Pivot Patterns in the Z340 Zodiac Killer Case

Sam Fisher
2 min readJun 19, 2024

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This was shared on Reddit, however, I wanted to post here as well.

The pivot patterns mentioned in “Lets Crack Zodiac” Episode 5 I believe are “J’s”.

If you look at each one they form a “J” when considering the dots or what turns out to be a “V” is attached to the patterns.

Interesting to note is that each pattern then is made up of 8 letters each.

Could the Zodiac be then conveying the numbers 88 yet again? I believe this was the intention.

There is more to these patterns though, the pattern on the right looks very much like how Franklin wrote his “J” in one of his communications, I think this was intentional as well. See below:

Below is one of his “J’s” from one of his letters:

Further adding to my belief that the “V” and “J” were of significance to the Zodiac we see evidence later on from Oranchaks video that there is little cycling going on and it happens with the letters J — M — V.

In the above we see “JM” then looks like an upside down “V” and a half filled box. Then JVM being cycled consistently.

At least in the 340 it does seem to indicate the the letter “J” had some meaning to the Zodiac Killer. I believe this to mean his initials as his real name at that time was James Vaughn Jr. Initials either JV or JJ which we see clearly there in the 340.

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