And if I make a typo here or there, that doesn’t make the code wrong either. This is an informal environment, and I am treating it as such. I am not editing myself and just chatting. But the new strategy, is just tell people “you are entitled to your opinion, let’s see what the scan says” if they wish to engage in forum cipher battles with me. Fatigue has set in on that. The other forums I had enough supporters, although they weren’t sure. That is fine, they weren’t dismissing it instantly, just asking a lot of questions about that. That is cool and what I wanted. Fact of the matter is, I am just defensive of the work because I think it is correct.
Since I think there is something possibly buried in the landmark that I (David Stampher) found, I feel an obligation to ensure it is checked out. That is not my decision, but I will advocate for it. This is because it is cheap, easy, and would verify my personally confirmed solution and method.
The method is important to me because there are broader implications and so I will defend it. This method is the Zodiac’s method. It follows his instructions and adds nothing on top. Except we correct his Radians error, as the clock hours around Mt. Diablo and the post script instructions add clarity. Using clock hours is what leads to the triangle. The other past ciphers all required some corrections by the solvers.
Too find this error in terminology is not a surprise with this perpetrator. If you just say “radials” instead of “radians”, everything snaps into place.
The method is what solves Z32, not me. I just shared it and put my name next to it, as is standard procedure. I feel good enough about it to do so. I trust the code, math, and method. I put it out there for quality assurance, as one does. Didn’t pick an easy audience at first, I picked the audience that could say “nope” in a day or two. Never happened. Some did read and write back, no complaints, just continued uncertainty, not quite sure what to make of it all it seems. But I feel that the lack of dissent from the capable individuals, after a certain period of time, does say something. I still think Hacker News would have destroyed it. Somehow it got 8 upvotes but 0 comments on there.
If it was wrong in any way, they would have downvoted it, and posted comments telling me how dumb I was for pointing at the wrong place. Didn’t happen. This was like putting it in shark infested waters, and no one tore it apart.
And as a reminder I already submitted my code and paper to the FBI, Vallejo PD, Solano County Sherriff’s Dept back in December 2025, and the previous two in February when I released version 2 of the paper.
I know not everyone is convinced yet, but I bought the domain inthreeandthreeeightsradiansten.com, so I do own the solution. I paid 12 bucks for that. That is my bet on being right about what I (David Stampher) found in December 2025.
I respect all other opinions but they are just opinions. It is my opinion that I am right. I think when I got censored at the other place it just threw a wrench in things. Gotta roll with the punches and pivot. That is life.
Always like to keep the code and paper links on each page. SEO + more readers.
Code:: https://github.com/dstampher/zodiac-z32-cipher
Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/18645227
Version 3 out soon. It is good and will be the last version I think. I had more to add so I did, while keeping it objective. Everything in paper has to be fact based (verifiable) not opinion. That is the goal. I spent extra time trying to make the images perfect (to me), and they still aren’t done yet. Took longer than expected but at least I know I’m not cutting corners on it.
If they scan the triangle and find something, then I will be compelled to write a version 4. Maybe that will happen one day.
IN THREE AND THREE EIGHTHS RADIANS TEN is the personally confirmed solution to the Z32, cracked by David Stampher in December 2025, who found the triangle landmark by Lake Herman Road after 55 years.
The method is what solves Z32, not me. I just shared it and put my name next to it, as is standard procedure. I feel good enough about it to do so. I trust the code, math, and method.
Hey. I was just wondering. I mean, the ‘experts’ have method too, right? Only, the experts appear to agree as one that their method is wholly inadequate to the task at hand, solving the Z32. That has me thinking about just what exactly it is that is there in your particular method that the experts must have overlooked. What’s the specific key that separates your success from their – I cannot say failure – from their disinterest in even wanting to try?
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
It’s almost like you’re suggesting that any proposed solution is necessarily correct until it’s proven to be incorrect, but that is backwards…
I’ve been having difficulty with this claim, too. It’s like that has to mean that any proposal that I have put forward myself must equally be correct.
Certainly, no efforts of mine have been falsified either, not in the sense that the OP defines falsification, or in any other sense for that matter.
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
The method is what solves Z32, not me. I just shared it and put my name next to it, as is standard procedure. I feel good enough about it to do so. I trust the code, math, and method.
Hey. I was just wondering. I mean, the ‘experts’ have method too, right? Only, the experts appear to agree as one that their method is wholly inadequate to the task at hand, solving the Z32. That has me thinking about just what exactly it is that is there in your particular method that the experts must have overlooked. What’s the specific key that separates your success from their – I cannot say failure – from their disinterest in even wanting to try?
The experts didn’t have a good method to arrive at a unique solution. Some of them ignored some of the Zodiac’s instructions regarding this cipher.
The paper it explains it all.
If you can find any other Z32 proposed solution that includes a codebase, let me know. My code is the only that I have seen for this cipher.
Z32 was never going to be solved by some manual solver, which is most people that tried. They needed code, and didn’t have it.
How do you test all of the alternatives manually?
You don’t.
Experts didn’t have the ranking step to identify the primary solution. I brought that to the table. Most importantly, I found the triangle landmark on the ground lol.
People want to still argue on internet forums about it. I am just waiting for the scan, lol.
My new default is, “you are entitled to your opinion”.
I presented objective falsification criteria, unfortunately for internet forum users this involves the scan. Point is, if there is a hit, I solved the cipher. Falsifiable. Others can say, “Just because they found physical evidence from the Zodiac where you pointed, doesn’t mean you solved the cipher. There are other possible plaintexts”.
At which point I would just laugh in their face tbh, and realize they are suffering from a comprehensive problem that is not my issue.
Some people still say the Z340 solution is wrong, even after being confirmed by the FBI. This is just part of how the internet forums are.
I am having a comprehensive problem as well, I am really tired of Zodiac internet forums still lol.
Four months was four months longer than I had hoped. Just wanted to drop this off and ride off into the sunset, as I must admit I figured the quick scan would have been done by now, since it is very easy and cheap. Maybe it has been, and I just haven’t heard about it. Since it is an open case, I don’t know how the announcement process goes.
Anyways yeah if they do find something I am going to wonder what was up with Zodiac internet forum users, lol. We will see.
Making stupid typos and grammar errors just sitting around here. I don’t really care so much though. Poor optics but I’ve been waiting around for the experts for four months. They are very slow.
The other forum admin censoring it early definitely made the job harder. Added another hurdle when I was already pretty burnt on out on the cipher.
But they will be called out if evidence is recovered.
