In what looks like a throwback to the still unsolved Zodiac serial killings that terrified the San Francisco Bay Area in the 70s, the Federal Bureau of Investigations has released a public appeal for amateur detectives to help solve a key cryptographic clue in a 1999 murder case.
On June 30th, 1999, police officers in St. Louis, Missouri found the body of 41-year-old Ricky McCormick, who had been killed and dumped in a ditch on a field. The only hints detectives 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 stated, "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 Federal Bureau has reached out to the public with code breaking brain teasers in the past - but they were games, not real cases. This is an unique chance for want-to-be FBI sleuths to break their minds on code that is part of a current important investigation. The notes are after the jump.
Channel your favorite CSI character, guys. Here are the notes:
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FBI is not promising any reward for assistance in solving the case at this time, but the bureau is asking people who think 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
Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit
2501 Investigation Parkway
Quantico, VA 22135
Attn: Ricky McCormick Case
The Zodiac Killer is one of the greatest unsolved serial killer mysteries of all time, taking just second place to Jack the Ripper. In one of his last teasing letters to the news media, Zodiac claimed he had 37 people to show for his five years of terrorizing the San Francisco Bay Area. However, he was only linked conclusively to seven victims.
5 comments:
Wow, that's awesome. From now on I have somethin to kill my time with.
Yeah, right James but every time you kill your time you'll have to put yourself inside of a madman mind.
FBI should pay folks doing their job.
do a voice analyzer with the zodiac voice and hartnell.its been right under your nose all along.analyze all the video from back then and today of hartnell.the maybe he will give up his partner.
Hello from Spain
–In my humble opinion the master key is in the 2nd note, last line.
–I see that: “O-W-m-4 H8L XORLX”
Can you see which letters aee repeated and where?
Can you remember the Arthur´s C. Clarke joke about HAL 9000?
Yes? Then my solution is……
+If O=O, W=W and R=R
+If m=N, H=I and L=M using Caesar Code B or +1
+If X= Variations of the letter “C” (MC,C and MC) using shorthand
+If 4= four= FOR by phonetic solution like SMS language.
+If 8= eight= eit= ei= letter “A” by phonetic solution like SMS language (example L8= late or leight, H8= hate ….)
+If the hyphen join the letters in a word.
+If we add vowel “i” by transcription shorthand solution.
THEN…..
“O-W-m-4 H8L XORLX” means “OWN-FOR I AM MCCORM(i)CK”.
It is the signature, last will or testament of Mccormick.
+ If you think “4″ is not “4″ but “y”
+ If you think “8″ is not “8″ but “I” then the solution is:
“Y”= wai= WHY or WAY by phonetic solution, similar sound.
“I”= ai= letter “A” by phonetic graphic representation.
THEN= “O-W-m-Y HIL XORLX” = “OWN-WHY? I AM MCCORMICK”
Bye.
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