Let's Crack Zodiac - Episode 5 - The 340 Is Solved!
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- On December 3rd, 2020, an international three-person team of codebreakers made a breakthrough with the Zodiac Killer's unsolved 340-character cipher.
By December 5th, the team finished cracking the cipher and sent the solution to the FBI.
This is the full message from the Zodiac Killer that was hidden in the 340-character cipher for 51 years:
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
The members of the team that cracked the code are:
* Sam Blake (Australia)
* Jarl Van Eycke (Belgium)
* David Oranchak (USA)
This video is my attempt to tell the story of this long overdue breakthrough.
More details are reported in Michael Butterfield's article here:
zodiackillerfacts.com/news-and...
Credits:
Music: Dave Miles: Movement (ZapSplat: www.zapsplat.com/author/dave-...)
“Thanks” animation: • Thank You Animation melissariveradesign.com
Jim Dunbar show archival footage: • Is This the Real Voice...
Mentioned in the video:
AZDecrypt code breaking software by Jarl Van Eycke: zodiackillersite.com/viewtopic...
Peek-a-boo cryptanalysis software by Heiko Kalista: www.zodiackillersite.com/viewt...
Zkdecrypto by Brax Cisco et. al.: code.google.com/archive/p/zkd...
Mike Morford’s Zodiac site: zodiackillersite.com
Michael Butterfield’s Zodiac site: zodiackillerfacts.com
Tom Voigt’s Zodiac site: zodiackiller.com
zodiackillerciphers.com
We dedicate these efforts to the victims of the Zodiac Killer, their families and descendants.
We hope that one day justice will prevail.
The new episode of Let’s Crack Zodiac has been released!
It’s about the aftermath of the 340 solution.
And how the cipher might have been created.
czcams.com/video/UfrFSrI05hk/video.html
Ayy
(26) nCr (13).... 10,400,600 possible combinations for his name. He said "My name is "' and with 26 letters, that comes out to the equation I said before. Have you guys tried that?
my opinion is about last part. " I am not afraid because I know that my new life is (the life he want)life and my new life will be an easy, no death in paradice "
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@@marcuspecos8672 or he could be purposely throwing them off with a fake name?
he’s talking so casually like he didn’t just make history
He didn't, zodiac is likely long dead. History is made if he catches/identifies him
@@sgddfgfghfgh bro you know how long this case has been on the air unsolved? who tf cares if he’s dead or old af they can still solve the case and this is the first major step in the case in decades
He didnt make much because these codes are useless just mocking tools of the murderer
exactly. he humble
@@bruhbruh7176 this is probably not gonna help with the case at all since the zodiac didn’t even reveal his identity. That letter was basically just a joke and mocking everyone . Sure it probably did make history since the code was released 51years ago and was barely solved now though.
Message 1969: *delivered*
Message 2020: *read*
Sounds like the girls I talk to.
@@The88Cheat haha true dat
And that's the funniest thing on the Internet today.
basically me on tinder
LOL
Re the last two lines: “Life is” was segregated from the transposition scheme and the last word Death is incongruent coming right after “paradice” [sic]. “Paradice” was written backward in the cipher, maybe as a backstop, or coda signifying the end of the statement. So: the last sentence- instead of inserting “life is” after the word “…new” insert it after the word “Death” but inverted (the original cipher involves an inverted triangle grid, read in columns top to bottom that became apparent upon solving) - “life is” becomes “is life” to read: “I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradice. Death is life.” That makes more sense.
you should send this to him
Holly shit
I think it's actually "BECAUSE I KNOW MY NEW LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE. IN PARADICE DEATH IS LIFE"
This seems like the best arrangement yet. My First thought was to just drop the "Life is" words, and it cleans it up from the videos' proposed solution: The "life is" definitely does not belong where the video shows them placed (11:07).
I think Brandon is on to something and I would read it as:
"I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradice. Life is death."
Meaning he believes he will be reborn in paradice [sic] and that the only purpose to this life is death and dying, a precursor to something better. Kinda speaks to his experience in the army also.
So basically I am saying to ignore the first instance of "LIFE IS" and add it before "DEATH" at the end of the line, similar to what the video says around 7:50.
Him: Just makes history
Also him: Yeah so I solved this 340 character cipher that hasn't been solved in 50 years anyways thank you for watching and see you later
He's talking about it like he was doing things like this everyday and yeah nothing hard waiting for more
BS they are translations, and they arent ciphers. They did 4 lines out of 20. Every single one is done is less than one day, really. They didnt get it, neither did any of you. Zodiac called them ciphers to trick you , which he did for 50 years, and all of you STILL believe false information.
the last two lines: "this message is
brought to you by Skillshare"
No it was Nord VPN 😂
Or they want to talk to me about my car's warranty!
"More of them at the end of this message. Please like, comment and subscribe and make sure to hit that bell button to never miss a new murder"
@@shandya No it was RAID SHADOW LEGENDS
It really reads "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine".
