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There seem to have been many cases over the years where ciphers or coded messages form part of the evidence and many of these ciphers remain unsolved to this day.
Most famously there was the Zodiac Killer, who deliberately posted ciphers in order to taunt the police.
What are some of the other cases people can come up with that involved ciphers??
I stumbled on one only the other day where the victim, who was killed about 20 years ago, had a coded, two page note in his pocket. To this day the code has not been broken by the FBI. In fact they went as far as to release the letters to the public in the hope someone could crack it for them.
I will post up some info relative to that one when I get a chance.
This is the one I was mentioning earlier - the unresolved death of Ricky McCormick.
41 year old McCormick's remains were found in late June 1999. Although it had been only 3 days since he disappeared, the flesh on his hands was already rotted to the point that his fingertips had fallen off and lay next to him.
How his body ended up in a cornfield in rural St. Charles County — 20 miles from where he worked and lived in downtown St. Louis — was a mystery.
Advanced decomposition made an autopsy of McCormick difficult and the Medical Examiner's Office ultimately ruled McCormick's cause of death "undetermined." Yet police suspected foul play.
Homicide detectives searched McCormick's pockets and found 2 pages of handwritten notes. The notes were unable to be read and were plainly written is some kind of code.
Apparently FBI code breakers are usually able to unlock the meanings of ciphers in a few hours. However, McCormick's notes had them baffled for over 10 years and in 2011 the FBI released copies of them to the public with a plea for assistance to crack the code.
To this day the code contained in the 2 page note remains unsolved, and to add to the mystery, McCormick could hardly write his own name. So the F.B.I. can't even be sure the writing is that of McCormick.
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