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

[Cracka*Jaxx]

Here's my shot at this. I tried to find similar letters and color coded them. There easily could be some that I missed because I was getting bleary eyed. It could be gibberish, but I wonder why so many of the letters repeat. And, what's with the parenthesis? And the numbers? Addresses?

 

[DeadCat]

I don't know if this blog has already been posted or not, or whether the info. is accurate-but there certainly is lots of interesting detail...

http://prophecyexperimentalzone.blogspot.ca/2012/06/more-details-of-life-and-death-of-ricky.html

A must read. Thanks for sharing this.

 

[dotr]

I have even considered the possibility the it has nothing or very little to do with the RM case. Perhaps they didn't want to tell the public the truth (terrorism, bioterrorism, etc.) and so they have tied it to the RM case because the notes were found around the same time, in the same area, and RM was known to write codes when he was younger. Maybe the whole RM thing is a red herring and the FBI just doesn't want to tell the public the truth until they know for sure what is in the notes. As to why they asked the public for help, who knows. Maybe if you can crack the code, it means you are involved. Maybe there are other code sheets we don't know about that they have already solved so they have an idea what it's about but the key is different for these and they can't crack it for whatever reason.

Then there is always the possibility that RM did write the code or that it's not a code at all and RM was just plain looney tunes. :banghead:

Conversely, maybe ??? came up with this code and they are testing to see if the masses can decode it?!

 

[Swamp Fox Trot]

I don't know if this blog has already been posted or not, or whether the info. is accurate-but there certainly is lots of interesting detail...

http://prophecyexperimentalzone.blogspot.ca/2012/06/more-details-of-life-and-death-of-ricky.html

It says he stayed at the Econo Lodge in Orlando. That is near Exit 74A on I-4; the numbers 71, 74, 75 are in the ciphertext. I wonder if anyone has really worked the code as possible directions in Florida.

 

[dotr]

Not sure if this idea was posted in these threads , a blog, or from my own musings, but maybe those were directions ( to Florida?) that lead to a particular apartment building/s. The other letters, spaces ect. "descriptions" of the people living in the apartments or rooms within the building?

 

[liz b.]

Interesting new information.

If RM was going to Orlando and ferrying drugs back, he would have made some $$$. Where did he keep it ? I read that,when he was pretty young,he would take buses and get away from his neighborhood...just to get away from the people around him. I think he kept that pattern his whole life,and that is part of the reason that he was found in such an isolated area. He may not have been taken there at all,he may have gone there. Possibly he had gone out there before,I think...

I always found it significant that he had the "coded " note on his person. I wonder if it was because the note contained a set of very specific location directions, and he needed those directions to locate what he was looking for. Could he have possibly hidden whatever $$$ he had made out in that field someplace ? Could the note be some type of map to help him remember exactly where he buried his $$$ ?

Is RM's cause of death still undetermined ? Could be that he wasn't murdered at all.. Possible that he was sick, as evidenced by his going to 2 different ERs in the days before his death... Possible that the heat made his asthma way worse.

The people he worked for look to have a history of serious violence ; if they had killed him I believe his cause of death would have been very apparent...

JMO

 

[dotr]

Off topic, but related news..
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/a...ooks-to-xbox-generation-to-recruit-new-agents


" LONDON- At the secluded country house where the country’s top computer scientists cracked the “unbreakable” Nazi Enigma code, a key factor in victory in World War Two, Britain has begun a hunt to find new cyber spies from the “Xbox” generation.

Foreign Secretary William Hague said the government was looking for up to 100 apprentices for Britain’s intelligence agencies to emulate the men and women who worked at Bletchley Park, the former code-breaking centre just north of London and once the most secret place in Britain""

 

[dotr]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-sells-85-000-Code-broken-Bletchley-Park.html

During the war messages scrambled by the Enigma machine were eventually decoded in under 24 hours.

The fact that the British managed to crack Enigma is credited with shortening the war by two years.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Code-broken-Bletchley-Park.html#ixzz2CG8CJAvy
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook"

 

[dotr]

Interesting links, video about code-breaking.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/topics/enigma

 

[dotr]

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1292135--wartime-code-found-on-pigeon-bone-still-a-mystery
"Wartime code found on pigeon bone still a mystery

Published on Friday November 23, 2012"

"Martin’s message contains 27 five-letter code groups. The pigeon itself bore the code name NURP. 40. TW. 194 or NURP. 37. OK. 76, which has allowed the Royal Racing Pigeon Association to figure out it was born in 1940 and “almost certainly dispatched from Nazi-occupied France.

The date NURP took off on its mission, one of 250,000 enlisted for war service, remains part of the mystery. One clue: Martin’s chimney lies on the route between the site of the D-Day landings at Normandy in 1944 and Bletchley Park, the legendary code-breaking headquarters during the war".

 

[STEADFAST]

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1292135--wartime-code-found-on-pigeon-bone-still-a-mystery
"Wartime code found on pigeon bone still a mystery

Published on Friday November 23, 2012"

"Martin’s message contains 27 five-letter code groups. The pigeon itself bore the code name NURP. 40. TW. 194 or NURP. 37. OK. 76, which has allowed the Royal Racing Pigeon Association to figure out it was born in 1940 and “almost certainly dispatched from Nazi-occupied France.

The date NURP took off on its mission, one of 250,000 enlisted for war service, remains part of the mystery. One clue: Martin’s chimney lies on the route between the site of the D-Day landings at Normandy in 1944 and Bletchley Park, the legendary code-breaking headquarters during the war".