I am not sure what cryptography awards there are but you and your peers are deserving of it.
Would the Zodiac win an award too? ;)
hey sk1er.
@@louithrottler You ask, "Woudl the Zodiac win an award too? ;) Answer: No.
@@powerpopaholic876 That's just plain unfair
@@louithrottler it is easy to make a cipher. breaking it is the hard part. so no, the zodiac doesn't win an award.
A CZcamsr creates a series called "Let's crack zodiac" & actually cracks one of the most difficult & infamous cyphers in history.. by episode 5..👏
I just noticed the dates of these episodes… and to think, it only took a global pandemic to crack Zodiac’s 340. What insanity! It just blows my mind how literally everything that happens in life is a result of specific steps which can never be predicted. It’s painful to even wrap your mind around the thought. 🤯
@@PneumaNoose agreed..👏
@@PneumaNoose If you google, it's actually mentioned that the NSA could've cracked it within days back then when. But they didn't attempt. I don't know if that's believable.. but yea.
@@shikeridoo Probably they didn't want their methods revealed.
To my understanding one thing that makes these so difficult is that zodiac seemed to make mistakes, and likely he didnt realize how difficult cypher he created. Zodiac likely wanted someone to crack it at the time, but it was insanely difficult for the code breakers back then because computers were not good enough, and you kinda need one
Imagine the rush and excitement when this dude decrypted this. Would be better than winning a major lottery prize
And then he probably felt like he lost the lottery coupon once he realized there is nothing useful there.
Yeah right, these are translations of another language, they arent ciphers at all. they only did 4 lines, the remainder I did. But I showed cryptos how to solve them and they will do the correct methodology next time.
I can’t imagine what that must have felt like.
Not only he solved the code that remained a mystery for 50 years, he also managed to explain the process so clearly that even my dumb brain understans. Amazing work
understands*
they*
I still don't get it, but I don't really care. It's cool regardless.
Dont sell yourself so short...
Haha ikr
Makes sense that this would happen 9 months into a quarantine I guess.
You can only bake so much bread! XD
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
12 months 😩
Spot on
A positive note for 2020, maybe a prelude to his identity being revealed in 2021
It's funny to me how "F" in the key is literally just "F", nothing else. That's so cocky
I think he also thought it would be tricky. You gotta think, in 1969, they would be doing all of these decryptions by hand. If you leave one letter unchanged, a human may get hung up on deciphering that letter, assuming that it is encrypted. A computer will just blow right through that like, “Yeah, F seems fine to me.” That really would only trick a tunnel vision human lol who, I’m sure, he expected to be the only way to solve it. I don’t think he ever imagined someone writing code to apply thousands of transpositions onto his cypher within seconds. Yeah, it took half a decade for technology and code cracking to catch up, but if this software was present in that period of time, it’s likely that he would have tried much harder to conceal that letter lol
I never noticed that lol. So cheeky 😂
"F in the chat"
F
There is no key, those were created artifically.
I'm probably late, but it makes sense to me for the end to be:
"I am not afraid because I know that my new life is death.
Life will be an easy one in paradice"
Thought the same thing
There is a better suggestion above in the top comments that reverses it to "is life" and puts those two words at the very end of the letter.
"I know that my death is new life", sounds more reasonable
The last two lines I think he is saying
"I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradice" "Life is death" He is saying that his life will be a paradise after death. Would also explain why "Life is" is on it's own there. He is linking "Life is" with the last word "death".
That's exactly what I thought too! 👏👏👏
Or “death is life in paradice”
This seems a much better explanation of those "extra" words to me. Perhaps the body of the message was composed first, which left some unused spaces when placed in the grid. Rather than fill them with random symbols LIFE IS DEATH was chosen as a "sign off" and fitted into the space remaining.
Bar WILL and EASY in the final section, they are the only words written linearly in the forwards direction in the entire cipher. To me that indicates they should be read together, and not split up and inserted into the main message.
I initially thought "...my new life is death. Life will be an easy one in paradice." But yours feels better
this was my impression as well
"WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU REGARDING YOUR VEHICLES EXTENDED WARRANTY"
FIRST A WORD FROM MY SPONSOR, RAID SHADOW LEGENDS
SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME
THE WORLD WAS GOING TO ROLL ME
IM NOT THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED
It's a scam?? All this time I just figure they're calling to mock me and my sh!tty old car.
@@tozuiyon5857 Well, I’m not the sharpest talon on the dragon either.
BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE
Let's just take this in. If the zodiac created this cipher after watching the imposter call on live television and mailed this cipher two weeks later, that means it took him or her about two weeks to make it. Imagine, a two-week project that took over fifty years to be deciphered.
Good point. I wonder how much he thought out the transposition scheme before deciding on the plaintext message. And where did he get the idea for it?
