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Posted on 04/05/2011 1:43:25 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
A lifelong fan of codes, Ricky McCormick wrote out two pages of letters, numbers and symbols and stuck them in his pocket. His body was found in a Missouri cornfield in the summer of 1999, those two sheets of paper still in his pants.
ALPONTE GLSE - SE ERTE, one line read. Is that a coded plea for help? A reminder to pick up the laundry from the cleaners? The beginnings of a commentary on the weather in St. Louis?
If you know, the FBI's top code-breaking unit wants your help in breaking McCormick's code — one that has baffled government cryptologists for more than a decade — and perhaps solving his murder.
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Ebonics Jive phonetically?
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All joking aside, it wouldn't surprise me that the guy was suffering from some form of autism or severe learning ability and any attempt to decipher what is written would be a waste of time.......there certainly isn't any "code" involved.
She could have helped.
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What’s interesting to me are the corrections, around 15 of them, mostly on p. 1.
Remember he may have written it phonetically as he may well have been unable to spell very well. Looks like a simple Letter substitution code but with a progressing letter shift. Still, if it baffled the FBI it must have something that is a bit unique. He may well have copied it from somewhere else—or maybe he was an Idiot Savant of some sort. The Pajama Clad Freepers can break this code!
Looks like BO’s birth certificate.
It looks like to me there are page references. Notice the numbers before the “NCBE” which follows some of the words. Also, there are other ending letters which are also duplicated. These endings must be a reference to a page out of some obscure book he had. Then what he did was take a sentence and each letter was assigned a letter in the alphebet.
—Just my guess.
Rosebud.
The fbi should ask gang hangers or inmates for advice. Not average smart people.
There certainly is an abundance of the letter E, and few of the other vowels.
I think the reference to a book is the key. Find the book and the code will break Maybe NCBE is a book? What book has four words in the title with each word starting with NCBE? New Christian Bible ???
Both “NCBE” and “N CBE” appear frequently. Common word beginning with “A” or “I” since it can also stand alone as a one letter word itself. That’s assuming meaning wasn’t assigned to blank spaces and other symbols.
So, a four letter word beginning with A or I that can also be two words when A or I is separated. Abet - A bet? Ibid - I bid?
He was not well educated and likely developed something just a little more complex than the Cryptoquote puzzle in the newspaper. A “key” symbol, number or letter that shifts the letter substitution sequence might be a good guess, but “NCBE” is in there repeatedly.
It’s not pure gibberish, there is consistent order to it. Could be that some groupings retain the same substitution sequence and others shift. But, beyond that, I don’t know.
It was probably encoded with a one time pad and is essentially gibberish because unless they find the key, no one will be able to break it.
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