A cipher sent in 1969 by the Zodiac Killer has been solved. In an email to EW Scripps, the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that three "private citizens cracked the cipher." "On Dec. 5, the ...

A coded message sent by a brutal serial killer who has never been caught has been cracked more than 51 years after it was sent. This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for ...

David Oranchak, one of the codebreakers who cracked the long-unsolved 340 Cipher, told the Chronicle he has been working on the task since 2006. Oranchak is a 46-year-old web designer who lives in ...