Zodiac Killer letter, San Francisco Chronicle, July 31st 1969

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July 31st 1969. Sent to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and Vallejo Times, the cipher was eventually cracked by a highschool teacher who read it in the papers. Although his next letter said this cipher contained his name, it actually included the phrase "I will not give you my name".

2702535Letter to the San Francisco Chronicle1969Zodiac killer

​Dear Editor

This is the murderer of the 2 teenagers last Christmass at Lake Herman & the girl on the 4th of July near the golf course in Vallejo

To prove I killed them I shall state some facts which only I & the police know.

Christmass

  1. Brand name of ammo
    Super X
  2. 10 shots were fired
  3. the boy was on his back with his feet to the car
  4. the girl was on her right side feet to the west

4th July

  1. girl was wearing paterned slacks
  2. The boy was also shot in the knee.
  3. Brand name of ammo was western

Over

​Here is part of a cipher the other 2 parts of this cipher are being mailed to the editors of the Vallejo Times & SF Examiner.

I want you to print this cipher on the front page of your paper. 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 rampage Fry. night. I will cruse around all weekend killing lone people in the night then move on to kill again, untill I end up with a dozen people over the weekend.

⌖

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