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Who was the Zodiac Killer?

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Despite decades of investigation and many named suspects, no offender has ever been definitively confirmed by physical evidence or a court; police named only one official suspect, who died in 1992 without being charged.

What would resolve this A confirmed DNA match between crime-scene evidence and a specific individual, of the kind that resolved the Golden State Killer case through forensic genetic genealogy, or a conclusive decoding of the still-unsolved Z13 and Z32 ciphers naming the sender.
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  • opening section
    the only suspect police named was Arthur Leigh Allen, a former elementary school teacher and convicted sex offender who died in 1992
  • April 1970 letter and card section
    Two shorter ciphers from 1970 remain unsolved.
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