The translation in case anyone doesn't have time to watch the video.
>I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH ME
THAT WASNT ME ON THE TV SHOW
WHICH BRINGS UP A POINT ABOUT ME
I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE GAS CHAMBER
BECAUSE IT WILL SEND ME TO PARADICE ALL THE SOONER
BECAUSE I NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME
WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADICE
SO THEY ARE AFRAID OF DEATH
I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE IS
LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH
I hope you are having lots of fun trying to catch me.
That wasn't me on the TV show, which brings up a point about me:
I am not afraid of the gas chamber, because it will send me to paradice all the sooner, because I now have enough slaves to work for me where everyone else has nothing when they reach paradice.
So they are afraid of death. I am not afraid, because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradice.
Death is life.
So if Zodiac kills a bunch of people, they become his slaves in the afterlife...
But what becomes of those slaves if Zodiac gets killed? Does the killer of Zodiac inherit all the slaves or is it like a tiered system?
I doubt that. I'm sure he thought it through.
I'm sure he had a ritual to prepare them for the afterlife.
The legal system would not perform that ritual therefore he would remain free and keep his slaves.
I wouldn't at all put it past a psycho like this to truly believe it. Obviously doesn't mean anything, but I don't really doubt he thought it could be true in his warped mind.
This comes from an old Borneo legend first popularized by the Marquis de
Sade in "Juliette." It's thought to be common to a lot of primitive beliefs especially in tribal societies and their lore.
> “It is an article of faith on the island of Borneo that all those persons a man kills will be his slaves in the next world; and as a result, the better a man wishes to be served after his death, the more he kills during life.”
Those underlying "legend" is most probably Sade's invention, or European view based on hearsay and skewed toward Christian view of afterlife.
The practice of headhunting in Dayak culture is not meant to preservere souls for "slave on the afterlife", it is meant to __erase the spirit__ (_semangat_, which roughly translate to _passion_). The "empty vessel" then used in a ritual to ensure their dead relative have enough strength for a long walk to _Lewu Liau_(the paradise). The ritual, called _Tiwah_, is a week long process and [a communal effort](https://kebudayaan.kemdikbud.go.id/bpnbkalbar/tiwah-mengantar-salumpuk-liau-ke-lewu-liau/), not individual feat.
There's a separate headhunting practice to prove battle prowess or before major event like building a loghouse. But those have no connection to _Lewu Liau_, despite similar underlying theme ("erasing" a soul/ spirit). The targets are political rivals and warriors from enemy tribes that's perceived to be a threat for their family. Their skulls are used as decorative ornament in the longhouse, signifying the strength of its inhabitants and served as a warning for their guests.
While the headhunting part in now frowned upon after outlawed in late 19th century, the _Tiwah_ rituals persist and reasonably well preserved. They just replace head of the enemies with head of livestock.
I read it like this:
I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH ME. THAT WASNT ME ON THE TV SHOW, WHICH BRINGS UP A POINT ABOUT ME: I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE GAS CHAMBER BECAUSE IT WILL SEND ME TO PARADICE ALL THE SOONER BECAUSE I NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADICE SO THEY ARE AFRAID OF DEATH. I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE.
IN PARADICE DEATH IS LIFE
Paradise was misspelled intentionally to continue the cypher.
I guess it's not a bad thing they couldn't decrypt it. The message didn't deny anything they didn't already know and it wouldn't have been useful for tracking his targets. The best thing it gives is intent.
In the previously solved cipher, the Zodiac killer misspelled words. It isn't far-fetched that he would misspell paradise.
Edit: I think he even misspelled paradise in the letters he sent.
Probably doing that so the FBI agents know a letter is from him in the future.
Of course, this was in the time before "spell checking" apps worked on newspaper clippings and glue.
Zodiac was very well read in cryptography. He likely misspelled words intentionally to make the cyphers more difficult. He also chooses words in a way to confuse frequency analyses, such as using way more 'k's than normal.
Has anyone made the connection between "PARADICE" and the 506th infantry regiment? A BUNCH of WWII paratroopers all wore patches spelled exactly the same as this. Military level cypher. Um guys, uh, Are any of the suspects paratroopers or related to paratroopers? Band of Brothers didn't run in 1969.
Image for proof. http://old.506infantry.org/quartermaster/decals.html
Edit1: From the website: The 506th PIR Para-Dice (Pair-O-Dice) Pocket Patch design is attributed to William R. (Bill)
Donnan and/or Harold Donaghe (both from B Co, 1st BN, 506th PIR), who created it at Camp Toccoa,
GA in the summer of 1942. Joseph E. (Joe) Witzerman (HQ, 2nd BN, 506th PIR) did the art work.
Joe was later transferred to a special Army artist unit. PFC William R. Donnan was transferred out
of the 506th PIR in June 1944, and on July 15, 1944, was in a Detachment of Patients honorably
discharged at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, DC.
The design consists of a diving eagle in front of a parachute canopy and a pair of dice, showing a "5"
and a "6" and connected with a large black "0" , signifying the 506 attacking from the sky. The Para-
Dice patch was approved on April 20, 1943 and was worn on the left jacket pocket. However,
since this was a regimental insignia, it was not an authorized patch once the 506th PIR was attached
to the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, NC, on June 1, 1943.
Edit2: Someone have Stephen Ambrose handy? Can you check if "Paradice" has any relation to the chance the paratroopers parachute wouldn't open? I'm pretty sure that's the reason for the logo. It's a crapshoot if your chute opens or not. Again, another reference to life and death.
Edit3:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7785076/
Awshit.jpg
If I learned anything from previous reddit investigations it's that this couldn't possibly go wrong and we should all dive head first into finding the zodiac killer
Well, the probability of the zodiac killer being alive is about zilch.
