The Zodiac Killer in California - Identified?

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Just starting another thread since one hasn't been re-started since the crash of '20.

The SFPD said, soon after the GSK was nabbed, that they'd use a similar technique with the Zodiac's DNA. Due to the amount of time that has passed, I'm assuming nothing came of it.
 
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I read a zodiac killer book decades ago. I have no idea who wrote it. I know one thing, I was scared to go to sleep at night for a week. That guy taunted everyone and then just disappeared? I used to think that he probably died or was put in prison and but now after the Golden State killer was caught, I don't know?
The movie Zodiac is one of my faves. The case is terrifying. We ALL want to know who was/is he? What made it stop like that? Did he die or move? Life incarceration?
 
SAN FRANCISCO — A team of cold case investigators say they have finally identified the Zodiac Killer, one of America's most prolific serial murderers who terrorized San Francisco in the late 1960s.

 
This article says that not all the ciphers were decoded:

It says some of his ciphers have not been cracked to this day. That's something considering I am sure tons of top experts and brains have tried to do so. Of course that is if everything he sent really had a message or code and was not just hodgepodge. It probably wasn't though as these types like their cat and mouse games and showing what they believe to be their superior intelligence.

This is probably a brilliant mind when considering uncracked ciphers, such a shame these types turn to evil when such brilliant minds could do so much good in the world.
 
It says some of his ciphers have not been cracked to this day. That's something considering I am sure tons of top experts and brains have tried to do so. Of course that is if everything he sent really had a message or code and was not just hodgepodge. It probably wasn't though as these types like their cat and mouse games and showing what they believe to be their superior intelligence.

This is probably a brilliant mind when considering uncracked ciphers, such a shame these types turn to evil when such brilliant minds could do so much good in the world.
I couldn't agree with you more! Evil is no respector of persons!
 
The Case Breakers, a team of more than 40 former law enforcement investigators, journalists and military intelligence officers, has identified house painter Gary Francis Poste, a U.S. Air Force veteran who died in 2018, as the serial killer who brutally murdered at least five people in 1968 and 1969 and taunted authorities with inscrutable riddles, reported Fox News.

The team spent years uncovering new forensic evidence and photos from Poste's darkroom, including one that shows scars on his forehead that match marks on police sketches of the killer, and former Army counterintelligence agent Jen Buckholtz said letters sent by the Zodiac killer revealed him as the suspect.

 
The Case Breakers, a team of more than 40 former law enforcement investigators, journalists and military intelligence officers, has identified house painter Gary Francis Poste, a U.S. Air Force veteran who died in 2018, as the serial killer who brutally murdered at least five people in 1968 and 1969 and taunted authorities with inscrutable riddles, reported Fox News.

The team spent years uncovering new forensic evidence and photos from Poste's darkroom, including one that shows scars on his forehead that match marks on police sketches of the killer, and former Army counterintelligence agent Jen Buckholtz said letters sent by the Zodiac killer revealed him as the suspect.

Now I am starting to wonder who he is and what his story is. Does he have family, what will they think or have to say? Was he ever married? Kids? In trouble in the past?
 
Isn't it, though? I wonder if this guy was on anyone else's radar. There have been people trying to figure out this killer for DECADES!
The thing about sketches and such is even though now this is like dead on and really good, if I had seen the sketch but seen him doing nothing abnormal with the glasses and hair slicked back but I had seen the real picture, I am unsure that I would realize it was the Zodiac killer. An eyewitness might. And this is as close of a sketch as I probably have ever seen.

I guess it goes along with why they put different hairstyles on wanted fugitives, glasses, hair color, etc. I do wonder though if anyone suspected him. And about his life and history.
 
The thing about sketches and such is even though now this is like dead on and really good, if I had seen the sketch but seen him doing nothing abnormal with the glasses and hair slicked back but I had seen the real picture, I am unsure that I would realize it was the Zodiac killer. An eyewitness might. And this is as close of a sketch as I probably have ever seen.

I guess it goes along with why they put different hairstyles on wanted fugitives, glasses, hair color, etc. I do wonder though if anyone suspected him. And about his life and history.
They said that scars mentioned by witnesses matched, too! :eek:
 
SAN FRANCISCO — A team of cold case investigators say they have finally identified the Zodiac Killer, one of America's most prolific serial murderers who terrorized San Francisco in the late 1960s.

I'm still skeptical. Did his DNA match the DNA on the envelope they tested?. It didn't match Arthur Leigh Allen. But I still feel he is the most likely suspect. Alot of circumstantial evidence. Even though his DNA didn't match the envelope.
 
I'm still skeptical. Did his DNA match the DNA on the envelope they tested?. It didn't match Arthur Leigh Allen. But I still feel he is the most likely suspect. Alot of circumstantial evidence. Even though his DNA didn't match the envelope.
If I was a murderer (and NO I'm not) I would never lick an envelope I sent to the cops or the press. I'd go totally self seal at least... Or try to train Frank to lick the envelope, that would throw them off big time lol.

Seriously though, you think they are wrong? The images are sure striking in closeness--sketch and photo.
 
I'm still skeptical. Did his DNA match the DNA on the envelope they tested?. It didn't match Arthur Leigh Allen. But I still feel he is the most likely suspect. Alot of circumstantial evidence. Even though his DNA didn't match the envelope.


Yeah, I need DNA before I'm convinced too.
 
I get DNA is the ulitmate proof but those pics are really something down to some pretty serious detail. Interested in hearing more as it comes out though.
 

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