A coded message sent by the Zodiac Killer to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 has finally been cracked, the newspaper reported Friday. A team of code breakers solved the vexing cryptogram after ...

More than 50 years after the so-called Zodiac Killer first began terrorizing the streets of Northern California, a code-breaking team is believed to have finally cracked one of the killer’s ...

Dubbed the "340 cipher," the message was unraveled by a trio of code breakers -- David Oranchak, a software developer in Virginia, Jarl Van Eycke, a Belgian computer programmer, and ...

Experts have reportedly 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 killed ...

A coded message sent by the Zodiac Killer to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 has finally been cracked, the newspaper reported Friday. A team of code breakers solved the vexing cryptogram after … ...

But the Bay Area killer’s 340-character cipher mailed to the San Francisco Chronicle has been cracked by an international team of code-breakers.

A group of private citizens say they've broken an encoded message sent by the so-called "Zodiac Killer" to a San Francisco newspaper more than five decades ago.

Code- and cipher-breaking have been in operation for centuries. However, cryptanalysis – the art of deciphering encoded messages – took on a new importance during WW2 as British boffins ...

Zodiac Killer’s 340 cipher solved by private citizens “The chances of solving this after 50 years was next to zero and so being able to play a role in this is fantastic.