I have found the hardest part of the puzzle is accurately deciphering his handwriting. I have seen a lot of different variations on the Internet, and although many are similar to each other, none of them truly match letter for letter. My opinions/insight into the note, are just my hunches based on my own eyesight and on reading numerous Internet reliable sources. Here it goes:
I believe that all of the letters "S" in the note are really the number "5". I saw in most blogs that all agree on page 2 that the numbers in the 3rd paragraph are "35" and "651". I studied the 5 in these numbers and found them to be the same as what was written through out the letter. Has anyone tried to replace all of the letters S with the number 5?
I also believe that on page 1 in the upper right hand corner, it reads: (4(5M) Any thoughts on this?
On the bottom of page 1, at first I thought it read (194 WLD'S NCBE). Upon looking at the letters with a magnifying glass, it looks like the W is actually the number 1 and an N. I noticed that some of the other Ws look like 1N as well. (1941N LD'5 NCBE).
My take on the letter combination (TRFXL) is traffic circle.
When I studied some of the facts posted on the Web, I found the following information:
WHO IS RICKY C. McCORMICK?
The facts I have found out so far are as follows:
Name: Ricky C. McCormick - born June, 14, 1958. died sometime between 6/25-6/28/99. Body found 6/30/99. FBI state that his 2 notes were written upto 3 days before his body was found. (note - there is another Ricky McCormick who was born on 2/12/1963 and died on 3/13/1999, be careful not to mix up these two individuals when you are on a fact-finding mission.). The FBI stated that Ricky had chronic lung & heart problems and that he was a HS drop out. Please, for the sake of my blog, do not assume that he is retarded or not of high intellect just because he dropped out of school and might have been hanging with a not so wonderful crowd. I know a lot of kids who have dropped out for reasons such as - fighting in school, not interested in doing school work, etc., but they are extremely smart and could have continued their education had they made better choices in their life. Since I don't know anything personally about this young man, I don't want to assume he had a low intellect. The FBI also stated that he was street smart. I do not know what types of jobs Ricky held in his lifetime, but the FBI indicated that at the time of his death, he was unemployed and on disability. On 6/25/99, Ricky went to a dr. appt to get medication at Forest Park Hospital, 6150 Oatland Ave., St. Louis, MO 63137 Ph: 314-768-3000. I don't believe that Ricky was a huge drug dealer (or if he was - he was clever & didn't get caught). I haven't found any court records showing any arrests for drug and/or alcohol usage. The FBI also indicated that Ricky was not driving a car, so perhaps some of the theories of being expert on bus, metro train, walking & catching a ride with family and friends might be quite accurate. A few days before Ricky was found dead, he was evicted from his home located at 1400 Chouteau Ave., St. Louis. He apparently lived there with a female, Sandra Jones (her name appears as co-defendant on the circuit court case). I do not have any information of where he was living/staying from 6/21/1999 til 6/30/1999. Not having that small piece of info makes it hard to figure out how/why his body was found where it was.
I WISH THE FBI WOULD:
a) Upload to the Internet a copy of the Social Security Disability papers Ricky had to have filled out. Even though they are not encrypted, they would give a better sample of his letters & numbers handwriting.
b) What were some of the types of jobs Ricky has held in the past?
c) Upload a copy of one of his court depositions to show how he answers questions and his speech patterns/dialect/word usage.
RICKY'S COURT CASES in Missouri Circuit Courts:
07/08/1987: (Case #22877-02287) Young -v- McCormick. This was apparently some type of Domestic Relations case regarding child
support. The plaintiff was Vickie Young.
11/19/1992: (Case #22921-03404) (State -v- McCormick. (Criminal/Infract). This case went before a Grand Jury Indictment for two charges: CT-01, Rape-Weapon or Injury - prior offender child under 14 and CT-02, Sex Assault (ASLT) - 1st degree - prior offender. This case was combined with the case below (1/4/93 - Case #22921-03404-01). There was a lot of activity in this case from Jan 21, 1993 through his sentencing on 10/8/93. He tried to get a psychiatric motion filed, but it was denied in Feb '93. On Sept. 1, 1993, Ricky plead guilty (PSI Ordered) and on 10/8/93, he was sentenced to 3 years, court costs of $46.00 and jail time allowed. Some websites stated that he only served 11 mos of this sentence, but I have not been able to find that documentation any where. This case shows that Ricky's address was: 2852A Pennsylvania Ave., St. Louis, MO.
