Has a Cold Case Team Identified the Zodiac Killer?
A team of 40 specialists believes that they have identified the Zodiac killer based on forensic evidence and photos from the suspect’s dark room.
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The Case Breakers, a team of more than 40 specialists including former law enforcement investigators, journalists and military intelligence officers, believes it has identified the Zodiac Killer as Gary Francis Poste, who died in 2018, reports The Hill. The Zodiac Killer has been connected to five murders between 1968 and 1969. The killer notably taunted authorities through complex riddles and ciphers sent to media and police during the investigations.
The Case Breakers say they identified Poste as the killer after uncovering forensic evidence and photos from Poste’s darkroom. The team said a few images featured in the press release show scars on his forehead that match scars on a sketch of the Zodiac Killer. en Bucholtz, a former Army counterintelligence agent who works on cold cases, said the team also found deciphered letters sent by the Zodiac that revealed Poste as the killer. The Case Breakers also believe that Poste is responsible for the murder of 18-year-old Cheri Jo Bates, who was found dead in an alleyway in Riverside, Calif., two years before the Zodiac killings. They have continually tried and failed to get police investigators to compare her DNA to Poste’s.
