Not Afraid Of Gas Chamber: "Zodiac Killer" Cipher Decoded After Over 50 Years
It took several computer programs and years of work for David Oranchak to decipher the complex code Los Angeles: A team of cryptography enthusiasts announced Friday they had successfully cracked one of the coded messages sent over 50 years ago by the "Zodiac Killer," who terrorized northern California in the late 1960s and remains unidentified. The message was sent in November 1969 to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper by the alleged serial killer, its code consisting of a series of cryptic letters and symbols. Sleuths hoped the coded message contained the identity of the killer, who comm...