FBI confirms Zodiac Killer's cipher was solved

A coded message attributed to the Zodiac Killer, who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area, has been solved decades after it was sent to a San Francisco newspaper.
Read more about the development in the notorious cold case here: bit.ly/37PPQuQ

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  • @imfromdowntown
    @imfromdowntown3 жыл бұрын

    Curious why it was never mentioned that the cipher was cracked by a mathematician and a couple of cryptologists in Melbourne, Australia. That’s a very interesting aspect of all this.

  • @johnnytakisawa

    @johnnytakisawa

    3 жыл бұрын

    And it was because of the lockdown boredom that drove them to try

  • @sudo.2

    @sudo.2

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol, this team working on this puzzle for 14 years. Also, One is from U.S.A another one from belgium.

  • @douggardener3960

    @douggardener3960

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kathykline7202 What do you mean by this? Their solution makes sense and fits with everything else that we know about the case. Also I was under the impression that Jorgensen was the suspect of a murder not believed to be the zodiac killer but was at one point through to be one.

  • @kathykline7202

    @kathykline7202

    Жыл бұрын

    @@douggardener3960 Yes. Thats it. 2X = let him go. Not 3. Very long story.

  • @mydogs5040

    @mydogs5040

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, it was not cracked by any of them because none of them are a cipher.

  • @jimmyl27
    @jimmyl273 жыл бұрын

    Ted Cruz’s silence right now is deafening

  • @guitarslim56

    @guitarslim56

    3 жыл бұрын

    I know! This newest letter still doesn't prove Cruz's innocence!

  • @truthseeker2321

    @truthseeker2321

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@guitarslim56 Do you know how to do math? Figure out how old Ted Cruz was in 1968.

  • @slimbrady6691

    @slimbrady6691

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@truthseeker2321 He was clearly joking dude.

  • @Zizzyrae

    @Zizzyrae

    3 жыл бұрын

    I love just how long this meme has carried on for

  • @bdylanfan90
    @bdylanfan903 жыл бұрын

    37 deaths? Try 5 confirmed, 37 is what he claimed not what is believed

  • @guitarslim56

    @guitarslim56

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes! Well, these people are only reporting what they were told to say.

  • @4gegtyreeyuyeddffvyt

    @4gegtyreeyuyeddffvyt

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@guitarslim56 yep robots not real people

  • @georgekouts

    @georgekouts

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well we all know he killed far more than just 5 people! And that he was active before 1969!

  • @dirtpoorrichard9562

    @dirtpoorrichard9562

    3 жыл бұрын

    He never said he killed 37 people. He simply wrote me=37. He didn't say what it meant. I believe there is another interpretation. Watch my videos to see what I'm talking about. I will explain in one of my videos. It will be the one about Radians.

  • @kathykline7202

    @kathykline7202

    Жыл бұрын

    What he is talking about is 37 celcious - the temp of body, and the other side is Fahreinheit.

  • @ceesparxxx
    @ceesparxxx3 жыл бұрын

    Whats even crazier, is that this case has taken sooooo long.......that people have been born and died without even hearing about it lol.

  • @petergianakopoulos4926
    @petergianakopoulos49263 жыл бұрын

    "The message was encoded"... thanks Henry

  • @shadeshiest22
    @shadeshiest223 жыл бұрын

    What did it say?? “Drink more Ovaltine”

  • @lilith6072

    @lilith6072

    3 жыл бұрын

    "I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH ME THAT WASN’T ME ON THE TV SHOW WHICH BRINGS UP A POINT ABOUT ME I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE GAS CHAMBER BECAUSE IT WILL SEND ME TO PARADICE ALL THE SOONER BECAUSE I NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADICE SO THEY ARE AFRAID OF DEATH I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH"

  • @movieman175

    @movieman175

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lilith6072 he was a sneaky bastard. He said "I'll reveal my name if you solve this" but all these years later it was solved and it's just more of his bullshit. It's never going to get solved really. You're never going to slap the handcuffs on someone on this. he did it where it can't possibly be solved. Because of the times. He probably died many years ago.

  • @kathykline7202

    @kathykline7202

    Жыл бұрын

    @@movieman175 Yes,, all were solved.

  • @mydogs5040

    @mydogs5040

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lilith6072 That is 4 lines from Z340 but it has 20. 16 lines were not solved. That last word "death" is really abroad. He left for Azerbaijani in 74. He was learning arabic - that is what these are, translations not ciphers. Also on every because, he didnt say that he said "cause" no big deal but that is 8 bytes total unaccounted for and just randomly added. Also his first name is there. Solve it and see, it is just a translation you solve with Google translator.

