Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.11.MISMATCH!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news3 From: David Bernier Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.crypt,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:54:13 -0400 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $19.95 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: p33feab1d49e9605aae8297ed07230cd3cece9ec49961e9cc.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.17) Gecko/20110307 Fedora/2.0.12-1.fc14 SeaMonkey/2.0.12 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:2359 comp.lang.ruby:2112 haha doh wrote: > On Mar 31, 3:15 pm, Joe Snodgrass wrote: [...] >> As to which crime was being committed, I'm going with numbers running >> or loan sharking. There's no reason for any crook to keep any record >> of any other crime, except prostitution, where phone books come in >> handy. >> >> Thievery is not an honest business, and records of what went down, >> where and with whom can only hurt you. Unless of course, it's a grand >> list of felonies that he was using to blackmail the participants. >> >> But I can't see gathering that much info from blackmail. I always >> thought it involved one guy blackmailing one victim. This would imply >> a factory scale process, and he'd need some way to lure his prey into >> the trap. >> >> Of course, that WOULD be a good way to get murdered. > This is him > http://img851.imageshack.us/i/4d93ac54b10bcimage.jpg/ True indeed! , according to a story posted on March 30 on the website of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: < http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/ad567e00-5b13-11e0-8ed4-00127992bc8b.html> . That web page has a link to a 1999 article on the discovery of the body: < http://www.stltoday.com/news/article_bcc02074-5b1a-11e0-b199-0017a4a78c22.html > . An officer with the local Major Case Squad unit is quoted there. I quote from the 1999 story: << "We cannot find any motive for his death, " he said. "We're not absolutely sure that this is a homicide." >> . David Bernier