For more than half a century, the FBI was unable to track down the criminal who kept him at bay. California and mocked the investigators. It started in 1968, when students David Faraday And Betty Jensen went on a date and became victims of an unknown person who killed them. The next attack occurred six months later, when Darlene Ferrin And Mike Mageau were victims of gunfire.

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The criminal, who called himself “Zodiac”, began sending letters to newspapers in which he confessed to the murders and offered to publish his messages. In one of these messages, he revealed details of crimes that were not known to the public. He also sent an encrypted message promising to kill 12 more people if it was not revealed.

After several years of investigation, a man became a suspect, but his involvement was not proven. The case was suspended in 2004, but resumed in 2007.

Independent investigators from The Case Breakers company concluded that the maniac was a US Air Force veteran Gary Francis Postwho passed away in 2018.

“Detectives found Post’s camp rug and collected DNA – it turned out to be the same as that of the veteran’s relatives. Now investigators hope that the FBI will be interested in the information. If tests show that the clump of hair from the evidence in the Bates case is genetically identical, this will launch a new round in investigation. And then, perhaps, the history of “Zodiac” will end,” RIA Novosti reports.