01/04/1993: (Case #22921-03404-01) State -v- McCormick. (Criminal/Infract). This was a case combined with the above mentioned case of 11/19/92. (See all notes above regarding Case #22921-03404). This case shows that Ricky's address was: 2852A Pennsylvania Ave., St. Louis, MO.
09/15/1994: (Case #35R03940198) State -v- McCormick. (Criminal/Infract.) This was a case regarding passing a bad check
(24.035/29.15). The judgment/fines were as follows: $15.00, $5.00, $65.45 = $85.45 He satisfied this judgment.
04/14/1999: (Case #22990-04198) St. Louis Housing -v- Jones, et al (AC Rent & Possession) This was a case where apparently Ricky lived with a woman named Sandra Jones and they were being evicted. The address listed in the court record states they lived at 1400 Chouteau Ave., St. Louis, MO 63103. The plaintiff's atty was Frederick Carl Toelle located at 4100 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108. Tons of activity happened in this case on the following dates: 4/15/99, 4/16/99, 4/28/99, 5/6/99, 5/14/99, 5/19/99, 5/14/99, 6/16/99, 6/21/99 and lastly 6/24/99. The court record stated Jones & McCormick had consent judgments off record for $905.02. The case was electronically disposed on 5/19/99. A check in the amount of $20.75 was issued to the Housing Authority on 5/24. It appears that on 6/21/99 both Sandra Jones and Ricky were evicted from their residence with all final paperwork showing eviction complete and property returned to Housing on 6/24/99. I have not been able to find any documents/information that show where Ricky lived after this 6/21/99 eviction. It's sad that just a few days later he is found dead.
DECIPHER INTERESTING THOUGHTS:
99-84-82. (Several ideas on this number sequence):
1) When I typed this into google as an IP Address search, it came up with several items on a page. One of interest was a website I did NOT click on (too afraid it could be viral). Website: dnstree.com worldporn.ru.sxybody.com It had in the descriptive clip that it was pretty much for kinky sex, porn, etc. Don't know if Ricky was into that kind of stuff, but I found the IP interesting.
2) When I typed in just 998482, it came up with this is a color hex chart for RGB color chart & HSL color chart.
3) This combination of numbers also appeared as PMID # for a hypertension medication. http://www.ncbi.nlm.gov/pubmed998482
4) 99.84.5 - this showed up as the Missouri Law statues for Municipal Housing Chapter 99.
5) 99.84.8 appeared as an ICD Code for either a Veneral Disease, Lesion(s) nontraumatic, or Isolation due to Infection.
[I found it interesting that in Ricky's last week of life he went to a doctor and was also experiencing Housing problems. Two of the
above codes show up for medical and housing reasons - thought to ponder].
1941 LD - (1941 Laclede Ave; 1941 Lindell Blvd, 1941 Laclede Station Road; 1941 Leadale Dr; 1941 Ladue Road; 1941 Labodie Ave)
AL-PRPPITXLY - (approximately appropriately)
AL-PRPPITXLY - (Someone named Al talking about property???? - he did need housing)
GNENTX - (genetics???)
DU LMT - (Diffused Limited Lung Disease????)
HSD - (Hazelwood School District)
LS RE - (Lung Sounds Recorded???)
MRSE - (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Epidermidia: a baterial infection (of lung) that doesn't respond well to antibiotics)
NO PF - (No Pulmonary Fibrosis)
NSE - (Neuron Specific Enolase - it's a biomarker for small cell lung cancer)
PPI - (Mississippi River, Mississippi Ave, etc.)
RRSE - (Respiratory Resistence in Expiration)
TEnE - (Inhibitor Topotecan & inhibitor Etoposide), which are both active in lung cancer)
TFRnE - (Transferrin Receptor) - TfR is detected in lung cancer.
