Who was Marvin Merrill? A deep dive into the suspect’s life reveals possible connections to unsolved cases from every place he ever lived. Learn more on KillerInTheCode.com
Chapter 5: The Zodiac Motel
15/01/2026 | 21 mins.
Alex Baber’s search for the ‘torture room’ where Elizabeth Short was murdered. Learn more on KillerInTheCode.com.
Chapter 4: Code Makers and Breakers
08/01/2026 | 37 mins.
When Ed Giorgio’s cryptology team confirmed Alex Baber’s codebreaking, they uncovered a key piece of evidence themselves and a startling connection to Elizabeth Short. Learn more on KillerInTheCode.com.
Chapter 3: El Diablo
06/01/2026 | 42 mins.
Alex Baber finds a clue in the last Zodiac cipher that unlocks a direct connection to the Black Dahlia. Learn more on KillerInTheCode.com.
Chapter 2: The Smoking Gun
23/12/2025 | 23 mins.
Alex Baber’s gumshoe work leads to the discovery of undeniable physical evidence linking two of most infamous murder cases in history. Learn more on KillerInTheCode.com.
Killer In The Code: Solving The Black Dahlia & Zodiac Cases, a new podcast from bestselling author Michael Connelly.Self-styled cold case consultant Alex Baber believes he has a set of life skills that allow him to find the hidden beneath the hidden. These skills took him down a two-year path to solving two of the most infamous murder cases in history, The Black Dahlia and Zodiac killer cases. With no badge and no law enforcement training, has Baber closed the cases that have baffled law enforcement for more than half a century? Some of the top minds in homicide and code-breaking work believe so and stand by his findings. Killer In The Code follows Baber on his investigative journey across the country as he uses cryptology, genealogy, AI, and finally long hours of basic gumshoe work to identify a suspect that has taunted and eluded authorities for decades. Along the way startling new evidence in both cases is discovered, all of it pointing unequivocally toward one man who lived in a dark world and may have intentionally left a “smoking gun” behind so that one day he would be discovered by someone who viewed the open cases as one puzzle missing just a few key pieces. Alex Baber found those pieces and solved the puzzle. Killer In The Code tells the story. Learn more on killerinthecode.com.