5+ murders. Sent coded letters. 340 cipher cracked in 2020. Identity still unknown.
Between 1968 and 1969, the Zodiac Killer murdered at least five people in Northern California and sent taunting letters and cryptograms to newspapers. He was never identified. The case consumed the San Francisco Police Department for decades. In 2020, a team of codebreakers finally cracked the 340 cipher (sent in 1969), which read: "I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me... I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradice." The 408 cipher was cracked in 1969. The Z13 cipher (containing his real name, he claimed) remains unsolved. The case has generated more amateur investigation than any crime in American history.
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