I can’t get behind the paywall, but I’m highly skeptical. True crime nuts always want to link various unsolved mysteries. “Code breakers” also tend to be a kind of grift. They rolled out some jack wad in the D.B. Cooper Netflix series that was an embarrassment.
From the article.
"Alex Baber, a 50-year-old West Virginia man who dropped out of high school and taught himself codebreaking, now says he has cracked the Zodiac killer’s identity — and in the process solved the Black Dahlia case as well.
“It’s irrefutable,” said Baber, obsessive, hyperfocused and cocksure in manner, his memory encyclopedic and his speech a firehose of dates, locations and surprising linkages.
Baber has never been a cop. He is not a licensed private eye. Critics have called him overconfident and underqualified. Said one: “This guy is a great smooth talker, but it’s a lot of empty calories.”
Diagnosed with autism at 12, Baber said he endured schoolyard beatings throughout his childhood in rural Florida. He got a GED, skipped college and taught himself cryptography, forensics and computer science.
He runs a firm called Cold Case Consultants of America, with victim-advocate investors and inherited money, and since 2021 has devoted himself day and night to proving a nexus between what might be the two most infamous unsolved cases in America."
