Canonical cipher 4: Z32 vol.1. State-of-the-art
Canonical cipher 4_Z32 vol_1_State-of-the-art 1. Timeline up to the Z32 Z32 is the culmination (but not the last communique) of the killer’s “bomb rhetoric”, first launched on the November 9, 1969 letter [1]. Since then, all subsequent killer communications up to the Little List letter reference, with the exception of the July 24, 1970 letter (the so-called “Johns letter”) where the killer focuses on the March 22, 1970 incident of Kathleen Johns’ abduction and escape. However, in further works, I will try to make the case how even that communication plays into the “bomb narrative”. In the letter towards Melvin Belli, sent on the “anniversary” of the first canonical murder on Lake Herman Road [2] on December 20, 1969, the killer yet again references the bomb, in this context, under pretext of trying to avoid the “inner evil” which is an impulse...