The San Francisco Chronicle, the newspaper that starred half a century ago in the serial killer’s cat-and-mouse game, now announces that an international team of cryptographers managed to crack the code of one of the messages. Forced 51 years ago by the Zodiac Killer to publish the code (“Otherwise, I’m gonna kill people overnight”), now they’re revealing part of the text of one of the code messages.
Identity remains unknown
It is still not known who the Zodiac Killer is or was, and the deciphered letter does not answer that. “I hope you have fun trying to catch me”, it says. “I’m not afraid of the gas chamber, because it will only take me to paradise faster because I now have enough slaves to work for me.”
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It is in line with what was already known about the Zodiac Killer. Not all of his letters were in code. For example, he claimed in the letters that he had committed 37 murders. Indeed, the many specific details he was able to report, some of which were later confirmed by police, link his name to many murders in the area in those years.
The messages mainly reveal the sadistic pleasure the serial killer had in the murders and in playing public opinion. This text is also a confirmation of this.
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