In 1999 the decomposed body of Ricky McCormick was found in St. Charles County, Missouri along with two handwritten notes which appeared to be encrypted notes. To this day nobody has deciphered the notes, foiling even the FBI's best crypt-analysts. Ricky was a 41-year-old, unemployed high school drop-out with heart and lung issues. He was pretty much illiterate, so how did the coded messages get there? In 2011, FBI's Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU) & the American Cryptogram Association failed to decipher his encrypted notes after nearly 12 years of his death, so they issued an appeal for help from the public in obtaining the meaning of the messages.
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