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FBI Confirms Zodiac Killer's Infamous 340 Cipher Has Been Decoded, And His Message Finally Revealed. The FBI have confirmed that a group of codebreakers have managed to crack the infamous 340 cipher used by the Zodiac Killer over 50 years ago.
In 2021, a civilian volunteer group called the Case Breakers announced they had identified Gary Francis Poste as the elusive Zodiac Killer through a combination of evidence involving shell cartridges, photos, fingerprints, cryptic writings and DNA harvested from his old clothing and a blood relative.
Arthur Leigh Allen was the most likely suspect in the Zodiac case, but there was not enough physical evidence to prove his guilt. The circumstantial evidence and fear in the community led to Allen being falsely identified as the killer. The identity of the Zodiac Killer remains a mystery, and the case is still open.
To this day, authorities have not formally named anyone as the Zodiac Killer, and only two of his cryptograms have been solved. One of those, however, was long considered the most difficult to parse.
Who is the Zodiac killer? Murderer's identity never found, but suspects remain. Decades later, the Zodiac killer remains a fixture in American true-crime culture. Seldom has a cold case been kept so warm by public interest.