SEARCHING FOR LINKS BETWEEN THE 340 AND 38 CHARACTER CIPHERS
Since the decoding of the Zodiac Killer's infamous 340 cipher by Dave Oranchak, Sam Blake and Jarl Van Eycke earlier this month, it is now possible to almost certainly confirm the two letters mailed on...
View ArticleTHE MESSAGE IN THE 340 CIPHER
Here is the message in the 340 character cipher (corrected for spelling mistakes), split into three sections of nine, nine and two rows. The message in the first two sections has been left untouched,...
View ArticleTHE CLUES IN EDGAR ALLAN POE'S ESSAY
After two Zodiac attacks in close succession on September 27th 1969 and October 11th 1969, investigators must have feared an escalation in terror from the Bay Area murderer, so it would have certainly...
View ArticleCAN WE AUTHENTICATE?
On October 28th 1987, a Halloween letter arrived at the Vallejo Times-Herald with the usual threats. Agent Fred Shirasago observed that the first three sentences of the new letter, postmarked Tuesday...
View ArticleTHE RIDDLE OF THE CODES
The discovery of the message in the 340 cipher has triggered a new debate on the intelligence of the Zodiac Killer, bearing in mind the greater complexity of the encryption used to disguise its...
View ArticleMRBALLEN YOUTUBE CHANNEL
Former Navy SEAL John Allen has created an excellent Youtube channel under the title of MrBallen. Covering strange and frightening stories, sprinkled with mystery and intrigue, John Allen has achieved...
View ArticleTHE BLAST ESTIMATE OF ZODIAC
In respect to the Mount Diablo code, the Zodiac Killer gave us two clues to where his bomb was to be set, in the form of two crosshairs on July 26th 1970. The first crosshairs contained a bold, black...
View ArticleJANUARY 11TH 1974 - THE RETURN OF A KILLER
This topic has been covered before on the Zodiac Killer forums, but it deserves another airing after receiving minimal attention. To read the comments on these forums, please visit the Zodiac Killer...
View ArticleTHE QUEST FOR NUMBER EIGHT
During the height of Zodiac activity, sandwiched between the murder of Paul Stine in Presidio Heights on October 11th 1969 and the mailing of the infamous 340 cipher, one man stared out of the window...
View Article"PRIESTS ARE GOING TO DIE"
Whether the New York "by fire" attacks on Catholic churches in July 1974 were inspired by the events in San Francisco and Daly City in 1974 is unknown, but let us examine the story anyway.Somebody...
View ArticleLIFE AND DEATH IN FAIRFIELD
Click image above to enlarge message Early in December 2020, the 340 cipher was cracked by David Oranchak, Sam Blake and Jarl Van Eycke, which revealed the message shown below. Despite the fact the...
View ArticleTHE ZODIAC REVISITED BOOK TRILOGY
After several years of extremely hard work and off the back of the announcement of the 340 cipher being cracked, the eagerly anticipated three volumes of The Zodiac Revisited by Michael Cole were...
View ArticleTHE DAY THE TABLES WERE TURNED
On October 22nd 1969, somebody rang the Oakland Police Department to request that either Francis Lee Bailey or Melvin Belli appear on the Jim Dunbar chat show at KGO Radio in San Francisco. Melvin...
View ArticleA WHISKER AWAY FROM ESCAPE
Here is a different version to the story of Blue Rock Springs on July 4th/5th 1969. The Zodiac Killer exited his vehicle and approached the passenger side door of Darlene Ferrin's brown 1963 Corvair....
View ArticleTHE CRYPTIC 1978 LETTER TO TOSCHI?
On July 19th 1978, a typewritten letter from Los Angeles arrived at the San Francisco Chronicle stating: "I am the ZODIAC and I am in control of all things. I am going to tell you a secret. I like...
View Article"PUZZLES IS ONE OF MY PLEASURES"
The Concerned Citizen card was mailed from San Francisco and postmarked August 10th 1969, arriving one day after the article A Murder Code is Broken which featured in the San Francisco Chronicle...
View ArticleBLACK BOX ONLINE RADIO
Having been in existence for at least three years on Youtube, Black Box Online Radio hosted by Ned, has currently accumulated a stock of 880 videos supported by 905 subscribers, primarily covering all...
View ArticlePROGRESS ON THE 13 CHARACTER CODE
Edgar Allan Poe On October 22nd 1969, Dr. D.C.B Marsh in alliance with investigators and the San Francisco Examiner, attempted to refocus the Zodiac Killer's attention toward creating a second major...
View ArticlePROGRESS ON THE 13 CHARACTER CODE [PT2]
Just over two weeks before the 340 cipher was mailed, Dr. D.C.B. Marsh of the American Cryptogram Association laid down a challenge to the Zodiac in the newspapers to reveal his name in a cipher,...
View ArticleWHY THE KEYS WERE PHOTOCOPIED IN THE EUREKA CARD
The Zodiac Killer had a propensity to tease us with his name, but he also mailed two communications in the form of postcards on March 22nd 1971 and July 13th 1971, where he teased us with the name of...
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