They claim to have discovered the identity of Zodiaco, a serial killer of the late 1960s | He inspired the films “Dirty Harry” and “Zodiac”

A group of police investigators claimed to have identified one of the most notorious criminals in American history: the Zodiac Slayer. They claim to have used new physical and forensic evidence, as well as the contribution of eyewitnesses.

According to the collective work, the criminal is Gary Francois Post, a man they believe died in 2018. The investigation was conducted by the group Case breakers, which includes around 40 senior researchers. They claim to have taken affidavits and photos of the former dark room of the man listed as the killer who killed five people between 1968 and 1969 in the San Francisco area. In fact, The Case Breakers ties Poste to a sixth murder.

The case was famous because newspapers in Northern California received letters threatening other crimes if messages sent with the Zodíaco signature were not published., hence the name by which it became known. The messages contained encrypted messages and he blamed himself for 37 murders. Authorities collected data based on testimonies from two survivors of the killer’s attacks.

At the height of the Zodiac, in the early 1970s, Iinspired the movie Dirty Harry, with Clint Eastwood in 1971. Zodiac, directed by David Fincher in 2007, recreated the story of the murders and investigation from the book by Robert Graysmith, a cartoonist who followed the case.

According to The Case Breakers, photos taken in Poste’s darkroom show scars on his forehead that apparently match scars on a zodiac sketch. The group claims to have decrypted the encrypted messages sent by the murderer and that this led to Poste. They also claim to have discovered another post based on the full name of the alleged Zodiac.

For now, the FBI has not commented on the group’s contribution and noted that the investigation into Zodíaco remains open. San Francisco police spoke in the same tone. Authorities have always had Arthur Leigh Allen as their prime suspect, a man who died in 1992 and who could not be incriminated. In 2003, it was found that his fingerprints did not match a fingerprint detected on one of the letters.