A team of volunteer codebreakers has cracked a mysterious cipher sent more than 50 years ago to a newspaper by the San Francisco serial killer who called himself the Zodiac, the FBI said on Friday.
The Zodiac Killer – who was never caught – shot or stabbed seven people in the San Francisco Bay Area over the course of about year in 1968 and 1969, killing all but two of them. During his murderous spree, he sent a series of terrifying letters to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.
Some of the notes were in code, including a particularly complex missive with 340 characters that became known as the 340 cipher.
“I hope you are having lots of fun trying to catch me,” said the cipher, cracked last week by codebreakers David Oranchak, Sam Blake and Jarl Van Eycke, according to a video posted on YouTube by Oranchak. “I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to radice (sic) all the sooner because I now have enough slaves to work for me.”
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This is as legitimate as the Forrest Fenn hoax about some alleged treasure he buried somewhere in a mountainous region in Wyoming. Now, supposedly allegedly some “anonymous” “undisclosed” adventurer found the treasure but we are not being told who or where it was found, and on top of that, Mr. Fenn allegedly died right after the treasure was allegedly found. Boy, the American people are so gullible.