  • @mydogs5040

    @mydogs5040

    Жыл бұрын

    @@movieman175 He did not give his name, right, he lied. Glasses male me in Hindi. Oh yes, my partner and I solved every one. It is so easy. Google translator. Capture special char. Sneaky Bastard !!!

  • @Zeverinsen
    @Zeverinsen3 жыл бұрын

    I bet that if he's not dead, his identity will be revealed when he does die, unless he wants to live on in people trying to decipher his codes to find his identity.

  • @twinturbobmw535xi7
    @twinturbobmw535xi73 жыл бұрын

    Zodiac was a smart rat bastard. 51 years later and it took a computer program to help crack it . Thats crazy

  • @dirtpoorrichard9562

    @dirtpoorrichard9562

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not exactly. Watch my videos. I did it with a pencil.

  • @kathykline7202

    @kathykline7202

    Жыл бұрын

    He was gifted in math.

  • @mydogs5040

    @mydogs5040

    Жыл бұрын

    Correction: 4 lines only. These are not ciphers that is why. He tells you they are ciphers and most everyone including cryptos believe him. He couldnt cipher. Those are translation of another language. You solve with google translator, I think Z13 Z32 took me 10 min each. It didnt take a fancy ass computer. They wasted 12 million, because these were solved 3 years ago. He flunked a year in school.

  • @addicted367
    @addicted3672 жыл бұрын

    The FBI should be embarrassed.

  • @mydogs5040

    @mydogs5040

    Жыл бұрын

    Agree, they could not even find origination. Neither did that show, neither did cryptos, Carmel was a paperweight. It did nothing. So they wasted 12 million on nothing because they thought they got geniuses. I have to laugh. But they want you to send solves, evidence and all clues to David who didnt solve his right or get the methodolgy, I will not, and you deserve to know truth. I asked them if I could tell you - they did not answer in two years, so I am not keeping this a secret anymore. And I have had no cryptology training and I got them all They didnt need cryptos, they needed a linguist. I think the Network is responsible for this misinformation as well as FBI and Don Olsen. Name is only in Z340 and Z408

  • @chubbycatfish4573
    @chubbycatfish45732 жыл бұрын

    The nutbags have come out of the woodwork.

  • @ginap5003
    @ginap50033 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in the Bay Area-Hayward and Castro Valley in the 60’s. I remember being scared to death of the Zodiac killer.

  • @mydogs5040
    @mydogs504028 күн бұрын

    Happy Easter to all, and here is your Easter egg. I have found something interesting about the zodiac ciphers, They are double ciphers, I havent checked too many yet. But have translated them in two ways. Best way to tell you is by example - Z13 says Glasses male me, but it also says Put P aove A and C above M, He is wanting you to switch characters thru another offshoot of Arabic so you can see true meaning. Right now, if you were to translate the top it doesnt really mean anything, I dont think he would say about the same thing as Z408 and Z340. (nasty things about killing.) The true meaning is told by the hidden cipher on all. Until you do 2 translations you cannot see the real meaning of the cipher. He did almost the same to misspellings to give you a more complete meaning of himself. I have not seen anyone that knows this but there is a secret word to open all up. Hint its not “open sesame”. LOL Its something to do with his occupation. Reddit is incorrect about those language translations. Its Arabic first (5 offshoots of this language he used, then it is tweaked to another version of arabic and solved again. The Major Languages on these is number 1) parent is arabic, 2) Dutch - offshoot is Afrikaans 3) english for his name. The greek they said is part of translation, that is only two letters alpha and omega. So now you are finally hearing the truth of the Zodiac ciphers., Tricky Little SH**

  • @johnnytakisawa
    @johnnytakisawa3 жыл бұрын

    Bro, just check the return address...

  • @stockcentral4561

    @stockcentral4561

    3 жыл бұрын

    Facts lmao!!

  • @ChrstphreCampbell
    @ChrstphreCampbell3 жыл бұрын

    i'm very annoyed that ( hardly ) any of these 'stories' reveal how The code was so clever ?

  • @rickh3714

    @rickh3714

    3 жыл бұрын

    Second Meta-text has a 'Tit Willo' confirmation peg and points at Robert Hansen, the eventual Alaskan Serial killer. Thus, looks like a cult of at least 4 men with military, hunting backgrounds and possible extreme intelligence. Off the scale possibly in one case. Solution achieved as a reformatting of Oranchak solution within new horizontal 20 x17 grid constraint to achieve likely John Dee readable transpositions. No key as yet but pretty clear to those who follow these cases in terms of likely cribs etc. Press the generic R profile icon to see a short LoFi video. Thanks.

