FBI asks public for help breaking encrypted notes tied to 1999 murder, page 1


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Topic started on 29-3-2011 @ 05:46 PM by toolstarr

FBI asks public for help breaking encrypted notes tied to 1999 murder


news.yahoo.com
In what seems like a throwback to the still-unsolved Zodiac killings that terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s, the FBI has sent out a public appeal for amateur sleuths to help solve a key cryptographic clue in a 1999 murder case.

On June 30, 1999, police officers in St. Louis, Missouri found the body of 41-year-old Ricky McCormick, who'd been murdered and dumped in a field. The only clues investigators recovered from the scene were two encrypted notes stuffed into the victim's pockets.
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reply posted on 29-3-2011 @ 05:57 PM by Hoopinator
reply to post by toolstarr



I am by NO means a mathematician...but it looks to me to have some sort of algebra format. Perhaps a code that relies on one part to decipher another part.....or perhaps the second note is the key to the first one. It seems stupid to include TWO notes, when you could just include one...unless the second note is the solution.... It's obviously SOME sort of code.



reply posted on 29-3-2011 @ 06:00 PM by ExPostFacto
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This should be fun for us all to attempt to crack. Thank you for posting.


reply posted on 29-3-2011 @ 06:14 PM by Hoopinator
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UNLESS the person that wrote it is on ATS. LOL. I have no faith in the FBI. They couldn't crack open a nut.


reply posted on 29-3-2011 @ 06:17 PM by Illusionsaregrander
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I thought the same thing when I saw it. Math. But thats the extent of my genius on the topic.

But Im with you, the reason they are having trouble is because the message has been turned in to a formula with the numbers being substituted for words and probably the symbols too.


reply posted on 29-3-2011 @ 06:22 PM by Hoopinator
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They should look at the victim's friends and acquaintances and see if anyone around them is either in the math or physics field, or if they're somewhat autistic. (not trying to be rude). It seems to me that there is something that the average person doesn't see...causing the confusion. We should get Eli from Stargate to take a look at it. Or Oprah. She's got an answer for everything.
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