Saturday, July 23, 2011

Last Zodiac code cracked?

Amateur code hobbyist, Corey Starliper, claims to have cracked the last (still unsolved) code left by the (alleged?) Zodiac killer.

From the article [truncated]:


Starliper also thinks that he has solved a cipher devised by Zodiac that has remained unsolved for over 40 years.

  Zodiac sent encrypted communication to area newspapers, taking credit for killings and warning of more to come, according to Robert Graysmith, who personally investigated the murders and wrote several books on the case.

The first coded communication was a three-part cipher sent in portions to the Vallejo Times-Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Francisco Examiner on July 31, 1969, according to “Most Evil”, written by Steve Hodel. The complete cipher contained 408 characters and was published on August 2 and 3, 1969 in accordance to Zodiac’s demands. It took just a few days for the code to be deciphered.
“The first one was cracked by a history teacher and his wife,” said Starliper. “What I’m driving at was the first code was cracked by amateurs. So they figure that any communication after that would be able to be cracked by amateurs.”
After the decryption of the first code, Zodiac sent many more communications to law enforcement and the media, including his most famous: a 340-character cipher, mailed to the San Francisco Chronicle, according to zodiackillerfacts.com. To this day, the cipher has not been completely cracked.
Starliper, however, believes he has found the solution to that code.
“The first time I saw this code was a couple of years ago, and I knew that it could be cracked,” he said. “It was just instinct, I had a gut feeling that it could be cracked. Any code created by man can be cracked by man.”


































 
The FBI and local police are skeptical but I figured it was still worth posting about.

His solution identifies Arthur Leigh Allen as the killer:
KILLSLFDRHELPMEKI
LLMYSELFGASCHAMBE
RAEIOURDAYSQUESTI
ONSABLEEVERYYWAKI
NGMOMENTIMALIVEMY
PRIDELOSTICASTGOO
NLIVINGINTHISWAYK
ILLINGPEOPLEIHAVK
ILLDSOMANYPEOPLEC
ANTHELPMYSELFIMSO
ANGRYICOULDDOMYTH
INKIMALONEINTHISW
ORLDMYWHOLELIFEFU
LOLIESIMUNABLETOS
TOPBYTHETIMEYOUSO
LVETHISIWILLHAVKI
LLDELEVENPEOPLEPL
EASEHELPMESTOPKIL
LINGPEOPLEPLEASEM
YNAMEISLEIGHALLEN
With spaces, that reads "KILL SLF DR HELP ME KILL MYSELF GAS CHAMBER AEIOUR DAYS QUESTIONSABLE EVERYY WAKING MOMENT IM ALIVE MY PR IDE LOST I CAST GO ON LIVING IN THIS WAY KILLING PEOPLE I HAV KILLD SO MANY PEOPLE CANT HELP MYSELF IM SO AN GRY I COULD DO MY THINK IM ALONE IN THIS WORLD MY W HOLE LIFE FUL O LIES IM UNABLE TO STOP BY THE TIME YOU SOLVE THISI WILL HAV KILLD ELEVEN PEOPLE PLEASE HELP ME STOP KILLING PEOPLE PLEASE MY NAME IS LEIGH ALLEN".

Source -> http://www.boingboing.net/2011/07/22/solution-claimed-to.html via http://fostercity.patch.com/articles/has-the-code-of-the-zodiac-killer-been-cracked#

Related post -> http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2010/11/kryptos-sculpter-to-reveal-clue-on.html 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer

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