FBI asks public for help breaking encrypted notes tied to 1999 murder - Polidicks

Was T9 the norm for texting in 1999? a phone keypad would be a handy key to carry about for encoding messages

[QUOTE=Capt Fancypants;28910142]:words: :words: :words:[/QUOTE]oh wow that's p good. I WONDER IF THE FBI KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT THIS. we still don't know if it's the right thing tho. nice research tho. :unsmith:

Doing it that way with the keypad letter sequence, the first word should be "also" on the page marked with P1. being that I am at work at the moment i can not fudge with converting with numbers and using the numbers to come up with a sliding scale for the dial pad. maybe tonight after work.

[QUOTE=Capt Fancypants;28910142]Found on other site![/QUOTE] nice which website did you find it on?

Man I was reading this thread and thought, oh man the last page is going to be epic, and well. Yeah. Although page 9 was pretty awesome. For me reading this was akin to reading Homestuck. Next page, next page, ne-... What do you mean there isn't a next page? FUUUUU

Not directly related to Ricky McCormick. **************************** June 30, 2001 from St. Louis Post-Dispatch The dead woman was found nude almost in the same spot in St. Charles County where another body was found in May. The body of a woman was found Friday morning along Highway 67 near West Alton, almost in the same spot where the body of a St. Louis woman was found May 15. Both victims were black, and both bodies were nude. **************************** Occurred around West Alton within the same months McCormick was found a couple years back. It's possible he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

When I look at it parts of it remind me of words, but not enough to make anything that makes sense.

[QUOTE=darqmann;28911640]Was T9 the norm for texting in 1999? a phone keypad would be a handy key to carry about for encoding messages[/QUOTE] Would not necessarily work as T9 adapts itself to the words you use more often.

anybody try it? any feedback?

I feel like im reading dyslexic shorthand. I keep wanting to add letters and rearrange the words!

28 guests. The FBI is watching :tinfoil:

I just got this today in my law class. Should have known Facepunch would have heard of it already :v: My teacher said that whom ever solves this will get A's for the entire semester and an A on the Final Exam. :smug: I set up my white board in my room and my brother and I are currently working on it. Goodbye social life for a while. For now, I will refrain from looking at other people's efforts, just so my eyes are fresh and see what I can establish. I doubt I'll come close to solving it.. but wish me luck. I've noticed those patterns and recurring elements. Right now, I'm narrowing down the the letters.

Hello! I have mainly registered in this form to be able to take part in this discussion. I read about the code on an austrian news-site, and now iam interessted to help cracking it. Like others have mentioned before, there are Series of Letters which are repeatet often, like WLD NSEN PBSE NCBE INC I think the Message is encryptet in a code which uses 2 AND 3 Letters to form a Syllable OR one single letter. I think NCBE stands for "IN" as a shorthand for INCH at the "P1"-Page. I think the whole thing is some sort of instruction. PS.: It may mean nothing, but the word KNABE (P1 last word first line) means Boy or Lad in german, and the word TOTE (12th line) means "the" dead (singular and plural).

Apostrophes only appear twice as far as i can tell: WLD'S on one page and XL'R on the other. perhaps 'S and 'R are indicators representing 'sending' and 'receiving'?

facepunch.com have conversations ranging from Penises to cracking codes that not even the FBI can solve. glorious.

[QUOTE=Wii60;28925219]facepunch.com have conversations ranging from Penises to cracking codes that not even the FBI can solve. glorious.[/QUOTE] Its one of the few things in life that i reserve for me and myself to enjoy, never tell anybody about FP in real life!

Important to note: Bottom sentence has an apostrophe S word. (192WLD[B]'s[/B] ****) Apostrophes generally aren't used in codes, perhaps its unencrypted and it's preceded by a name?

