Zodiac Killer Message Decoded After 51 years
A team of codebreakers has managed to decipher a message from the Zodiac Killer more than 50 years after it was written.
The message, known as the ‘340 cipher’, was sent by the serial killer to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 and has been deciphered by David Oranchak, Jarl Van Eycke and Sam Blake.
“I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me. That wasn’t me on the TV show, which brings up a point about me,” the message, in all caps, reads.
“I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradise all the sooner, because I now have enough slaves to work for me.
“Where everyone else has nothing when they reach paradise [sic] so they are afraid of death, I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradise [sic] death.”
The message makes reference to the TV programme ‘The Jim Dunbar Show’, which had an episode interrupted by someone claiming to be the Zodiac Killer.
One of the codebreaking team spoke of their success, yet admitted it offers little of substance, calling it “more of the same attention-seeking junk from Zodiac”.