@doranchak how would one know this type of coding back then and where was it used? Do you have any ideas about how intelligent the Zodic would be? Congrats on solving this! You did what many could not:)
>Her
The Zodiac identifies as non binary
And modern computer software was used to find leads
"I am limited by the technology of my time."
I wonder if he played chess. The down one row over two reminds me of how a knight moves on a chess board - perhaps he thought of himself as a knight in some way.
lol true but lets be honest he should have a high iq for making these ciphers and killings
@@Valentinnq8 the ciphers aren't that hard to do, they're hard to break, but considering his method of killing he was probably very smart
@@phillipanselmo8540 yeah also he had a strange face tho
I believe that he was a chess expert.
@@garyjordan4735 maybe
Starts CZcams channel "Let's Crack Zodiac", cracks Zodiac by episode 5. Legend!
"DRINK. MORE. OVALTINE."
Cracking Zodiac Any%
@@reznoire Speedrun
Sponsored by 2020 home time.
Time to end the channel then
I just need to live long enough for the last 2 ciphers to be solved
Why how old ru?
Hahahahaha. I hear you! I feel the same way! It drives me insane not knowing!!!
does anyone have the code in deciphered form but in the original format the message and letters still in the arrangement of the original note I have something I wanna check but I can't find the solved form in the original form
Sadly, I think they won't lead to much. Assuming that this is the solved cipher, it gives little information. I wonder if the Z 32 can be solved with since it has that map, but it never detonated and it was never found. To me it gives credence to the Z 13 cipher being Alfred E. Neuman (the mascot of MAD). I think it was all a messed up joke.
We will 🙂
"I am not afraid because I know that my new life is death. Life will be an easy one in paradice." That is how I believe the end should be structured.
what about, "my death is new life"
Before December 2020 I've always been obsessed about two things in life.
#1 - The Zodiacs cipher
#2 - The meaning of life
With this team of brilliance it wouldn't surprise me if they solve #2 by February.
Amazing work.
"...my life will be an easy one in paradice." "Life is Death"
I'd argue that "Death is life." seems to fit his message better, with context. He's not afraid of death because death will bring new life from his perspective.
"I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradise. Death is life."
I just can't find a resonable way to come up with that without swapping "Life" and "is."
This is the first thing I thought too.
I'm also wondering if these words were inserted to make the cipher evenly rectangular - in the 408 cipher for instance he just added gibberish at the end to fill everything out (once his message was complete). But here, maybe he decided to add a separate phrase to fill out each section, instead of just random letters. It's clear that it reads immensely better without the "life is" part added as shown in the video, regardless.
maybe he means "my new life will be an easy one. In paradise, death is life."
@@ItalianJonny1 possibly related to this? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_vita_in_morte_sumus
As a true crime junkie who becomes obsessed, I can't IMAGINE how excited you must have been when you saw "that wasn't me on the tv show"
That 'holy shit we're on to something' feeling, must have had them jumping out of their chair!!
Must have been amazing. So much time looking at jumbled of words that probably didn't mean anything, and then that jumps out at you. Must have been an incredible feeling.
I come back and watch this video every month or so. David and the team did such a phenomenal job. They must have been walking on air when they cracked the code. I can’t imagine what that must have felt like. Truly amazing work.
Thanks for watching! I was dumbfounded when the real plaintext started gradually peeking through the gibberish. It was definitely a once in a lifetime experience!
Imagine trying to decipher this without a computer but just paper and pen 🤦🏼♀️
physically and mentally impossible
@John Reb not of my knowledge, the fault of the zodiac probably tho and i was exaggerating with the physically and mentally possible it would just be very hard
@@customamelia8824probably possible but not any average guy could do it 🙃🙃🙃🥰🥰😍😍😍😍😘😘😘
In loving memory of the victims. Not slaves, but real humans who got their life taken by a mad man :(
When a person dies, they are no longer able to perceive reality and actually become unable to understand that they ever existed in the first place. So take solace in the fact that they are not aware of the suffering that they endured.
@@spqri3 How do you know what happens after death?
@@myg2456 the experts all agree!
No they don’t.
@@spqri3 allegedly. Says you.
whoa this is crazy, especially after 51 years!
EDIT: I'm sure a few people have already said this, but my guess is that the last two lines are "I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradice. Life is death." Of course, I don't have all the years of experience that others have, so I'm probably overlooking lots of more advanced stuff. But I thought I'd just put in my two cents! Anyway it's so cool to see history happen
Second
BFB 27 is epic
Didn't expect to see you here.
😎
agreed
As the real Zodiac killer, I confirm this is indeed the correct solution
I'm the real one, you're the impostor.
"I am not afraid because I know that my new life is death. Life will be an easy one in paradise." OR
"I am not afraid because I know that life is death. My new life will be an easy one in paradise."
It might be time to look for the Zodiac in suicides and missing persons.
