They said that they’ve tried getting investigators to compare her DNA to Poste’s to no avail. However, they received another anonymous letter in 2016 from someone who admitted to writing the earlier note and said it had been a “sick joke.” Police in Riverside told Fox News that they’ve concluded Bates’ murder was not linked to the author of the letter or the Zodiac killer and that her case remains open, but the Case Breakers believe she was Poste’s sixth victim. One year after Bates’ death, authorities received a handwritten letter that led them to think the murder may be linked to the Zodiac. 31, 1966, in Riverside, California - hundreds of miles south from the area where the other murders occurred and two years before what was thought to be the Zodiac’s first killing. In addition to the five murders the Zodiac was previously linked to, the Case Breakers believe Poste killed 18-year-old Cheri Jo Bates on Oct.
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In one note, the letters of Poste's full name were removed to reveal an alternate message, Jen Bucholtz, a former Army counterintelligence agent who works on cold cases, told Fox. Clues from the ciphers the Zodiac included in letters to authorities also point back to Poste, according to the team. One photo shows scars on Poste’s forehead that match scars on a sketch of the Zodiac killer. After years of digging, the team uncovered new forensic evidence and photos from Poste's darkroom. The Case Breakers, comprised of more than 40 former law enforcement investigators, journalists, and military intelligence officers, have connected the case to Gary Francis Poste, who died in 2018. Now, a team of cold case investigators say they have finally identified the Zodiac killer, Fox News reports. There are five confirmed murders committed in Northern California between the late 1960s and the early 1970s that are attributed to the Zodiac, but the killer claimed to have murdered 37 people.
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The mystery of the Zodiac killer - named for the cryptic and taunting codes he'd send the media and police - has plagued both professional investigators and amateur sleuths for decades.