MO MO - Ricky McCormick, 41, St Louis, 30 June 1999

[bessie]

Good points...I didn't consider the bridge being to narrow for ped traffic. As far as when SSDI payments are made, on wiki answers, it says prior to 1997 that payment is on the 3rd...after 1997, it corresponds to B'day (someone posted his in this thread as 6/14/58)...so that would make payment on 4th Wed of month (6/23/99). Also, since I found an old 1999 calendar, I looked at the news reports posted. One reports him last being seen on Saturday and another reports at the hospital on 6/25/99, which was a Friday.

Thank you for researching the SSDI payment date. It certainly jives with a visit to the casino.

I also noted the discrepancy in the date last seen. We've been told he was at the clinic on Friday, June 25th, but no information related to the Saturday siting. I wonder if it's an error.

 

[Me3]

Bessie, thanks for reposting Photographerbyday's link to negative image of the note on page 22 of this thread. After looking at it...to me, the m's look funny and don't match the other cap letters...almost like sideways 3. Then the N's look more like breaks or the "~" sign. Sometimes the E's look like C's with hash marks. (sigh...need to give my eyes a break.)

Video1, I'm not following your post, "if serial killer with heart and lung"...how did he go from possible victim to serial killer?

 

[Video1]

Bessie, thanks for reposting Photographerbyday's link to negative image of the note on page 22 of this thread. After looking at it...to me, the m's look funny and don't match the other cap letters...almost like sideways 3. Then the N's look more like breaks or the "~" sign. Sometimes the E's look like C's with hash marks. (sigh...need to give my eyes a break.)

Video1, I'm not following your post, "if serial killer with heart and lung"...how did he go from possible victim to serial killer?

Who says were looking at a victim?. Ill get back to you on this.

 

[Me3]

Who says were looking at a victim?. Ill get back to you on this.

www.fbi.gov
"In fact, Ricky McCormick’s encrypted notes are one of CRRU’s top unsolved cases. “Breaking the code,” said Olson, “could reveal the victim’s whereabouts before his death and could lead to the solution of a homicide. Not every cipher we get arrives at our door under those circumstances.”


Just trying to follow your posts...but not sure how to get from point A to B.

 

[Video1]

www.fbi.gov
"In fact, Ricky McCormick’s encrypted notes are one of CRRU’s top unsolved cases. “Breaking the code,” said Olson, “could reveal the victim’s whereabouts before his death and could lead to the solution of a homicide. Not every cipher we get arrives at our door under those circumstances.”


Just trying to follow your posts...but not sure how to get from point A to B.

If were going to run outside the box with Anthrax and other scenario's then I am going to run profile and I was playing with this letter quite a bit initially and kept running into things that made me think that maybe this guy might be more interesting than we thought.

The FBI can say what they want, that does not mean its true or represented in a way that would really guide you to what the reality is. Everyone is running a victim here.

I am looking at something different and backtracking. I guess I just do not believe the F.B.I, but I have have been the most trusting type anyway.

 

[Me3]

If were going to run outside the box with Anthrax and other scenario's then I am going to run profile and I was playing with this letter quite a bit initially and kept running into things that made me think that maybe this guy might be more interesting than we thought.

The FBI can say what they want, that does not mean its true or represented in a way that would really guide you to what the reality is. Everyone is running a victim here.

I am looking at something different and backtracking. I guess I just do not believe the F.B.I, but I have have been the most trusting type anyway.

Okay...so you are presuming he might have been a serial killer, as well as, victim. I think we are all being open to all ideas. I can't remember the percentage...but a high number of victims know/have come in contact with killers prior to being killed. I wished we knew more info...like result of clinic visit on 6/25. It also would be interesting if the FBI tried to contact any of his past teachers...since he started writing the code when he was little. If he wrote code, I'm sure it popped up in school or his school buddies saw it.

 

[Carmen29]

Location, disposition and identification

The Alton news article indicates "privately owned clubhouses." What sort of clubhouses are these? What sort of activities do they sponsor? Could he have been attending an event with a someone?


....being from this area I think what they mean by 'clubhouse' is just a private residence, someones vacation home. Its common to see homes along the rivers in missouri where people just stay for the summer or vacation. so i dont think they were referring to actual businesses. just a place to have fun or hang out.

 

[Video1]

Okay...so you are presuming he might have been a serial killer, as well as, victim. I think we are all being open to all ideas. I can't remember the percentage...but a high number of victims know/have come in contact with killers prior to being killed. I wished we knew more info...like result of clinic visit on 6/25. It also would be interesting if the FBI tried to contact any of his past teachers...since he started writing the code when he was little. If he wrote code, I'm sure it popped up in school or his school buddies saw it.