Need to trace a person who spell paradise as paradice back in 1969
he could have misspelled the word intentionally.
Or maybe someone smart enough to make such difficult ass codes? I don't think a lot of people can do that. On the other hand, idk but he kinda seems delusional too stuff like he'll be in paradise and the people he killed would be his slaves.
@@suhaniiiii_ Tbh most of his ciphers have been described as amateur, i.e. you don’t have to be that smart to make them. The hardest parts of translating them is accounting for the mistakes he made when writing his own ciphers
@@suhaniiiii_ Looks pretty basic TBH, I find it a bit curious why he added so much arbitrary stuff in there like the LIFEIS and splitting it into 3. It might just be because his understanding of the principles was limited so he had to follow along with the book.
It's sort of like how they used the Unabomber's idiolect to find out who he was.
He read the Chicago Tribune as a kid, which had a ton of variant spellings when he read it because their editor was part of a fringe spelling movement.
or it could read " I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one. Death is life in paradice"
I'm thinking something like that, or maybe reading "LIFE IS DEATH" separately.
@10:50 insert 335 through 339 in between 305 and 306 you get: "I am not afraid because I know that my new life is death. Life will be an easy one in paradice."
the words "life is" and "death" are the first and last words of the non-diagonalized encryption section in which, he randomly invert word's spelling in a normal sentence order.
@@ZoTrAcK You're legit speaking in tongues for me
@@masteroogway2725 same
@@ZoTrAcK agreed, I saw that same shift. Very interesting.
These guys are the best, to create a code that does all this is just AMAZING. There must be some sort of recognition given to these guy, awards,money anything. They deserve it
Zodiac was an engineer. His letters are typical engineering handwriting, all letters leaning 75-degree. And the "zodiac'-sign is how engineers draw a circle, indicating the center. Engineers draw first the "cross-hair" indicating where the center of the circle is, and then the circle. My dad always drew a circle like that, and all his engineer friends did too. That's how they train them. The arrow the Zodiac drew in one of his letters is also typical of an engineer.
It's weird to think that the Zodiac killer could theoretically be watching this video and reading these comments
If so, I hope they regret not getting hooked on phonics. Also hope their life sucks.
the way it's written, the guy is probably long dead.
I believe the Zodiac was Edward Wayne Edwards. John Cameron came up with the theory, and then a woman came forward who was present when the Pines card was prepared ( she had to write the address, being told to mis-spell "Avery" as "Averly" ). See
ededwardsserialkiller.wordpress.com/pines-card-witness/
I'd like to think he's rotting by now
@@yomama9390 Doubtful. The good die young. This man is still alive.
Everyone gangsta till the Zodiac killer starts sending new ciphers as a "reward".
Now, that would close 2020 in good fashion...
after death is new life
very scorpio indeed.
not great but not terrible
I mean a copycat could if the original is dead, I guess you'd be able to tell though
@@kevindelima5713 Even nowadays, there are things about those events that were not disclosed. It's a law enforcement "trick" to ensure they can tell copycats from perpetrators. I'm pretty sure that the FBI would request such a "prove", if a self-appointed Zodiac reappeared out of the blue with a message.
Holy crap, I didn't believe it when I read it! Huge congrats!! I remember so many years ago helping test cracking software in the old Zodiac forum. I even went on to dabble with my own after leaving the forums during the Geik investigation. As for the message not containing useful information, hang on 1 second. One of the many ongoing debates was "Why did he stop?" In this message he says he has finally collected enough slaves for the afterlife. I don't think I ever considered that he might have had an actual quota? Just as his preoccupation with collecting slaves for the afterlife stands out as a possible identifier so should his notion of a quota.
The second to last line would make more sense if “that” was changed to “what”. “I know what my new life is...” maybe?
Just put the “IS LIFE” at the end.
“I am not afraid because I know that my new life, will be an easy one in paradise. Death is life.”
Or, my brain automatically read :
"I am not afraid because I know WHAT my new life is"! It makes kinda sense to me...
Life is death? Death could be placed after the first life is
Well now the zodiac killer sounds like a Islamic extremist
@@Dad-lu1oi So does the American Right and the Republican Party.
@@federica6499 Yea I was going to comment on just this! Wonder if there was an incorrectly swapped character? Producing THAT instead of WHAT.
I can only imagine you jumping out of your chair screaming HOLY SHIT!! What an awesome moment
Second Meta-text has a 'Tit Willo' confirmation peg and points at Robert Hansen, the eventual Alaskan Serial killer. Thus, looks like a cult of at least 4 men with military, hunting backgrounds and possible extreme intelligence. Off the scale possibly in one case. Solution achieved as a reformatting of Oranchak solution within new horizontal 20 x17 grid constraint to achieve likely John Dee readable adjacent letter transpositions. No key as yet but should be pretty clear to those who follow these cases in terms of likely cribs etc.
