by Michael Cole | May 7, 2011 | Articles, Ciphers
If you’re interested in the Zodiac Killer’s ciphers and you have some time to spare, you may well find this thesis on automated cipher solving an interesting read. Apart from the other valuable content, the author, Michael James Banks, provides a concise...
by Michael Cole | Apr 29, 2011 | Articles, Books, Non-Zodiac Crime
A newly-published book, Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence, by author Bill James, examines America’s ongoing obsession with the crime of murder. It focuses on numerous high-profile and sensationalized instances of murder throughout...
by Michael Cole | Apr 28, 2011 | Articles, Victims
There is significant circumstantial evidence to suggest that the man who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area under the persona of the Zodiac began his life as a killer several years earlier on a beach in Santa Barbara County. There, in 1963, an as-of-yet...
by Michael Cole | Apr 20, 2011 | Articles, Ciphers
A few days ago, a Chicago police officer, Lt. John Lewison, claimed to have solved the Zodiac’s 32-cipher in this article. Lewison has not made his solution public yet, pending review by local cryptography experts and possibly the FBI – although he’s...
by Michael Cole | Apr 14, 2011 | Articles, General
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...
