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A killer who contacted the press himself. Who sent coded messages nobody has ever decoded. Who was never caught.
Tomorrow on The Cold File
The Zodiac sent four ciphers.
Three have never been decoded.
In 2020, one was cracked after 51 years.
The other two are still open.
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Jun 15
December 20, 1968. A teenager and his girlfriend, parked on a remote road in California.
Someone walked up and shot them both.
No motive. No suspect. No connection to the victims.
Seven months later, the killer introduced himself. By mail.
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Jun 14
He killed at least 5 people. He contacted newspapers himself to make sure they knew. He was never caught. The Zodiac Killer. Next case opens Wednesday.
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Jun 13
The TB test used in the 2013 Skid Row outbreak was called LAM-ELISA. The internet made it a conspiracy. Nobody asked the real question: what did 600 hotel guests drink for 19 days? File #004. thecoldfile.substack.com #ElisaLam #CecilHotel #TrueCrime #ColdCase
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Jun 12
Nobody has ever been prosecuted.
Lugovoy still lives in Moscow. Still sits in parliament. The trail is documented. The suspects are named. The conclusion is in writing.
The file has been open for 20 years.
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Jun 12
In November 2006, Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with polonium-210.
It takes 0.000000001 grams to kill a person.
The killers used about 10 micrograms.
That is 10,000 lethal doses. In a teapot.
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Jun 12
Litvinenko spent his last days in hospital dictating a statement.
"You may succeed in silencing one man," he said, addressing Putin directly, "but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate in your ears for the rest of your life."
He died six hours later.
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Jun 12
In 2016, a public inquiry in the UK concluded that Putin "probably approved" the operation.
That word: probably.
A man is killed with a weapon-grade radioactive substance on British soil.
The conclusion is "probably."
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Jun 12
Andrei Lugovoy flew back to Moscow the night Litvinenko fell ill.
Polonium traces on his seat. The seat next to him. The seat in front.
British prosecutors charged him with murder in 2007.
Russia refused to extradite him. He became a member of parliament instead.
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Jun 12
Three British Airways aircraft were contaminated.
Flights between London and Moscow. Hundreds of passengers.
The Health Protection Agency sent letters to 33,000 people
telling them they may have been exposed to radioactive material.
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Jun 12
When investigators started tracing the polonium, they found it everywhere.
The bar at the Millennium Hotel, where Litvinenko met his killers.
The sushi restaurant where one of them had lunch three weeks earlier.
The offices he had visited. The cars. The planes.
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Jun 12
Polonium-210 doesn't show up on standard toxicology screens.
Litvinenko's doctors had no idea what was wrong with him for three weeks.
He died on November 23. The cause was identified two hours after his death.
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Jun 12
File #012 - Part 2 is open.
The Banco Ambrosiano. A mafia boss buried in a papal basilica. Leads that stopped at a certain depth. A sovereign state that controls what it shares.
Someone decided. Someone still does.
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Jun 11
Something we left out of File #004.
The water question nobody officially asked.
Saturday on The Cold File.
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Jun 11
In 2019, Vatican gendarmerie opened two tombs inside Vatican City looking for Emanuela Orlandi.
The tombs were supposed to hold 19th-century remains. The Vatican had maintained them for over a century.
They were empty.
No explanation. Part 2 tomorrow. thecoldfile.substack.com
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Jun 10
A Vatican family. A missing girl. Tombs that should have held remains, and didn't. Forty years of an institution saying it doesn't know anything. Part 2 on Friday. This one gets darker.
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Jun 10
File #012 is open.
Rome, 1983. A 15-year-old girl vanishes. Her father works for the Vatican. No body. No conviction. No explanation. The Vatican says it lost all internal documents from that period.
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A girl who disappeared inside Vatican City in 1983. The Vatican knows more than it has ever said. Tomorrow on The Cold File.
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