  • @dirtpoorrichard9562

    @dirtpoorrichard9562

    3 жыл бұрын

    Watch my videos. I show how clever it is.

  • @drakemitri3419

    @drakemitri3419

    2 ай бұрын

    The code was not clever but very shrewd. The killer used various substitutions and intentionally removed patterns from the crypts to thwart the ability to solve the messages. The first crypt took a week and from there on it went downhill. They should have from the first solved crypt not released any information which would have left the killer creating messages with the name patterns he used in the first letter. For example the substitutions for the symbols representing the alphabet letters become more and more randomised. The messages were hidden not from line to line but diagonally and across the crypts. These randomisation created more noise in the letter to solve for the message.

  • @vernerakhulakan1207
    @vernerakhulakan12073 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if the killer is still alive up to this day. Him seeing all these reports about his ciphers must be amusing.

  • @dirtpoorrichard9562

    @dirtpoorrichard9562

    3 жыл бұрын

    Definitely not alive. Died in 1977.

  • @humbleservant1294
    @humbleservant12942 жыл бұрын

    How could they verify it solved if they couldn’t solve it theirselves?

  • @Phar2Rekliss
    @Phar2Rekliss2 жыл бұрын

    By now he is dead. He would be over 90 years old.

  • @Benjamin_idkidc
    @Benjamin_idkidc3 жыл бұрын

    Amazing work! I hope they could identify the killer too ...

  • @drbannter

    @drbannter

    3 жыл бұрын

    It took 50 years to read a letter. There not catching this guy

  • @guitarslim56

    @guitarslim56

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not with this letter. Not gonna happen. Nothing new here.

  • @stockcentral4561

    @stockcentral4561

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@drbannter He was way too smart for them!!

  • @dirtpoorrichard9562

    @dirtpoorrichard9562

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ross Sullivan wrote the codes. I don't know who killed those people though. Watch my videos if you wish. It's simple stuff.

  • @drbannter

    @drbannter

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kathykline7202 for what?

  • @markmnorcal
    @markmnorcal3 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations

  • @Ghostygoon
    @Ghostygoon3 жыл бұрын

    He spells paradise wrong very interesting could be a clue someone as smart as him doesn’t do that

  • @xSwordLilyx

    @xSwordLilyx

    3 жыл бұрын

    No I'm pretty sure he has misspelled before You can be smart and terrible at spelling Probably dyslexia

  • @petergianakopoulos4926

    @petergianakopoulos4926

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or he just made a mistake

  • @wassadhappinau3096

    @wassadhappinau3096

    3 жыл бұрын

    he just wanted to be fancy. thats how british people write

  • @johnnytakisawa

    @johnnytakisawa

    3 жыл бұрын

    He used to spell words wrong on purpose or for a dual meaning. Christmas was christ mass in one letter.

  • @dirtpoorrichard9562

    @dirtpoorrichard9562

    3 жыл бұрын

    The misspellings are a hidden message. Watch my videos. It was Ross Sullivan. I show that and more in my videos.

  • @robertgeorge6322
    @robertgeorge63223 жыл бұрын

    Well the killer chap doesn't know he's going to HELL, not paradise!!!!!

  • @aryan5314

    @aryan5314

    3 жыл бұрын

    He migh had his reasons like dexter

  • @googleuser8448
    @googleuser84483 жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah, so what is his name that he said he put in the large cipher?

  • @dirtpoorrichard9562

    @dirtpoorrichard9562

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ross Sullivan. Watch my videos. I prove what I say.

  • @kmjr2400
    @kmjr24003 жыл бұрын

    EXCITING NEWS!!!

  • @dirtpoorrichard9562

    @dirtpoorrichard9562

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why?

  • @kmjr2400

    @kmjr2400

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well if I have to tell you, it wouldn't matter to you. So!

  • @dirtpoorrichard9562

    @dirtpoorrichard9562

    3 жыл бұрын

    You are probably right. I have no interest in the case. I'm just not sure what it all accomplishes. Nothing gets solved really.

  • @kmjr2400

    @kmjr2400

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dirtpoorrichard9562 Exactly. You don't care about it. But for those who do, its exciting.

