S.F. police to interview 'Zodiac' claimant

SAN FRANCISCO, June 10 (UPI) -- A woman who says her father was San Francisco's infamous Zodiac Killer will soon get her first police interview, a spokesman says.

Deborah Perez, who says her late father Guy Ward Hendrickson was responsible for the "Zodiac" slayings in the Bay Area in the late 1960s and early 1970s, will appear before San Francisco detectives on June 17, the spokesman said in a release issued Tuesday.

Perez says she was 7 years old when she was taken along by Hendrickson as he killed two people, one in Vallejo, Calif., and one in San Francisco. She turned over to police eyeglasses allegedly worn by cabdriver victim Paul Stine, a press release said.

Perez's claims are vehemently denied by her stepsister, Janice Hendrickson, who told the San Francisco Chronicle last month her father, who died in 1983, was sometimes violent but could never have killed anyone, alleging Perez is motivated by Garrison's documentary to spin tales.

San Francisco police spokeswoman Lyn Tomioka told the Examiner she couldn't confirm the meeting with Perez but said investigators are anxious to talk to her.

The Zodiac Killer is believed responsible for at least five killings from December 1968 to October 1969.