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Zodiac Killer’s code cracked?

Corey Starliper believes he’s cracked the code of the 340-character cipher sent to the San Francisco Chronicle by the Zodiac Killer *and* that it identifies the killer.

Starliper split his work into two sessions of 6 hours and 3 hours. When he was done, he had decoded the following text:
KILL/SLF/DR/HELP/ME/KILL/MYSELF/GAS/CHAMBER/
AEIOUR/DAYS/QUESTIONSABLE/EVERYY/WAKING/
MOMENT/IM/ALIVE/MY/PRIDE/LOST/I/CANT/GO/ON/
LIVING/IN/THIS/WAY/KILLING/PEOPLE/I/HAV/KILLD/
SO/MANY/PEOPLE/CANT/HELP/MYSELF/IM/SO/
ANGRY/I/COULD/DO/MY/THING/IM/ALONE/IN/THIS/
WORLD/MY/WHOLE/LIFE/FUL/O/LIES/IM/UNABLE/
TO/STOP/BY/THE/TIME/YOU/SOLVE/THIS/I/WILL/
HAV/KILLD/ELEVEN/PEOPLE/PLEASE/HELP/ME/
STOP/KILLING/PEOPLE/PLEASE/MY/NAME/IS/
LEIGH/ALLEN/