The FBI Needs You to Solve this Code

[I am 2 cool 4 anime]

im gonna do this just before I die,BUT at the end of the random letters and nubers, (probably wont be,I will waste a year 2 make the PERFECT code,not like I will be doing some thing in my 70's)And at the end It will say: by I am 2 cool 4 anime....; Cool huh?

 

[hcig]

I cracked it!

"Remember to drink your ovaltine."

lol, 10 points for gryffindor, for the little orphan annie/christmas story reference.

 

[Roland07]

*Digs a hole*

*Buys a Batman costume, a giant penny, and a stuffed T-Rex*

*Dons Batman costume, displays giant penny and T-Rex in hole, and climbs in with computer*

*Names computer Alfred, and sets to voice activated*

*Begins work on cipher*

 

[Asuka Soryu]

I roughly translated it:

"If you're reading(?) this, you have no(?) life"

 

[Ekonk]

What if this is the old Nazi-German code "Enigma"?

Bring out the Polish mathematician everyone!

I thought it was cracked by an Englishman.

Who was then chemically castrated for his troubles and commited suicide.

 

[English]

With a line like this one 'MUNSAISTENMUNARSE' on the second note. You go to the second last letter 'S' then the second letter 'U' then the third last letter 'R' then the third letter 'N'(see the pattern?) then the fourth last letter 'A' then skip to the first letter 'M' and back to the last 'E' - 'SURNAME'. And with the rest of the letters you can make US INMATES or UN inmates or whatever. Basically it looks like it says US INMATES SURNAMES. I'm just going for my sunday dinner and then I'll have another look. Another part looks like it says 'SENTENCES' or REFER SENTENCES or something. I haven't had a really really good look yet it might just look like that because it seems to fit the other thing.

 

[English]

The very last line of the second note has 'D' 'W' 'M' 'Y'. Could that just be Day, Week, Month, Year?

 

[English]

Actually, that method only works (sort of) on one word in it so it's probably completely wrong. I think I'm going to give up. Seems impossible...

 

[101194]

Lol, once someone cracks this hypothetically, what's the reward?

 

[Bios06]

The ideas previously posted up here are just mind blowing, I didnt read this thread until after I looked over and drew conclusions from the notes. It's awesome that we have people like caligula (and many others) who see things in this gibberish. Anyway, my two cents on the gibberish

Don't know what it is about the notes but something about them is unsettling for me, not sure why. Anyway, in a short amount of time I have looked over the full size notes

better link to full size notes
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/CodeNotes.pdf

and retyped them myself (since they're practically fucking gibberish in handwriting) and noticed a few things.


The fact that some of this was scribbled might have some significance (emphasis on letters, thoughts, or maybe just to be more vague and confusing) or whoever wrote this just has shitty handwriting...hard to say here

It does seem to be in shorthand as many of the jumbled letters seem to be phonetic abbreviations of some sort (NMRE = No more?)

N most likely is an abbreviation of sorts for "and", it tends to stand alone between jumbles

I thought the (ACSM) at the top R of P1 was possibly a date but the more I look at it the more I think its something else, not sure what.

The first page is a list of something, the fact that each set of numbers ends in NCMB makes me think it stands for some unit designation (whether its specifying a type of unit or direction or what I'm not sure)

When I saw SAE (I know someone got it from the writing as 5AE, but its so hard to read I saw SAE) I did think about engine oil for a car as I have seen that written on containers


Also, this whole deal with not finding any information on all this is intruiging, that speaks volumes about how pertinent these papers are. If they give enough of a shit to keep us from getting more information than they want us to, they're clearly hiding something about all this. That being said, I'm not sure how deeply I want to get into this. In any case, good luck all you decoding people.

 

[Tarik94]

What if this is the old Nazi-German code "Enigma"?

Bring out the Polish mathematician everyone!

I thought it was cracked by an Englishman.

Who was then chemically castrated for his troubles and commited suicide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_code
"In December 1932, the Polish Cipher Bureau first broke Germany's Enigma ciphers. Five weeks before the outbreak of World War II, on 25 July 1939, in Warsaw, the Polish Cipher Bureau gave Enigma-decryption techniques and equipment to French and British military intelligence."

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

What if this is the old Nazi-German code "Enigma"?

Bring out the Polish mathematician everyone!

I thought it was cracked by an Englishman.

Who was then chemically castrated for his troubles and commited suicide.

Computer Science lecturers tend to over-represent Alan Turing's role as codebreaker during WWII. One of my lecturers even declared "the man single-handedly defeated the Nazis!"
Really he was just one of a team of people who helped to slightly improve a codebreaking-machine invented by the Polish called the Bomba.


Although it's true that he was a great thinker, and probably didn't deserve to be chemically tortured to death just for being gay...

 

[KaiRai]

Reading over it I'm finding overtly military references. PVT shows up at one point, and CBRN SENT is in the bottom of note 2. It could possibly be to do with something military? It would help if they gave us a background, maybe if we had a little insight to his mindset someone might be able to decipher it.