TRFXL - (Traffic circle)
TU NSE - (Tumor marker in small cell lung cancer)
UNEPLSENC - (unemployed since....)
WLD - this could be lots of this from would, world, wild, to street names such as Woodson Terrace, Weldon Spring, W Alton; to a Dr.
Wald-who is a pulmonologist in the St. Louis area).
X - (and & exit medical term for rule out extensive)
XDR - (Extensively Drug-Resistant).
XLY - (Exactly)
SMALL NEWS EVENTS HAPPENING IN JUNE 1999:
1.) Kansas City Royal Baseball Schedule for the month of June 1999:
June 1st: KC -v- Rangers L1-3; June 2nd: KC -v- Rangers L4-7; June 5th: KC -v- Reds L4-9 and KC -v- Reds L4-7; June 6: KC -v- Reds L3-14; June 7: KC -v- Cardinals L5-7; June 8: KC -v- Cardinals W11-10; June 9: KC -v- Cardinals W17-13; June 11: KC -v- Pirates W10-3; June 12: KC -v- Pirates L8-9; June 13: KC -v- Pirates L4-8; June 14: KC -v- Orioles L1-7; June 15: KC pvp Orioles L5-6; June 16; KC -v- Orioles L1-2; June 18: KC -v- Blue Jays W6-5; June 19: KC -v- Blue Jays L0-7; June 20: KC -v- Blue Jays L1-2; June 21: KC -v- Blue Jays L4-11; June 22: KC -v- Tigers W4-2; June 23: KC -v- Tigers W10-1; June 24: KC -v- Tigers L4-6; June 25: KC -v- Indians W8-2; June 26: KC pvp Indians W11-7; June 27: KC -v- Indians L 5-6; June 28: KC -v- Indians L 1-6; June 29: KC pvp White Sox L 9-10; June 30: KC -v- White Sox L 9-10
2.) 1999 NCAA College Baseball World Series Schedule/Results:
June 11: Game 1 - Alabama 11, Oklahoma St 3; Game 2- Miami Fla 8, Rice 4. June 12: Game 3-Florida St 7, Texas A&M 3; Game 4-Stanford 9, CS Fullerton 2; June 13: Game 5-Miami Fla 8, Alabama 1; Game 6 - Rice 7, Oklahoma St 2 (Oklahoma St ELIMINATED). June 14: Game 7-Stanford 10, Florida St 6; Game 8- CS Fullerton 4, Texas A&M 2 (TEXAS A&M ELIMINATED). June 15 - Both games postponed due to rain and re-scheduled for Wednesday June 16. June 16: Game 9-Alabama 6, Rice 5 (RICE ELIMINATED). Game 10-Florida St 7, CS Fullerton 2 (CS FULLERTON ELIMINATED). June 17 - Game 11-Miami Fla 5, Alabama 2 Game 12-Florida St 8, Stanford 6. June 18: Game 14 - Florida St 14, Stanford 11 (13 innings). June 19 - Championship game 15 - Miami Fla 6, Floirda St 5. (MIAMI FLA WINS WORLD SERIES).
3.) A known bad area for partying is near the intersection of Hwy 67 & Red School Road. Also, a lot of crashes in & around that intersection. Just a thought since it is kinda-sorta in the direction Ricky's body was found.
4.) Jet crashes due to bad weather - people killed.
5.) Alton Bell Casino II riverboad stays dockside
6.) Millennium Scare for Y2K
7.) Sun- Hampton Ave & Chippewa Streets in St. Louis were closed due to water-main break. This is a major north/south thoroughfare & it had extensive pavement damage. Traffic had to be diverted for several days while repairs were being completed.
8.) Rap star Sean "Puffy" Combs was charged w/ weapon possession in a nighclub in NY.
I have read about all kinds of theories for the notes contents from grocery list, poem, song lyrics, to do list, directions, car parts, medical records/history, medical lab reports, housing/rental opportunities, buying/selling cars (SE LX, etc.), drugs, gambling, computer programming codes, etc. I am hoping that each person reading my blog will continue to think of ideas that might make this case of the scrambled notes get solved.
