https://www.fox13now.com/news/national-news/investigators-say-theyve-finally-identified-the-zodiac-killer

SAN FRANCISCO  A team of cold case investigators say they have finally identified the Zodiac Killer, one of America's most prolific serial murderers who terrorized San Francisco in the late 1960s.

Fox News reported, The Case Breakers, a team of more than 40 detectives, journalists and military intelligence officers, believes the killer is responsible for a murder hundreds of miles away that was never linked to him previously.

The Zodiac Killer has been connected to five murders in 1968 and 1969 in the San Francisco area. The Zodiac taunted authorities with complex riddles and codes in letters sent to newspapers and police. The murders spawned books, movies and documentaries. Amateur and professional detectives have pored over the case to try to identify the killer.

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those sketches were on point

glad to know that he's burning in hell, sucks that he lived so long

eta: looks like the group responsible for identifying has an iffy history

Everybody looked like that then.

Interesting.

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Not much “proof” in the article…more speculation.

At this point I don’t think we’ll ever know 100% for sure who he was.

Hogslop. If they had real information, they'd release it. This is a complete nothing burger concocted by a group trying to get exposure.

And here I was hoping he had gotten drafted and killed in Vietnam.

I think that this is their proof:

Joe Biden's ineptitude has still killed more people than the Zodiac Killer. That should be the message.

Last year, 2020, I posted in GD, an article that a group of cryptographers, I believe from France, had deciphered the letter where Zodiac stated his name. They explained how they did it, and their methodology. I am positive that it was not the name in this article.

Cool, if true

In other news, they've finally identified Jack the Ripper....

Until someone matches DNA to one of the letters, which may not even be possible anymore, this case is unlikely to ever be considered solved. It will just be another theory amongst hundreds.

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There’s the DNA link so he did kill that other poor girl.

Doesn't someone claim this every few years?

Yes, it was somebody different a few years ago they claimed the code was cracked a different way.


But going on that sketch and their evidence I’ve found the real killer

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naw it turned out that ted cruiz was not him

Phauxi and the AMA protocol for Wuflu has killed thousands of Americans.

Posse of three roaming the High Sierras?
Who are the other two in the network?
Interesting.

We have Zodiac's DNA.   It is only a matter of time.

I always thought it was Arthur Leigh Allen.

Mahk!

Everyone knows Bernie Sanders was the Zodiac Killer.

Zodiac was a group. Arthur was the trigger puller, the theater guy was the note writer. Hence why they could never place one or the other anywhere and the handwriting never matched. They probably met at a showing of "the most dangerous game" and decided to act it out

Interesting. The idea that his name is the key to solving one of the codes is compelling. I wonder what hard evidence they have, if any, from his estate?

Absolutely agree along with DB Cooper.

Good memory.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Did-a-French-engineer-crack-the-last-two-Zodiac-16268578.php

You fools !  You're all now on double secret probation because "The Man" saw you clicked on this thread !  Only guilty people click on these threads !

Paywall.

Kinda resembles that fella with the avatar sportin the John Deere hat

From the SF Chronicle

The Zodiac Killer's infamously uncrackable 340 cipher has been solved.

A French engineer says he’s cracked two ciphers purportedly left behind by the infamous Zodiac Killer, including one that he reportedly says reveals the murderer’s identity.

But Fayçal Ziraoui’s impressive claims — including that he deciphered the killer’s mystifying messages in just two weeks — have been met with stiff resistance by the fervent online community of Zodiac code-crackers skeptical of his methods, the New York Times reported Monday.

Police investigators and an army of amateur sleuths have spent decades trying to decode the cryptic messages left behind by the Zodiac, who killed five people in the Bay Area in 1968 and 1969.

The first of four ciphers, sent to media outlets including The Chronicle in 1969 and 1970, was solved quickly. Last December, an international team of code breakers from the U.S., Australia and Belgium claimed to have deciphered a second code, known as the 340 Cipher. The message read in part, “I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me.”

Using an encryption key and other tools, Ziraoui told The Times he was able to unlock the remaining two codes, known as Z32 and Z13 Ciphers — named after the number of characters or symbols in each message. The Z13 code supposedly contained the killer’s name because the encrypted message was preceded by the words “my name is.”

Using some of the tools published by the team that cracked the 340 Cipher along with other codebreaking methods, Ziraoui told The Times the Z13 Cipher spelled out “KAYR,” letters he thought were similar to Lawrence Kaye, who was long considered a suspect in the murders. Kaye, who also went by the name Kane, died in 2010.

Ziraoui said the longer, 32-character code revealed coordinates for a location in South Lake Tahoe, where Kaye lived and a spot referred to in a postcard believed sent by the Zodiac Killer in the early 1970s.

Ziraoui posted his results to online forums dedicated to cracking the killer’s messages, where he was met with fierce criticism over his methods, and the speed with which he was seemingly able to crack a code that befuddled thousands of people for decades.

A Parisian cryptographer and professor interviewed by The Times, however, reviewed Ziraoui’s methods and said they should be considered by police investigating the killer.

Dominic Fracassa is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @dominicfracassa

His dna didn't match

I’m not buying it. And on a related note people put way too much importance on the police sketch.

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He's a versatile actor.

Good portrayal of Zodiac.


He made a good Mr. Mom in Fargo too.


Mad fighting skillz in Ron Burgandy.

I thought the Zodiac turned out to be a bus driver from San Fran.

Again?

I'd go with Fauci's Bull Shit...