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

Originally posted by Hoopinator
reply to post by SlyingFaucers

 

I already posted the transcriptions. They're on this page.

d122.com...

on the one with the P1 at the top, is there a reason you left out the (ACSM)?

Most of the transcriptions I've seen here are not right.

The first line of the note called P1/PI was written last.

Given that he wrote these codes since he was young, I am thinking he may have strarted writing words in a different order than they are naturally Spelt , then over time he developed a set of rule for the order he would scramble them in. Maybe he even began excluding letters. I don know why but that's how I feel when I look at this . It is scrambled words rather than code .

I don't know anything about deciphering code but I am wondering wether he was autistic? And wether they have shown this to other autistic people.

Firse prse onde 71 ncbe

Almost looks like its saying something like "First pass onde (on decimal?) 71 ncbe (N-cipher block encryption?)"

Of course that would mean it's partially encrypted itself, but might give enough of a clue as to what method is used. (Certain types of encryption will let plaintext through using certain keys.) If the key is in the message itself, you should be able to crack the puzzle. If the key is a one-time-pad as used with most types of block encyrption, well then... Might take ages to brute force that one.

It's likely I'm way off, but it's fun trying to make some kind of half-educated guess while using resources available through internet searches.

29 Keno Dr, Cherokee Village, Sharp, Arkansas 72529
Is just off highway 175
Not to far for interstate trafficing.

36 mlse 74 sprkse 29 keno sole 175 rt rse

Strange this area 29 Keno Dr. is a indian reservation that has been used for smuggling drugs befor in 1985.
ftp.resource.org...

Sigh... seems like we cant get past step one.

Anyways, the FBI wants to know how to read the notes not because it relates to the crime, but simply because they cant read the notes. Its their job to learn every coding/decoding technique out there.

I know it looks crazy, but the lines I translated in my last post seem to fit in well with each other. Some of the PDF links got screwed up but all the info is there. Lol.

I think a guy on yahoo solved it... well it looks like he did to me.

This is his post on the site... no idea is someone has already noticed this.
" Start with the obvious, which is to check the "key" at the end.

The time key is at the bottom of page 2 (which was written first and as a log of medications: this is critical for bipolars to get their meds exactly right, which takes years of variation and must be coded, since doctors require that bipolars stay closeted due to publicty regarding violent crimes) weekday triggers indicate a work trigger, month patterns indicate seasonal disorder usually starting in the 4th qtr as indicated here. Years indicate home environment. Times of day for meds indicate sleeplessness or need for a stimulant in the morning which is common in early years.

Bottom of page 2:

D-W-M-Y M,D,L = Day weekday month year: morning day or latenight
These are time designations that are critical to get your meds right with bipolar and are coded for privacy

Body of page 2:

26MLSE74SPRKSE29KENOSOLE173R7RSE

2x 6mg Serenace in 1974

99-84.B2UNEPLSENCRSEAOLTSENSKSENRSE

1999 through 1988

HMCRENMRESCBE ½MUNDDLSE

1/2 tablet

NSREOUSEPUTSEWLDUCBE(3XORL)

(3 times oral)

On page 1 are lists of manic episodes, as required to diagnose bipolar:

(FLRSEPRSEONDE71NCBE)
From late september really severe episode on December 1971: No cause before episode
(CDNSEPRSEONSF/DE74NCBE)
Chronic Depression in September, really severe episode on the start of December in 1974, no cause before episode

These logs are needed forever and are why this has been so private for so long.

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Also, bipolars are often very smart and can follow patterns that are pretty obscure if you don't already know which meds he was on. There is only one good antidepressant for seasonal disorder with bipolar, so I'd expect that to be part of the codebut I'll leave the details for a pro to run with. And I neglected to add on page 2 at the top:

ALPNTE GLSE-SE ERTE

A: Latenight, Phenergan, taken in evening G: Latenight Serenace/Seroquel or Seroquel/Serenace Extended Release Taken Evening

VLSE MTSE-CTSE-WSE-FRTSE
V: Late Serenace Morning take Serenace"

reply to post by SonOfTheLawOfOne


I commented earlier that the n squiggles are word separations. If you write it without the Ns it reads like pig Latin...almost all words ending with SE, CE,TE BE. One repeating cluster is WLD that is not associated with the consonant E ending

M D EARSE S M K ARE

TFR E IP SE PRSE RCBR SE PRSE I C

AL PRPPIT XLYPPIY CBE MGKSE WLD RCBR SE PRSE

WLD RCBR SE TOG E TXSE CRSLE CITRSE WLD CBE

AL WLD CBE TSME LRSE RLSE RGLSE AS WLD CBE

NOPFSE LSRE CBE TEGDDM SE CURE RCBRE

TE E TFRNE CBR TSE CBE I C

FLRSE PASE O DE 71 CBE

CD SE PASE O SE 74 CBE

PATSE PRSE O REDE 75 CBE

TF A CMSP SOLE MRDE LUSE TOTE WLD WLD CBE

194 WLDS CBE TRFXL

reply to post by anicetus


thanks anicetus, this is exactly what I was referencing too in a previous comment.

wanted to post under the other.

reply to post by Immortalgemini527


geez guys, first off , this note was already solved by someone in Yahoo. Second, it was written by the victim, NOT the killer. Looks like ATS fails once again...

Originally posted by ripcontrol
I ran this title through ats search first and got nothing so I posted...

I then find this thread here... agh...

OP my apologies.... I will add the information from my thread as an apology to you

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/f7c5351a2af4.jpg[/atsimg]

f[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/d8b0c57cd272.jpg[/atsimg]


and

FBI releases

03/29/11

On June 30, 1999, sheriff’s officers in St. Louis, Missouri discovered the body of 41-year-old Ricky McCormick. He had been murdered and dumped in a field. The only clues regarding the homicide were two encrypted notes found in the victim’s pants pockets.

