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

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Here is a thought for everyone . . . if I were Quantico, I would have my cryptographers set up accounts on every website with a good thread about this: WebSlueths; Above TopSecret; etc. It could be anybody. If that is the case, it would be nice to see if they are giving us hints of how they think connections are, which theory is getting close, etc.
 
I am wondering if we can find out more through tracking his brother, Charles? Too bad McCormick is such a common name.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Cryptographic-clues
Ricky McCormick was born in 1958, he was 41 at the time of his death in 1999. His brother, Charles was born in 1959. Ricky was reportedly unmarried, but known to be the father of at least four children (from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Friday, July 2, 1999)
 
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 increase 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
 
I enterd all the letters used into and excel spread sheet and calculated the % of usage.. it is a match for the english language expecially in terms of the letters that do not appear in the notes at all.. seems to be a type of personal shorthand.-
 
We're not allowed to post the names of relatives and friends who have not gone public in a case. It violates their privacy.
 
FBI Flooded With Tips on Encrypted Notes From 1999 Murder Mystery


....

Dan Olson, chief of the FBI's Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU), urged potential code-breakers to send their tips via mail rather than sending emails or flooding phone lines.

"We don't have the bandwidth to handle the emails we're getting," Olson told FoxNews.com on Thursday. "We're getting a bunch [of responses]."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/3...crypted-notes-1-murder-mystery/#ixzz1IJ9l289V
 
While some of the information has already been discussed, there might be a few new details...

West Alton, Mo. (AP) July 5, 2001
Land between rivers becomes dumping ground for crime
West Alton sits in the west rural, narrow piece of land that is heavily forested and easily accessible from both Illinois and St. Louis County. Authorities said it's become a haven where thieves abandon stolen property, suspects hide and bodies get dumped.​

The article goes on to say that it's a two mile stretch of land along Highway 67 - a road that connects the Clark Bridge over the Mississippi River and the Lewis Bridge over the Missouri River.

Teresa Wilson, 26 of St. Louis (found May 15 2001)
Woman, 37 of Washington Park, Ill (found June 29 2001)
Ricky McCormick, 41 (found two years earlier, 1999)
Karen Michelle Connors, 40 of Alton, Ill (found six years earlier, 1995)

the women in 2001 were found 16 feet apart... McCormick was found 300 yards away from them and *Connors in a vacant house on Cinder Road off the highway (shot at close range 5 times) -

Wondering if there is a possible connection - thoughts anyone?

SOURCE: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Gk8yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZeYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4888,1347134&hl=en

*SOURCE: http://www.google.com/search?q=Karen+Michelle+Connors&tbs=nws:1,ar:1&source=newspapers


More Articles:
- http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=33xFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PMcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5552,4118238&dq

- http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7XxFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PMcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1381,6233522&dq
 
The two women found in 2001 shock me by their proximatey to one another. That seems very close and pretty ballsy for a murderer to dump two bodies in virtually the exact same location little more than a month apart! 16 feet? man. And the proximatey to where Ricky was found (300 yards) just two years prior. That seems awfully close as well.

The 95 victim could just be coincidence - the area is a logical dump site.

But those last three victims (including Ricky), that seems more than coincidence. But on the other hand, to dump 3 bodies, in that small a radius when looking at how large the area is and the other options, wow. Again I say, ballsy, if these murders are tied.

look at all that open space to dispose of a body. And yet those two women were 16 feet apart?? If nothing else, I would at least think those two were related.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...d=212568466443618080967.00049fe354295918560cd
 
Reannan said:
The text at the bottom of page 1 that is in the middle and in parenthesis looks like it is formatted with some spacing so that a two letter words stands out:

[FONT=&quot](FLRSE PQSE ON DE 71 NCBE)
[FONT=&quot](CDNSE PQSE ON SDE 74 NCBE)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](PRTSE PQSE ON REDE 75 NCBE)[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]It looks like he is listing something paraphrased by me as:[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]"someone" "doing something" _ _ "something" 71"NCBE"[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The "ON" would probably need to be "at", "in", "on", "to, "or" "of". If we can figure out what Ricky's "ON" word means it should help, right? Let's say the "ON" means "to", where O=T and N=O. That would mean "NCBE" would start with "O". Just for craps and smiles, "NCBE" could then mean "Once", "Open", "Over". Example:[/FONT]

[/FONT][FONT=&quot](FLRSE PQSE ON DE 71 NCBE) would then be [/FONT][FONT=&quot]one of the following:
[FONT=&quot](FLRSE PQSE TO DE 71 ONCE)[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](FLRSE PQSE TO DE 71 OPEN)
[/FONT][FONT=&quot](FLRSE PQSE TO DE 71 OVER)[/FONT]
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look at your regular phone
the numbers have more than one letter in it.So/
I was wondering could he be subbing letters from a phone for letters and
the letters from
CELL Phone/pager/keyboard/ typewriter?
or a combination of all of them?

