remind me, did the internet just solve in a few days what has stumped the FBI for 12 years? I knew there was a reason I lived here! 
doggie015 said:...
Never thought the FBI could be stumped by a code. Can't they just digitize it and brute-force it or something?
This guy is a complete nobody, he has no profile because there is nothing to really say about him. You can rule out computer code as he probably did not use computers, he probably did not read much and he may have stolen cars.Metalhandkerchief said:This looks like a (very advanced) substitution cypher, possibly without a reference (the person who made it may have memorized it)
I would say it looks like it could be a mathematic formula of sorts, where most of the letters should be numbers. Also, some strings are repeats. For example "PRSE" and "NCBE" among others appears several times. This leads me to believe:
Either
1) The repeating strings are the actual message, everything else is either padding or used to decode the repeats, within the parentheses.
2) The repeating strings are padding, which would make everything a lot harder.
I'll keep looking at this from time to time.
EDIT: And to those who think is is just random bullshit on paper and think that the FBI would have figured this out by now and should have left it... There is definitely structure in this, and that is probably why the case is still open. Trust me when I say if they have the best people in America on it, they not only have the ability to decipher very advanced code, but also call bullshit if it truly is just random junk - or even if it's structured junk made to look like a cryptogram...
There is a picture of this McCormick guy floating out there on the web, but that may not be his real name. I cannot find any newspaper reference or obituary notice anywhere, what his real name maybe is John Doe II. A dead guy their using to front these letters out there without raising eyebrows on what they are really looking at. And that's not prettywarchief809 said:The story behind this code seems shaky at best, I think they made up the whole background behind it to cover a more pressing urgent issue.
to the FBI: pics or it didn't happened