![]() Ziraoui said the longer, 32-character code revealed coordinates for a location in South Lake Tahoe, where Kaye lived and a spot referred to in a postcard believed sent by the Zodiac Killer in the early 1970s. Kaye, who also went by the name Kane, died in 2010. ![]() Using some of the tools published by the team that cracked the 340 Cipher along with other codebreaking methods, Ziraoui told The Times the Z13 Cipher spelled out “KAYR,” letters he thought were similar to Lawrence Kaye, who was long considered a suspect in the murders. ![]() The Z13 code supposedly contained the killer’s name because the encrypted message was preceded by the words “my name is.” Using an encryption key and other tools, Ziraoui told The Times he was able to unlock the remaining two codes, known as Z32 and Z13 Ciphers - named after the number of characters or symbols in each message. The message read in part, “I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me.” Last December, an international team of code breakers from the U.S., Australia and Belgium claimed to have deciphered a second code, known as the 340 Cipher. The first of four ciphers, sent to media outlets including The Chronicle in 19, was solved quickly. Police investigators and an army of amateur sleuths have spent decades trying to decode the cryptic messages left behind by the Zodiac, who killed five people in the Bay Area in 19. ![]()
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