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The victim was a high-school dropout, who had no relationship with his four children, and was living on disability benefits. He had served a short amount of time in prison several years previously for statutory rape, although they do not believe that case had anything to do with his death.
McCormick's mother apparently told investigators that he had written coded messages since childhood, but that she had no idea why, or what they meant. He did not own a car, and lived 30 miles from the place where his body was discovered. The last confirmed sighting of him was five days earlier, when he received medication at a St Louis hospital for chronic heart and lung problems.
"The family said he [wrote coded messages] quite often," said Craig McGuire of the St Charles County Sheriff's Department, who investigated the original case. "We were always hopeful that these cryptic notes would give us information as to his associates, his business, where he might have been the last few hours of his life. It may just be a bunch of gibberish, but right now, we just don't know."