I searched 1999 cell phones & beepers also pagers..
so they were around back then.
so?
Also the use of the letter E is all over so to me it might be a filler letter or not any value at all?
SE is used the most.
So could SE be L ?
Is he using E only as a filler?
if you look at it and remove the E's
and put the letters he has with other letters from keyboards or phones...
it looks more to me like a series of numbers betting?Slips maybe ?

Let's say that one sentence was actually a series of betting slip numbers so it would be like so ommitting the e's

example:
I will try note #1
line ( M N D N V W E M[ with a line through it? ] P S E -J-M U N A P E )
I can not make out some letters please someone post it as you see it thanks.

ok so we have in my translation using the phone & keyboard and typewriter order of letters.
trying to spell words with this is useless but we may have numbers instead

(6 6 3 6 8 9 3 6 [ the line might mean to box or double or whatever the betting lingo is?] or an owed amount? It may be a minus symbol like for lack of payment?
7 7 3- 5-6 8 6 2 7 3 )
my problem with this system we are lacking the number 1?
so where would the number one be in his code?
could the E be a 1?

Now that example is using the phone numbers only matching them to the letters.
are these phone numbers?
betting amounts?
and how does he match bets with all that ?
I think this is where the typewriter keyborad shows up it is a reverse of the numbers system.
Tricky puzzle ha ?
 
Here's my latest foolishness:

I am back to the phrase from the NOTES page that first caught my eye as I joined this excursion:

26MLS E74 SPRKS E29 KENOS OLE 173RT RSE

This still looks like some shorthand for driving directions to me so I decided you Google "Old RT 173 Missouri" (OLE 173RT). That cam up dry so I tried Illinois, remembering that it was suspect that the body may have been dumped.

It may be simply a coincidence, but...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Route_173



Local Road Names
From east to west, Illinois Route 173 is known by local road names through the towns it traverses.
 21st Street, Bethlehem Avenue, Rosecrans Road in Zion
 Kenosha Street in Richmond
 Maple Avenue in Hebron
 Diggins Street, Division Street, Brink Street in Harvard
 Main Street in Capron
 Grove Street in Poplar Grove
 West Lane Road in Machesney Park

Kenosha Street IS RT173 in Richmond, IL.

26MLS E74 SPRKS E29 KENOS OLE 173RT RSE


I am now trying to see if the other parts of this line of code and perhaps others tie into this in any way or whether it is just a fluke.
 
Adrian Harbinger said:
Here's my latest foolishness:

I am back to the phrase from the NOTES page that first caught my eye as I joined this excursion:

26MLS E74 SPRKS E29 KENOS OLE 173RT RSE

This still looks like some shorthand for driving directions to me so I decided you Google "Old RT 173 Missouri" (OLE 173RT). That cam up dry so I tried Illinois, remembering that it was suspect that the body may have been dumped.

It may be simply a coincidence, but...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Route_173



Local Road Names
From east to west, Illinois Route 173 is known by local road names through the towns it traverses.
 21st Street, Bethlehem Avenue, Rosecrans Road in Zion
 Kenosha Street in Richmond
 Maple Avenue in Hebron
 Diggins Street, Division Street, Brink Street in Harvard
 Main Street in Capron
 Grove Street in Poplar Grove
 West Lane Road in Machesney Park

Kenosha Street IS RT173 in Richmond, IL.

26MLS E74 SPRKS E29 KENOS OLE 173RT RSE


I am now trying to see if the other parts of this line of code and perhaps others tie into this in any way or whether it is just a fluke.
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I found that as well, and mentioned it in my 1st post...actually, I did a mapquest of the roads...starting Knoxville, Il (which is about 36 miles from I 74....from there to Illinois 29...to route 173 (Richmond, IL)....to Denmark, WI...to provincial secondary Route 651 (HWY 651) Missanabie, Ontario, Canada....pretty interesting...almost a straight shot; however, the words in between might be to go SE. Also, clearing could be CLG. The 99.84.5 ZunePL looks like a radio station maybe on Zune player; however, Zunes weren't around in 1999...but it could be something Canadian that we don't reconize.
 
Me3 said:
I found that as well, and mentioned it in my 1st post...actually, I did a mapquest of the roads...starting Knoxville, Il (which is about 36 miles from I 74....from there to Illinois 29...to route 173 (Richmond, IL)....to Denmark, WI...to provincial secondary Route 651 (HWY 651) Missanabie, Ontario, Canada....pretty interesting...almost a straight shot; however, the words in between might be to go SE. Also, clearing could be CLG. The 99.84.5 ZunePL looks like a radio station maybe on Zune player; however, Zunes weren't around in 1999...but it could be something Canadian that we don't reconize.
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Yes, I see. Great minds think alike and sometimes mine does too. :) Very interesting.
 
