BREAKING NEWS

Last weekend, the 340 was solved and submitted to the FBI.
They have confirmed the solution.
Authorities have spent the time since then making the appropriate notifications to the victims’ families.
Now that the notification process is complete, we are announcing the solution in the latest episode of “Let’s Crack Zodiac”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1oQLPRE21o

For a more detailed look at the story behind the solution, see this article: http://zodiackillerfacts.com/news-and-u … en-solved/

Dave–do you know why the need to inform the victims’ families? I could see if one of their names was brought up, but don’t understand why the need. Just curious…

Congratulations. Very impressive that you guys solved this. This made my day.

Jaw dropping the dedication put into this (and all the other ciphers) is incredible well done to all the clever people involved, now then Fred manalli mentions the “gas chamber” in a letter to his literary agent when he had been questioned over the death/disappearance of one of his students, IMO either Kim Allen or Jeanette kamahale! Fred was highly intelligent and this cipher was created by a highly intelligent mind, sorry for going off topic a bit as this clearly will go down in history as being solved fifty odd years later I doth my hat to all involved

Dave–do you know why the need to inform the victims’ families? I could see if one of their names was brought up, but don’t understand why the need. Just curious…

It’s probably a standard matter of courtesy any time there is progress in the case that affected their loved ones.
But more importantly, I think, they needed to be prepared for the onslaught of media attention.
I can only imagine that the combination of that and yet another awful message from Zodiac would re-traumatize them.

"Tell Dave et al thank you, because if I found one more copy of that goddam cipher lying around, we were getting divorced."
-my wife

So far, this is what I get:

Anybody found the word ‘BECAUSE’, yet? What about the rest of the cipher, as the previous could be accidential / entered by a person itself?

As I still can’t see any solution any help is appreciated, thanks.

QT

BREAKING NEWS
Last weekend, the 340 was solved and submitted to the FBI.

The last two lines of the 340 is the 3rd part. Oranchak already mentioned finding Paradice written backwards on the last line. Melvin Belli last name is also written backwards just above Paradice on the 2nd to last line. I do not know if anyone mentioned this yet.

Maybe the last two vertical lines were a vague clue to the contents of the first 2 parts of the cipher. Zodiac mention "Gas Chamber" which Belli mentions on the Dunbar show. He also talks about Paradice and Death in the first 2 parts.

BELLI spelled ILLEB……..Melvin Belli was inspirational for the contexts of the cipher.

Hi
Looking at the key showing the replacements, I noticed that the symbol – was used in place of what would be correct for the letter U.(BECAASE,FAN/BECAUSE/FUN)
Precisely the symbol of the Zodiac. This is more evidence of the great path of this decoding that the guys did

Marcelo

Marcelo, that’s an interesting observation. It’s possible he drew on his cipher as one of the last steps, maybe putting random symbols in places to make the cipher look more interesting. And that could explain things like misspellings.

Congratulations to doranchak, Sam Blake and Jarl Van Eycke. Brilliant work.

Having watched the video, Dave, my guess is that the "Life is" part actually goes with the "death" at the end.

Life is death.

Congratulations!

Also ask your pals what they think about the Z13 being

RobHTheHippie

and see what they think.

One of the best things about this is that it rules out the "Gibberish" argument. It also means Zodiac actually was very smart and did fool everyone. Of course, that depends on whether he made a mistake or an intentional deception with the NOSR thing.

I do hope you cued up "The Hurdy Gurdy Man" when you finally had it staring at you from the screen.

Marcelo, that’s an interesting observation. It’s possible he drew on his cipher as one of the last steps, maybe putting random symbols in places to make the cipher look more interesting. And that could explain things like misspellings.

Yes Mr Oranchak , he certainly enjoyed these games.I imagine you are exhausted these days. And you will be very busy.

By the way, I remembered an old topic here in the community of @Teg> An
http://www.zodiackillersite.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=5031&hilit=typewriter

It was observed that many of the symbols and / or letters were next to each other When we look at the keyboard of a typewriter in Z408.

I observed a similar phenomenon in the keys of 340,

The letter B makes me quite sure that this makes sense, because if we look we have the letter B, the letter N and then the letter B inverted.

Marcelo