Press the generic R profile icon to see a short LoFi vid on the Hansen pointer and tit willo put up a few hrs ago! Thanks.
lol
@@rickh3714 ?
Conspiracy spambot
Zodiacs name is Arthur Leigh Allen
“I am not afraid because I know my new life will be an easy one in paradise. Life is death.”
Polices in 1969: its impossible to solve this
polices after 51 years: Easy gg
Finally a credible solution to an extremely difficult code-cracking challenge that was made even more difficult because Zodiac was a poor speller.
He intentionally misspelled words. You see that in his letters -- certain misspelled words are later spelled correctly in the same letter.
@@jimsty5222 Are you Jimy Sty or James Bob who replied to me earlier? I don't know. I assume you are simply applying Cunningham's Law.
And he couldn't do the code properly
@@jimsty5222 I disagree, Jim. The candidate I'm thinking of displayed similar misspelling elsewhere in his "normal" handwriting long before he became the Zodiac.
Credible in standard cryptography with some transposition. But 'Zodiac' is not about credibility. But incredibility. The message retrieved is either another fob off or has further coding. We are dealing with an individual ( or sometimes a pair?) with a "v.high,v.high IQ"
FBI: takes 51 years without cracking the message.
David: 5 episodes
To be fair, as noted in the video, most of this work was done on the shoulders of giants. They merely brought it to the finish line, largely through luck in catching the words in one of the successful 'breaks'.
Over the last 5 years, the FBI was too busy with their treasonous efforts to get rid of Trump.
Sometimes it will take amazing dedicated individuals who aren’t in the FBI to solve cold cases.
@@xpan195 And there hasn't been a Zodiac murder in like 50 years. You have to assume that the dude is dead by now. Low priority. Just let the amateurs have at it. Their plan was to focus energy on Trump.
Well the FBI is busy.
The attention to detail in this very well-produced video is very helpful to someone who knows little about the Zodiac killer. Congrats on the successful investigation!
When you make a cipher that is hard enough as it is, and still made an error in it to make things worse...
@CP Shorts interesting
Last 2 lines: “I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one. Death is life in paradise”
That sounds really good...
It sounds really good. As it's translated, it moves around a lot picking words out of sequence. It would be neat to try it from the cryptograms again.
"I am not afraid because I know that my new life is death | Life will be an easy one in paradice" ?
I am not afraid because I know that my new life is paradice life will be an easy one in death
i wonder if this implies he already commit suicide? or was going to
Would be wild if the mistakes in all the ciphers formed a key for his name.
good idea
Or the lyrics of rick roll
@@Jinisinsane 😭
That's a good thought process.
Or *her* name
Congratulations to you and your two friends, this is an awesome achievement. I cant imagine how thrilling the chase was for this and how ecstatic you felt when you reached the conclusion.
Oh my goodness!, i watched your videos on zodiacs ciphers what seems like a long while back now, im immensely happy to hear you solved it! So well earned and deserved, you're officially a legend now i hope you know. After all this time the egotistical drivvle that was hidden is not important but you and your team did what so many others couldn't, all those mistakes are hard to navigate, many many congratulations
that's one achievement for the history books.
Not really. It's incredible to be alive right now to witness it, but in the future when people read "the code was cracked 51 years later" they'll just go "huh, cool"
@@EternamDoov I mean isn't that our reaction to almost any other historical event from the past, except maybe the big wars or trageties? Do people react to historical achievements as more then that?
@@EternamDoov my reaction to things like that is "woah it took that long!?"
So who had 'Zodiac killers code gets cracked after 50 years' for December?
Dammit, I had it for November
Merry Christmas early
Only could happen in 2020
me 😐
@@pozzee2809 yep bound to happen this year lol
These individuals who have the patience and intelligence to cipher these are completely incredible. GREAT JOB, guys. 2 more to go!!! Are you 3 ready for another 2 tries???! I have FULL FAITH in you!!!
Incredible. This code has always intrigued me. So glad that you were able to solve this. You have spared thousands of people (myself included) the effort of trying to figure this out. Sincerest congratulations 😊
This was extra tough because the Zodiac made mistakes encrypting.
@Marc Light I agree that Zodiac made mistakes and the final clean up of the text may need too be done pre thinking modern technology techniques. This final clean up will be a profilers project now. Either way we can see that the Zodiac was evil too the core.
@@Gail.B Evil also the core indeed.
@@Gail.B He's also kind of a pathetic serial killer, his choice of weapon being a gun. Given truly violent serial killers who torture their victims for days and / or use extremely sadistic means of killing and their number of victims, the Zodiac Killer is pretty "tame" by comparison. The probability of him not being dead from old age or other means by now is extraordinarily low and while there are a number of suspects, we will probably never know who he was.
@@vorpal22 bruh murder is murder
@@vorpal22 ok bro
I can't believe we're all this early to something this massive.