  • @dirtpoorrichard9562

    @dirtpoorrichard9562

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kmjr2400 Okay, I'll buy that. I will support your enthusiasm.

  • @heartfelt4738
    @heartfelt47383 жыл бұрын

    If he is still alive, he would have to be elderly.

  • @stockcentral4561

    @stockcentral4561

    3 жыл бұрын

    Late 70's to early 80s.

  • @enigmasenigma8079
    @enigmasenigma80793 жыл бұрын

    Zodiac is Jordan Maxwell!

  • @kingjudah6582
    @kingjudah65823 жыл бұрын

    I believe the Zodiac killer is dead by now but those families still need the truth & closer

  • @georgekouts

    @georgekouts

    3 жыл бұрын

    Correct! He's dead! Died at the age of 85!

  • @stockcentral4561

    @stockcentral4561

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@georgekouts He would be in his late 70's he is very LIKELY still here with us.

  • @georgekouts

    @georgekouts

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@stockcentral4561 He's NOT! He died in 2010! And you're wrong about his age, if he were still alive today, he'd be in his 90's! Let's not forget that his first murder was over 54 yrs ago... and he was in his mid to late 30's! ;-)

  • @stockcentral4561

    @stockcentral4561

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@georgekouts 80s* How can you be sure he died In 2010?

  • @georgekouts

    @georgekouts

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@stockcentral4561 Because I know who he was! He died in 2010 at the age of 85!

  • @MrJaydee990
    @MrJaydee9903 жыл бұрын

    Code smode....can we catch him now

  • @jacknumberone600
    @jacknumberone6003 жыл бұрын

    wrong, i wonder why they are doing this?

  • @dirtpoorrichard9562

    @dirtpoorrichard9562

    3 жыл бұрын

    Watch my videos. The FBI isn't being straight with you. My solution has been out for about a year. FBI won't comment. Oranchak doesn't comment. Maybe they don't want the competition, but who knows.

  • @jimpeterson9154
    @jimpeterson91543 жыл бұрын

    Big deal,,means nothing,,solved nothing...Zodiac STILL unsolved lol

  • @dirtpoorrichard9562

    @dirtpoorrichard9562

    3 жыл бұрын

    Watch my videos. It was Ross Sullivan. He put his name in the codes. I have a different solution than Oranchak. Mine works like the z408 and also solves the z13 and z32. Seriously.

  • @mydogs5040

    @mydogs5040

    Жыл бұрын

    How do you know that? Because the FBI said? Now think about that again. They always tell the truth to us dont they? (they are translations solved 3 years ago and have his name)

  • @MrJaydee990
    @MrJaydee9903 жыл бұрын

    Look lower his name and accomplices are there

  • @natashaebzeeva562
    @natashaebzeeva5623 жыл бұрын

    Ha, FBI have been given wrong information. I deciphered the little letter where he wrote " My name is..."

  • @sgtsmackin

    @sgtsmackin

    3 жыл бұрын

    spill the beans

  • @natashaebzeeva562

    @natashaebzeeva562

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sgtsmackin Below in ciphers it says: ....unknown to you. I am sailor” The writing is poetic and the words are in Russian language, not English.

  • @Red-xg2ym
    @Red-xg2ym3 жыл бұрын

    Richard Gaikowski?

  • @mydogs5040

    @mydogs5040

    Жыл бұрын

    NO his identity is only in Z340 and Z408. First name missed in the 4 lines cryptos did because they thought they were ciphers, and they were translation of another language.

  • @jingerjar1365
    @jingerjar13653 жыл бұрын

    KRAKED OR KRAKEN??

  • @40ozkiller
    @40ozkiller3 жыл бұрын

    Was it Xen Anthony?

  • @dirtpoorrichard9562

    @dirtpoorrichard9562

    3 жыл бұрын

    No

  • @mydogs5040

    @mydogs5040

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dirtpoorrichard9562 correct

  • @johnnyboy2459
    @johnnyboy24593 жыл бұрын

    It's a BLM activist?

  • @mydogs5040

    @mydogs5040

    Жыл бұрын

    No, but he does mention black panthers in Z340 further down, if you know what they are, maybe you are too young. He WAS an activist - how did you know that? In lines 5-20 in Z340 he does mention the environment, Black Panthers and some social issues. He kept killing stuff in a red drawer, he said that in Z340.