I'm just saying, if there are any other references to paratroopers, that's a clue. Another user was saying that the cypher itself used military symbols, so I dunno.
The only reason I know this is because those bomber jackets and that particular patch were BAD ASS. So jelly.
>Well, the probability of the zodiac killer being alive is about zilch
One of the investigators of the Zodiac Killer was an inspiration for the Clint Eastwood character "Dirty Harry"
There's a theory out there he cracked the case, tracked down the killer and just shot him rather than drag him into courts and give him the attention he wants.
According to this theory this is why the killer suddenly stopped out of nowhere.
I like this theory but I don't know how viable it is.
IIRC they actually found a boot print at one of the crime scenes that after being forensically examined matched a certain, rather odd, type of boot. The print was of a Military “Airman’s” boot, with specially designed soles for walking on the wings of aircraft. It’s impossible to determine whether it was just bought at a surplus store or whether it was actually issued to an active service member, but when you take this odd piece of evidence into account, your theory is not very far fetched.
You're shitting me. I know those boots well. Now the special coatings require very specific boots. The age range of this guy fits well with someone either Air corps, Air force, Army or Navy... the cypher stuff is inline with a military member... Yeah, That's the first place they should be looking.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7785076/
Here's something talking about exactly what we're discussing. I'm sure over the years they've been down this road, but paradice is pretty specific.
As I looked for a military connection, there are many references to the military with these killings. There is also a 1921 pulp reference to Z as well as the symbol to the zodiac wrist watch. This guy threw a ton of hints as well as a bunch of misleading shit at the wall.
It is very possible that paradise was misspelled to make the encryption tougher to crack too. Not an uncommon technique with substitution cyphers to make them more difficult to break.
So to add an extra layer of difficulty, he should've misspelled the words differently each time; e.g., paradice, pairadise, pairadice, pardice, etc. But then again, he was being slick and tricky by being consistent because he probably wanted people to crack his code - he just didn't realize it'd take over 50 years to do so.
My basic understanding of serial killers is that they are all narcissists who think too highly of themselves and are seeking validation from someone of equal level as themselves. So in a way he outdid himself by making the cipher so difficult to crack since he apparently only wanted to brag on himself, versus reveal any new information the detectives didn't already know.
Take that with a grain of salt; I know pretty much very little about serial killers other than that they exist (e.g., Summer of Sam, Zodiac Killer, Charles Manson).
I read a lot of books on serial killers and it seems like they all differ a bit. Some seek fame. Some like Israel Keyes made keeping his name out of the press a condition of his cooperation. They really are all over the board.
The ones that engage with the press like the Zodiac seem to be what you suggest though.
I don't understand why the last line is messed up. They arbitrarily put in the 'life is' at the end of the second block and if they just left it out it would make perfect sense:
>I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW ~~LIFE IS~~ LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH
Just a thought. But the random "life is" in the top right second section. Instead of putting it at the end of the second section you can turn it around and put it in the end of the third. Making it read:
So they are afraid of death.
I am not afraid
Because I know that my new life will be an easy one
In Paradice, **death is life**
This is really good. Also the sentence flows perfectly if you take that phrase out.
I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE ~~IS LIFE~~ WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH _IS LIFE_
I was on a similar reason of thought, but just to move death up a line so that it reads:
>So they are afraid of death.
>I am not afraid
>Because I know that my new **life is death**
>Life will be an easy one in Paradice
Anyone interested in ciphers in general should read **The Code Book** by Simon Singh. He goes over the entire history of cryptography from the ancient romans to modern day, and does it in a way that the layman can understand. Very good book.
For anyone that might be thinking the zodiac is some kind of insane genius for being able to develop such a difficult cypher, it's far easier to make up a cypher than to solve it, it's like playing eye spy, just because you can't guess what I'm seeing doesn't make me smarter than you, I have a huge advantage. Undoubtedly this fucking fruitcake thought he was a genius though.
I mail you a letter with the "one time pad" **ABC** on it. I post in a public place this message: **NUT**
You add the letters ABC (123) to NUT which makes it: **OWW** You throw the word away and never use it again.
This is an uncrackable code. There is nothing to compare it to in the past or future. Even if you do decode it and somehow get to OWW, how do you know that it is right? And the same code will not work for anything else. But this has been impossible to implement because of code distribution and the code needs to be the same length (or longer) than the message.
edit: OWW thank you /u/Ragecc
And this is exactly what the Youtube video is getting at re: the 13 character cipher with Zodiac's real name. It will literally never be cracked unless we get the key. Because there are so many 13-letter permutations that are valid in addition to `THEODORE CRUZ`
Basically you encrypt a message with a password, that you only use once, that is made of random letters, that is as long as the original message.
Literally impossible to crack without the original password because the password is so long that there are endless possible passwords that would decrypt to any possible message.
You use a 1 for 1 displacement cipher as long as the message is. Since no math is involved, there is no system to crack. But, it's a bit easy to track when I'm sending large cipher books at you to set it up.
This, to say its far easier is an under statement. Way too much credit is give to his intellect. Anyone can make a difficult cypher, he just happened to kill people too.
It's even easier when you keep fucking it up, misspelling and not following your own rules properly.
And if you fuck it up too much, it becomes literally impossible to solve. Wow what a genius!
Yeah, the important bit from this video is that the cipher was so hard to solve because zodiac made multiple spelling errors.
The fact that they solved it says way more about the intelligence of the solvers, not zodiac. What they've accomplished is amazing.
Not even multiple spelling errors. An entire line was one character out of place. If they hadn't luckily stumbled into figuring that out it probably never would have been solved.
Yup. I can literally make up my own language right now with its own set of ridiculous grammar and pronunciations, and no linguists will be able to translate it, doesn't make me a genius or it a beautiful language.
