The message was hailed as a “340 cipher” by three of the code-breakers – software developer David Oranchak of Virginia, Belgian computer programmer, Jarl van Eyke, and Australian-Australian mathematician, Sam Black.
Decoding the cipher revealed the following message was sent in all capital letters without punctuation and contains a misspelling of heaven:
I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to the parade as soon as possible
Because I now have enough slaves to work for me where everyone has nothing when it comes to the parade so they are afraid of death
I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be easier in Paradise Death. “
The message the TV show refers to is “The Bat Area Television Talk Show” The Jim Dunbar Show. “The cipher was sent two weeks after a man claiming to be a zodiac killer called to the show.
“It was incredible. It was a big shock. I never really thought we would find anything because I was so big for failure,” said Oranchak, who has been working since 2006 to sort out the killer messages.
“When I first started, I was excited when I saw some words coming up – they were false positives, like phantoms. I used them. It was a long shot – we didn’t really know if there was any.” The message was, ”he said.
The trio took their findings to the FBI a week ago, but did not announce their success until the FBI confirmed them.
Clothes of bloody beats were included with his letters as evidence of his actions. He claims to have killed as many as 37 people.
“Due to the ongoing nature of the investigation and respect for the victims and their families, we will not comment further at this time,” the statement said.
The San Francisco Police Department has also been alerted about the solved cipher, and said the information has been sent to the department’s cold case murder investigators.
“We were really lucky and got one with a part of the answer, but it wasn’t clear,” Oranchak said.
The only disappointing part, said Ranch, is that there is no personally identifiable information in this miscellany.
Ran Ranch has no hope of solving the remaining two ciphers. He described the mission as “almost hopeless” because both are too short, with thousands of different names and phrases that could fit.
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