A coded message sent by a brutal serial killer who has never been caught has been cracked more than 51 years after it was sent. This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for ...

A cipher from San Francisco’s notorious “Zodiac Killer” of the 1960s and '70s apparently has been solved after 51 years. A code-breaking team with members in the U.S., Australia and Belgium claims it ...

A cipher sent in 1969 by the Zodiac Killer has been solved. In an email to EW Scripps, the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that three "private citizens cracked the cipher." "On Dec. 5, the ...

The Zodiac’s serial killer’s 340 cipher, which couldn’t be solved for 50 years, has been cracked by a remote team of mathematicians. A remote team of three hobbyist cryptologists have solved one of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Experts have solved the code in the "340 Cipher" sent to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 by the Zodiac Killer, the elusive figure who terrorized the Bay Area decades ago and ...

Zodiac Killer and Black Dahlia killer may finally have a single name attached to them, according to explosive new claims that weave together two of the most horrifying and enduring unsolved crimes in ...

A team of codebreakers has announced a solution to the Zodiac Killer‘s famous 340-character cipher received by The San Francisco Chronicle in 1969. The team needed to run months of solutions using ...

A team of armchair sleuths say they have solved a coded message attributed to the infamous Zodiac Killer — who killed at least five people in California in the 1960s and claimed to have killed more ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Experts have solved the code in the "340 Cipher" sent to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 by the Zodiac Killer, the elusive figure who terrorized California's Bay Area decades ago ...

It’s long been assumed that the identity of the “Zodiac killer,” who terrorized Northern California from the late ‘60s through the early ‘70s, is one of those mysteries that will never be solved.