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FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

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Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

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We know that he's had this "language" since he was a child so I'm going to go out on a limb here (and introduce no small measure of my own bias) and guess its not a cerebral cipher that will easily be unraveled by simple frequency of note correlation. I've likely got a touch of Asperger's myself and I know I have a bigger touch of synesthesia. I remember vividly during my childhood certain words being an explosion of…

A definition may be an intention, vs an interpretation of phrase. I have not yet dicerned that the note was intended to communicate to anyone but the author, Therefore, is not required to communicate via speach.

Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

#112

We know that he's had this "language" since he was a child so I'm going to go out on a limb here (and introduce no small measure of my own bias) and guess its not a cerebral cipher that will easily be unraveled by simple frequency of note correlation. I've likely got a touch of Asperger's myself and I know I have a bigger touch of synesthesia. I remember vividly during my childhood certain words being an explosion of…

> Is there a way to just output the letters as a stream of phonyms? After noticing the frequency of NCBE, I focused on these three lines from the first document: (FLRSE PRSE ONDE 71 NCBE) (CDNSE PRSE ONS*E 74 NCBE) (PR+SE PRSE ONREDE 75 NCBE) They seem pronounceable in a sort of pig-latin style - "Flur-say pur-say ohn-day 71 nick-bay" > although its tough to say "oranger than orange with a texture like crumpled sandp…

Well over half the time E is used it is preceded by the letter S. It seems E is only used with very few letter preceding it. BE, LE, RE, TE and SE

Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

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(MnD MKNE#R-N-STA-KNARE) (ACSM) oTFRNENPtNSEWPBSERCBBNSENPRSEINC PRSENMRSEOPREHLDWLDNCSE(TXFLFTCXLNC*E) AL-pRPPITXLYPPIYNCBEMEKSEinCdSEPRSE WLDRCBRNSEnToSNEnTXSE-CrSLE-CITRSEWLDNCBE ALWlPNCBETSMELrSERLSEVRGLSNEASNWLDNCBE (NOPFSENLRENCBE)NTEGDDMNSENCURERcBRne (TEWE TFRNE NCbrTSE NCBE InG)- (FIRSE PRSE ONDE 71 NCBE)- (CDnSE PRSE ONSE 74 NCBE)- (PRTSE PRSE ONER DE 75 NCBE) (TFNGCMSOLEMRDELUSETOTEWLDnwLDnCBE) (194WLD'SNC…

I think the 99.84 is a radio station

My first though also, but 99.84 isnt a radio station (Im in st louis); 99.9 used to be the classical station here though; I see nothing St. Louis related in the texts, that makes much sense unfortunately

Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

#114

We know that he's had this "language" since he was a child so I'm going to go out on a limb here (and introduce no small measure of my own bias) and guess its not a cerebral cipher that will easily be unraveled by simple frequency of note correlation. I've likely got a touch of Asperger's myself and I know I have a bigger touch of synesthesia. I remember vividly during my childhood certain words being an explosion of…

> Is there a way to just output the letters as a stream of phonyms? After noticing the frequency of NCBE, I focused on these three lines from the first document: (FLRSE PRSE ONDE 71 NCBE) (CDNSE PRSE ONS*E 74 NCBE) (PR+SE PRSE ONREDE 75 NCBE) They seem pronounceable in a sort of pig-latin style - "Flur-say pur-say ohn-day 71 nick-bay" > although its tough to say "oranger than orange with a texture like crumpled sandp…

I found it quite hard to decipher the original images the FBI provided.. So I pulled them into Photoshop converted them to Grey-scale and ran them through a Genuine Fractals routine and mathematically increased the resolution by 700% without losing any image quality, then I filtered them 3 times with some unsharp masking, to bring out some hidden details, finally I inverted the colors which makes several characters that were unrecognizable before appear.. especially on the 2nd page where the smudging is.

The files are 8 mb in size and I have it in both regular and inverted format.

Inverted View http://www.mediafire.com/i/?f5zukpyfsjdct5s

Enlarged Regular View http://www.mediafire.com/i/?84z1owcxf52ktmc

Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

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post #113

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I think the 99.84 is a radio station

My first though also, but 99.84 isnt a radio station (Im in st louis); 99.9 used to be the classical station here though; I see nothing St. Louis related in the texts, that makes much sense unfortunately

My bad, so many people are going onto other sites and just posting garbage..

I got a site with a pic of the guy

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1371604/FBI-asks-cod...

Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

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post #107

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> Is there a way to just output the letters as a stream of phonyms? After noticing the frequency of NCBE, I focused on these three lines from the first document: (FLRSE PRSE ONDE 71 NCBE) (CDNSE PRSE ONS*E 74 NCBE) (PR+SE PRSE ONREDE 75 NCBE) They seem pronounceable in a sort of pig-latin style - "Flur-say pur-say ohn-day 71 nick-bay" > although its tough to say "oranger than orange with a texture like crumpled sandp…

Someone further down suggested that 71,74,75 might be a combination to a padlock. I think in any case this points to it being directions of some sort. PRSE is probably a verb of some sort if those are infact directions.

I think pad locks only go up to 35?

Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

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post #23

Anybody have a copy of the legible characters so each of us doesn't need to transcribe the same text?

And if a mistake gets into the transcription?

Ideally the transcribed characters would have an "assurance rating" indicating how sure they were of its accuracy.

Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

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> Is there a way to just output the letters as a stream of phonyms? After noticing the frequency of NCBE, I focused on these three lines from the first document: (FLRSE PRSE ONDE 71 NCBE) (CDNSE PRSE ONS*E 74 NCBE) (PR+SE PRSE ONREDE 75 NCBE) They seem pronounceable in a sort of pig-latin style - "Flur-say pur-say ohn-day 71 nick-bay" > although its tough to say "oranger than orange with a texture like crumpled sandp…

Well over half the time E is used it is preceded by the letter S. It seems E is only used with very few letter preceding it. BE, LE, RE, TE and SE

not a reply. but at the bottom p1 (194 wld's ncbe) (194 countrys of the world map.) 194 recognized countrys in the new world order. dec 71 UN meeting investigate. sep 74 UN meeting investigate. re dec UN meeting investigate. E is used as a statement ending. its not code but personalized info. also look up compounding intrest and sinking bonds. 99.84.8 is a intrest table rate at 7%. 99.84% at 8 years

Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

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Has anyone else noticed that there seem to be no Q's or Z's in the text? That leads me to believe that the code is somehow related to the telephone dial (or keypad). There are a couple of characters that look slightly like Q's, but which I think are R's and there is one character on the NOTES page that looks like a Z, but which I think is a 2, since it comes after the string of numbers.

Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

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are there any freeways around st louis that would go along with these numbers? If he is street smart, and the family said that in 1999....maybe is was homeless, but creative at getting what he needs.

I blew up the docs and printed em....kinda helps....im gonna search for info on this guy.

What if the S is actually a 5?
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