FBI Asks Public For Help Breaking Encrypted Notes
The FBI has sent out a public appeal for help to 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. The only problem is that nearly 12 years later the content on the notes remains a mystery. If you are good at cracking codes be sure to give this one a shot. You can download the high resolution imges from the FBI website here. You can read up on the known information on the case here.
“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.”
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