  • @Sam-zu5mr
    @Sam-zu5mr3 жыл бұрын

    Well you've got to admire the stupidity of some people. They asked the FBI to varify thier findings. 😂😂😂😂 the same FBI that for 50 years have been in the dark over this case. Please, iv not laughed so hard for ages. The FBI couldn't solve it themselves, so wat makes these people think they know the correct answer to this cypher.

  • @xelanosat1

    @xelanosat1

    3 жыл бұрын

    You’re so smart... 😂😂😂😂 Do some research on how cyphers actually work before you talk garbage

  • @Sam-zu5mr

    @Sam-zu5mr

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@xelanosat1 shut up. If the FBI was so great they would have solved it themselves ages ago. They couldn't. It took a mathematician from Australia and an independent computer programmer to come up with the correct algorithm to translate it and break the encoding. So you do some research first before daring to type garbage to me as a silly and stupid attempt of trying to prove your intelligence. If it wasn't for those 2 men. David would not have been able to decode this cypher. He would be still working on it, just like everyone else has done for 50 years. Those 2 men alone are the geniuses and they are not even American. Says it all really.

  • @Sam-zu5mr

    @Sam-zu5mr

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@xelanosat1 and before you dare try to challenge my intelligence...I didn't see you crack that cypher, did I. Your as dumb as the rest of us. It took a bored Australian Mathematician in lockdown, to help crack it. Says alot about thier education system. Clearly very excellent schooling in Australia, well compared with America obviously.

  • @Sam-zu5mr

    @Sam-zu5mr

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@xelanosat1 Asking the FBI to verify thier findings, is like me doing an intern paper in university and taking it to my 4 yr old nephew to ask if it's been written correctly. It will always be laughable. The irony is just silly🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @Sam-zu5mr

    @Sam-zu5mr

    3 жыл бұрын

    Iv not laughed SO MUCH all year. A well needed joke after all this covid rubbish. 2020, not a total loss after all.🤣

  • @MrJaydee990
    @MrJaydee9903 жыл бұрын

    Plain text(t r, LL, w b)

  • @janandd1
    @janandd13 жыл бұрын

    There was never "37 confirmed killings"...this was an unsubstantiated boast made by Zodiac in one of his letters...

  • @dirtpoorrichard9562

    @dirtpoorrichard9562

    3 жыл бұрын

    He wrote me=37. He never claimed to kill 37 people. He didn't tell us what the number meant. I believe it goes to the radians code but that's just a guess.

  • @kathykline7202

    @kathykline7202

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dirtpoorrichard9562 No, that means Celcious, not number of bodies. 37 is dead body temp.

  • @Sorrybabo99
    @Sorrybabo993 жыл бұрын

    51 Area 51

  • @David-tk7od
    @David-tk7od3 жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @zombiefireman
    @zombiefireman3 жыл бұрын

    Leave it to Fox to reference the “amateurs” who solved the cipher multiple times, but didn’t bother to credit any of them by name. Sorry, David Oranchak. Sorry, Sam Blake. Sorry, Jarl Van Eycke. Hell, they didn’t even reference David’s masterful explanation announcement on KZread... kzread.info/dash/bejne/X2Wjs66JgqiYYdI.html

  • @dirtpoorrichard9562

    @dirtpoorrichard9562

    3 жыл бұрын

    Most people call them "code experts", but I don't know of any codes they've broken. I would call them code enthusiasts, just like all of you.

  • @zombiefireman

    @zombiefireman

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kathykline7202 You may be right. "Brilliant" or "ingenious" may be better adjectives to explain why these guys were able to do what no one else has been able to solve in half a century of focused effort. But then genius is the moment-in-time "caption" that encompasses the blood, sweat and tears of hard work and overcoming failure.

  • @zombiefireman

    @zombiefireman

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kathykline7202 what the hell are you talking about?

  • @zombiefireman

    @zombiefireman

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kathykline7202 Go take your medication lady. What a quack.

  • @mydogs5040

    @mydogs5040

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dirtpoorrichard9562 Yes, they are translations, not ciphers. No way close to right.

  • @anonymousmc7727
    @anonymousmc77273 жыл бұрын

    It was Biden

  • @howardstern9129

    @howardstern9129

    3 жыл бұрын

    Probably Cruz

  • @user-ko3vg7fc7o
    @user-ko3vg7fc7o3 жыл бұрын

    I bet it was joe biden! Did the deciphered message mention "CORNPOP"?

  • @mydogs5040

    @mydogs5040

    Жыл бұрын

    no

  • @ahadzzz1836
    @ahadzzz18363 жыл бұрын

    Can’t they use a face tracker or some shit Like in da movies