More than 50 years after the so-called Zodiac Killer first began terrorizing the streets of Northern California, a code-breaking team is believed to have finally cracked one of the killer’s mysterious ...

A coded message sent by the Zodiac Killer to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 has finally been cracked, the newspaper reported Friday. A team of code breakers solved the vexing cryptogram after 51 ...

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Dec. 12 (UPI) --A group of private citizens say they've broken an encoded message sent by the so-called "Zodiac Killer" to a San Francisco newspaper more than five decades ago. The code-breakers said ...

To get a hint of the monstrously difficult task undertaken by the Venona code breakers, consider all the elaborate steps that Soviet agents took to encrypt a secret message. Here’s how it worked, as ...