China News Service, October 8th. According to a report from the US Chinese website, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stated on the 7th that although a group of experts claimed that they had determined the identity of the "Zodiac Killer", the serial homicide is still It is uncracked.
"The Zodiac case is still pending. We have no new information to share." The FBI's San Francisco office said in a statement.
The spokesperson of the San Francisco Police Department, Adam Lobsinger, said in a separate statement, “At this time, we have not identified potential suspects for the public investigation of the case.”
A team of more than 40 experts previously stated that they had identified the "Zodiac Killer" as Gary Francis Poste, who passed away in 2018.
The team consists of former law enforcement investigators, journalists and military intelligence personnel.
The "Zodiac Killers" are believed to be related to at least seven murders in the San Francisco Bay Area between 1968 and 1969, of which two survived.
During the investigation, the murderer had been mocking law enforcement by sending complicated riddles and cipher letters to the media and the police, and claimed to have killed 37 people.
In December 2020, the FBI announced that the 340-character password sent by the killer to the San Francisco Chronicle on November 8, 1969 was cracked, but it did not help to confirm the identity of the killer.
The team stated that after they found forensic evidence and photos in Post's dark room, they determined that he was the murderer.
It is reported that some pictures show that the scar on his forehead matches the scar on the "Zodiac Killer" sketch.
Former Army counterintelligence agent Jen Bucholtz (Jen Bucholtz) said that the team also found deciphered letters sent by the killer, showing that Post was the killer.
"You must know Gary's full name to decipher these anagrams." She said, "I just don't think anyone else will come up with it."
The team also believed that Post was responsible for another murder.
Cheri Jo Bates, 18, was found dead in an alley in Riverside, California, two years before the murder in the Zodiac.
However, Fox News pointed out that the murder case cold unit of the Riverside Police Department determined that her murder had nothing to do with the "Zodiac Killer."
Nevertheless, the investigative team believes that Bates is also one of the victims of the "Zodiac Killer". They claim that they obtained a memo from the FBI to the Riverside Police in 1975, stating that Bates was the victim of the "Zodiac Killer". By.