The infamous Zodiac Killer's second cipher has finally been solved thanks to codebreaking software.
In 1969, a serial killer terrorized Northern California with a very public yet covert persona. The Zodiac Killer murdered five people, though some called his methods “boring,” and rumors spin that number into more alarming figures such as 49.
Donald and Bettye Harden, a puzzle-loving couple, deciphered the first encrypted message within days of its publication on August 1, 1969. They thanked an engaged online community, the AZdecrypt software that Van Eycke created, and a little mysterious element called luck.,” Blake said, “we discovered that split it into three pieces and rearranged the message in a predictable diagonal pattern in the first two pieces.” He contained the message in the first two parts. The first cipher followed a logical pattern that read from left to right. But not this time.
By rearranging the message into three parts disguised as one block of text, the Zodiac Killer may have believed that most people would never look beyond its appearance to discover the actual method used to hide the real message.
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