The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that the Zodiac Killer case is still open after a group of cold case investigators claimed that they have identified the killer. They added that only a DNA test will reveal if the identified person is the said killer or not.

“The Zodiac Killer case remains open. We have no new information to share,” the FBI’s San Francisco office told The Hill in a statement.

“At this time we are not identifying potential suspects for this open investigation,” Adam Lobsinger, San Francisco Police Department’s spokesperson said.

The cold case investigator group, the Case Breakers, said that they are positive that they have identified Gary Poste as the Zodiac Killer. Poste died three years ago.

The group said that the scars on the Zodiac Killer’s forehead looked similar to scars on Poste’s forehead when images were compared from Poste’s darkroom.

The Case Breakers said that Poste is likely to be the perpetrator because the letter that was decoded allegedly links Poste as the killer behind the gruesome five murders that happened in the late 1960s in the San Francisco Bay area. The murders are yet to be solved, keeping officials on their toes.

The investigators are now pushing for a now-debunked theory that said that the Zodiac Killer was responsible for Cheri Jo Bates’ death. Cheri, a teenager, was found dead two years after the Zodiac killings.

“Is there a chance that [the Case Breakers suspect] killed Cheri Jo Bates? No,” Riverside Police Officer Ryan Railsback told the San Francisco Chronicle.

“If you read what they [the Case Breakers] put out, it’s all circumstantial evidence. It’s not a whole lot.”

After Cheri’s death, a letter that was shot to the officials and was linked to the Zodiac Killer case turned out to be a fake. Investigators received another letter in 2016 saying that the letter was a ‘sick joke’.

The Zodiac Killer case has been so fascinating that it has inspired books, movies, TV shows, documentaries among others.

Out of the four ciphers that he included in his messages, only two have been solved – one was solved in 1969 and the other in 2020.

Despite deciphering the notes, officials got no leads that may have helped them in solving the case.