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The message was discovered by a group of amateur detectives in the United States, Australia and Belgium and has already been sent to the FBI. The Zodiac Killer is credited with seven victims in Northern California. His story inspired a David Fincher film.
A group of fans managed to decipher, 51 years later, one of the messages sent to The San Francisco Chronicle by the Zodiac killer, who killed at least five people, the newspaper itself reported this Friday.
Between the late 60s and early 70s of the last century, the Zodiac killer – whose identity has not yet been clarified – terrorized the San Francisco Bay area and sent several encrypted letters to the newspaper, such and as recounted in David Fincher’s successful film “Zodiac” (2007).
One of these letters is known as “340” – named after the number of characters it contains – and its code had resisted investigators until three fans in the US, Belgium and Australia managed to decipher it recently.
“I 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, ”the deciphered letter reads.
“So death scares them. It doesn’t scare me because I know that my new life will be easy in a paradisiacal death ”, he concludes.
The letter reached 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 understanding that the words were not written in a linear way with one letter immediately behind the other, but responded to a diagonal pattern.
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