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It began, as all good stories do, with a pretty girl walking down a quiet road at night. It was night before Halloween, and Cheri Jo Bates had finished ...

Myth of the Zodiac Killer presents one of the most controversial and interesting theories about the Zodiac Killer: what if he never really existed?

In this edition of Real Stories, we look back at David Fincher's 2007 movie Zodiac and share the parts of the true story we didn't see.

Cold case task force The Case Breakers claim that "physical and forensic evidence" points to Gary Francis Poste being the Zodiac Killer.

A group calling themselves the Case Breakers think they know who the Zodiac Killer is. So do a lot of other people.

The decoded text from the Zodiac Killer reads: “I hope you are having lots of fun in...

Tom Voigt thinks he knows who was behind the crime of the century. By Jordan Michelman 12/16/2020 at 5:00am Published in the December 2020 issue of Portland Monthly “Jordan?” I feel a tap on my shoulder. Once I confirmI am indeed the writer who asked him to meet me here, at a well-distanced two-top outside NE 28th Avenue German beer bar Stammtisch on a crisp fall day, the man hands me a small cellophane package. “Here, I brought this for you,” he says in the quick, deep voi...

The Zodiac Killers most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved FacebookTwitterEmail The Zodiac Killers infamously uncrackable 340 cipher has been solved.The Chronicle After millions of attempts, thousands of bad solutions and 51 years, the Zodiac Killer’s most infamous cipher has been solved. If your skepticism is tingling, you are not alone. In the decades since the Bay Area’s most infamous serial killer fired off his mysterious letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, countless people...

Zodiac 340 Cipher cracked by code experts 51 years after it was sent to The Chronicle By Kevin Fagan The solution to what’s known as the 340 Cipher, one of the most vexing mysteries of the Zodiac Killer’s murderous saga, has been found by a code-breaking team from the United States, Australia and Belgium. The cipher, sent in a letter to The Chronicle in November 1969, has been puzzling authorities and amateur sleuths since it arrived 51 years ago. Investigators hoped the Zod...

The Zodiac Killers most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved FacebookTwitterEmail The Zodiac Killers infamously uncrackable 340 cipher has been solved.The Chronicle After millions of attempts, thousands of bad solutions and 51 years, the Zodiac Killer’s most infamous cipher has been solved. If your skepticism is tingling, you are not alone. In the decades since the Bay Area’s most infamous serial killer fired off his mysterious letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, countless people...