This is so exciting!!!
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It took 51 years. Crazy.
You can use same key to know his name which is paradice
A E N @ ® K ® M ® ¥ N A M
E C I D A R A P A ___ I E P
Now just find all people in the US with this name and you have found a killer :)
@@agreatd lol
You guys are Brilliant. Hats off to you Gentlemen. WELL DONE! Being an Australian myself and knowing that at least one of you is from here too makes the cracking of this code so much the sweeter. So proud of you! TY 👍💕🤟💖
my wife and i just watched your video. we think the work you, Jarl and Sam have done here is amazing...unbelievable dedication, keep it up
This is incredible! Congratulations on such an accomplishment!!!
Hello history.
Hi lol
Damn
looks like some of the sentences are out of order as well
6:50
An easy life will be one death in paradise.
@@punker4Real Not out of order. They put the end of the second part in the wrong place. It should be at the end of the third part. So it should read, "I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE. IN PARADICE, DEATH IS LIFE."
"We were extremely lucky to uncover the solution"
There's no luck involved here, but rather tons of skill and sweat.
Congratulations for the immense achievement. You guys earned every bit of praise that will come your way.
well, i think what he ment was that he was lucky to see the words from the start, "gas chamber" etc. He said it didn't appear later so he had to force them in since he had already seen it once. sry if my explaination is bad.
Luck is the result of preparation...... calling it lucky feels like it’s taking something from the people who did it!
Thanks to you and your team for the work put into solving. I like that everyone has their interpretation of the ending part. I personally believe it says: "I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE. IN PARADICE, DEATH IS
LIFE"
9:35 almost seems like death just goes on the line above it “…my new life is death…easy one in paradise.”
I think it’s supposed to say my new life is paradice life will be an easy one in death
Warehouse operator moonlights as a programmer. What a boss.
He probably uses/develops warehouse management software.
It's really pretty common for super-gifted people to establish a career in a field that lets them leave their work *at* work and pays them enough to support themselves, their families, and their hobbies. You probably know a few people like that. A lot of people call them "lazy" for not scrambling up some ladder, but they and their families are really quite happy.
@@haplessasshole9615 +1 life is not a race for million dollars
@@haplessasshole9615 Yeah, there is bisqwit here on youtube who can code his own 3D ray tracer and is a super programmer. Yet he drives a bus during the day. He attributed it to burnout.
@@haplessasshole9615 I'm definitely not what you'd call 'super gifted' but that is my life basically. i have a ton of computer, art, and craft-related hobbies that my job as a garbage man is merely an enabler for. i don't need to climb the ladder. i'm happy enough to pursue the things I'm interested in with the amount of money i make.
I commend you on the insane amount of work it took you to figure this out. Legendary!
We need more car accidents videos
WTH is GSE doing here? Lmao
OMG Thanks - Love your channel. Maybe Zodiac was in one of your videos completely by accident. :)
@@doranchak well done and thank you for getting us closer to finding who Z truly was
I commend too
Incredible. Very nice work! Hearing officials say "we think it's just a fraud to throw us off" never sat well with me. I never though it was fake. You guys are the dream team decoders. Good work and thank you for putting the time in! Very cool!
It’s incredible how modest David is in these videos, given the magnitude of what he and his team accomplished. I find this very inspirational. It’s sort of restores my faith in humankind, as the old saying goes. Thank you David and others for your excellent work!
The last part should read
“I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradise”
“Death is life”
Or......
I am not afraid because my new life will be an easy one. Death is life in paradise.
Zodiacs name is Arthur Leigh Allen
@@TheMusicLauncher stop!
@@TheMusicLauncher No... it's not!
I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one. In paradice, death is life
"I AM NOT AFRAID BECUASE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH IS LIFE/LIFE IS DEATH" i think this makes sense
I think it makes sense to read it like this, "I am not afraid because I know that my new life is PARADICE. Life will be an easy one in DEATH"
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Or "Is Life Death" a question depending on which life you take.
I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE IS DEATH
LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE
I think "that" is probably a typo. "I am not afraid because I know what my new life is. Life will be an easy one in paradise - Death"
Where "death" is what he's signing himself off as.
5 decades later and the application of some brilliant computer code and you guys cracked it! That’s impressive. Keep up the good work and crunch those millions of permutations, you’ll come to a solution eventually!
Your method and sense are absolutely mind-blowing. This is great work.
The zodiac said whoever decipher this message will find his name so there’s another code. The idea that he intentionally misspelled and misplaced few words is valid.
Just like “LIFE IS” is separated on the top line, separate “DEATH” on the bottom line.
Then you get the entire message which reads correctly then “LIFE IS DEATH” as an additional sentence.
This is what I thought made the most sense as well.
I think they were throwing us a bone :) This reading jumps out. "Life is death" must have been written into the grid first, probably to make up the numbers.
