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 Francisco ...
A French amateur codebreaker claims to have done what police and other investigators could not: Solve the remaining Zodiac Killer ciphers, including one that supposedly reveals the California killer’s ...
Codebreakers translated a mysterious coded letter from the Zodiac Killer a full 51 years after it was first sent. The FBI has confirmed the results.
The expert cryptanalyst and the Sunday-puzzle expert alike rely on the fact that letters have their own personalities. As David Kahn writes: “To the casual observer, they may look as alike as troops ...