Zodiac Killer case breakers ‘matched Gary Poste’s scars to killer’s forehead’ on police sketch to crack murder mystery
THE Zodiac Killer, who terrorized the San Francisco area during the 1960s, was apparently unmasked after a group of investigators matched the murderer's scars to a police sketch from the time, reports say.
The Case Breakers, a team of specialists who have worked to crack a number of America's most high-profile unsolved cases, claimed to have uncovered the Zodiac Killer's identity on Wednesday.
One image uncovered from the darkroom purportedly featured scars on Poste's forehead that match a sketch of the Zodiac.
"So you've got to know Gary's full name in order to decipher these anagrams," she said. "I just don't think there's any other way anybody would have figured it out."
The killer earned his nickname by signing his fourth letter to the press with "Zodiac" on August 7, 1969.
SIXTH VICTIM?
The Case Breakers have asserted that the Zodiac is also responsible for a sixth killing in Riverside, California, on October 31, 1966.
However, the Case Breakers have maintained that the Zodiac did kill Bates and claim investigators have blocked them from comparing her DNA to Poste's.
"The Zodiac Killer remains an ongoing investigation for the FBI San Francisco Division and our local law enforcement partners."
POTENTIAL KILLER?
Poste died aged 80 in 2018. Online records show he had an address in Groveland, California, and was .
He was also an Air Force Veteran and was married at the time of his death.
A California woman who lived next door to Poste and his wife told Fox News she believes he's the Zodiac Killer after seeing the evidence collected so far.
The woman, identified only as Gwen, said Poste and his wife babysat her as a child in the 1970s and 1980s.
He would teach her how to shoot firearms several times a week but was also controlling and abusive toward his wife, she said.
"He lived a double life," she said. "As I'm adult thinking back, it all kind of makes sense now. At the time when I was a teenager, I didn't put two and two together until I got older. It hit me full-blown that Gary's the Zodiac."
While The Case Breakers are certain Poste was the Zodiac, team member Bill Procter said the Riverside Police Department are not revealing all the evidence they have on the killer.
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"They're not talking about what they have, which means that anybody else who comes to the table might have a reasonable argument that an outside organization's information is as valuable, if not more valuable, than what the police department has already done," he said.
Earlier this year, the department offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in the infamous murder case.
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