X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 88.191.16.109 Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!nospam.fr.eu.org!usenet-fr.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!newsfeed.eweka.nl!eweka.nl!feeder3.eweka.nl!195.114.241.41.MISMATCH!feeder.news-service.com!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!news-out2.kabelfoon.nl!newsfeed.kabelfoon.nl!xindi.nntp.kabelfoon.nl!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news6 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: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:45:07 -0400 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $19.95 Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: p28716e5f67ae4ed11f96f4f9638c6415d3aad291cb1c857e.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; 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:2457 comp.lang.ruby:2155 Joe Snodgrass wrote: > On Apr 1, 10:54 am, David Bernier wrote: >> 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: >> >> . >> >> That web page has a link to a 1999 article on the discovery of the body: >> . >> >> 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.">> . > > What's the cause of death? From one of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch articles (presumably the orig. source), one learns that "Death appears to be caused by a blow to the head.", this via "Austinstar" at hubpages.com : < http://hubpages.com/hub/Cryptographic-clues > . - Body identified through fingerprints (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). - Ricky McCormick had a criminal conviction for statutory rape. (via n01h3r3 at boards.straightdope.com) : < http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13642308 > . - Ricky McCormick had one address in St. Louis, Missouri and others in Illinois (why?). David