wet, has standing water at times, attracts mosquitos and other bugs and the pavers are often under dirt. This would fit the markers this chart is describing. So it is doubtful that Robin's body would have been found by accident and unless the police had a reason to suspect this person, the home would never be searched. And I think this is another reason he has never been caught and Robin has never been found. And, in my personal opinion, I do not think this was Zodiac but there is a very good chance that this is the same man who took Cindy Lee Mellin. Those two cases should be investigated for links.
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