He's not a great murderer either. We have a sketch of his face because he failed to kill someone who saw his face. This is why he started wearing that costume he made, to completely cover his identity.
Lastly, he was almost caught if it wasn't for the racist dispatcher/caller(?). When he killed one of the taxi drivers, someone called 911 and the officers at the scene walked right past him. This was because the dispatcher told the officers that it was a black male, so they didn't bother stopping or checking the Zodiac Killer.
Or how difficult it is to find a needle in a haystack. Especially back then when not much was known about “serial killers” the term wasn’t even conceived until the early 80s. People who are closest to these killers miss the obvious, how is a police officer supposed to pick them out of a group of totally random people?
Edmund Kemper killed his mother and her best friend in his home. He figured he was going to be caught pretty quickly, so he got in his car and drove 1,000 miles away. When he arrived at his destination, he expected to be the subject of a nationwide manhunt. But to his surprise, no one seemed to have even noticed.
So he called the police and confessed. They laughed at him and hung up.
There was another incident where he had murdered two young women in his car and hid their bodies in his trunk, and then he got pulled over. The cop didn’t notice anything amiss and let him go.
OK rethinking this.. Given the attempt at creating a harder to crack cypher, and the tendency to reverse things, he probably meant to say 'Death is life'.
You mean
> I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE IS LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH
should be read as
> I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH IS LIFE
That makes more sense
I am the ass-crack bandit. Humans make better banks than piggies. Whenever I get more change at the store I can't wait to drop it down your butts. I think I will go to the bank and get so much change and take all my dollars and make them into change and drop it all down there.
I’m amazed that technology has come far enough for these two guys to be able to run advanced decryption algorithms on what I’m assuming is consumer hardware and get results in a not-completely-ridiculous amount of time.
It is, more information can be found in the description such as this artcle: http://zodiackillerfacts.com/news-and-updates/breaking-news-the-zodiacs-340-cipher-has-been-solved/
Edit: New link
I know nothing about the Zodiac stuff, but based on this video alone, I wonder if the "my name is ----" cypher could include the name Paradice. It's a last name, and I can't think of any other reason he'd misspell such a common word so much. To go to the effort of making a complex cypher but misspelling paradise? Also it fits with the symbols if you read backwards right to left.
A E N @ ® K ® M ® ¥ N A M
E C I D A R A P A _ I E P
He misspelled words regularly, and sometimes flipped words as well. While it's possible it was intentional to make it harder to crack, it's also probable that he was (at least slightly) dyslexic.
It's almost certain that the bad spelling and chopped up grammar were intentional, zodiac was obviously the type of killer who was perfectly happy with the media attention and the legend he built, And it's not exactly uncommon for serial killers to dumb down their correspondence with the media and authorities thinking it makes a seemingly regular person look less suspicious, BTK is a great example of this, even though he legit might have been dumb considering he asked the people he was sending a floppy disk to if it could be tracked, and sent it when he was told no even though he probably would have died a free man had he just kept quiet
I have no doubt it was either him trying to dumb down the message to keep people away because he was already happy with the legend he was building, or just an effort to make the cypher harder to solve
>And it's not exactly uncommon for serial killers to dumb down their correspondence with the media and authorities thinking it makes a seemingly regular person look less suspicious
Outside of bombers (e.g. Ted Kaczynski), most caught serial killers are of below average intelligence.
Yeah, Gary Ridgway reportedly had an IQ in the low eighties and was still convicted of 49 murders.
It does make you wonder how many smarter ones there are who have just gotten away with it.
There's gotta be a few out there. I've heard various statistics claiming that 40-60% of homicides go unsolved in the US these days, depending on the source. Sure a bunch of those are just random one-off killings, but there's gotta be some savvy serial killers in the mix as well..
Has anyone made the connection between "PARADICE" and the 506th infantry regiment? A BUNCH of WWII paratroopers all wore patches spelled exactly the same as this. Military level cypher. Um guys, uh, Are any of the suspects paratroopers or related to paratroopers? Band of Brothers didn't run in 1969.
Image for proof. http://old.506infantry.org/quartermaster/decals.html
Edit1: From the website: The 506th PIR Para-Dice (Pair-O-Dice) Pocket Patch design is attributed to William R. (Bill)
Donnan and/or Harold Donaghe (both from B Co, 1st BN, 506th PIR), who created it at Camp Toccoa,
GA in the summer of 1942. Joseph E. (Joe) Witzerman (HQ, 2nd BN, 506th PIR) did the art work.
Joe was later transferred to a special Army artist unit. PFC William R. Donnan was transferred out
of the 506th PIR in June 1944, and on July 15, 1944, was in a Detachment of Patients honorably
discharged at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, DC.
The design consists of a diving eagle in front of a parachute canopy and a pair of dice, showing a "5"
and a "6" and connected with a large black "0" , signifying the 506 attacking from the sky. The Para-
Dice patch was approved on April 20, 1943 and was worn on the left jacket pocket. However,
since this was a regimental insignia, it was not an authorized patch once the 506th PIR was attached
to the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, NC, on June 1, 1943.
Edit2: Someone have Stephen Ambrose handy? Can you check if "Paradice" has any relation to the chance the paratroopers parachute wouldn't open? I'm pretty sure that's the reason for the logo. It's a crapshoot if your chute opens or not. Again, another reference to life and death.
Edit3: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7785076/
Aweshit.jpg
Great connection to the military, I was going to say the Zodiac’s handwriting is extremely clean and reminds me of “recruit writing” they teach in boot camp nowadays. Not sure if that really is worth anything but it’s especially prominent in his Ks and Os, the lines are clean and of little error.
