Regulation enforcement businesses mentioned they’re nonetheless investigating the Zodiac Killer case as an unbiased group of cold-case investigators got here ahead Wednesday to say they’d solved the thriller of who was behind the decades-old serial murders.
The Case Breakers, a crew of 40 former legislation enforcement investigators, mentioned they recognized the person they imagine is the Zodiac Killer utilizing new bodily and forensic proof and knowledge from eyewitnesses, in line with a press launch.
The group additionally filed courtroom affidavits and secured many years of images from the person’s former darkroom, Case Breakers mentioned. They named the person within the launch, saying they imagine he handed away in 2018.
CNN’s makes an attempt to achieve out to the relations of the named particular person have been unsuccessful.
The Zodiac Killer is believed to be accountable for no less than 5 murders in Northern California from 1968 to 1969.
In response to the brand new claims, the San Francisco Police Division (SFPD) confirmed to CNN that it’s nonetheless an open investigation.
“We’re unable to talk to potential suspects as that is nonetheless an open investigation,” the SFPD mentioned in a press release.
The FBI, which has been supporting native legislation enforcement within the investigation, additionally didn’t acknowledge the claims.
“The Zodiac Killer case stays open. We’ve no new data to share in the intervening time,” the FBI mentioned in a press release to CNN.
The Case Breakers additionally mentioned within the launch that the person is accountable for the 1966 killing of Cheri Jo Bates in Riverside County, California.
Whereas the Riverside Police Division couldn’t touch upon the person recognized by the Case Breakers, RPD public data officer Ryan Railsback mentioned the Zodiac Killer is unquestionably not the individual accountable for the dying of Bates.
The one hyperlink the Bates homicide had in widespread with the Zodiac Killer was a handwritten letter acquired in mail claiming accountability, Railsback mentioned.
The Zodiac Killer, who was by no means caught, gained notoriety by writing letters to police and native media boasting of the killings up till 1974.
Claiming to have killed as many as 37 individuals, he additionally wrote some letters in code and included bloody bits of clothes to make use of as proof of the acts.
