Zodiac Killer: Massachusetts Man Says He's Cracked the Cipher

• Allen died in 1992.

• Forcing a square peg into a round hole and claiming it fits...genius.

• the 340 area code was created in 1997.

• The solution is incorrect. It seemed plausible until the end where the "solution" claims the Zodiac is Arthur Leigh Allen. There is absolutely no way ALA is the Zodiac. Any attempt to uncover the REAL Zodiac is too often shrouded by individuals pushing the banner to Allen.

• "One problem. The 340 area code was created 5 years after Allen died." Allen died in 1964?

• I think the solution is the most valid attempt I have seen. I have actually seen other that come up with some of the same letters such as the third and fourth letters being "L." I say good job. I have tried to crack it myself. The 340 area code is not what is important, it's the 3-4 shift that is derived from it, and that came fromt he number of characters in the cipher.

• If you recall, it wasn't until quite recently that area codes could be anything other than the form a1b or a0b, where a and b are between 2 and 9. This was scrapped when they ran out of those area codes and started forcing us to dial 1 first to indicate we were dialing an area code.

• If I had known that what I believe to be a potential solution to the 340 would go viral, I can assure you I, I would have asked Patch to use a different picture of me. I started small...hometown stuff...one town, not a few like some newspapers do. It took off and everyone picked it up from there. I have literally had nothing to do with the press coverage since this whole thing started. It was in AOL's hands from the beginning. I'm open to interpretation.

• Admittedly, I should have done more research on what I thought was strong connection. I jumped the gun on that and unfortunately it turned out to be not valid. I did, however, use the 3,4 as the starting Ceasar shift. There are, in fact, 340 symbols in the cipher, which may or may not be connection enough. The 707 area code connection is valid, however, and I think a bit too weird to ignore, regardless of whether or not is has anything to do with the cipher itself. It was the 340 that was important.

• So is this like just something people do every 2-3 years for giggles and blog coverage? And speaking of which what happened to that crazy lady from the last go-round?

• That's one problem, that's for sure.  Don't think that this is an honest attempt. It's yet another hoax http://oranchak.com/zodiac/corey/hoax.html

• "Could this be the one?"  Nope.  It's a hoax: http://oranchak.com/zodiac/corey/hoax.html  

• See: www.TheZodiacMansonConnection.com

• One problem. The 340 area code was created 5 years after Allen died. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_code_340

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