 

[Thamous]

The pages are not encrypted, I am pretty sure that this guy was an auto technician, the reason it looks encrypted is he is using abbreviations for industry language that he made up himself.

The first page has a bunch of redundant abbreviations because he is doing the same job on various cars and making notes for himself. The reason the part on page one is in parenthesis is because its not a standard job when in context with the rest of the job and would be billed to a seperate dept.

The second page looms different and complicates the matter because he is using part numbers, vin numbers, and in one case what appears to be a license plate number. In the second page there is vin number for what I believe to be a 1985 Nissan Stanza but cant get them in alignment and there are letter to number conversions but I have backed 11 numbers into a 17 digit vin and it fits. SE is utilized as is GLE and but what I thought were auto trim packages they are actually utilized as some kind of short hand.

I am pretty sure this guy was a mechanic and the first page were his duties for the day, and the second page is the parts and materials with a clear reference to motor oil and 6 quarts it appears. Guy was working on cars.

I think only a tech can do this type of thing and get away with it, but that appears to be what it is.

That is my opinion and I translated it all last night.

K

He was unemployed at the time of his death, didn't own a car and was on disability welfare. I'm fairly certain he was not an auto technician.

 

[MadHaXor]

It is just a key for an encrypted ebook. Notice the (ACSM). He most likely wrote it down after buying the book to put it on another computer.

When you start to download an Adobe PDF a small file with the extension .acsm is first downloaded. This is used by Adobe Digital Editions to send the activation ID to the delivery server which will use that ID to generate an encrypted PDF/ePub eBook, which is then downloaded to your PC.

Write the code in a file and save it as 'foo.acsm' Login to the dead guys account and download his encrypted adobe ebook. Case solved!

 

[The_Rainm3ker]

Until we know more info about this cat the note could say anything.

What was he into?
who was he kicking it with?
no disrespect to the yahoo idea but where did it say he had mental health issues?
why are the FBI involved in a basic murder/ suicide when we, as a country, are in economic meltdown? what does this have to do with the economy? three days ago the intelligent government we have almost shut down. no need to waste resources on this.
why is this guy so important to the "Federal Government?"
Is he part of a terrorist organization?
Is he the second gunman on the grassy knoll?
is this drug related?
If his family knew he wrote in code since he was a kid, what else do they know?
where did he work prior to becoming disabled?

To the FBI I'm calling YOU out to dispense a little more of that info you have on this so we can:
1. possibly know what direction to look in.
2. Eliminate some of the ideas that would no longer make sense with new information.

Its one thing to discover some code on the ground with no reference to its origin, but it was on his persons and he has a family and possibly friends. Someone, somewhere has to know a little more about RM and his 2 sheets of ,so far, jibberish.

I hope this can be cracked just to see what it says, but until we can get just a little more on RM then we are going to (more than likely) confuse each other with bad ideas as to what it says.

IMO, The yahoo idea makes the most sense minus the few holes, for example if someone was messing with his meds, why not tell some sort of authority?
I have not heard if he was even a patient at a mental institution. if so, was it this institute?


My goal is not to discredit anyone or blow there ideas out of the water its more or less to make the idea (like the yahoo one) seem more credible, or to be corrected with a couple morsels of new information on the RM. Until then, we can only hope we are in this imaginary ballpark with our guesses.

My theory is the government is in such bad financial trouble that they decided to outsource the things like this that are taking up government resources when the citizens of our great nation can solve it for free. with those few more tidbits of information of course.
happy code cracking

 

[The_Rainm3ker]

take a look at this might be of some use

http://www.mldragon.com/2011_0330_FBI_McCormick_DePsycho.pdf

 

[SCHELHORN]

Okay i have to say that I agree with the MADHAXOR theory and this is the code associated with an early ebook technology of the early 1990s...when things were changing quicky with pcs laptops and such. I believe that MADHAXOR has solved this code but I was bored today and I decided to look for text within the letter notes of Ricky McCormick. I ran it thru every language possible and got the following:

PI ....Radar Station Citrate Parish Breast There Breast Where did first secure May 71 did first secure May 74 did first secure May 75 of the Solar loser Rain Spray Meet Jumpers Inside

Notes...The Creation yours clipper stand in the NSA stone walls shall come harder bunch sisters party bivalve molluscs forget indoor bulb network half mins the world.

If this is a multi language code these are the underline words ...but I doubt very seriously it is anything more than the random generation of a computer key to an ebook but nevertheless it was entertaining.

If I had to make an educated guess on what Ricky wrote and I didnt believe it was as MADHAXOR indicates in his post I would say it is the groupings of computer data characters that he copied while trying to remove a virus from his pc. When I think back to 1998 what a troubled time we had with the PC and noone seemed to know what they were doing.

 

[Hollock]

No way, if I crack this It's going to put a virus on the internet that causes the girl who's having pretend to be her fiances grandmother to die and we're going to have to play cards with the virus or he'll drop a sattelight on us. Nice try buster brown!