freakeenyc Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/fbi-asks-public-for-help-breaking-encrypted-notes-tied-to-1999-murder FBI asks public for help breaking encrypted notes tied to 1999 murder By Brett Michael Dykes Tue Mar 29, 4:22 pm ET In what seems like a throwback to the still-unsolved Zodiac killings that terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s, the FBI has sent out a public appeal for amateur sleuths to help solve a key cryptographic clue in a 1999 murder case. On June 30, 1999, police officers in St. Louis, Missouri found the body of 41-year-old Ricky McCormick, who'd been murdered and dumped in a field. The only clues investigators recovered from the scene were two encrypted notes stuffed into the victim's pockets. "Despite extensive work by our Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU), as well as help from the American Cryptogram Association, the meanings of those two coded notes remain a mystery to this day, and Ricky McCormick's murderer has yet to face justice," the FBI said in a press release today. CRRU chief Dan Olson added, "We are really good at what we do, but we could use some help with this one ... Maybe someone with a fresh set of eyes might come up with a brilliant new idea." The FBI has reached out to the public with code breaking brain teasers in the past--but they were games, not actual cases. This is the chance for want-to-be FBI sleuths to break their brains on code that is part of a current investigation. The notes are after the jump. Channel your favorite CSI character, folks. Here are the notes The bureau isn't offering any reward for assistance in solving the case at this time, but the FBI is asking people who believe they may have some insight into the notes write to the address below: FBI Laboratory Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit 2501 Investigation Parkway Quantico, VA 22135 Attn: Ricky McCormick Case LETS do this....im gonna spend my summer looking at this shit...thought some heads might find this interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedicineCabinet Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 go outside, man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moist Cooter Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 its the lyrics to rebecca blacks' new song coming soon /thread 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomfoolery Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 thats just jiberish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakeenyc Posted March 31, 2011 Author Share Posted March 31, 2011 the hand writing is chicken scratch..but im gonna try to write it out more legibly..but at face value there seems to be a lot of repetitive sequences and some letters seem to be inked more forcefully then others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro dePaca Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 i think the first note says STOP SNITCHING Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siks6siks Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 where do you even begin trying to figure out what this lunitic was even trying to say. if anything. it seems like a good diversion. everyone is focused on solving some fake as puzzle rather than trying to catch him with good ol' fashion police work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakeenyc Posted March 31, 2011 Author Share Posted March 31, 2011 I really dont think its gibberish...niggas like these are mad narcissitic...im sure its not some crazy mathematical bullshit..otherwise the agency's woulda figured em out... RTSE and NCBE and other _E letter combinations seem to be prevalent in the pages..theresa general lack of vowels other than E...im trying to find the significance of the parantheses in the first page..and why he circles the next, and possibly the numbers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toiletseat Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
what it iz Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 It's most likely nonsensical gibberish written by a paranoid schizophrenic. Dude was probably killed for being the grand master of the lizzard peoples illuminati. And the note was probably written in their language to tell them that the people of Earth are rising against them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crocodile Tears Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 freak i like youre enthusiasm man, i might have been into some shit like this a few years back, now i dont have the energy, i have so many different passwords for emails my vm pw and 3 checking accounts pin #'s so much other bullshit, if i stuff one more code in my brain a lot of other valuable information may be lost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
what it iz Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 everyone is focused on solving some fake as puzzle rather than trying to catch him with good ol' fashion police work. ^Or maybe dude deliberately wrote down a bunch of gibberish just to throw the pigs off and distract them from doing said good ol' fashioned police work. Like collecting DNA evidence. Or eating donuts and tazing old ladies. I'll bet they're pissed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulstealer Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 how do they know the letters didnt belong to the dead guy? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siks6siks Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 ^Or maybe dude deliberately wrote down a bunch of gibberish just to throw the pigs off and distract them from doing said good ol' fashioned police work. Like collecting DNA evidence. Or eating donuts and tazing old ladies. I'll bet they're pissed. lulz way to spell out what i already said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
what it iz Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 lulz way to spell out what i already said. I thought I was agreeing with you. Way to spell out.... you know what nevermind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vharkano Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 They arent offering rewards ?? Fuck that time is money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShaneCo. Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 IF ONLY SOMEONE WAS READING THIS HIGH ON COCAINE WITH CAPS-LOCK ON. OR MAD SHIFT-ING. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armand hammer Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindle Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcs Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 it looks like some type of transposition cipher. Rearranges letters without changing them. A more complicated form of stream cipher. I could be wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposition_cipher safe bet is that any format you see is there to throw you off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindle Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 who the fuck says its a code. seriously. what makes anyone think it means anything at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomfoolery Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 ^IT wAs F¤UnD oN @ D3aD boDy = Y It wAsn'T mE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnifeHits RS Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armand hammer Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autoteller Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 decryption. and it's probably some fucked up dead twin language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realism Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 everyone is focused on solving some fake as puzzle rather than trying to catch him with good ol' fashion police work. You can bet that they've exhausted all their "good ol' fashioned" police work options if they're reaching out to the public for assistance on a murder case from 12 years ago. I actually think this is kind of cool, but I should probably just be a sardonic know it all because I don't wanna go against the grain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 funny how everyone writes it off. the FBI asked for help decoding this, and got it, from a citizen it may have been the rant of a psycho, but it definitely tormented the crap out of the SFPD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realism Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Jesus Christ, Symbols. It's just all bullshit. I can't read it so it must be fake, especially if the FBI's moon men couldn't figure it out. Fake, impossible, faggots, whale dogs, random pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swordfish meatloaf Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 ^THAT SHIT LOOKS FUKKKIN EVIL!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earl broclo ESQ Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 All it says is "Drink more Ovaltine." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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