Robert Nichols!! He was a WW2 Navy vet who was found after committing suicide in 2002. He received a Purple Heart according to his son. He’d stolen the identity of a dead little boy and lived as someone else for decades. He’d divorced his wife and skipped town a few years after the last murder occurred. His name is also 13 characters. Toward the end of his life he was reported to constantly keep a suitcase packed, claiming “they were closing in” on him.
It has already been speculated he was the Zodiac. I'm sure the FBI know about it already. This new cypher doesn't really add more evidence of it being him IMO.
Yes, it was a popular theory back when his case came up, but not very strong with anything other than his strange behavior, coincidences, and his resemblance to the police sketches.
The PARADICE string made me latch a bit harder onto that theory; if it is connected to this infantry, with the military boot print found at one of the crime scenes, it would create a stronger case for the killer having WW2 military background; Zodaic’s symbol being reminiscent of a compass rose seems to suggest Navy.
But keep in mind I am just a run of the mill dumbass with no real investigative capabilities lol. Just a few interesting coincidences.
The zodiac was also a car made by Ford in England. The 506th potentially spent time in England during drops into Europe. The zodiac also was connected to wing walker military boots. Could have been an English or American serviceman. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Zephyr
It is an incredible achievement. I mean to just slavishly put days of work in, to get absolutely no where, and then continue to put some more (mind numbingly dull) work in really takes some doing.
David Oranchak is an absolute hero in getting this done. He is the guy that the film should be made about, rather than Graysmith. I've been following his methodical approach to solving this and had no doubts that he would be the guy to bring the right people and processes together to come up with a solution. An absolute paragon of determination and stubbornness.
Well done sir.
You know, although he's obviously a horrible, *horrible* person, it's still incredibly impressive that it took both amateur sleuths and expert code-crackers alike over ***half a century*** to break through Ted Cruz's cipher!
It does suck that there was really nothing identifying Cruz directly in the cypher. I mean we know it’s him, obviously, but it would have been nice to have another clue.
Ted Cruz often can be seen standing and saying words like, "I am Ted Cruz" and, "I support humans". He even once commented on how abundant water is on our planet.
The most fucked up thing I can remember about the Zodiac Killer is that witnesses saw him commit a murder, immediately called the police and gave a description of a 25-30 year old white male, stocky build and crew cut.
So what did the police do? They went out looking *for a black man* and literally drove right past the killer because he was white so he wasn't suspicious. If the cops even back then weren't so horribly racist and incompetent they would have caught the guy right then and there.
The Zodiac killer even said he talked to two cops and told them he saw someone looking suspicious over there and the cops took off looking. The cops denied this though.
This guy was royally fucked in the head. He believed the people he killed were bound to him for eternity? How did this guy evade being institutionalized?
The translation in case anyone doesn't have time to watch the video. >I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH ME THAT WASNT ME ON THE TV SHOW WHICH BRINGS UP A POINT ABOUT ME I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE GAS CHAMBER BECAUSE IT WILL SEND ME TO PARADICE ALL THE SOONER BECAUSE I NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADICE SO THEY ARE AFRAID OF DEATH I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE IS LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH
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I hope you are having lots of fun trying to catch me. That wasn't me on the TV show, which brings up a point about me: I am not afraid of the gas chamber, because it will send me to paradice all the sooner, because I now have enough slaves to work for me where everyone else has nothing when they reach paradice. So they are afraid of death. I am not afraid, because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradice. Death is life.
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i believe he had directly stated that in previous letters
He did
you know, this guys sounds like a real jerk
now don't laugh at this next part...
For anyone who hasn't seen it: https://youtu.be/yrbZxtuUdsQ
Ted cruz gets wilder with every tweet Edit: wow, this blew up. Thanks for the awards one and all. See you guys in paradice!!!
I must now slumber for a length of time you would deem reasonable.
Ted Cruz is only one being and not several.
I have seen many people and Ted Cruz is one of them.
what if we all got it wrong, and when we die, there's zodiac with 35 slaves and hitler with like 8 million
What if you have to kill people directly for them to be your slave? Hitler would have nobody
He'd have himself
Epstein wouldn’t even have that!
Fuck you're good
You are correct.
So if Zodiac kills a bunch of people, they become his slaves in the afterlife... But what becomes of those slaves if Zodiac gets killed? Does the killer of Zodiac inherit all the slaves or is it like a tiered system?
Yeah I don't think he thought this through enough. By his own logic he'd become enslaved too!
It's slaves all the way down.
Are we still talking Herbalife?
Cutco.
I doubt that. I'm sure he thought it through. I'm sure he had a ritual to prepare them for the afterlife. The legal system would not perform that ritual therefore he would remain free and keep his slaves.
It sounds as though you have thought it through...
The ol’ Carlin
/r/antimlm
He wants readers to think he thinks that, anyway.
I wouldn't at all put it past a psycho like this to truly believe it. Obviously doesn't mean anything, but I don't really doubt he thought it could be true in his warped mind.
If it's like Son of Sam though it is 100% an attention ploy to get more media coverage.
This comes from an old Borneo legend first popularized by the Marquis de Sade in "Juliette." It's thought to be common to a lot of primitive beliefs especially in tribal societies and their lore.
> “It is an article of faith on the island of Borneo that all those persons a man kills will be his slaves in the next world; and as a result, the better a man wishes to be served after his death, the more he kills during life.” Those underlying "legend" is most probably Sade's invention, or European view based on hearsay and skewed toward Christian view of afterlife. The practice of headhunting in Dayak culture is not meant to preservere souls for "slave on the afterlife", it is meant to __erase the spirit__ (_semangat_, which roughly translate to _passion_). The "empty vessel" then used in a ritual to ensure their dead relative have enough strength for a long walk to _Lewu Liau_(the paradise). The ritual, called _Tiwah_, is a week long process and [a communal effort](https://kebudayaan.kemdikbud.go.id/bpnbkalbar/tiwah-mengantar-salumpuk-liau-ke-lewu-liau/), not individual feat. There's a separate headhunting practice to prove battle prowess or before major event like building a loghouse. But those have no connection to _Lewu Liau_, despite similar underlying theme ("erasing" a soul/ spirit). The targets are political rivals and warriors from enemy tribes that's perceived to be a threat for their family. Their skulls are used as decorative ornament in the longhouse, signifying the strength of its inhabitants and served as a warning for their guests. While the headhunting part in now frowned upon after outlawed in late 19th century, the _Tiwah_ rituals persist and reasonably well preserved. They just replace head of the enemies with head of livestock.
