Can we update the link to just go to the full story rather than the summarized version? (sorry, I know it's kinda "offtopic" but that just bugged me starting to read and just being redirected to another site)
[0] https://www.foxnews.com/us/cold-case-zodiac-killer-identifie...
> Hans Smits told Fox News he spent 10 years hiding a whistleblower who said he escaped a criminal "posse" headed by Poste [now identified as the Zodiac]. The man, who The Case Breakers only referred to as Wil, told Smits the posse roamed California's High Sierra region and that he was "groomed into a killing machine."
> In addition, Wil said he witnessed Poste burying murder weapons in the woods, Smits said.
> "They put out several bear caches out there in case something happened," Smits said.
> Smits said he gave Wil financial, logistical and emotional support over the years and moved him around for nearly 10 years in an effort to keep him safe.
> Despite being dead for three years, some people are mysteriously still loyal to him, said Michelle, who also declined to provide her last name.
> "He targeted young men who didn't have a father figure," she said. "It was a posse of three but the one [Poste] did a lot of damage. He still has some kind of control… and he's gone."
That's not to say that no such weapons cache exists. I imagine there must be plenty of outlaw-ish people in rural regions with sizable above- and underground collections of firearms. But often their boasts of paramilitary acumen tend to be rather overstated, so claims of a serial killer grooming posthumously loyal killing machines would require rather extraordinary proof.
https://thecasebreakers.org/2021/10/cold-case-team-says-zodi...
https://thecasebreakers.org/2021/09/the-last-zodiac-victim/
Press release #1: https://secureservercdn.net/166.62.114.250/g9q.07b.myftpuplo...