Crypto Notes in EXCEL format
http://www.mediafire.com/?rrcq1lnlm1wmapw


Statistics on letter usage

Note..................................English
Sample..Freq.....%.............. Standard....%
E..........131.....17.51%............E..........12.51
S...........97......12.97%...........T...........9.25
N...........88......11.76%...........A...........8.04
R...........69.......9.22%............O...........7.6
L...........52.......6.95%.............I...........7.26
C...........46.......6.15%............N...........7.09
T...........38.......5.08%............S...........6.54
M...........30.......4.01%............R...........6.12
P............30.......4.01%............H...........5.49
B............29.......3.88%............L............4.14
D............28.......3.74%............D............3.99
W...........16.......2.14%............C............3.06
K............14.......1.87%............U............2.71
O............13.......1.74%............M............2.53
U............13.......1.74%............F............2.3
A............12.......1.60%............P............2
X............11.......1.47%............G............1.96
F............8.........1.07%............W............1.92
G............8.........1.07%............Y............1.73
I............5..........0.67%............B............1.54
H............4.........0.53%............V............0.99
Y............4.........0.53%............K............0.67
V............2.........0.27%............X............0.19
J............0..........0...................J............0.16
Q............0.........0...................Q............0.11
Z............0.........0...................Z............0.09
...........748.......100%..................................

I've got way too much time on my hands.....:loser:
 
miley said:
While some of the information has already been discussed, there might be a few new details...

West Alton, Mo. (AP) July 5, 2001
Land between rivers becomes dumping ground for crime
West Alton sits in the west rural, narrow piece of land that is heavily forested and easily accessible from both Illinois and St. Louis County. Authorities said it's become a haven where thieves abandon stolen property, suspects hide and bodies get dumped.​

The article goes on to say that it's a two mile stretch of land along Highway 67 - a road that connects the Clark Bridge over the Mississippi River and the Lewis Bridge over the Missouri River.

Teresa Wilson, 26 of St. Louis (found May 15 2001)
Woman, 37 of Washington Park, Ill (found June 29 2001)
Ricky McCormick, 41 (found two years earlier, 1999)
Karen Michelle Connors, 40 of Alton, Ill (found six years earlier, 1995)

the women in 2001 were found 16 feet apart... McCormick was found 300 yards away from them and *Connors in a vacant house on Cinder Road off the highway (shot at close range 5 times) -

Wondering if there is a possible connection - thoughts anyone?

SOURCE: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Gk8yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZeYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4888,1347134&hl=en

*SOURCE: http://www.google.com/search?q=Karen+Michelle+Connors&tbs=nws:1,ar:1&source=newspapers


More Articles:
- http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=33xFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PMcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5552,4118238&dq

- http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7XxFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PMcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1381,6233522&dq
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thank you for posting this.
all of this is very suspicious. ricky had a rap sheet including sexual assault, various addresses, etc, not your perfect citizen; in fact far from it.

his cause of death was unable to even be determined as a homicide.

we have other bodies in the same area he was found. (the 2 woman dumped there 16 ft apart!! they've got to be related in the sense of same killer.

one of the women, teresa wilson, evidently had been found only after a letter tipping le off came in. this "tip" also indicated that the women would be victims of a serial killer. it's obvious that this tip off letter is from the serial killer himself he sent it in to prove he's real!!
stated in the letter was possible willingness to "tell where others are to prove i am real"

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=33xFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PMcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5552,4118238&dq

st louis dispatch who got the letter unsigned said that "the letter also indicates that the number of victims linked to a possible serial killer could be higher than the 10 police now suspect"

it's obvious that this code has to do with a serial killer, moreso than a common person that they can't even get a cod on. it's likely that ricky didn't even write the code himself, maybe the serial killer left it in his pocket. if that is the case, it could be locations of other remains.

also if ricky was so into making codes and writing in them, how come we don't have other samples from his family of his codes to use?

teresa wilson was a former prostitute and linked to drugs, and is one of 9 women who police believe was killed by the serial killer.


in the other link, the killer is caught and arrested, maury troy travis. he was the one who sent in the tip letter along with a map of where to find the bodies. the fbi was involved in his arrest as well.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7XxFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PMcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1381,6233522&dq

now it's possible that travis has more hidden bodies, for all i know it could be his code to where they are buried?

mr serial killer maury troy travis commited suicide soon after his arrest for the serial murders in june 10, 2002.
travis murdered at least 12 women, and claimed to have murdered 17.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Travis

now it's possible ricky didn't write the code and it's maury's burial listing. or it's possible ricky found out about maury killing and wrote in code what he figured out about the killer, in fears of being found out he knew.

its apparant that travis did not want to help le locate all of his victims.
here's a weird link to more info, i'm not sure why it has scientology on the thing; and i'm not sure why it looks like an email. it came off of google.

http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/serial-killing-mystery.htm

this code could, if solved, even possibly give a lot of families closure for this missing loved ones, if it has to do with this serial killer travis and his unfound victims. (indications that travis had as many as 20+ victims in that area)

i believe that courttv, or maybe id channel did a show on this serial killer travis; they had caught him with his printed out map, identifiable to his home computer (the map he sent marking wilson's body to the dispatch)
he also keep women in his basement and had made videos of some of his victims.
 
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