Cipher 3406/9/2023 ![]() The ciphers were printed on the front page of newspapers in response to the Zodiac Killer’s threats to pick off more people if his demands were not met. These errors and themes would present themselves once again in Cipher 340, which would go unsolved for over five decades. They came with ciphers that when cracked contained spelling errors such as “anamals” and “paradice” and described how much he liked to kill people and how he would have slaves in the afterlife. The letters, which were the same in content, were mailed to three different newspapers based out of California. The Zodiac penned his first batch of letters on August 1, 1969, after the first two set of attacks. ![]() He approximated the man was between 25 to 30 years old, standing at around 5”8, weighing around 70-90KG. Michael Mageau was able to provide police with a description of his attacker, whom he said was a Caucasian male, with short brown wavey hair. Mageau, although riddled with bullets in his torso, neck and head, managed to survive the ordeal.įerrin eventually died in hospital while being treated for her injuries. Their killer parked his vehicle behind them, before approaching the car and shooting them both multiple times. They were also parked up in their vehicle, this time in Vallejo. His second set of victims, another couple, Michael Renault Mageau and Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin, were targeted several months later in the summer of 1969, again the two were shot. Jensen attempted to escape however, she didn’t get far before she too was shot down with several bullets to the back. ![]() When Faraday complied, he was executed with a bullet to the head. The killer pulled up in his own vehicle and demanded the teenagers get out of their car, threatening them at gun point. They were parked at a lover’s lane in Benicia, Solano County when they were both fatally shot. His victims were a teenage couple on their first date, Betty Lou Jensen, and David Arthur Faraday. The killer first struck in the winter of 1968. The Zodiac claimed he had killed 30 additional people, but police could find no evidence to confirm the claim. He is officially responsible for five murders, although he attempted seven, with two victims surviving their injuries. The Zodiac killer, an unidentified serial killer who sent cryptic notes and ciphers to newsrooms, was active in Northern California in the sixties and seventies. The Zodiac killer’s cipher was built on the same principle however, it was a lot more complex, “a beast” as its defeaters would later describe it. Simple transpositional ciphers are created using rows and columns. According to : “ A transposition cipher is one which rearranges the order of the letters in the ciphertext (encoded text), according to some predetermined method, without making any substitutions.” ![]() Virginia native and software developer, 46-year-old Dave Oranchak, explained that the code is a transposition cipher. This week, however, a group of three amateur codebreakers have managed to do what many believed to be impossible and cracked the final 340 code, originally sent in November 8, 1969. For 51 years both authorities, private citizens and professional and amateur code breakers alike have been trying to crack a 51-year-old code left behind by the Zodiac Killer.
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