The
Zodiac killer was a murderer who operated in late 1960s. He sent several letters to the
media. Among them the following ones:
1)
Three letters to three different media from San Francisco on the same day (31 July 1969):
Ignatius of Loyola was one of the founders of the
Society of Jesus (also known as Jesuits) and its first leader. He died on 31 July 1556 (his
feast is celebrated this day) and was beatified on 27 July 1609.
Between 1609 and 1969 there are 360 years. A circle has 360 degrees. Zodiac’s symbol was a circle divided in four parts of 90 degrees each one.
Zodiac’s symbol is similar to the sun, the Jesuits’ seal has a sun on it. Between 27 July and 31 July there are three days, Zodiac sent three
letters on this day we are talking about.
2)
Zodiac Message on Car Door (27 September 1969):
Zodiac left this message on a car door. (It’s related to his next message of 13 October 1969)
To decode it we have to disregard the alphanumeric symbols that are repeated:
There are a couple a little tricky:
“By” and “Val” (in the l is pronounced like a i) sound very similar, so we cross out both.
“Nif” is nigh, so it eliminates its opposite “lejo” and “s” (lejos = afar).
And thus, we end up with this message:
12 - - 8
- 4
pt 3
k
Meaning: In 16 (12 + 8 - 4) days I will write a coded message about Portugal and three kids.
3)
The Paul Stine letter (13 October 1969):
Zodiac sent this letter 16 days after the last one. 16 = P = Portugal.
This day was the 52nd anniversary of the
Miracle of the Sun, an alleged miracle of the
Virgin Mary which took place on 13 October 1969.
In the text, between the words “area” and “cover” (red asterisks) there are 52 words.
“Area” is an anagram of “Iria”, “cover” is an anagram of “cova”. The apparitions of the Virgin took place in
Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
In the last paragraph Zodiac talks about children. This Marian apparitions were witnessed only by three shepherd children.
Fátima is an Arab woman’s name. Paul Stine is an anagram of Palestine, an Arab nation.
4)
Dripping pen card and 340 cipher (8 November 1969):
This card was mailed the on the eve of the 31st anniversary of the
Night of Broken Glass. In it
there is one pen and three drops: 31. We have more information in the two encircled parts.
The blue circle:
Read from right to left it says: “Rie Jeb”, meaning “Jeb Laughs”. A reference to
J. E. B.
Stuart, a Confederate general who died at the age of 31. This serve us as second confirmation to acknowledge Zodiac sending a mail on this
anniversary wasn’t a coincidence.
The green circle:
On top of the Celtic cross, there is an AE camouflaged as an “it”. AE = Arriba España (Up with Spain, a
Francoist motto).
If you look closer, the T from the word “Thing” is an F, which means Franco.
Below the word “Thing” there are six lines and in the right side of this word there are six exclamation marks: 66 = FF = Francisco Franco.
Under the Celtic cross there are six items: The cross points towards July, the las item has a 7 and over it, the g from “Aug” looks like a 1, so
this is a 17. The c from “Dec” is actually a 9, so it says “De 9”, which in Spanish looks like Diecinueve, that is 19. The two items with
numbers on it are the 3rd and the 6th ones, so this is a 36, which combined with the 19 gives us 1936. So the whole thing means “17 July 1936”,
the day the fascists rises up against the II Republic in Northern Morocco and the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
The references to Franco are also confirmed with the fact this letter was one of the few instances where Zodiac wrote “San Francisco” instead of
“San Fran”:
The Cipher 340:
The Cipher 340 (so named because it contains 340 characters) has two meanings linked each other:
A) If we follow the path of the three lines of the Celtic cross toward the text (green lines) we have NOA, a reference to
Noah, the last of the pre-flood patriarchs. Then, to the right of the O from NOA there is the word ZODAI
K (an anagram of Zodiak), where we have a Z and after it, in the 3rd and 4th positions an AI, a reference to the town of
The Ai, and then a blank space which corresponds to the zero.
B) If we follow the same path of the three lines of the Celtic cross but in the middle one we now follow the line of the little Celtic cross (The O of
NOA) pointing toward the left, and then we read it clockwise, we end up with SAN (Spanish for Saint) which combined with the 340 figure leads us to
Saint Augustine, who died in the year 430 CE. He wrote about Noah in his book
On the city of God against the pagans.