The McCormick Riddle: A Strange Death and a CODE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING

The scene: a broken body in the middle of a cornfield, with no visible signs of violence and a note full of seemingly incoherent signs.

It could well be the beginning of a new season of True Detectives or some similar television series, but no, it is a real case, a mystery of the last century that is still waiting for a resolution, or at least an explanation that satisfies everyone, from FBI agents even relatives of the victim.

The McCormick riddle: a strange death and a CODE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING

On June 30, 1999, in a cornfield of Saint Charles County, Missouri, the body of Ricky McCormick , a 41-year-old African American who had been last seen five days ago, was found.

The McCormick Riddle: A Strange Death and a CODE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING

Not that they had missed him, McCormick had left h a little from jail, where purge condemns for having pregnant a girl of fourteen years; her mother had told a regional newspaper that she was a little "late" (citing her) and her girlfriend, the girl mentioned above, reported that she was moving a drug stash for traffickers in the area.

field where it was found, 32 km from his home, had already been used previously to leave corpses, so the authorities immediately assumed that it was a murder, although no signs of gunshots or punctures were found in the body.to have killed him to blows, but the rapid decomposition caused by the heat of the summer did not help to verify it.

Another element that favored the thesis of his murder was that this site was not reached by public transport, and McCormick he had neither a vehicle nor a driver's license.

But the mystery was not so much the cause of his death, but two papers found in his clothes , written in what appeared to be a encoded language: thirty lines in which letters, scripts were mixed , numbers and parentheses that didn't seem to make any sense.

The McCormick Riddle: A Strange Death and a CODE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING

Note found on McCormick's body

The McCormick Riddle: A Strange Death and a CODE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING

Note found in the body of McCormick

The police assumed that it was a crime associated with drug trafficking, although there was no evidence or physical or testimonial that pointed in that or any other direction, so they focused on trying to decipher the notes found in the body, and for that they asked the FBI for help.

The FBI used its best cryptographers, also convinced that the notes would find the explanation of the crime , but failed to unravel the mystery and ended up filing the case.

Almost twelve years later, in March 2011, the FBI published on the networks the two notes found in the body of Ricky McCormick, with the hope that someone, among the millions of Internet users, could find the meaning of these lines, if they have any.

Since then These pages are known as the McCormick riddle , and have generated several theories, including two: the first proposes that the message was not from Ricky, that this was a messenger and that the note was written in code for a drug dealer; the second, that the note if it was from McCormick and that this would not make any sense, that it would be a symptom of some kind of mental disorder, such as hypergraphy , which consists of a compulsion to write things meaningless.

In both theories it is suggested that Ricky was almost functional illiterate, so they cannot imagine it by developing a code inaccessible to the best minds of the FBI.

Who knows, Perhaps the key to this enigma, the resolution of this mystery, is in the hands or in the mind of a Mysterious reader.Could it be you?

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