I say the first one knowing if the zodiacs antics distracted the police from boots on the ground beat work. Example of security by obscurity?
I say the first one knowing if the zodiacs antics distracted the police from boots on the ground beat work. Example of security by obscurity?
It’s not clear to what extent the Zodiac Killer is multiple people, including hoaxers or copycat killers.
However, one thing that did happen was ciphers being sent into newspapers by some person, and IIRC some were solved, so if what you’re asking is “did the person involved have any familiarity with ciphers at all”, the answer is that he did. I don’t think that that would make him a “savant”, but he wasn’t simply sending in nonsense and claiming that it was enciphered text.
EDIT: Wikipedia’s bit on the enciphered letters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer
I think they’re saying savant because the last one hasn’t been cracked
Isn’t it widely accepted that it hasn’t been cracked because they made a mistake and messed it up?