![]() ![]() ![]() The cipher, which was simpler than later efforts, was solved a week later by hand on August 8, 1969, by Donald Gene and Bettye June Harden. The papers printed the ciphers (or cryptograms) as Zodiac threatened to kill again if his instructions weren't followed. The first letters were sent to three papers in the Bay Area, each containing a different part of the cipher. ![]() During his spree, the killer sent taunting messages to the press written through a cipher, where letters are substituted for different letters or numbers (or in the case of the Zodiac killer, a series of symbols). In the late 1960s, heading into the early 1970s, a serial killer going by the pseudonym "Zodiac" murdered at least five people in California. An engineer and amateur codebreaker believes that he has cracked the final two scrambled messages of the Zodiac Killer, one of which appears to reveal his identity. ![]()
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