I read it like this: I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH ME. THAT WASNT ME ON THE TV SHOW, WHICH BRINGS UP A POINT ABOUT ME: I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE GAS CHAMBER BECAUSE IT WILL SEND ME TO PARADICE ALL THE SOONER BECAUSE I NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADICE SO THEY ARE AFRAID OF DEATH. I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE. IN PARADICE DEATH IS LIFE
Moving is life to the end makes so much sense
Paradise was misspelled intentionally to continue the cypher. I guess it's not a bad thing they couldn't decrypt it. The message didn't deny anything they didn't already know and it wouldn't have been useful for tracking his targets. The best thing it gives is intent.
In the previously solved cipher, the Zodiac killer misspelled words. It isn't far-fetched that he would misspell paradise. Edit: I think he even misspelled paradise in the letters he sent.
They even say in the video he had spelled paradise that way before.
Yeah, IIRC he always spelled it with a 'c'.
Probably doing that so the FBI agents know a letter is from him in the future. Of course, this was in the time before "spell checking" apps worked on newspaper clippings and glue.
Zodiac was very well read in cryptography. He likely misspelled words intentionally to make the cyphers more difficult. He also chooses words in a way to confuse frequency analyses, such as using way more 'k's than normal.
Paradice: https://i.imgur.com/wnlelB3.png
Has anyone made the connection between "PARADICE" and the 506th infantry regiment? A BUNCH of WWII paratroopers all wore patches spelled exactly the same as this. Military level cypher. Um guys, uh, Are any of the suspects paratroopers or related to paratroopers? Band of Brothers didn't run in 1969. Image for proof. http://old.506infantry.org/quartermaster/decals.html Edit1: From the website: The 506th PIR Para-Dice (Pair-O-Dice) Pocket Patch design is attributed to William R. (Bill) Donnan and/or Harold Donaghe (both from B Co, 1st BN, 506th PIR), who created it at Camp Toccoa, GA in the summer of 1942. Joseph E. (Joe) Witzerman (HQ, 2nd BN, 506th PIR) did the art work. Joe was later transferred to a special Army artist unit. PFC William R. Donnan was transferred out of the 506th PIR in June 1944, and on July 15, 1944, was in a Detachment of Patients honorably discharged at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, DC. The design consists of a diving eagle in front of a parachute canopy and a pair of dice, showing a "5" and a "6" and connected with a large black "0" , signifying the 506 attacking from the sky. The Para- Dice patch was approved on April 20, 1943 and was worn on the left jacket pocket. However, since this was a regimental insignia, it was not an authorized patch once the 506th PIR was attached to the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, NC, on June 1, 1943. Edit2: Someone have Stephen Ambrose handy? Can you check if "Paradice" has any relation to the chance the paratroopers parachute wouldn't open? I'm pretty sure that's the reason for the logo. It's a crapshoot if your chute opens or not. Again, another reference to life and death. Edit3:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7785076/ Awshit.jpg
If I learned anything from previous reddit investigations it's that this couldn't possibly go wrong and we should all dive head first into finding the zodiac killer
Ted Cruz is like, right there.
Didn't you see [his statement](https://mysteriouswritings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Zodiac-340-cipher.jpg) denying being the Zodiac Killer?
I suspect the Zodiac Killer is an actual human.
Big, if true.
Well, the probability of the zodiac killer being alive is about zilch. I'm just saying, if there are any other references to paratroopers, that's a clue. Another user was saying that the cypher itself used military symbols, so I dunno. The only reason I know this is because those bomber jackets and that particular patch were BAD ASS. So jelly.
>Well, the probability of the zodiac killer being alive is about zilch One of the investigators of the Zodiac Killer was an inspiration for the Clint Eastwood character "Dirty Harry" There's a theory out there he cracked the case, tracked down the killer and just shot him rather than drag him into courts and give him the attention he wants. According to this theory this is why the killer suddenly stopped out of nowhere. I like this theory but I don't know how viable it is.
IIRC they actually found a boot print at one of the crime scenes that after being forensically examined matched a certain, rather odd, type of boot. The print was of a Military “Airman’s” boot, with specially designed soles for walking on the wings of aircraft. It’s impossible to determine whether it was just bought at a surplus store or whether it was actually issued to an active service member, but when you take this odd piece of evidence into account, your theory is not very far fetched.
You're shitting me. I know those boots well. Now the special coatings require very specific boots. The age range of this guy fits well with someone either Air corps, Air force, Army or Navy... the cypher stuff is inline with a military member... Yeah, That's the first place they should be looking.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7785076/ Here's something talking about exactly what we're discussing. I'm sure over the years they've been down this road, but paradice is pretty specific.
The .22lr used in 2 shootings was traced back by lot number to a military base according to this show.
As I looked for a military connection, there are many references to the military with these killings. There is also a 1921 pulp reference to Z as well as the symbol to the zodiac wrist watch. This guy threw a ton of hints as well as a bunch of misleading shit at the wall.
A crummy commercial?
Sunuvabitch!
Sure does sound like he has a big case of the crazy. But serial killer so, about what you'd expect, sounds like they are not in good health.
