why would you code a plea for help?
b-e-s-u-r-e-t-o-d-r-i-n-k-y-o-u-r-o-v-a-l-t-i-n-e.
Cut spending, drastically
Throw the bums out and impose iron clad term limits
Iron clad balanced budget amendment
Tax the bankers and other freeloaders.
Don’t start a war in Iraq or Afghanistan. If you do, get out ASAP.
A Kenyan will be president.
I can’t read the last line but hopefully someone else will.
Odd. The letter sequence
NCBE is repeated 9 times, including 4 times after WLD and at the end of 6 lines.
The last three lines end with
71 NCBE
74 NCBE
75 NCBE
We also have a NCBEING to end a line
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Look glass-jar Southeast Crete.
I would search Koufonisi.
More - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_McCormick_murder_notes
Background
Ricky McCormick was a high school dropout, but was able to read and write and was said to be “street smart”. He had held multiple addresses in the Missouri/Illinois region in St. Louis, Belleville, and Fairview Heights, sometimes living off and on with his elderly mother.[5] According to a 1999 article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, McCormick suffered from chronic heart and lung problems. He was not married, but had fathered at least four children. He had a criminal record, and had previously served 11 months of a three-year sentence for statutory rape. At the time of his death, he was 41 years old, unemployed, and on disability welfare.[6]
His body was found in a cornfield in St. Charles County on June 30, 1999, by someone driving along a field road near Highway 367, near West Alton, Missouri.[7] The reason for his being 30 miles from his current address is another mystery, as McCormick did not own a car, and the area is not served by public transportation. The body had already decomposed somewhat, and no official cause of death was ever determined, though an identification was obtained via the body’s fingerprints. The death was not labeled a homicide, there was no indication that anyone had a motive to kill McCormick, and no one had reported him missing. The last place that McCormick had been seen alive was five days earlier, on June 25 at the St. Louis Forest Park Hospital, where he was getting a checkup.[5]
News stories in 1999 did not mention anything about cipher messages, which were not announced until 12 years later when the FBI listed the death as a murder, and posted a notice for help on the mainpage of their website. Investigators believe the notes in McCormick’s pants pockets were written up to three days before his death.[8] Attempts by both the FBI’s Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU) and the American Cryptogram Association failed to decipher their meaning, and Ricky McCormick’s encrypted notes are currently listed as one of CRRU’s top unsolved cases, with McCormick’s killer yet to be identified.[1] According to members of McCormick’s family, McCormick had used encrypted notes since he was a boy, but apparently no one in his family knows how to decipher the codes, either.[9]
There is no reward being offered, just a challenge. “Breaking the code,” said CRRU chief Dan Olson, “could reveal the victim’s whereabouts before his death and could lead to the solution of a homicide. Not every cipher we get arrives at our door under those circumstances.”[3]
The code says:
Ask Nixon about the Hughes donation.
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.
MR DUCKS
MR KNOT
OSMR CM WANGS
LIB! MR DUCKS!
The fbi should ask gang hangers or inmates for advice. Not average smart people.
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.
