Zodiac Fonts
Back in 2007, an Austrian by the name of Phil Strahl became interested in the case of the Zodiac. Having experience in the area of font construction, he applied his skills to the subject by crafting a set of fonts that mimic the Zodiac's handwriting. In particular, he...
New Vallejo Times-Herald Article
The Vallejo Times-Herald, one of the three papers to whom the Zodiac mailed a letter and part of the 408 cipher on July 31, 1969, just published a new article about the Zodiac. It's the kind of article that newspapers (or news websites more recently) in the Bay Area...
Award-Winning Animation
The number and varied locations in which I stumble across references to the Zodiac killer never cease to amaze me. The following video, Something Left, Something Taken, is an award winning animation created by Brooklyn-based Tiny Inventions, a collaboration of the...
Break a Leg
Burien is a city approximately 10 miles south of Seattle. The city is home to a community theater company known as Burien Little Theater. Since 1999, the theater has held an annual competition, The Bill and Peggy Hunt Playwrights Festival, whose goal is "to encourage,...
Zodiac-Like Cipher?
A few days ago the FBI requested help from the public to help solve a cipher found in the pocket of a cold-case murder victim. The body of the victim, Ricky McCormick, was discovered dumped in a field near St. Louis, Missouri back in 1999. Both the Cryptanalysis and...
AMC – The Killing
[ video no longer available ] The AMC channel is premiering an original, fictional series entitled: The Killing. In an effort to promote the series premier, the channel has been airing a number of five-minute segments detailing actual murders that are both notorious...