I think its a possibility and may explain why they tossed this up, I mean he appears to be an inner city youth with a really twisted profile and he has been dead for 12 years. They come in with this letter 12 years later and say they want to find his killer?. It is possible I would imagine and I would guess he may very well have known his killer so they could run that play.

Or? they hit this guy on a link and running it as a lead on something else. That makes much more sense to me with this guy, especially when I remember tearing this letter apart and hitting *advertiser censored* and children missing, which I ignored as I chased cars.

I just don't get it really, but I am pretty sure they would leave the profile be no matter what else they would change or omit.

 

[Video1]

Can someone toss this guys known addresses up again?

Best,

Kris

 

[STEADFAST]

I get the impression that LE thinks there are some encrypted names on these notes.

Seems to me as if these might be betting notes -- the guy could have been a low-level runner for a bookmaker. Here's a link to a site that shows how some different types of illegal activities are sometimes encoded. Of course, the FBI knows the codes that are on the linked page, but it might be the cipher part that has them stumped more than anything.
http://www2.fbi.gov/hq/lab/fsc/backissu/jan2000/olson.htm#sports bookmaking codes

I don't think the notes are completely written in a cipher. More like partly in cipher mixed with shorthand (but with added letters for camoflage) and lots of misspellings and proper names.

There are a couple of places where the text obviously doesn't fit the pattern -- especially "PIPPITXLYPPIY" (because of the vowel/consonant alternation and the use of "I.") and "GDDMNSE" (because, like the first examples, it has double letters which you don't see in the rest of the notes.) -- I think I know what that one means. :crazy:

I am thinking the frequent "n" by itself and the "se," "me," "te," "be," and "re," are often just indicators of divisions between letters and words.

However, there must be more to this cipher or the FBI would have figured it out by now, although some ciphers are simple enough to use but are impossible to be deciphered.

 

[Clewless]

I think its a possibility and may explain why they tossed this up, I mean he appears to be an inner city youth with a really twisted profile and he has been dead for 12 years. They come in with this letter 12 years later and say they want to find his killer?. It is possible I would imagine and I would guess he may very well have known his killer so they could run that play.

Or? they hit this guy on a link and running it as a lead on something else. That makes much more sense to me with this guy, especially when I remember tearing this letter apart and hitting *advertiser censored* and children missing, which I ignored as I chased cars.

I just don't get it really, but I am pretty sure they would leave the profile be no matter what else they would change or omit.

I've been intrigued by this case since the end of last week...just decided to register here and participate because this seems to be one of the few places that people are still talking about it.

One of the reasons that I've had on my list for why the FBI has released this to the public is quite simply because they have a sample of this "code" and they can't determine what it means. Any "code" that LE cannot break has to be seen as a security risk. They may have no particular interest in this case other than a need to understand the code incase something similar is found in the future.

I have made a couple of mental notes while reviewing other people's work so far.

1 - In reference to the notes possibly being about car parts, NCBE was said to be a type of Exhaust system. 194WLD's NCBE looks like it could be a note about a car's license plate number (194 WLD) and its exhaust.

2 - This may be completely useless, but Page 1 and the Notes page are both odd dimensions for a scanned page of paper. It looks to me like the bottoms of the page were either cut off or covered with a blank piece of paper when it was scanned. Why? Was there something in plain english written on the bottom? Is there more "code" that has already been decoded, but it uses a different key than what they have provided us with?

 

[Video1]

I get the impression that LE thinks there are some encrypted names on these notes.

Seems to me as if these might be betting notes -- the guy could have been a low-level runner for a bookmaker. Here's a link to a site that shows how some different types of illegal activities are sometimes encoded. Of course, the FBI knows the codes that are on the linked page, but it might be the cipher part that has them stumped more than anything.
http://www2.fbi.gov/hq/lab/fsc/backissu/jan2000/olson.htm#sports bookmaking codes

I don't think the notes are completely written in a cipher. More like partly in cipher mixed with shorthand (but with added letters for camoflage) and lots of misspellings and proper names.

There are a couple of places where the text obviously doesn't fit the pattern -- especially "PIPPITXLYPPIY" (because of the vowel/consonant alternation and the use of "I.") and "GDDMNSE" (because, like the first examples, it has double letters which you don't see in the rest of the notes.) -- I think I know what that one means. :crazy:

I am thinking the frequent "n" by itself and the "se," "me," "te," "be," and "re," are often just indicators of divisions between letters and words.