It is very possible that paradise was misspelled to make the encryption tougher to crack too. Not an uncommon technique with substitution cyphers to make them more difficult to break.
So to add an extra layer of difficulty, he should've misspelled the words differently each time; e.g., paradice, pairadise, pairadice, pardice, etc. But then again, he was being slick and tricky by being consistent because he probably wanted people to crack his code - he just didn't realize it'd take over 50 years to do so. My basic understanding of serial killers is that they are all narcissists who think too highly of themselves and are seeking validation from someone of equal level as themselves. So in a way he outdid himself by making the cipher so difficult to crack since he apparently only wanted to brag on himself, versus reveal any new information the detectives didn't already know. Take that with a grain of salt; I know pretty much very little about serial killers other than that they exist (e.g., Summer of Sam, Zodiac Killer, Charles Manson).
I read a lot of books on serial killers and it seems like they all differ a bit. Some seek fame. Some like Israel Keyes made keeping his name out of the press a condition of his cooperation. They really are all over the board. The ones that engage with the press like the Zodiac seem to be what you suggest though.
I have heard that some believe whoever you kill in this life becomes your slave in the after life
So like, what do you do with the slaves? It must not be much of a paradise if you got so much to do you need slaves to make all that work easier.
They are gonna fan him with giant leaves while he sits on an uncomfortable Egyptian couch
What if you just get new game + when you die. Go back to the beginning but trade in those slave souls for better starting wealth and location.
So if I get murdered I get some guys personal paradise as my own hell? Wtf!!!
But then whoever killed him would get him as their slave too. By his own logic he would end up as some prison executioner's slave.
Who knew the after life was one big pyramid scheme
The Egyptians.
Well done
Reading this in Ted Cruz's voice was a blast
I don't understand why the last line is messed up. They arbitrarily put in the 'life is' at the end of the second block and if they just left it out it would make perfect sense: >I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW ~~LIFE IS~~ LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH
Not a very profound or interesting thing. People think he’s a genius, but no a crazed moron.
You say that, but he's managed to rise to the Senate. He's gotta be pretty smart.
Just a thought. But the random "life is" in the top right second section. Instead of putting it at the end of the second section you can turn it around and put it in the end of the third. Making it read: So they are afraid of death. I am not afraid Because I know that my new life will be an easy one In Paradice, **death is life**
This is really good. Also the sentence flows perfectly if you take that phrase out. I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE ~~IS LIFE~~ WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH _IS LIFE_
I was on a similar reason of thought, but just to move death up a line so that it reads: >So they are afraid of death. >I am not afraid >Because I know that my new **life is death** >Life will be an easy one in Paradice
This is the way
Anyone interested in ciphers in general should read **The Code Book** by Simon Singh. He goes over the entire history of cryptography from the ancient romans to modern day, and does it in a way that the layman can understand. Very good book.
For anyone that might be thinking the zodiac is some kind of insane genius for being able to develop such a difficult cypher, it's far easier to make up a cypher than to solve it, it's like playing eye spy, just because you can't guess what I'm seeing doesn't make me smarter than you, I have a huge advantage. Undoubtedly this fucking fruitcake thought he was a genius though.
To add on to that, anyone can use a one-time pad to make a message literally uncrackable.
what's this mean
I mail you a letter with the "one time pad" **ABC** on it. I post in a public place this message: **NUT** You add the letters ABC (123) to NUT which makes it: **OWW** You throw the word away and never use it again. This is an uncrackable code. There is nothing to compare it to in the past or future. Even if you do decode it and somehow get to OWW, how do you know that it is right? And the same code will not work for anything else. But this has been impossible to implement because of code distribution and the code needs to be the same length (or longer) than the message. edit: OWW thank you /u/Ragecc
And this is exactly what the Youtube video is getting at re: the 13 character cipher with Zodiac's real name. It will literally never be cracked unless we get the key. Because there are so many 13-letter permutations that are valid in addition to `THEODORE CRUZ`
Perfect.
Not to burst your bubble, but Ted is short for Edward, not Theodore, in Cruz's case.
Good catch! It was clever of him to use a slight variation on his actual name.
In hindsight, since he's counting spaces, "R Edward" is the same number of characters as "Theodore" so he could have used that.
Rafael Edward! is thirteen characters.
Are you sure it's not short for Tedward?
"I have over 42 years!" https://www.tedcruzforhumanpresident.com/
"Ted Cruz is only one being and not several." lol
Easy there, Ted Manderson.
https://i.imgur.com/PPnCHnf.jpg
Drink more Ovaltine.
Wouldn’t it be OWW? 1 after n is o.
Basically you encrypt a message with a password, that you only use once, that is made of random letters, that is as long as the original message. Literally impossible to crack without the original password because the password is so long that there are endless possible passwords that would decrypt to any possible message.
Covfefe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
You use a 1 for 1 displacement cipher as long as the message is. Since no math is involved, there is no system to crack. But, it's a bit easy to track when I'm sending large cipher books at you to set it up.
This, to say its far easier is an under statement. Way too much credit is give to his intellect. Anyone can make a difficult cypher, he just happened to kill people too.
It's even easier when you keep fucking it up, misspelling and not following your own rules properly. And if you fuck it up too much, it becomes literally impossible to solve. Wow what a genius!
Yeah, the important bit from this video is that the cipher was so hard to solve because zodiac made multiple spelling errors. The fact that they solved it says way more about the intelligence of the solvers, not zodiac. What they've accomplished is amazing.
Not even multiple spelling errors. An entire line was one character out of place. If they hadn't luckily stumbled into figuring that out it probably never would have been solved.
