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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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(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

if that's the case, it'd be 99.7 or 99.9, american stations use odd numbered frequencies.

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…

> 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…

http://www.stltoday.com/news/article_60dc223e-5b1b-11e0-9833...

http://www.stltoday.com/news/article_bcc02074-5b1a-11e0-b199... news stories about Ricky McCormick printed at time of discovery

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

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I thought this could be a fun 'challenge'... I'm inclined to believe that this is potentially ciphered in English, due to, what look to be stiking similarities between the alphabetic character frequencies of the notes: http://d122.com/murdermystery/freq.png and the frequencies of characters in English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:English_letter_frequency_(... If anyone else wants to have a play here is my (roug…

what about a safe or lock combination for the 99.84.52?

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

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I thought this could be a fun 'challenge'... I'm inclined to believe that this is potentially ciphered in English, due to, what look to be stiking similarities between the alphabetic character frequencies of the notes: http://d122.com/murdermystery/freq.png and the frequencies of characters in English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:English_letter_frequency_(... If anyone else wants to have a play here is my (roug…

Excellent. I personally love this sort of thing, though I'm rarely successful. I was typing out the letters as I saw them, and I noticed that I interpreted many of your "S" as the number 5, but after looking at the way he wrote "S", it appears relatively consistent throughout the text. So letter groupings became interesting: SE - 66 matches RSE - 18 matches In the first document TFNRE appears twice. Here's my interpr…

I developed a coded language when I was a kid, which I still use sometimes. I have looked at Ricky's notes but all I have is some theories based on my experience with my own language. Hopefully that helps.

My own language is letter-for-letter encryption, which makes it a lot easier to memorize the key (I was 8 years old when I invented mine). I suspect that is what Ricky did since I noticed that some individual characters were corrected.

Also, after almost 40 years of using my own language, I have developed "shorthand for the shorthand", so some of my words are abbreviations or shorthand for actual words - which makes letter-for-letter decryption tricky. When things get complicated, I insert a character I know does not belong in my key to indicate the beginning and end of some shorthand alteration. I suspect Ricky might have used parenthesis.

My key duplicates some characters (i.e. they mean something else depending on how they are used). I am wondering if Ricky's numbers are not always numbers. One piece that struck me, was the "99.84S2..." sentence because in my own system I don't use the number zero. So I thought, wouldn't it be interesting if Ricky thought the same way, and a period is shorthand for a zero in a telephone number?

I do not write things down in code just for the fun of it. Although it is fun trying to decipher code. I use it to write down passwords, bank account numbers, etc. that I don't want anyone to know. In other words, very precise pieces of information. The problem is, for all we know, Ricky could have been an aspiring artist and these could be his lyrics that he thought were worth millions. This is a lot of writing for one codified note. My guess is that these are several pieces of information that may not be necessarily related, such as a list of contacts or a log/diary of some sort. The note on the FBI site looks like it was all written down in one sitting. Therefore, there is a high likelihood that these notes were transferred from somewhere else (or Ricky's head) as a way to safeguard something for himself and nobody else (i.e. the law). Therefore, the diary/log idea is less likely than a list of contacts or places.

I would love to hear how this story ends.

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

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I thought this could be a fun 'challenge'... I'm inclined to believe that this is potentially ciphered in English, due to, what look to be stiking similarities between the alphabetic character frequencies of the notes: http://d122.com/murdermystery/freq.png and the frequencies of characters in English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:English_letter_frequency_(... If anyone else wants to have a play here is my (roug…

Excellent. I personally love this sort of thing, though I'm rarely successful. I was typing out the letters as I saw them, and I noticed that I interpreted many of your "S" as the number 5, but after looking at the way he wrote "S", it appears relatively consistent throughout the text. So letter groupings became interesting: SE - 66 matches RSE - 18 matches In the first document TFNRE appears twice. Here's my interpr…

large pics http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Ricky_McCormic...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/Ricky_McCormic...

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

#137

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Excellent. I personally love this sort of thing, though I'm rarely successful. I was typing out the letters as I saw them, and I noticed that I interpreted many of your "S" as the number 5, but after looking at the way he wrote "S", it appears relatively consistent throughout the text. So letter groupings became interesting: SE - 66 matches RSE - 18 matches In the first document TFNRE appears twice. Here's my interpr…

(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…

{99.84.52} ip address not to far from the place he`s body was found

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

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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?

I had thought of that to many times it is written as if you can take it either way

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

#139

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…

NCBE like a Place Like National Conference of Bar Examiners. Just i don't know why he want to write

  (FLRSE PRSE ONDE 71 NCBE)
  (CDNSE PRSE ONS*E 74 NCBE)
  (PR+SE PRSE ONREDE 75 NCBE)
Just the thing i don't know want the mean of the number... Just like he want to calculate some thing... I don't know...@@

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

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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

99.84.5.2 is IP for SBC
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