FBI suspect identified by Cold Case Group as ‘Zodiac Killer’.

FBI Has a Suspect in Infamous Zodiac Killings, Cold Case Group Claims

A volunteer group of investigators, Case Breakers, led by investigative journalist Thomas Colbert, has claimed that the FBI has a suspect in the infamous “Zodiac” killings. According to the group, Air Force veteran Gary Francis Poste has been listed as a suspect in the Zodiac killings since 2016. The group learned this information from “a senior FBI agent.”

Case Breakers Claims

Case Breakers previously identified Poste, who died in 2018, as the Zodiac killer. The group has questioned why the FBI hasn’t notified the victims’ families. Investigators have agreed that seven people were the victims of assaults by the Zodiac killer, five of whom died from their injuries. He is suspected of killing 20 to 28 in total, and the killer himself claimed to have killed 37 in his infamous letters to media outlets and detectives. The Zodiac operated in the San Francisco Bay Area between 1968 and 1969.

Case Breakers claimed that the felon has been secretly listed as the Zodiac “suspect” in Headquarters’ computers since 2016 – with his “partial DNA” safely secured at the feds’ Quantico, Virginia lab.

The group found DNA on a hiking mat Poste owned and confirmed the DNA using a living relative. The group has asked the FBI to compare that DNA to hairs found on Cheri Jo Bates, believed by the group to be one of the Zodiac’s victims. Police, however, don’t believe Bates was killed by the Zodiac.

Zodiac’s Cryptic Message

More than 50 years after the Zodiac sent a cipher to the San Francisco Chronicle taunting authorities for failing to catch him, three amateur code breakers believed they cracked the cipher. The cryptic message, known as the “340 cipher,” was allegedly solved by Virginia software developer David Oranchak, Belgian computer programmer Jarl Van Eycke, and Australian mathematician Sam Blake. They believe the message contains a misspelling of the word “paradise.”

The TV show reference is to “The Jim Dunbar Show,” a television talk show that aired in the San Francisco area. In 1969, a man claiming to be the Zodiac Killer called into Dunbar’s show repeatedly, saying a few words before hanging up each time. The cipher that has been decoded was sent to the Chronicle two weeks after the show aired.

Conclusion

The FBI maintains that the case is still unsolved and remains open and active. This is not the first time someone has claimed to know the identity of the Zodiac killer. Numerous people have claimed to be relatives of someone they believe to have been the killer.

• Case Breakers claims that Air Force veteran Gary Francis Poste is the Zodiac killer.
• The group found DNA on a hiking mat Poste owned and confirmed the DNA using a living relative.
• The FBI maintains that the case is still unsolved and remains open and active.

Did you know? The Zodiac killer is suspected of killing 20 to 28 people in total, and the killer himself claimed to have killed 37 in his infamous letters to media outlets and detectives.