F.B.I. Seeks Help Cracking Code in Victim’s Notes
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
It sounds like the beginning of a good whodunit, or at least a “Law and Order” episode: A body is found. In the victim’s pants are two notes written in some sort of code. The F.B.I. is called in and concludes the man was murdered. But the encrypted notes have the F.B.I. stumped — so stumped that this week, after years of trying to decipher them, it posted what amounted to a public request for help on its Web site (click here). The two notes, a jumble of letters and numbers occasionally set off with parentheses, have also flummoxed members of the American Cryptogram Association, which the F.B.I. has consulted.
The body of Ricky McCormick was found in 1999, in a cornfield west of West Alton, Mo.
The F.B.I., drawn into the case because of the two mysterious notes, came to believe that Mr. McCormick, 41, was murdered and that the encrypted notes might lead to the killer.
“We are really good at what we do,” Dan Olson, chief of the F.B.I.’s Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit, said in a statement on the site. “But we could use some help with this one.” The notes, he said, are part of one of the unit’s “top unsolved cases.”
“Breaking the code could reveal the victim’s whereabouts before his death and could lead to the solution of a homicide,” Mr. Olson said.
If Mr. McCormick’s end has the makings of a television episode, his life appears to have largely been marginal.
Detectives in Saint Charles County, where Mr. McCormick was found dead, describe him as living on and off with his elderly mother and spending much of his time on the street. A high school dropout, Mr. McCormick lived off disability checks he received for chronic heart and lung ailments.
The police said Mr. McCormick never married, but he had at least four children, although he appeared to have had no significant relationships with them.
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4 comments:
People:
-Look the 2nd note, last line, said this:"O-W-m-4 H8L XORLX".
-Can you see what letters are repetead?
-If L= M and X= Variatons of the letter "C" (MC, C, CK) then is equal:
-"OWN FOR I AM MCCORMICK"
-It is The SIGNATURE and Mccormick´s last will and testament.
-Can you remember HAL 9000?
-This is all you need.
---It is the master key.
Bye from Barcelona.
Hello people:
THE MURDER CASE
---Look note one, line 12, my solution is:
"Thief and THORN had miss quit sole murder loose to tied would and would not had been"
"Thorn" is a letter of old English, a symbol (look wikipedia)
--IF WLD= Would, ncBE= and had been
,and L= M and X= MC, C or CK the last line of the note one is:
"I 1994 would is (in jail) and had been --- terrify come (or terrific me)"
It is a children´s game
Bye from Barcelona.
+for more information:
http://prophecyexperimentalzone.blogspot.com/
Hello.
+ My theory:
+It is a STENOGRAPHIC problem with some deception measures, but is a children´s game.
+ Mccormick stenographyc notes tell us how we can find 99.840 dollars and more ... hidden in a suitcase buried in Marais Temps Clair CA (MO).
+ The northern entrance to this place is next to a home with number 35, and to 36 and 29 miles from 1400 Chouteau Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, the official residence of Mccormick.
+ I have found the house number 35 in the place i had predicted, is that:
6035 Missouri 94 ,Portage des Sioux MO 63373 United States.
+ Anyone can check and see with Google maps, Google Earth and "Street View" this home.
+ I think this show that i was right and i deciphered correctly the shorthand system and the stenographyc Mccormick text.
+ Now you have to walk 651 steps from the north entrance to a bird watching site has been after the central curve and to dig up the bag(and you must avoid the Jupiter´s mistake _ from "The Gold Bug" by Poe).
+ If the FBI wants to dig up the suitcase or not, that is up to them. I finished the work.
Greetings from Spain.
Hello from Spain.
UPDATE master key
-Look 2nd note,last line, i see that:
“O-W-m-4 H8L XORLX”
+If O=O, W=W and R=R
+If m=N, H=I and L=M using Caesar Code B or +1
+If X= Variations of the letter “C” (MC,C and MC) using shorthand
+If 4= four= FOR by phonetic solution like SMS language.
+If 8= eight= eit= ei= letter “A” by phonetic solution like SMS language (example L8= late or leight, H8= hate ….)
+If the hyphen join the letters in a word.
+If we add vowel “i” by transcription shorthand solution.
THEN…..
“O-W-m-4 H8L XORLX” means “OWN-FOR I AM MCCORM(i)CK”.
It is the signature, last will or testament of Mccormick.
+ If you think “4″ is not “4″ but “y”
+ If you think “8″ is not “8″ but “I” then the solution is:
“Y”= wai= WHY or WAY by phonetic solution, similar sound.
“I”= ai= letter “A” by phonetic graphic representation.
THEN= “O-W-m-Y HIL XORLX” = “OWN-WHY? I AM MCCORMICK”
More info:
http://www.themorgandoctrine.com/2011/11/fbis-best-brightest-blow-one-for-gipper.html
bye.
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