However, there must be more to this cipher or the FBI would have figured it out by now, although some ciphers are simple enough to use but are impossible to be deciphered.

No one has more resources than they do, FBI profile guy going to miss autism and not run that down?. Ummm doubt it.

This file was pulled for a reason, there is no persons that I can think of that are more methodical than the feds. They never tell you anything or tip a hand, the only way to get around them is if your a totally random person and this guy is about as random as can be. If that is an accurate depiction of his criminal history than he has violence and sex mixed together with autism and god knows what else.

Alpha conversions seem to work in some cases on Google for various things of interest, I just cant back into it all. The common factors seem to be child related and maybe some *advertiser censored* who knows, but I am keying that way in some cases and in some cases something just pops up that is weird.

 

[dotr]

Can someone toss this guys known addresses up again?

Best,

Kris

shadowraithes kindly posted this on page 22.

Residences

Quote:

New York Times (April 1, 2011)
Detectives in Saint Charles County, where Mr. McCormick was found dead, describe him as living on and off with his elderly mother and spending much of his time on the street.
St Louis Today (July 2, 1999)
Ricky McCormick, 41, who had addresses in St. Louis, Belleville and Fairview Heights
Missouri Court, Search by Case Number (Case #22921-03404-01)
Defendants' Address: 2852A Pennsylvania Ave, St Louis, MO
St Louis Today (July 2, 1999)
McCormick had a St. Louis address, 1400 Chouteau Avenue
Missouri Court, Search by Case Number (Case #22990-04198)
6/24/1999 Eviction executed and possession of premises returned to plaintiff on 062199 . Sheriff fee 20.00 paid.

Defendants' Address: 1400 Chouteau Avenue, St Louis, MO

 

[Video1]

I've been intrigued by this case since the end of last week...just decided to register here and participate because this seems to be one of the few places that people are still talking about it.

One of the reasons that I've had on my list for why the FBI has released this to the public is quite simply because they have a sample of this "code" and they can't determine what it means. Any "code" that LE cannot break has to be seen as a security risk. They may have no particular interest in this case other than a need to understand the code incase something similar is found in the future.

I have made a couple of mental notes while reviewing other people's work so far.

1 - In reference to the notes possibly being about car parts, NCBE was said to be a type of Exhaust system. 194WLD's NCBE looks like it could be a note about a car's license plate number (194 WLD) and its exhaust.

2 - This may be completely useless, but Page 1 and the Notes page are both odd dimensions for a scanned page of paper. It looks to me like the bottoms of the page were either cut off or covered with a blank piece of paper when it was scanned. Why? Was there something in plain english written on the bottom? Is there more "code" that has already been decoded, but it uses a different key than what they have provided us with?

I do not know why this is so attractive really, I hate codes. I still have what I thought to be a VIN# and not so sure anymore really. NCBE is interesting and have been playing with that and some other things, Google thinks I am dam robot now.

You may be right on the code having to be broke for security however and this could be just a complete diversion. Anyone can write code, what is so special about this one, Sure as hell waited long enough.

 

[Video1]

shadowraithes kindly posted this on page 22.

Residences

Quote:

New York Times (April 1, 2011)
Detectives in Saint Charles County, where Mr. McCormick was found dead, describe him as living on and off with his elderly mother and spending much of his time on the street.
St Louis Today (July 2, 1999)
Ricky McCormick, 41, who had addresses in St. Louis, Belleville and Fairview Heights
Missouri Court, Search by Case Number (Case #22921-03404-01)
Defendants' Address: 2852A Pennsylvania Ave, St Louis, MO
St Louis Today (July 2, 1999)
McCormick had a St. Louis address, 1400 Chouteau Avenue
Missouri Court, Search by Case Number (Case #22990-04198)
6/24/1999 Eviction executed and possession of premises returned to plaintiff on 062199 . Sheriff fee 20.00 paid.

Defendants' Address: 1400 Chouteau Avenue, St Louis, MO

Thank you, and nice to see their dated and I would imagine they ran these already but what the hell. Mapquest it is.

 

[ClarenceBodiker]

Hey video1. Could you do me a favour and explain how the code that you made yourself works? Like how it translates into that list of cars. It could help me out with this one a lot. Sorry if it's really obvious but if so, I managed to miss it. Thanks

 

[shadowraiths]

With regard to the SK angle, which was raised by bessie & riverguide.

Further digging revealed another alleged SK who was operating in the same time frame. Which is why I decided to do the crimemap. After creating the map I am less convinced there is a relation. Even so, I am not quite ready to rule out the SK connection angle for the following reasons.