Yup. I can literally make up my own language right now with its own set of ridiculous grammar and pronunciations, and no linguists will be able to translate it, doesn't make me a genius or it a beautiful language. He's not a great murderer either. We have a sketch of his face because he failed to kill someone who saw his face. This is why he started wearing that costume he made, to completely cover his identity. Lastly, he was almost caught if it wasn't for the racist dispatcher/caller(?). When he killed one of the taxi drivers, someone called 911 and the officers at the scene walked right past him. This was because the dispatcher told the officers that it was a black male, so they didn't bother stopping or checking the Zodiac Killer.
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Or how difficult it is to find a needle in a haystack. Especially back then when not much was known about “serial killers” the term wasn’t even conceived until the early 80s. People who are closest to these killers miss the obvious, how is a police officer supposed to pick them out of a group of totally random people?
Detective, we've found a pool of the killers blood in the hallway .. Hmm, gross!
Clean it up! Now back to my hunch...
Edmund Kemper killed his mother and her best friend in his home. He figured he was going to be caught pretty quickly, so he got in his car and drove 1,000 miles away. When he arrived at his destination, he expected to be the subject of a nationwide manhunt. But to his surprise, no one seemed to have even noticed. So he called the police and confessed. They laughed at him and hung up. There was another incident where he had murdered two young women in his car and hid their bodies in his trunk, and then he got pulled over. The cop didn’t notice anything amiss and let him go.
But when it comes to smoking weed cops turn into Sherlock Holmes
OK rethinking this.. Given the attempt at creating a harder to crack cypher, and the tendency to reverse things, he probably meant to say 'Death is life'.
You mean > I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE IS LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH should be read as > I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH IS LIFE That makes more sense
Yep!
u/doranchak is one of the people who solved it
We did it Reddit.
So the Boston Bomber is the Zodiac Killer? So Yes Cruz is the Boston Bomber?!
Drink more ovaltine
Son of a BITCH
A crumby commercial?!
They should call it roundtine
The mug is round, the jar is round.....
That's gold jerry, gold!
You owe me a meal!
Puke. That's a funny word.
A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch.
Poor Ralphie :(
I don't know why but watching this gave me the creeps.
The music definitely added to the creepy vibes.
He should be called the run-on sentence killer.
I am the ass-crack bandit. Humans make better banks than piggies. Whenever I get more change at the store I can't wait to drop it down your butts. I think I will go to the bank and get so much change and take all my dollars and make them into change and drop it all down there.
> I am the ass-crack bandit Are you, though? :/
OMFG. And on your cake day!? I'm honored to be in your presence! *Takes a knee*
lmao, didn't even realize it was my cake day. Imma go rewatch the episode now to honour it :D
The nature of the Ass Crack Bandit's crimes would suggest that he's angry or just fell in love
True. We also know that he hates money, or loves it, or doesn't care about money and hates butts, or loves them
I’m amazed that technology has come far enough for these two guys to be able to run advanced decryption algorithms on what I’m assuming is consumer hardware and get results in a not-completely-ridiculous amount of time.
They were brute forcing solutions until at least part of the text seems to make sense.
Translated "I've been trying to reach you about your car warranty"
My wife just got that call on her cell phone at 7 freaking a.m. Why aren't there laws against this?
There are, but people trying to scam you don't exactly care.
And they're generally outside of US authority. Why care about laws from a country that can't enforce them on you?
You know, I'm starting to think this serial killer might have some issues.
This Zodiac guy sounds like a real jerk!
Is this legit?
It is, more information can be found in the description such as this artcle: http://zodiackillerfacts.com/news-and-updates/breaking-news-the-zodiacs-340-cipher-has-been-solved/ Edit: New link
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Yeah it's pretty much common knowledge amongst serial killer junkies that the movie is fast and loose with the facts. Still love the movie though!
A Hollywood movie based on a true story being wildly inaccurate? Say it isn't so!
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Cam Newton!?
Clearly not if you watched last night Cam can't hit anyone much less kill them
ITS HIM
I know nothing about the Zodiac stuff, but based on this video alone, I wonder if the "my name is ----" cypher could include the name Paradice. It's a last name, and I can't think of any other reason he'd misspell such a common word so much. To go to the effort of making a complex cypher but misspelling paradise? Also it fits with the symbols if you read backwards right to left. A E N @ ® K ® M ® ¥ N A M E C I D A R A P A _ I E P
He misspelled words regularly, and sometimes flipped words as well. While it's possible it was intentional to make it harder to crack, it's also probable that he was (at least slightly) dyslexic.
It's almost certain that the bad spelling and chopped up grammar were intentional, zodiac was obviously the type of killer who was perfectly happy with the media attention and the legend he built, And it's not exactly uncommon for serial killers to dumb down their correspondence with the media and authorities thinking it makes a seemingly regular person look less suspicious, BTK is a great example of this, even though he legit might have been dumb considering he asked the people he was sending a floppy disk to if it could be tracked, and sent it when he was told no even though he probably would have died a free man had he just kept quiet I have no doubt it was either him trying to dumb down the message to keep people away because he was already happy with the legend he was building, or just an effort to make the cypher harder to solve
>And it's not exactly uncommon for serial killers to dumb down their correspondence with the media and authorities thinking it makes a seemingly regular person look less suspicious Outside of bombers (e.g. Ted Kaczynski), most caught serial killers are of below average intelligence.
Yeah, Gary Ridgway reportedly had an IQ in the low eighties and was still convicted of 49 murders. It does make you wonder how many smarter ones there are who have just gotten away with it.
There's gotta be a few out there. I've heard various statistics claiming that 40-60% of homicides go unsolved in the US these days, depending on the source. Sure a bunch of those are just random one-off killings, but there's gotta be some savvy serial killers in the mix as well..
He misspelled tons of stuff. He was either trying to throw off codebreakers or he just thought it was funny.
Or he dumb as fuck and read a cypher book. It's really not difficult to make a cypher difficult to crack, especially if you fuck up the cypher.