Perfect
I thought it was a suicide letter. Just like what you wrote, I saw it as , life is death, death is life. Almost giving a reason for his killings. Life is hell, hell is life. He turned them into his slaves. I think he had schizophrenia.
@@alisiabakerjb I have worked with people afflicted with that in various ways, and yes that would be highly plausible.
50 years without a solution? No problem. Sometimes it takes 51. Congrats!!! I’m stunned.
Seeing the video now and just realizing how easy it could be red. Just splitting up in 9 lines, then do 1 down 2 to the right.
lots of things are easy in retrospect
What impresses me most about this is the perseverance. A hard problem takes effort and dedication to solve, but a hard problem which may have no solution at all, takes an iron will. Just think of how many people must have given up dismissing it as bogus and not worth the time. Endless respect and kudos for this!
In solving the complexity of the code, it tells a lot about who the killer is. 99% of us can't create such a code. Narrows down the field!
I think last 2 lines might be:
"I am not afraid because I know that my new life is paradice"
"Life will be an easy one in death"
Everyone's suggesting "life is death", but your solution is really good.
Best one so far
This is great!!
Damn..... Genius.
I don't think there has to be anything wrong with the end;
"I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE IS." He claims to know the afterlife does exist; that his new life is.
The next line is a separate sentence "LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADISE DEATH" He refers to the afterlife as "Paradise Death" like his own title for the afterlife.
"I am not afraid because I know my new life is.
Life will be an easy one in Paradise Death."
and the cipher said "BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE"
The unknown symbol in Zodiac's name is the symbol for the Cancer zodiac sign. If you apply the same terminology found in this code the answer on how to find his name is on the circular motion of the Cancer sign. Zodiac gave clues on how to break the code by using symbols related to how it was written. In the 340 code was the half full square.
Your skill is phenomenal. Incredibly proud of all three of you. Thank you for all your hard work to bring clarity and justice.
Thank you! We hope this case gets solved one day!
It's probably: "I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradice. Life is death."
Given death stands "outside" the messge, the same as "life is", this was my initial reaction. I think any of the versions are very similar in outcome though.
This is what I was thinking too.
Or: "I am not afraid because I know that my new life is death. Life will be an easy one in paradice."
It could also be: "I am not afraid because I know that my new life in paradice will be an easy one. Death is life"
or
"I am not afraid because I know that my new life is life in paradice. Death will be an easy one"
I think this way makes the most sense for both the code and the final message
FBI after 51 years: You cracked the zodiac cypher?!?
David after 7 months: what, like it’s hard?
Lol in the FBI's defense they have wayyyyy better things to do then to try and solve a 51 year cipher.
Like, you know, actually stop murderers that are still murdering.
I always appreciate a good movie reference
@@DrMonty-ng5fo Like opposing a president they disagree with ideologically.
@@TheZodiacz like you're going to try and pretend Trump isn't a madman?
@@TheZodiacz If I was the FBI, and I saw Trump trying to cheat an election by using the supreme court to overturn votes, I would oppose him too, lol.
You have an organization that's made to protect America, and you see that they hate Trump, and so you interpret this as them being bias, while they're actually doing their fucking job.
(Though the FBI has done fucked up things in the past, no doubt. But opposing criminals like Trump is literally their job.)
50 years later...he killed himself "I have slaves that works for me" that sounds suicidal
Very impressive, stumbled on this today and wow so glad I did. Went back watched all of your videos. Congratulations to you and your partners.
Thank you! And thanks for watching! 🙏
Zodiac fooled everyone with a worthless cipher to throw law enforcement of his trail, by focusing on a cipher that may have solved nothing.
You might be right.
@Bal Del This video proves you wrong. I'll trust the experts in cryptography over some know-it-all in the CZcams comments.
@@SkillUpMobileGaming How does this "solve" anything? It's just more mumbo jumbo about "paradice slaves." Does it reveal the location of the "buss bumb?" Nope. Does it reveal the names and graves of any of his "37 victoms?" Nope. Any real information at all? Nope. So, Topcat is right. It doesn't "solve" anything. IF it's the correct solution.
@Bal Del do you understand they did actually decrypt it? if it was random there'd be nothing decrypted
@Bal Del you are contradicting yourself, you state that serial killers like when you talk about them and we still talk about him thanks to cypher, and then you state why he would make it. You literally answered yourself in your first comment
Confine 7 billion+ people at home and this is the result.
Lol. If only corona was around 50yrs ago. Not that it would of solved who he was with this jibberish.
Amazing work! You even make it easy for the average person to understand. Well done. I really look forward to more of your content, please keep making more videos...
I could never do something like this, because if I ever cracked a code I think I'd have a heart attack from excitement and no one would ever know the secret!
It should read "Life is Death" at the end, I believe. Great work.
This was my thought, too.
@@carlinianam0s me three.