Maury Troy Travis begins serving sentence for conviction April 8, 1988 armed robberies on March 17, 1989. [1] Ricky McCormick begins serving sentence for January 4, 1993 statutory rape on September 8, 1993. [2] Travis is paroled on June 30, 1994 [3] whereas McCormick paroled sometime in September of 1994. [4]​

This raises the "slim" possibility these two crossed paths while in prison.

There are two serial killing clusters. One occurring from February through August of 2000 and the other from March 2001 through March 2002. Younge is fingered for the first set [6] whereas Travis is fingered (or rather reveals himself) for the second set [3]. ​

Since these are post death, it decreases the McCormick's relationship w/the SKs

Teresa Wilson and Verona Thompsons bodies were found within 300 yards of where McCormick's body was found two years before. [10] Specifically, near Manchens Club Drive. [11] Remains of nine (9) additional bodies are found within 50 yards of a map Travis sent to the Post-Dispatch. [12] The victims use prostitution to support their drug habits and frequent the St Louis red light district [13] which happens to be a little over a mile west of the hospital where McCormick last received treatment. [14]​

From a geographical profiling point of view, the body locations raise huge questions. Otoh, as I previously stated, the Travis dumpsite may have been one of convenience. [15]


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Footnotes:

[1] Missour Court Search by Case Number: 21CCR-575442

[2] Missour Court Search by Case Number: 22921-03404-01

[3] Post Dispatch (June 22, 2002)

[4] St Louis Today (July 2, 1999)

[7] News Democrat, (2004)

[6] Alton Telegraph (July 2, 1999)

[10] Lawrence Journal-World (Jul 5, 2001)

[11] Alton Telegraph (July 2, 1999)

[12] The Southeast Missourian (Jun 11, 2002)

[13] Cold Case Files Transcript (June 10, 2010)

[14] St Louis SK Crime Map

NB: wrt the crime map. The markers are clickable and contain relevant information, along with clickable names pointing to links, where available of supporting documentation

 

[Video1]

Hey video1. Could you do me a favour and explain how the code that you made yourself works? Like how it translates into that list of cars. It could help me out with this one a lot. Sorry if it's really obvious but if so, I managed to miss it. Thanks

Clarence,

Would have to do another one and destroyed the key with my notes in sheer frustration. But I took proprietary code, turned them alpha, and then I forget what I did to do that. But two steps to get to proprietary code and scrambled. That actually took me a bit. Color code for Pewter on the Chevy, and various format such to make any given car recognizable to me. Kind of spun my head doing that as its not normal for me to think like that. I do not think I could back into what I did at this point.

I can do another though.

Best,

Kris

 

[ClarenceBodiker]

Yeah, if you've got the time to do one and a little run through of how it works it would be handy. Don't worry if you don't though.

 

[Adrian Harbinger]

Just a little something to throw in the mix in reference to the (ALSM) notation on "P1".

Page 1
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics1 New Air-Launched Small Missile (ALSM) Flight Testbed for Hypersonic Systems

Trong T. Bui∗ and David P. Lux†
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, 93523

Michael T. Stenger‡ and Michael J. Munson§
Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, China Lake, California, 93555 and George F. Teate¶ Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Edwards, California, 93523

A new testbed for hypersonic flight research is proposed. Known as the Phoenixair-launched small missile (ALSM) flight testbed, it was conceived to help address the lack ofquick-turnaround and cost-effective hypersonic flight research capabilities. The PhoenixALSM testbed results from utilization of two unique and very capable flight assets: theUnited States Navy Phoenix AIM-54 long-range, guided air-to-air missile and the NASADryden F-15B testbed airplane. The U.S. Navy retirement of the Phoenix AIM-54 missilesfrom fleet operation has presented an excellent opportunity for converting this valuableflight asset into a new flight testbed. This cost-effective new platform will fill an existing gapin the test and evaluation of current and future hypersonic systems for flight Mach numbersranging from 3 to 5. Preliminary studies indicate that the Phoenix missile is a highly capableplatform. When launched from a high-performance airplane, the guided Phoenix missile canboost research payloads to low hypersonic Mach numbers, enabling flight research in thesupersonic-to-hypersonic transitional flight envelope. Experience gained from developingand operating the Phoenix ALSM testbed will be valuable for the development andoperation of future higher-performance ALSM flight testbeds as well as responsivemicrosatellite–small-payload air-launched space boosters.

Nomenclature
ALSM = air-launched small missile
ASAT = air-launched anti-satellite
FTS= flight termination system
T&E= test and evaluation

View it all here.

Again, maybe nothing, but I throw it out there for sharper minds.