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The content of a letter was deciphered by three fans from the United States, Belgium and Australia. It should be remembered that the true identity of this serial killer who has become a cult character was never clarified.
A group of fans managed to decipher, 51 years later, one of the messages sent to the newspaper The San Francisco Chronicle for him zodiac killer, which killed at least five people, reported this Friday the newspaper itself.
Between the end of the 60s and the beginning of the 70s of the last century, the Zodiac Killer – whose identity has not yet been clarified – terrorized the San Francisco Bay area and I send several encrypted letters to the newspaper, as recounted in David Fincher’s successful film “Zodiac” (2007).
One of these letters is known as “340“- baptized like that because of the number of characters it contains – and its code had resisted researchers until three fans in the United States, Belgium and Australia managed to decipher it recently.
“Hope you guys are having a great time trying to catch me. That one that appeared on television was not me. I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradise as soon as possible. Now I have enough slaves to work for me while the rest of the world has nothing“reads the deciphered letter.
“So death scares them. It does not scare me because I know that my new life will be easy in paradise death“, he concludes.
The letter reached the editorial office of the San Francisco Chronicle in November 1969 and half a century later it has been deciphered by the American expert in encryption David oranchak -who has been working on the letters of the Zodiac killer since 2006-, the Australian mathematician Sam Blake and the Belgian Jarl Van Eykcke.
For its part, The San Francisco office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed the validity of the decryption and recalled that the case remains open since the murderer was never arrested.
According to Oranchak, the solution to the encryption consisted, in addition to assigning a letter to each symbol, in understand that the words were not written in a linear way with one letter immediately after the other, but responded to a diagonal pattern.
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