by Michael Cole | Jun 3, 2012 | Articles, Ciphers, Internet
Back in the 2007 time frame, I was writing a cipher-solving program called CipherExplorer. The program works reasonably well. It’s capable of solving the Zodiac Killer’s 408 cipher and other homophonic substitution ciphers comparable to the apparent...
by Michael Cole | May 27, 2012 | Articles, Books, Radio
Gil Gross from NewsTalk 910 AM in San Francisco interviewed Tom Voigt (owner of zodiackiller.com) regarding Lyndon Lafferty’s book The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge. Come on Tom, quit holding back and tell us what you really think!
by Michael Cole | May 27, 2012 | Articles, Books, Media, Television
The NBC Today Show is the latest entity to drink the Kool-Aid of Lyndon Lafferty’s book: The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge. This segment is from yesterday’s show (May 26, 2012). [ video no longer available ] The inability of media to...
by Michael Cole | May 20, 2012 | Articles, Media
Looking around the web recently, the thought crossed my mind that what we really need is an award to recognize the exceptionally irresponsible reporting that happens all too often in the case of the Zodiac Killer. I’m not talking about your average Joe, armed...
by Michael Cole | May 16, 2012 | Articles, Books
The net is all abuzz with Zodiac-Killer activity due to a recently published book: The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge. The author of the book, one Lyndon E. Lafferty, is a former California Highway Patrol officer who claims to know the identity of...
by Michael Cole | May 13, 2012 | Articles, Newspaper
Newspaper articles are interesting in that they often communicate opinions and attitudes related to their subject matter. In reading hundreds of Zodiac Killer newspaper articles, I am sometimes struck by threads of commonality that, while not necessarily noteworthy at...