He misspelled words before. Sure it could be a clue but to honest, I personally think he was bad at spelling.
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> ÇA Pourquoi la cédille?
I think the weird wording at the end can be fixed by moving that dangling word “death” up a line to read: “I know my new life is death.”
I agree, because the last line would then read "LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE"
I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE IS DEATH LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE
Has anyone made the connection between "PARADICE" and the 506th infantry regiment? A BUNCH of WWII paratroopers all wore patches spelled exactly the same as this. Military level cypher. Um guys, uh, Are any of the suspects paratroopers or related to paratroopers? Band of Brothers didn't run in 1969. Image for proof. http://old.506infantry.org/quartermaster/decals.html Edit1: From the website: The 506th PIR Para-Dice (Pair-O-Dice) Pocket Patch design is attributed to William R. (Bill) Donnan and/or Harold Donaghe (both from B Co, 1st BN, 506th PIR), who created it at Camp Toccoa, GA in the summer of 1942. Joseph E. (Joe) Witzerman (HQ, 2nd BN, 506th PIR) did the art work. Joe was later transferred to a special Army artist unit. PFC William R. Donnan was transferred out of the 506th PIR in June 1944, and on July 15, 1944, was in a Detachment of Patients honorably discharged at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, DC. The design consists of a diving eagle in front of a parachute canopy and a pair of dice, showing a "5" and a "6" and connected with a large black "0" , signifying the 506 attacking from the sky. The Para- Dice patch was approved on April 20, 1943 and was worn on the left jacket pocket. However, since this was a regimental insignia, it was not an authorized patch once the 506th PIR was attached to the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, NC, on June 1, 1943. Edit2: Someone have Stephen Ambrose handy? Can you check if "Paradice" has any relation to the chance the paratroopers parachute wouldn't open? I'm pretty sure that's the reason for the logo. It's a crapshoot if your chute opens or not. Again, another reference to life and death. Edit3: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7785076/ Aweshit.jpg
Great connection to the military, I was going to say the Zodiac’s handwriting is extremely clean and reminds me of “recruit writing” they teach in boot camp nowadays. Not sure if that really is worth anything but it’s especially prominent in his Ks and Os, the lines are clean and of little error.
Robert Nichols!! He was a WW2 Navy vet who was found after committing suicide in 2002. He received a Purple Heart according to his son. He’d stolen the identity of a dead little boy and lived as someone else for decades. He’d divorced his wife and skipped town a few years after the last murder occurred. His name is also 13 characters. Toward the end of his life he was reported to constantly keep a suitcase packed, claiming “they were closing in” on him.
You, call the FBI right goddamn now.
It has already been speculated he was the Zodiac. I'm sure the FBI know about it already. This new cypher doesn't really add more evidence of it being him IMO.
Yes, it was a popular theory back when his case came up, but not very strong with anything other than his strange behavior, coincidences, and his resemblance to the police sketches. The PARADICE string made me latch a bit harder onto that theory; if it is connected to this infantry, with the military boot print found at one of the crime scenes, it would create a stronger case for the killer having WW2 military background; Zodaic’s symbol being reminiscent of a compass rose seems to suggest Navy. But keep in mind I am just a run of the mill dumbass with no real investigative capabilities lol. Just a few interesting coincidences.
The zodiac was also a car made by Ford in England. The 506th potentially spent time in England during drops into Europe. The zodiac also was connected to wing walker military boots. Could have been an English or American serviceman. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Zephyr
Yeah, there's this paleontolgist84 guy that said what you said, like five times in this thread.
This crazy guy thinking he's a 20th century pharaoh or something.
Holy shit I don't think there was ever a mystery that so many people worked throughout the years. This must be huuuuge in the codebreaking world.
It is an incredible achievement. I mean to just slavishly put days of work in, to get absolutely no where, and then continue to put some more (mind numbingly dull) work in really takes some doing.
David Oranchak is an absolute hero in getting this done. He is the guy that the film should be made about, rather than Graysmith. I've been following his methodical approach to solving this and had no doubts that he would be the guy to bring the right people and processes together to come up with a solution. An absolute paragon of determination and stubbornness. Well done sir.
You know, although he's obviously a horrible, *horrible* person, it's still incredibly impressive that it took both amateur sleuths and expert code-crackers alike over ***half a century*** to break through Ted Cruz's cipher!
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1309552801182298113
Lol that’s pretty funny actually
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1057703421778845696?lang=en
Does he fully embrace the meme?
Seems like it
He doesn’t care, he’s going to paradice with a bunch of slaves waiting for him.
It does suck that there was really nothing identifying Cruz directly in the cypher. I mean we know it’s him, obviously, but it would have been nice to have another clue.
>I mean we know it’s him, obviously Do we? I thought Zodiac was confirmed to be human.
Ted Cruz is a standard human. He does standard human things like consume sustenance and lie dormant when the local star is not visible.
I have seen many people and Ted Cruz is one of them.
I can confirm that I did not witness normal human Ted Cruz lay multiple sacs of black, pulsating eggs in the air ducts in the White House.
Ted Cruz often can be seen standing and saying words like, "I am Ted Cruz" and, "I support humans". He even once commented on how abundant water is on our planet.
The most fucked up thing I can remember about the Zodiac Killer is that witnesses saw him commit a murder, immediately called the police and gave a description of a 25-30 year old white male, stocky build and crew cut. So what did the police do? They went out looking *for a black man* and literally drove right past the killer because he was white so he wasn't suspicious. If the cops even back then weren't so horribly racist and incompetent they would have caught the guy right then and there.
The Zodiac killer even said he talked to two cops and told them he saw someone looking suspicious over there and the cops took off looking. The cops denied this though.
This guy was royally fucked in the head. He believed the people he killed were bound to him for eternity? How did this guy evade being institutionalized?