SAN FRANCISCO — A team of cold case investigators say they have finally identified the Zodiac Killer, one of America's most prolific serial murderers who terrorized San Francisco in the late 1960s.
UPDATE: FBI says Zodiac Killer case remains open after independent investigators name suspect
Fox News reported, The Case Breakers, a team of more than 40 detectives, journalists and military intelligence officers, believes the killer is responsible for a murder hundreds of miles away that was never linked to him previously.
The Zodiac committed at least five murders across the San Francisco Bay area in the late 60s.
The Zodiac Killer gave the the name to himself in a series of taunting letters that he mailed to regional newspapers. Some of the letters included cryptograms. Two remain unsolved to this day. One was cracked in 1969 and another in 2020.
The Case Breakers say they have identified the Zodiac Killer as Gary Francis Poste, who passed away in 2018.
According to Fox News, the team's years of digging uncovered new forensic evidence and photos from Poste's darkroom. Including an image that features scars on the forehead of Poste that match scars on a sketch of the Zodiac, the team said.
Other clues include deciphering letters sent by the Zodiac that revealed him as the killer, said Jen Bucholtz, a former Army counterintelligence agent who works on cold cases. In one note, the letters of Poste's full name were removed to reveal an alternate message, she told Fox News.
"So you've got to know Gary's full name in order to decipher these anagrams," Bucholtz said. "I just don't think there's any other way anybody would have figured it out."
For the full story, and more evidence from the Case Breakers, visit Fox News.
