The unsolved 18 characters at the base of the 408 cipher have been widely shown to be EBEORIETEMETHHPITI, however there are other options, as shown by the author of the "concerned citizen" card on August 10th 1969. Below is one of those options. One of the questions that has arisen, is was it important for the concerned citizen to send these amendments to better understand the 18 unsolved characters that ended the cipher? The following observations are extremely speculatory and must be taken with a grain of salt. But the concept is that the Zodiac Killer was jokingly inserting his identity of "ME" into communications such as those mailed on April 20th 1970, October 27th 1970 and January 29th 1974, which were all teasing us with his identity or name. The whole story can be better understood by reading the article Four and a Half Years of Me.
One notable feature of the Halloween card mailed on October 27th 1970 was the Zodiac Killer's use of eyes. He added 12 floating eyes to the one already present in the knothole of the tree, and sourced the skeleton from a card where a little girl peers through a rectangular opening on the skull of the skeleton. This effectively gave us 15 eyes in total on the card inner. The card outer teased us with "I feel it in my bones you ache to know my name. And so I'll clue you in", which when we open, we are greeted with numerous eyes that may be saying "can you see me".
If the Halloween card was going to give us the answer of "Me" proposed in the Z13 code, you would expect to find this word embedded in its design. Not only was the word "Me" curiously obvious in the Halloween card inner, it was present twice. The Zodiac Killer was clearly employing the eye in the knothole of the tree as himself, by surrounding the knothole with the ominous threat of "Peek-a-boo you are doomed".
But there is one striking feature about the writing on the tree. After the phrase "PEEK-A-BOO" the Zodiac Killer positions the word "DOOMED", such that the "ME" lines up with "PEEK-A-BOO" to create "PEEK-A-BOO, ME". It is definitely noticeable that the word "ME" is visibly larger and bolder than the rest of the writing, as if to place emphasis on this pronoun. The skeleton's left arm is also affixed to the Halloween card in such a manner that it separates the word "GAME" to spell "ME". The word "BOO" is written on the card inner at a 45 degree angle so that it too lines up with the word "ME".
The word "BOO" around the knothole and the word "BOO" to the immediate left of the skeleton, are both positioned in alignment with the word "ME". Was the Zodiac Killer giving us the answer of "ME" to "I feel it in my bones you ache to know my name. And so I'll clue you in"? Thereby replicating the answer of "ME" possibly given by the proposed solution to the Z13 code on April 20th 1970. And the signature of "Me" he would ultimately deliver on January 29th 1974 to the San Francisco Chronicle. Was the Halloween card saying "can you see me"?
If the Halloween card was going to give us the answer of "Me" proposed in the Z13 code, you would expect to find this word embedded in its design. Not only was the word "Me" curiously obvious in the Halloween card inner, it was present twice. The Zodiac Killer was clearly employing the eye in the knothole of the tree as himself, by surrounding the knothole with the ominous threat of "Peek-a-boo you are doomed".
But there is one striking feature about the writing on the tree. After the phrase "PEEK-A-BOO" the Zodiac Killer positions the word "DOOMED", such that the "ME" lines up with "PEEK-A-BOO" to create "PEEK-A-BOO, ME". It is definitely noticeable that the word "ME" is visibly larger and bolder than the rest of the writing, as if to place emphasis on this pronoun. The skeleton's left arm is also affixed to the Halloween card in such a manner that it separates the word "GAME" to spell "ME". The word "BOO" is written on the card inner at a 45 degree angle so that it too lines up with the word "ME".
The word "BOO" around the knothole and the word "BOO" to the immediate left of the skeleton, are both positioned in alignment with the word "ME". Was the Zodiac Killer giving us the answer of "ME" to "I feel it in my bones you ache to know my name. And so I'll clue you in"? Thereby replicating the answer of "ME" possibly given by the proposed solution to the Z13 code on April 20th 1970. And the signature of "Me" he would ultimately deliver on January 29th 1974 to the San Francisco Chronicle. Was the Halloween card saying "can you see me"?
This makes me return to the 408 cipher and the search for "ME" in its design. I have previously noted that the Zodiac Killer on August 4th 1969 stated "are the police having a good time with the code? If not, tell them to cheer up; when they do crack it, they will have me". Was this a humorous way of saying they would only find "ME" in the code? It can be found in the 18 characters at the foot of the cipher, but the personal pronoun of "ME" can be isolated a further five times in the rest of the cipher as shown below.
However, if we use the revised version of the 18 plaintext characters of EBSORIETEMETHHPITI (shown below), where everyone has searched for his identity, we can form the phrase "SEE ME", as suggested in the Halloween card of "CAN YOU SEE ME".
The ninth line of the cryptogram is the portion of the 408 cipher that begins the message to the San Francisco Examiner. It opens with "VES ME", which in Spanish reads "YOU SEE ME" or "SEE ME" (matching the green highlighted letters above). This analysis of the 408 cipher still falls way short of proving that the personal identity of "ME" was ever intended to be found within his message, but that's all I have for now.
ADDITIONAL READING:
FOUR AND A HALF YEARS OF "ME" SAME METHODOLOGY BETWEEN Z340 AND Z13
ADDITIONAL READING:
FOUR AND A HALF YEARS OF "ME" SAME METHODOLOGY BETWEEN Z340 AND Z13
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