After 51 years, Zodiac Killer's cipher solved by amateur codebreakers:

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced that 51 years after the self-proclaimed 'Zodiac Killer' randomly killed five people in Northern California's Bay Area, a team of amateur codebreakers have solved a cryptic cipher sent to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper in 1969, according to media reports.

According to an archived FBI statement, the 'Zodiac Killer' sent local newspapers a three-part coded message explaining his motive for the killings in 1969 and in a separate letter to the editor suggested his identity was buried within an elaborate cipher message.

The deciphered message reads as: "I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me. That wasn't me on the TV show which brings up a point about me. I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradise all the sooner... I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradice death."

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