The handwriting on the notes is extremely hard to read. I tried to solve it by what was posted on the Internet, but had no luck. I then blew up the notes a little larger on my computer, I used a magnifying glass and I noticed that some of the letters appeared smeared, almost as if a little moisture had made some of the ink run - - using a magnifying glass, letters I thought were something else, appeared as a new letter to me. Try to look at each letter totally independent of the other characters around it. Decipher - letter by letter.
Below is my newest interpretation of the characters in the notes. I changed all the S's to 5's. I changed some of the W's to 1n. I believe that all N's mean "and" or is used as an ampersand. I believe that the small t is really a + sign and means "and". I studied each character individually and regardless of what letter patterns came before it, I tried to write down what I saw. Have fun with this -- it does have a lot of numbers now -- maybe someone can make sence of this jumbled mess : ) Good Luck and keep thinking (simple thoughts, hard thoughts and everything in between).
MY NEWEST INTERPRETATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERS IN LETTERS 1 and 2:
(are they right??? who knows!!!!!!)
PAGE 1: (and yes, the ? in the text I believe are question marks) I took out the spacing, thinking maybe something would stand out better or a pattern may appear):
(MNDM6NEA)85(-N-5-M-KNA8E) (4(5M)
8TFRNEN?1N5ENP85ERCBRN5ENPR5E1NC
PR5ENM85EDPREHLDWLDNCBE(TFXLFTCXLNCDE)
AL-PRPPITXLYPPIYNCBCMGK5E1NCDRCBRN56?R5E
1NLDRCBRN56NT56NENTX5E-CR8LE-CLTR8EWLDNCDE
ALNLDNCBET5MELR5ERL5EVRGL5NEA5NWLDNCBE
(NOPF5ENL5RENCDE)NTEGDDMN5ENCURERCDRNE
(TENETFRNENCBRT5ENCBE1NC)
(FLR5EPa5EONDE71NCBE)
(CDN5EPQ5EON5DE74NCBE)
(PR+5CPR56ONREDE75NCBE)
(TFNaCM5P5OLEMRDELU5ETOTEWLDN1NLDNCBE)
(1941NLD’5NCBE) (TRFXL)
PAGE 2:
ALPNTEGL5E-5E ER+E
VL5EMT5E-CT5E-W5E-FRT5E
PNRTR5EONDR5EWLDNCBE
N1NLDXLRCM5PNEWLD5T5MEXL
DULMT6TUN5ENC13EXL
((A)6N5A85TENM6NAR5E)
KL5E-LK5TE-TR5E-TR5E-MK5EN-MR5E
(5AE6N5E5ENMR5E)
NMNLCBRN5EP+E2PTEW5RC13RN5E
86ML5E745PRK5E29KENO8OLE175R7R5E
856LECLG5ENUNUTXEDKR5EP5E5HLE
651MTL5EHTL5ENCUTCTR5NMRF
99.84.826NEPL5EVCR5EAOLT5EN5K5EN135E
N5REON5EPVT5E1NLDNCBE(3XORL)
DNM5ENR5E1N2NTRLERCB7N5ENT5RCR6NE
L5PN5ENG5P5EMK5ERB5GNCBEAVXL’R
7MCRENMRENCBE 1/2M6NDD65C
D-W-M-411PLXDRLX
Well, that's about it for this posting. I will keep trying til this gets solved : ) Hope you have a blessed day - Puzzled : )
P.S.:
I kept looking at the type written coded message and noticed a lot of letters also used in Roman numerals. Has anyone tried to see if anything changes when these letters are transferred to Roman numbers??? I even typed the message backwards to see if anything popped. Just more thoughts to ponder ----
I =1
V=5
X=10
V=50
XL=40
LV=60
XC=90
C=100
D=500
DI=501
DL=550
CM=900
M=1000
MD=1500
They could be used for dollar amounts, mileage, betting, actually, with this young man, the sky is the limit on what his writings could be about -- my goal with my Blog is to have a place to put my thoughts on this encrypted note -- hoping that some random thought in my head might transcend a brilliant idea in your head you possibly hadn't considered before -- and solve this case! Thanks : )
