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

[Dilepted]

First time trying out this kind of investigation, i made some notes based on context clues. This is probably the most facinating case i have ever seen

(mnDnvwEAesE-w[or n]-s-TA-v-w[or n]-v w[or n] A R E) (ACSm)
TFR N[or w] E N i t N[or w] S E N[or w] P &[or R] S E R c B R n[or w] S E p[u, or v] P R S E I N[or w] C
PRSE N m RSE BPREHLD wLDN[w] CBE(TFXLC[E] TCXLw cBE)
AL-PRPPIT XYPPIYwcBEmGKSEWcDRcBRwSGPRSEWLDRCBRwSEwT56NE10TXSE-CRSLE-CLTRSEWLDwCBE
ALWcPwCBETSmELRSERLSEvRGLSw-EASNW-DNcBE
(NoPFSENLSRENCBE) NTEGDDmNSENCURERCBRwE
(TEwE TFRNE NCBRTSENCBE ING)
(FLRSE PQSEONDE71 NCBE)
(CDwSEPQsEDNS0E 74 NCBE)
(PRtSEPRSEONREDE 75 NCBE)
(TF NGcmSPsoLEmRDELUSE TOTE WLD NCBE)
(194 WLD's NCBE) (TRFXL)

ALPNTE GLSE-SE ERTE VLSE m7's E-CTSE-WSE-FRTSE
PURTRSEONPRSEWLD NCBE
NWLDXLRcmsP NE WLD STS me XL
DULmT 6 TuNSE NCBEXC

(muNSA 1 STENmu NARSE)
KLSE-LKSTE-TR SE-TRSE-mKSEp-mRSE
(SAE 6 NSE SE NmRSE)
pmN RCBRNSE PTE 2pTEwsREBKe 3 E
26 mLSE 74 SPRKSE 29KENOSOLE 173R 7 RSE
35 GLE CLGSE ouwuTXEBKRSE PSESHLE
651 mTCSEHTLSEN CUTCTRS NmRE 99.84.5 2uNEPLSEUCRSEAOLTSEwSKSENBSE
NSREONSE PUTSEWLDNCBE (3XaRL)
BNmSE NTSE INR NTRLERCBRNSE NTSRCRbNELSPNSENG-SPSE mLSERBESGweBEAVXL'R
HmCRENmREpCBE 1/2 muwPPLSE
D-w-m/4 HPL XDRLX

notes:
NCBE seems to be used as an object or something simmilar that can be counted

"WRLD's" is probably also a object that can be counted and probably bought

strangely "m7's " is also plural based on what i can tell from the actual writing. Its quite hard to tell though as the writing is quite messy

I could be wrong and probably are but hopefully one day someone cracks this

 

[lonewanderer]

First time trying out this kind of investigation, i made some notes based on context clues. This is probably the most facinating case i have ever seen

(mnDnvwEAesE-w[or n]-s-TA-v-w[or n]-v w[or n] A R E) (ACSm)
TFR N[or w] E N i t N[or w] S E N[or w] P &[or R] S E R c B R n[or w] S E p[u, or v] P R S E I N[or w] C
PRSE N m RSE BPREHLD wLDN[w] CBE(TFXLC[E] TCXLw cBE)
AL-PRPPIT XYPPIYwcBEmGKSEWcDRcBRwSGPRSEWLDRCBRwSEwT56NE10TXSE-CRSLE-CLTRSEWLDwCBE
ALWcPwCBETSmELRSERLSEvRGLSw-EASNW-DNcBE
(NoPFSENLSRENCBE) NTEGDDmNSENCURERCBRwE
(TEwE TFRNE NCBRTSENCBE ING)
(FLRSE PQSEONDE71 NCBE)
(CDwSEPQsEDNS0E 74 NCBE)
(PRtSEPRSEONREDE 75 NCBE)
(TF NGcmSPsoLEmRDELUSE TOTE WLD NCBE)
(194 WLD's NCBE) (TRFXL)

ALPNTE GLSE-SE ERTE VLSE m7's E-CTSE-WSE-FRTSE
PURTRSEONPRSEWLD NCBE
NWLDXLRcmsP NE WLD STS me XL
DULmT 6 TuNSE NCBEXC

(muNSA 1 STENmu NARSE)
KLSE-LKSTE-TR SE-TRSE-mKSEp-mRSE
(SAE 6 NSE SE NmRSE)
pmN RCBRNSE PTE 2pTEwsREBKe 3 E
26 mLSE 74 SPRKSE 29KENOSOLE 173R 7 RSE
35 GLE CLGSE ouwuTXEBKRSE PSESHLE
651 mTCSEHTLSEN CUTCTRS NmRE 99.84.5 2uNEPLSEUCRSEAOLTSEwSKSENBSE
NSREONSE PUTSEWLDNCBE (3XaRL)
BNmSE NTSE INR NTRLERCBRNSE NTSRCRbNELSPNSENG-SPSE mLSERBESGweBEAVXL'R
HmCRENmREpCBE 1/2 muwPPLSE
D-w-m/4 HPL XDRLX

notes:
NCBE seems to be used as an object or something simmilar that can be counted

"WRLD's" is probably also a object that can be counted and probably bought

strangely "m7's " is also plural based on what i can tell from the actual writing. Its quite hard to tell though as the writing is quite messy

I could be wrong and probably are but hopefully one day someone cracks this

I think “WLD” is the key here. It is used repeatedly as WLD with NCBE almost always after it. It only once appears as a possessive with “194 WLD’S NCBE” at the end of the notes

 

[LuteAndLyre]

I'm studying speech pathology and not much of a investigator, sleuth, whatever you want to call it... but I figured I should put my thoughts down just in case someone else can make anything of it, even if I can't. I'm sorry if this ends up being a whole lot of nothing or a whole lot of repeated information.

I suspect if the note is written by Ricky, it is written in a form of AAVE native to St. Louis. The biggest pointer is the comment cited in news articles by his mother: "The only thing he could write was his name. He didn't write in no code." It is also possible that he was dyslexic, which could complicate things a lot further.

I find the use of dashes and brackets extremely interesting. They seem to be the only grammatical clues available outside of the potential of E being used as a word/sentence break.

The incidence of "SPRKS" on the Notes page might be a red herring, but I noticed Ricky's mother's maiden name is Sparks.

I'll also add to a few previous comments here in that WLD and NCBE are extremely interesting, but the occurrence of X - and generally XL together - has my interest especially piqued, given X's relatively uncommon nature generally. It might be an important contextual clue.

Good luck with this one y'all, I really hope some sort of resolution is reached eventually, even if it's something as simple as directions or a shopping list.