Zodiac Killer’s Message Decoded by Amateur Sleuths

a 50-year-old mystery was recently solved when a group of intellectuals decoded a message from the zodiac killer the chances of solving this after 50 years was next to next to zero and so being able to play a role in this is fantastic australian mathematician samuel blake was one of the people who helped decrypt what's known as the 340 cipher the message was sent to the san francisco chronicle in 1969 from someone calling himself zodiac who claimed to have killed 37 people in the bay area although reports say he is believed to have only killed five he sent cryptic messages to law enforcement and media outlets up until 1974. blake says earlier this year he joined a group of amateur code breakers already working to decode the message and he was able to enlist the help of a super computer at the university of melbourne it was such a long shot we we tried several hundred thousand incorrect ways of solving the cypher and just by chance we happened to sort of stumble upon a fragment of of how it could be solved and using that fragment we reverse engineered the the entire solution and got the the entire message out from the zodiac the achievement of decoding the message was more exciting than the message itself it reads in part 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 paradise all the sooner because i now have enough slaves to work for me it did not identify zodiac as other messages had promised and the case remains unsolved the fbi released a statement saying the zodiac killer case remains an ongoing investigation for the fbi san francisco division and our local law enforcement partners while it wasn't the outcome many were hoping for blake says he does hope it can be of some help to investigators i hope this decryption may lead to you know better narrowing down who this person is but i guess we'll have to wait and see there are still two remaining ciphers from zodiac that have yet to be decoded and blake says he and his team will now work on those in hopes of finally putting this case to rest for inside edition digital i'm mara matalbano

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Keywords: crime, science, australia, Inside Edition, Inside_Edition, IE Newsdesk, mara montalbano, zodiac killer, 340 cipher, zodiac cipher, bay area, san francisco, mystery, cold case, fbi san francisco, coded messages, zodiac code, samuel blake, david oranchak

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Length: 2min 28sec (148 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 16 2020