I'm pretty excited about the March 2 release of the Jake Gyllenhaal vehicle Zodiac, and not just because it's fun to see my hometown serial killer getting his own flick. The Zodiac killer, whose identity remains a mystery to this day, was one of the first serial killers to play the "taunt the media" game, sending freaky letters to the San Francisco Chronicle about people he'd killed, as well as how he yearned to blow up a bus of school kids. In one letter, he even said he'd punish the city of San Francisco because people refused to wear pins with his special "zodiac" symbol on them. Too bad he wasn't killing in the 00s, because hipsters would love wearing little one-inch pins with his signature icon on it. In celebration of the upcoming movie, Bloody Disgusting has posted pictures of a handful of the Zodiac's most notorious letters (one reproduced above). Yes, they're weird. Some of them contain cryptograms, which apparently have never been solved. How can this be? All those crypto nerds, plus these letters online, and nobody has solved the damn things?
Zodiac letters (plus cryptograms) [via* Bloody Disgusting*]
