BTK word search
Like Zodiac, serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as BTK, taunted police and newspapers with letters boasting of his crimes. Among the many correspondences was a word puzzle Rader sent to Wichita television station KAKE on May 5 of 2004…
Zodiac at the ACL 2013 conference
The Association for Computational Linguistics held its 2013 conference in Bulgaria earlier this month. Computational Linguistics is the study of how to apply computer science to problems involving language and speech. It’s a very broad subject, which also includes studies…
Word search gadget
Here’s a fun, but arguably pointless gadget I built as a follow up to the article about ambiguous word searches: Click here to try out the Word Search Gadget You enter a word, click the search button, then the gadget…
Victim name patterns
“EPotts” on Tom’s forum posted this intriguing observation about the names of the Zodiac Killer’s victims: May be nothing but I noticed names like FErrin-EDwards-STein-BAtes-yet only 2 out of the top 100 most common surnames have letters in alphabetical sequence…
Route patterns
Over on the ZodiacKillerSite forums, pi is doing some interesting work investigating the use of route patterns in quadrants of the 340-character cipher. His idea is to split the cipher text into four quadrants, and then rearrange the text in…
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