Despite extensive work by our Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU), as well as help from the American Cryptogram Association, the meanings of those two coded notes remain a mystery to this day, and Ricky McCormick’s murderer has yet to face justice.

what it read


1. Mad at me for no reason, in spots Ville Pennsylvania or spotsvania Pennsylvania, unaware.

527>>PS> I don’t know anything about Pennsylvania so if there is no such thing as what I said, then so be it, I’m reading exactly what he wrote.

2. The Ricky never knew he was next. It was apparently and necessary, parse, Ricky cares but in the end, beyond any sense I never cared.

3. Apparently Ricky seemed nice mannered, nor or less, pretending, holding on till death, unable to see
(Talking furiously loud at me) [Talking extra loud now, close before the end.

4.all and last, apparently Ricky [rip] told me he was 40 years old, why- people pretend in my eyes
[Never cared but encouraged ;]

APPARENTLY RICKY WAS NOT YET DEAD AS HE MUST HAVE JUST WATCHED HIM DIE, EITHER IN ENJOYMENT, OR A STUDY.

5. While looking down, Ricky, cursed, bringing no sense, not gone yet, seeing the cancer in alignment, cancers like to reason [never cared but encouraged]

6 all the world up [never cared but encouraged] to see me like I see evil. Ricky life seems endless. You’re a guy living in sin we lie as one (never cared but encouraged).

7. Now people feel and see evil, no longer shall Ricky breath’ never cared but encouraged.
Now tonight god makes no sense, cause your cancer. Finally Ricky can be reunited.

8. [Tennessee, Tennessee from New England]
‘Never cared but rejuvenated’ [Tennessee never cared but encouraged] never cared but encouraged in Gemini.
9. Florida, south east passed on dec7 [never cared but encouraged]

10. Couldn’t do it in Sagittarius “apparently me in 74, ‘never cared but encouraged’

11. Pennsylvania and se on the red eye. 75. (Never cared but encouraged]

12. The fact in the matter is people murder for lust,to tqke over this eveil world,not a world.
‘Never cared but encouraged’

13.1 night for ones destiny 'never cared but encouraged 'transformation extending life'


The guy who wrote this note was an exotic panther like, patient exotic stalker; it seems that he would even follow his victims for years. Either to study them, or just to stalk them,
He didn’t out right kill them, he got to know his victims, and he loved to watch them die...I wouldn’t even be surprised if he wrote notes on every murder.
He mostly traveled by train for some reason, I think allot of his victims came from trains.
HE most definitely was schizophrenia, we schizophrenia people know how each other think and write.
I don’t understand what was so difficult about this.
Come to think about this, I didn’t even go to the link.
But if this is real, then that’s what was said, if this was some ats thing, then I am very mad. But I will look at the link. Have a good rainy night… East coast

PS,he thought about killing people under some sign thing he found out that might transform him to somthing un heared of or give him everlasting life.

To all so be very honest,he might not have been mental..he sounds to me like a gemini...the other side of him was fighting,and when ever that side would say somthing to him mentaly,he would always say to his other side.

'NCBE'

The other side of hime was telling him what he was doing was wrong ,interrupting his thoughts at that time,and he would alwys block the other side by saying[[[ NCBE]]]]
' I REALLY DONT CARE WHAT YOUR SAYING,BUT ITS ENCOURAGING" NOTED!!
' NEVER CARED BUT ENCOURAGING'

COPYWRITTEN 3-30-11,9:33 EST,WASHINGTON DC.
silin`i ent,Img 527,Iuc 527,ImL 527,tlp527,lgs527,silin`i 527,demigod 527

Originally posted 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.

(visit the link for the full news article)

Yeah, I recognize that language. It is criminal code and it says "Hey you stupid cops, keep yourself busy trying to decipher a message with no rhyme or reason. This will give me time to get away". ...And here they are 12 years later STILL busy with it.

Originally posted by splint
reply to post by Immortalgemini527

 

geez guys, first off , this note was already solved by someone in Yahoo. Second, it was written by the victim, NOT the killer. Looks like ATS fails once again...

who ever siad the killer wrote it??


OMG… REALLY, so after 12 years of the best teams to figure this out, not just any teams, we are talking about specialist at decipher codes, and in less then 48 hours some person solved it on yahoo. Good for him.
But any way, either the killer wrote it or made the guy write it, simple as that.

'a grocery list huh'
I think it’s an ice cream truck in the middle of the Sahara desert, can you pick me up 2 scopes of ice cream.

reply to post by jetflock


This HOAX! It makes no sense that someone who could not even write his ABC's in any consistent manner would write about something this complex.. TOTAL BS.

Originally posted by splint
reply to post by Immortalgemini527

 

geez guys, first off , this note was already solved by someone in Yahoo. Second, it was written by the victim, NOT the killer. Looks like ATS fails once again...

Are you sure it was solved and not guessed at like all the rest here?

There are a few theories on yahoo and other sites that make sense but I wouldn't call solved.

reply to post by splint

geez guys, first off , this note was already solved by someone in Yahoo.

No , it hasn't been solved by anyone yet . I've read the yahoo posts , as well as posts from several other sites . There are posts from other sites who have also 'solved' it .

They can't all be right .

In this line

ALPNTE GLSE-SE ERTE

I think the T is a +. Every T, and appears to be every letter, in the note is upper case except that one. Just saying.

And
dailymail.co.uk is running the story and they have a picture of Ricky up
here

NCBE = Nuclear Chemical Biological Electronic. Military jargon for weapons of mass destruction.

Just sayin'.