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The Zodiac's letters, sent at least from 1969 to 1974, often started with "This is the Zodiac speaking" and signed with a symbol resembling the crosshairs of a gunsight: . He sent out four cryptograms , or ciphers , and currently, two of them have been solved, one in 1969 and one in 2020. [23]
- Arthur Leigh Allen
- Earl Van Best Jr.
- Louie Myers
- Multiple Killers
True-crime author and former San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Robert Graysmith wrote two separate works on the killer (1986’s Zodiac and 2002’sZodiac Unmasked), ultimately identifying a man named Arthur Leigh Allen as the most likely suspect. Allen died in 1992, however, and was never conclusively connected to any of the murders.
In 2014, HarperCollins published The Most Dangerous Animal of Allby Gary L. Stewart, in which he claims that his father, Earl Van Best Jr.—who bears a strong resemblance to the man in the police sketch—was the Zodiac Killer.
Another man came forward in 2014 to reveal that a friend named Louie Myers had confessed to being the killer before his death in 2002. Certain events in Myers’ history matched up with those connected to the Zodiac, but as with Allen and Van Best, there was no conclusive proof.
A 2023 Peacock docuseries Myth of the Zodiac Killer posits the murders were carried out by multiple people. “It’s very unusual for cold cases to have this much information. But if you read all the police files, you see that there’s very little linking these crimes together,” series director Andrew Nock told the New York Post. “Different weapons, di...
21 de nov. de 2017 · The crosshair symbol that Zodiac used as his signature is one of the most intriguing aspects of this unsolved case. Learn about the possible meanings and origins of the symbol, and how it relates to Zodiac's crimes and communications.
8 de nov. de 2017 · Learn about the four coded messages sent by the Zodiac Killer, a serial murderer who terrorized the Bay Area in the 1960s and 1970s. Find out which ciphers have been cracked and which ones remain unsolved, and what clues they reveal about the killer's identity and motives.
- Craig P. Bauer
12 de dez. de 2020 · Getty Images. A polícia de São Francisco publicou ilustrações com o rosto do suspeito em 1969. O FBI confirmou que um grupo de amadores conseguiu decifrar uma mensagem codificada de 340 caracteres,...
11 de dez. de 2020 · Published Dec. 11, 2020 Updated June 22, 2021. It took 51 years to crack, but one of the taunting messages written in code and attributed to the Zodiac Killer has been solved, according to the...
His letters, sent from 1969 to 1974, were signed with a symbol resembling the crosshairs of a gunsight and typically began with the phrase, “this is the Zodiac speaking.” Included among the letters were four ciphers or cryptograms, the first of which was sent in three parts to three Bay Area newspapers in July 1969.
