The “Case Breaker” investigation team accused the government agencies responsible for following up the serial killing case of the killer known as the Zodiac “Zodiac” of negligence and failure to properly investigate it.
Thomas Colbert, an investigative journalist and team leader, said in a press release this week that an FBI agent told Francis Post, an Air Force veteran, was considered a suspect in the case according to DNA samples.
The “Zodiac the Killer” was a serial killer who began his crimes at the end of the sixties, in California, between December 1968 and October 1969, and his victims ranged in age from 16 to 29.
He evaded justice and the police never managed to arrest him, but he left several coded messages which he sent to the newspapers.
“The criminal has been secretly listed as the suspect in the computers at FBI headquarters since 2016,” the team wrote in a press release.
In light of the efforts of amateurs and professionals to scrutinize the case to uncover the killer, the FBI has consistently rejected reports and conclusions that the case has been solved and told “Fox News” in October 2021 that the case is still open.
The Case Breaker team hopes that law enforcement agencies will compare DNA found at crime scenes with Post’s.
“The FBI’s investigation into the Zodiac Killer remains open and unresolved,” the San Francisco FBI told Fox News in a statement. “Due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, and out of respect for the victims and their families, we will not be providing further comment at this time.”
The killer began his crimes at the end of 1968 by killing a couple in their car by firing squad. In July 1969, he shot and killed another couple and managed to escape.
Another couple was stabbed to death near a lake in the city in October of the same year, before a taxi driver was shot dead.
The killer claimed that he killed 37 people in one of his letters that he was sending to the newspapers, but the police investigations concluded that he killed only 7 people.
The killer’s story inspired filmmakers and embodied it in two famous films, “Dirty Harry” in 1971 and “Zodiac” in 2007.
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2023-05-18 08:01:04