The “Zodiac Killer,” a shadowy serial assassin who terrorized Northern California in the 1960s and ’70s with a string of grisly slayings and mystifying, unsolvable riddles, may have finally given officials a code they can crack: His DNA.
Throughout his bloody rampage, the killer — one of history’s most famous unidentified serial murderers — taunted law enforcement with enigmatic ciphers and bizarre letters in which he claimed as many as 37 victims.
Now, a half-century later, a detective team has extracted DNA from one murder victim’s clothing that may finally help put a name to the infamous, anonymous killer.
“We have the potential to obtain Zodiac’s DNA,” cold case detective Ken Mains told Fox News.