It was the killer's use of ciphers that most intrigued investigators, the media, and the public. These cryptograms represented a new and perplexing element to the pursuit of the Zodiac. 65 years ...

In 1969, the Zodiac killer sent a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle accompanied by a cipher. It took over 50 years to crack the code - and it finally has been.

While most killers hide in the shadows, California’s Zodiac Killer taunted police and the terrified community, relishing in his kills and promising more violence in a series of chilling, hand-written ...

THE Zodiac Killer murdered at least five people and taunted the police with clues and ciphers. The killer was never caught but he claimed that his identity could be found in the cipher. … ...

It was the content of the letters, the ciphers, that made the Zodiac killer unique. He created the lore on purpose, Schechter says, wearing a costume in one of his killings, using a particular ...

A coded letter mailed to a San Francisco newspaper by the Zodiac serial killer in 1969 has been deciphered by a team of amateur sleuths from the United States, Australia and Belgium, the San ...

As if one Zodiac killer wasn’t scary enough — there may have been killers, plural. The horrifying new theory, ... 1969 — just days after the Zodiac’s first letter was published.

Letters purported to be from a new “Zodiac Killer” that were sent to a number of media stations in upstate New York this week have the attention of federal investigators.

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JULY 18: Police Chief Charles Gain told The Chronicle there is no evidence connecting Inspector David Toschi to a Zodiac letter sent to the paper earlier this year. Gain added that the letter was ...

Case Breakers also assert that Poste, who died in 2018, shares a shoe size, and unique forehead scars with the Zodiac killer. The letters sent to the press, they say, ...