"Zodiac Killer" identity determined? FBI: The case remains unsolved

According to the US Chinese Network, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said on the 7th that although a group of experts claimed that they had determined the identity of the "zodiac killer", the serial murder case is still unsolved.

"The Zodiac Killer case remains unresolved. We have no new information to share. The FBI's San Francisco office said in a statement.

Adam Lobsinger, a spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department, said in a separate statement, "At this time, we have not identified potential suspects for public investigation of the case." ”

A team of more than 40 experts previously said they had identified the "Zodiac Killer" as Gary Francis Poste, who died in 2018. The team is made up of former law enforcement investigators, journalists and military intelligence officers.

The Zodiac Killer is believed to have been linked to at least seven murders in the San Francisco Bay Area between 1968 and 1969, 2 of which survived. The killers have been taunting law enforcement during the investigation by sending complex riddles and code letters to the media and police, claiming they killed 37 people.

In December 2020, the FBI announced that the 340-character password the killer sent to the San Francisco Chronicle on November 8, 1969, had been cracked, but that did not help confirm the killer's identity.

The team said they identified him as the killer after finding forensic evidence and photographs from Post's darkroom. It is reported that some pictures show that the scar on his forehead matches the scar on the sketch of the "Zodiac Killer". Jen Bucholtz, a former Army counterintelligence agent, said the team also found deciphered letters sent by the killer that revealed Post was the killer.

"You have to know Gary's full name to decipher these anagrams." She said, "I just don't think anyone else would come up with it." ”

The team also held Post responsible for another murder. Cheri Jo Bates, 18, was found dead in an alley in Riverside, California, two years before the Zodiac murders. However, Fox News noted that the Riverside Police Department's Homicide Cold Cases Unit determined that her murder was not related to the "Zodiac Killer."

Still, the investigative team believes Bates was also one of the victims of the "Zodiac Killer," saying they obtained a 1975 FBI memo to Riverside Police calling Bates a victim of the "Zodiac Killer."

Source: China News Network