[IMG]http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/091/5/0/codehelp_by_darqmann-d3cy1jy.gif[/IMG] I put a linebreak after all of the NCBE's which made a possible pattern concerning the PRSE's and the five letter codes associated with them, since they all terminate with SE I've highlighted the three Letters that are different. There has been some shuffling about. [editline]1st April 2011[/editline] Based on the above. Airports NMR = Nappa Merry - Australia [url]http://www.world-airport-codes.com/australia/nappa-merry-5113.html[/url] MGK = Mong Ton – Myanmar [url]http://www.world-airport-codes.com/myanmar/mong-ton-8607.html[/url] BRN = Belp Switzerland [url]http://www.world-airport-codes.com/switzerland/belp-793.html[/url] NLR = Nothing, Bugger… (NLS which is what the original text read before I shuffled it is Nicholson - Australia [url]http://www.world-airport-codes.com/australia/nicholson-5238.html[/url]) FLR = Peretola - Italy [url]http://www.world-airport-codes.com/italy/peretola-2332.html[/url] CDN = Woodford Field – United States [url]http://www.world-airport-codes.com/united-states/woodward-fld-1194.html[/url] Which isn’t that far from I74 PRT = Nothing, Perhaps this isn’t the right route… :( -- Second thought the T here isn't capitalised so might be a + or an x if it is an X then.. PRX = Cox Field - United States [url]http://www.world-airport-codes.com/united-states/cox-field-5671.html[/url] I've had a look at the AmTrak station codes and all I can say is that the three letter codes on page 1 are noticable by thier absence from the AmTrak station codes, none match even by coincidence. [editline]1st April 2011[/editline] Seems I missed a three letter group frm line 2 so... BBN = Bario - Malaysia [url]http://www.world-airport-codes.com/malaysia/bario-619.html[/url] (Oddly I've been to this one(not that's important, just fun)) also BRTSE from the line above the three bracketed lines BRT = Bathurst Island - Australia [url]http://www.world-airport-codes.com/australia/bathurst-island-665.html[/url] and.. ITRSE in "TXSE-CRSLE-CITRSE" ITR = Hidroeletrica - Brazil [url]http://www.world-airport-codes.com/brazil/hidroeletrica-8340.html[/url] and from the same line NTXSE, NTX = Natuna Ranai - Indonesia [url]http://www.world-airport-codes.com/indonesia/natuna-ranai-5140.html[/url] while none of the ones that end SE are AmTrak station codes, the TFNR line has some four letter blocks that end in E the three letters before the E are cool, look:- SOL Solana Beach, California MRD Meredith, New Hampshire No LUS (LVS Las Vegas, Nevada) This is probably all nosense and coincidence but hey, its all good fun right? Oh and most of the airports on are the eastern side of the southern hemisphere.

Does anyone know a site with informations about the most used english words, syllables and Letter-combinations?

To add to my earlier schtuffs, Aircraft registrations are often in the X-XXXX format, I'll look into the hyphenated bits when I get home.

And here i was thinking facepunch could never really impress me anymore.

According to this site it's been solved: [url]http://www.castigliola.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=123&Itemid=1[/url]

[QUOTE=Ninx;28931180]According to this site it's been solved: [url]http://www.castigliola.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=123&Itemid=1[/url][/QUOTE] fbi got a new recuirt

Most frequent two-letter words: OF TO IN IT IS BE AS AT SO WE HE BY OR ON DO IF ME MY UP AN GO NO US AM Most frequent three-letter words: THE AND FOR ARE BUT NOT YOU ALL ANY CAN HAD HER WAS ONE OUR OUT DAY GET HAS HIM HIS HOW MAN NEW NOW OLD SEE TWO WAY WHO BOY DID ITS LET PUT SAY SHE TOO USE Most frequent four-letter words: THAT WITH HAVE THIS WILL YOUR FROM THEY KNOW WANT BEEN GOOD MUCH SOME TIME Most frequent double letters: SS EE TT FF LL MM OO This only applies to English. It's from some pages I printed out years back and no longer remember the source.

[QUOTE=Swebonny;28931227]fbi got a new recuirt[/QUOTE] If he's actually smarter than the FBI code breakers, CIA will snatch him to their service first :v:

That doesn't make sense though. [editline]1st April 2011[/editline] I wonder if he is going to submit to the FBI. Also - why are we cosidering this a murder? the police don't even have this as a murder

[QUOTE=Falchion;28931399]If he's actually smarter than the FBI code breakers, CIA will snatch him to their service first :v:[/QUOTE] It's a terrible attempt and only he is claiming that he has decoded it. He also isn't right, That isn't a Y at the bottom of the second page.

Case reopened! :science:

well heres the thing. whos to say either way if it is right or not. We don't have any other examples to test it's validity. Also we can't talk to the family to see if the cracked code sounds like something he would of said. We have been making a bunch of assumptions about him being in a mental institue, also that he was a drug dealer - All this is unsubstantiated. With the amout of details provided there is a reason the FBI can't solve it. But damn it I am now addicted to solving this fucking thing.

I'm not sure it's correct given that it still has a fair amount of gibberish. such as, "A Latenight-PRPPIT Times Latenight YPPIY." It did bring something to my attention, however. 8th line on P1 last 'word' within the parenthesis is probably INC. At first I thought it might have ended with a G or Q, but it now it looks like the C was partially impacted by the parenthesis.