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The FBI has repeatedly stated that its investigation into the Zodiac Killer is open and unsolved, the New York Post reported Thursday.
"The FBI's investigation into the Zodiac Killer remains open and unsolved," the FBI's San Francisco Office told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, and out of respect for the victims and their families, we will not be providing further comment at this time."
The last known victim, a taxi driver, was shot in October 1969. The murders were the subject of intense investigation and media coverage, particularly because of the killer's taunting letters to newspapers and phone calls to police.
However, if DNA were to be found, it would not have been able to be tested as that sort of technology did not exist at the time. Even years later, government forces have not cracked this case because there was simply no DNA evidence. The zodiac killer also sent police a total of four coded messages.
Today, there's a possibility forensic techniques could yield genetic material from the killer, but in 1969 that technology was decades away. The only possible DNA sample comes from beneath a stamp stuck to one of his infamous letters. The sample, developed in 2002 by San Francisco police, is only a partial profile.
Although Zodiac left two survivors, Hartnell and Michael Mageau, neither man got a good look at the killer's face (he wore a mask at Lake Berryessa and he shone a flashlight in Mageau's eyes). The only people who unquestionably saw his face were three teenagers on the night of Oct. 11, 1969.
While the message had a few misspellings, the meaning of the message was clear. The cracked code offers frightening insight into the Zodiac killer's mind. According to the plain text message, he was attempting to collect slaves for the afterlife.
Whether it was Gary Francis Poste or not, one thing that is clear according to the authorities is that the Zodiac killer would now be around 90 years old.
The letters were also accompanied by the now-infamous “signature” of the Zodiac Killer: a circle with a cross running through it. While the investigators agree on 7 confirmed victims (two of whom survived), the Zodiac has taken responsibility for no less than 37 murders.
Case Breakers, run by investigative journalist Thomas Colbert, said a whistleblower on its team was told by an FBI agent that Gary Francis Poste, an Air Force veteran, is listed as a suspect in the Zodiac killings in the bureau's database.
FBI has IDENTIFIED Zodiac Killer as Air Force veteran Gary Francis Poste - who died in 2018 - and has partial DNA sample that could link him to five serial murders, cold case investigator claims.
The only suspect authorities ever publicly identified is Arthur Leigh Allen, a schoolteacher who was institutionalized in 1975 for child molestation.
Arthur Leigh Allen, a schoolteacher in Vallejo, California is the only suspect to be publicly named by authorities in the case of the Zodiac killer. Allen was institutionalized for sexually abusing children in 1975. He was never officially identified as the Zodiac killer.
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The first murders widely attributed to the Zodiac Killer were the shootings of high school students Betty Lou Jensen and David Arthur Faraday on December 20, 1968 on Lake Herman Road, just inside the city limits of Benicia.
The California Department of Justice has left the case open since 1969. Mike Renault Mageau and Bryan Calvin Hartnell are the only two known survivors of the Zodiac. Mageau was conversing in a car with her co-worker, Darlene Ferrin, when the Zodiac shot and killed Ferrin. Mageau was shot four times and survived.
Cryptographic researchers have finally cracked a 51-year-old code left by the Zodiac, a serial killer who terrorized Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Much of the work of cracking the code was done in Mathematica, the statistics package from Wolfram.
How was the Zodiac Code cracked? David Oranchak, Sam Blake, and Jarl Van Eycke used software to help them break the cipher, first by finding the many possible reading directions that could be used if the cipher was transpositional.
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