The Zodiac Dared Police to Crack His Code. It Took 51 Years.
On December 20, 1968, two teenagers were shot and killed on Lake Herman Road outside Benicia, California, in the first confirmed attack attributed to the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified perpetrator who went on to murder at least five people and wound two survivors across the San Francisco Bay Area before sending coded letters to newspapers and vanishing. Despite a solved cipher, collected DNA, named suspects and decades of investigation across multiple jurisdictions, no one has ever been charged, and the killer's identity remains unconfirmed. The Z13 cipher sent in 1969 has never been decoded…
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