I thought the code looked reminiscent of Ricky McCormick's code, too. I still work on it every once in a while.

 

[dotr]

Now I wonder if Ricky made some street friends in the form of pigeons or pigeon fanciers...

 

[dotr]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/w...ns-message-a-mystery.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
“World War II experts suspect the bird discovered by Mr. Martin was destined for the top-secret Bletchley Park — which is just 80 miles from Mr. Martin’s home,” the statement said. “During the war, Codebreakers worked there round the clock in top secret.” The statement added, “It was also home to a classified MI6 pigeon loft, manned by trainer Charles Skevington.”

Although the code is likely to be broken, the circumstances of how the bird that carried it died will probably remain a mystery.

One theory, Mr. Hill said, was that it became exhausted or overcome by fumes as it perched on the chimney and simply fell in. Another is that it was wounded by one of the German snipers stationed on the English Channel coast with orders: shoot the pigeons.

The companion bird does not appear to have made it home either. Adding to the mystery, Mr. Hill said, is that neither birds’ code numbers are included in any historical archive. “They’re not in the books anywhere,” he said. They were, he said, “special pigeons,” in much the same way as James Bond was a special agent.

For the moment, the tale has captivated the attention of many who had long since forgotten about the birds (though not this reporter, who once used carrier pigeons in Zimbabwe at the time of independence in 1980 to send dispatches from a remote encampment with no other means of communication

 

[dotr]

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/march/cryptanalysis_032111

"Prison letter containing code

Cryptanalysts
Part 1: Breaking Codes to Stop Crime

03/21/11

The letter from a gang member in prison to a friend on the outside seemed normal enough. “Saludos loved one,” it began, and went on to describe the perils of drug use and the inmate’s upcoming visit from his children.

But closer inspection by examiners in our Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU) revealed that this seemingly ordinary letter was encoded with a much more sinister message: every fifth word contained the letter’s true intent, which was to green-light the murder of a fellow gang member"

 

[imnotfussy]

The last bit looks like instructions a nurse gave him to take slow release cardiac medication - 1/2 tablet of the XL or XLR (the common abbreviation given to slow release medications. It also looks like he's written the word nurse. He may have written down the other instructions that the nurse told him.

The fact that "Notes" is written at the top of the page may be that the paper was given to him by the hospital ... it was the page their staff write notes on. Maybe he was too embarassed to tell them he couldn't write, so just appeared to write stuff down at the time. It could be his death had something to do with the fact that he didn't write down what the hospital said properly. Just a thought.

I'd stick with his family, they say that he didn't write in codes. And also, if he did, it's unlikely to be sophisticated if he invented it as a child.

This is more likely to be something the FBI dreamed up as a way to identify who good prospective code breakers are, so that they can employ them.

 

[dotr]

Interesting tutorial on the notes and tips on how to decipher them.

[video=vimeo;44119640]http://vimeo.com/44119640[/video]

 

[bflocket]

Having worked with folks who are brain injured, I have to tell you, this looks an awful lot like the sort of gibberish they would write. It made perfect sense in their heads, but wasn't translating in writing.

I hadn't looked at this thread before, so I am going from the beginning. I know countless pages of stuff has been said since then, but...

I agree that it was some kind of personal code and we may never crack it.

But I kind of took offense about what you said about brain injuries. I was knocked out cold for 5-days once so I'd say I had a fairly decent one. It's changed how I remember and solve problems, but if I'd ever (since then) written jibberish, I knew full well that I was writing jibberish. So unless I was really drunk or something when I wrote "jibberish," but that doesn't count.

 

[dotr]

Wonder if RM made a code inspired by the bible?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/internet-community-helps-crack-grandmas-code-21630824

" When a brain tumor took away Dorothy Holm's ability to speak, she picked up index cards and began filling them, edge to edge, with seemingly random, indecipherable sequences of letters. Her grandchildren saw her scribbling and thought she was leaving them a code — but it was one the preteens couldn't crack.

Eighteen years later, the puzzle has been solved after one of Holm's granddaughters posted images of a card online. In just 13 minutes, a MetaFilter.com user figured out that as Dorothy Holm was dying, she was writing out prayers.

 

[dotr]

Ricky in Wiki !

Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[COOPMER802]

I quickly glanced over some of the thread here from its long history and multiple posts. This case was interesting to me & from what I can recall after reading the FBI.gov website and some correspondent news reports I think there was some jail or prison in this guys history. I briefly saw another sleuth'er who mentioned a prison or jailhouse type encryption sent in the form of a word phrase to someone on the free side of the fence. This is my assumption. I wonder if the investigating agents or case investigator is actively hunting down some of Ricky's old roommates or anyone whom was in the facility he was housed in. I also wonder if the investigators have looked into weather or not this man was in anyway paranoid or worried about anything. At points this note look like possible state highway routes or roads (GPS or just plain roadways) the numbers and letters also look like vehicle plate numbers to me. He may have been being followed or was under that impression for one reason or another.... One thing is for sure. He's not here to tell us what happened so we should try try and try for this poor guy. I really do think if his writing was this good and he could speak and think well enough to operate at a semi independent capacity he probably wrote this down for a reason and intended for it to be seen. People can act strangely when under intense paranoia or when they are worried. There has to be someone that would know if this individual spoke or wrote in strange manners up to the time he had passed. I also would canvas the homeless and the local scene with his photo and the notes, maybe a homeless or vagrant whom is also disturbed in some way may ring a bell to some of the long time homeless in the area!! Just some thoughts.