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Cryptography experts decipher 50-year-old message from the “Zodiac Killer”
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A wanted man call for the “Zodiac-Killer” (archive).
Photo: AP / Eric Risberg
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The Angels The “Zodiac killer” is said to have committed at least five murders in Northern California in the 1960s. His identity is still unknown today. According to their own statements, a team of cryptography experts has now successfully decrypted one of its messages.
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As the three specialists announced on Friday, they cracked one of the messages that the killer had sent to a local newspaper over 50 years ago. The “Zodiac killer” is blamed for at least five murders committed in Northern California in the 1960s – he himself claims to have killed 37 people. His identity is still unknown today.
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According to the team, the message the murderer sent to the San Francisco Chronicle in November 1969 contained no clues as to his identity. Rather, it is boasting.
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Accordingly, the “Zodiac Killer” wrote, among other things: “I hope you have a lot of fun trying to catch me. I am not afraid of the gas chamber, because it will take me to paradise all the sooner because I now have enough slaves to work for me. “
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In an earlier message, the encryption of which was easier to break, the notorious murderer had used similar phrases: “I like killing because it’s so much fun,” it said. Again he was referring to “slaves” whom he allegedly gathered to serve him in the afterlife.
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The decoder team consists of the US web designer David Oranchak, the Australian mathematician Sam Blake and the Belgian logic expert Jarl Van Eykcke. It took them years of work and the use of several computer programs to decipher the message made up of numbers and symbols.
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The complex code, also known as the “340 cipher” because it contains 340 characters, is read diagonally. When the lower margin is reached, the reader has to continue reading in the upper, opposite corner. According to experts, this type of coding is described, among other things, in a US Army manual from the 1950s.
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