


Being called the 'code killer' or 'cipher killer' in the newspapers clearly didn't sit well with an ego-driven murderer. As covered in a previous article ' Born on August 3rd,' it was argued that the killer had no "identity" or pseudonym to reveal to us before August 3rd 1969, because he hadn't yet assigned one to himself. The "Zodiac Killer" 'only' killed two people under the Zodiac pseudonym, that of Cecelia Shepard and Paul Stine. That is probably because the assailant at Lake Herman Road and Blue Rock Springs was technically not the Zodiac Killer. He was effectively equating his identity with his name, not with his pseudonym or other covert means of identifying him. The killer of three assured us that his identity was concealed within the cipher, while all along, knowing the enciphered text would reveal that he was unprepared to give us his name. I will not give you my name because you will try to slow down or stop my collecting of slaves for my afterlife".
#ZODIAC KILLER CIPHER CODE#
When the cipher was decoded a matter of days later, the code revealed " I like killing people because it is so much fun it is more fun than killing wild game in the forrest because man is the most dangerous animal of all to kill something gi ves me the most thrilling experence it is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl the best part of it is that when I die I will be reborn in paradice and all th e (people) I have killed will become my slaves. I will cruse around all weekend killing lone people in the night then move on to kill again, until I end up with a dozen people over the weekend". In this cipher is my idenity. If you do not print this cipher by the afternoon of Fry.1st of Aug 69, I will go on a kill ram-Page Fry. I want you to print this cipher on the front page of your paper. He wrote " Here is part of a cipher the other 2 parts of this cipher are being mailed to the editors of the Vallejo Times and SF Examiner. In the letter to the Chronicle, the author suggested that within the code he had mailed we would discover his identity. The Zodiac Killer did not mail the three July 31st 1969 letters to the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle and Vallejo Times-Herald, although the murderer of Betty Lou Jensen, David Faraday and Darlene Ferrin certainly did.