Yeah it makes more sense for it to read "my new life will be an easy one" too
It should read, “In paradice death is life.”
that makes a lot more sense
“Amateurs” my @$$. You guys are the real pros.
@@bretth4988 I highly doubt they want to work for the government.
why couldn't the FBI, CIA or the NSA solve this?
@@johnadamski9913 Who knows, but they should have/
Completely agree. More like badasses!
What does the "at dollar sign dollar sign" supposed to mean? Is it a code too?
All I have to say is wow. Just, wow. You guys are amazing 🤩
Phenomenal Work!!!! Here’s how I believe the cipher’s last two lines should read: “I am not afraid because I know that death is new life” “Life will be an easy one in paradice” Maybe you can figure a way that the transpositioning supports this interpretation. Good luck. And brilliant work!
Thanks!
Me sitting here like I know what he’s talking about
Lolol Seriously!!
I believe the end should actually read:
“I am not afraid of death because my new life in Paradice will be an easy one.
Life is Death.”
I read that there was a hotel called Paradice in the 60s. Might've referred to that
or "...that my new life will be an easy one in paradise DEATH IS LIFE"
@@xapokalypse AYO THIS COULD BE THE NEXT STEP
“Death is life.”
@@c7326_ or maybe more information or another step into finding his identity
You guys are all amazing, and done something ridiculously incredible.
I randomly ran into some files of my attempts to solve this from a couple years ago, i randomly searched for the topic on youtoube and BOOM! IT HAS BEEN SOLVED JUST A COUPLE MONTHES AGO. why is this not a headline news? You guys just made history. Congratulations!
Thanks! It did get a lot of coverage actually - here's a list of examples: zodiackillerciphers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Compilation_of_news_reports_about_the_solution
@@doranchak yeah i've just watched the 6th episode, obviously i've been living under a rock. You guys did a great job. You must feel proud, and you should.
Alternate suggestion for the last two and a half lines:
"I am not afraid because I know that my new life is death. Life will be an easy one in paradice."
Or another possible option that I see is:
"I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE LIFE IS DEATH
I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADISE".
I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT death is MY NEW LIFE
LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE
My life is new?
Maybe that’s why he disappeared
I agree with you
I am not afraid because I know that my death is new life.
Someone suggested at the end that it might be “DEATH IS LIFE”
or just "life is death" because it seems like he thinks when he dies he's going to have a better life or something
Remove the phrase “life is death” from the last two lines and it reads more clearly.
Also, it gives the phrase “life is death” more meaning in general. Maybe it’s the name of the letter? Or it’s the last line of the cypher itself?
If you do that, this is how the end of the message reads:
“I am not afraid because I know that my new
Life will be an easy one in paradice
Life is death”
Also, the phrase “life is death” can be interpreted two ways:
Either straight-forward as “life is death” or if you reverse the words “Death Is Life”.
What do you guys think?
@@flawlesstracks That was my immediate thought too, last lines make much more sense taking 'life is' out
How about “In life paradice is death”??
This is also the first that came to mind when I was reading the sick thoughts: it seems that he wanted to show that life and death are two sides of a mirror; exchangeable. So according to his way of thinking you can say: in paradise life is death, but also in life paradise is death. Like he wanted to prove that it is insignificant that these victims died. But because he killed them and helped them pass to paradise, they will be his slaves there. So if you kill him he will only be glad because he will be the master there. So probably in this life he feels like a slave. These are Some pseudo psychology thoughts that come to my mind when I try to understand this. Maybe some schooled criminal psychology specialist could say more about this?
Wow. Congratulations to all of you. This is history. Amazing work.
Thank you very much!
This is one of my favourite series on CZcams. Great job dude!
“We” the community, couldn’t be more proud of you all. Amazing.
Thank you so much for sharing this. As a huge fan of puzzles and codes, this literally made my year already. Thank you sincerely for the work and effort you and your team and to all people mentioned in your video who have contributed to decoding the Zodiac.
Let's eventually hope to be able to close the case by deciphering Zodiac's real identity one day and know what has happened to him since then.. if alive.. or not..
Whatever the case, the Zodiac has been one of the greatest puzzles/codes (not for the fact that there were murdered people involved, but for the fact that everyone has been collaborating on breaking the code, at least during some time in their lives). I'm so glad this one has been solved! Thank you again!
Thanks for your feedback! I really hope more progress gets made on this case, and maybe it will get solved one day!
God damn dude, you're a hero. You and the two other guys who helped will be remembered for your work, and hopefully it helps finding out who he is.
It's not really useful for anything other than the fact that the guy who called the tv show was a false lead. But it's really impressive work nonetheless
@@lucaslucas191202the one massively useful piece of information is that the caller was traced to a mental institution, which caused the police to check California mental patient records to match their fingerprints to the crime scenes.
No match. So whoever the Zodiac was, they did not spend time in a mental institution