Crack the Code - Ricky McCormick

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Ricky McCormick's body was found in a cornfield. His murder remains unsolved to this day. However, a 2 page coded letter was found in his pocket. Could the case be solved if the code is deciphered?

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:12.5	Welcome to TrueCard to go. What can I get for you?
0:16.2	I need, need, need a puzzle. I need a puzzle to solve, and I need you to make it for me.
0:22.2	Can you do that?
0:24.6	Pull up to the second window, and we'll see you next crime.
0:31.9	Welcome to True Crime to Go.
0:34.2	I am John here with Jamie.
0:36.2	A puzzle, eh?
0:40.2	Puzzles. Do you remember that time we did like the murder mystery, like case file review where we had to solve a crime? Is that what you're talking about?
0:45.9	No, this is more of a cipher situation. So codes. Codes. Well, we have a true crime story for you in 10 minutes or less, and this one sounds too intriguing,
0:57.4	so why don't you get the ball rolling?
0:59.3	What if the key to solving a murder, John, was hidden in plain sight?
1:04.4	We're going to talk about a message that's written in code and tucked away inside the victim's pocket,
1:10.3	and it's something so cryptic that the FBI's top codebreakers haven't been able to decipher
1:16.1	it for more than two decades.
1:18.5	That is insane and I've never heard of this one.
1:21.3	Today we're going to be going back to the death and maybe one of the most perplexing
1:27.1	unsolved cases in modern history,
1:29.6	but we're going to go back to 1999 to do so.
1:32.5	And that's when we find the death, maybe murder of Ricky McCormick.
1:37.9	It's a case that starts with a dead man found in Missouri, in a cornfield,
1:43.0	and leads straight into the seemingly unbreakable cipher.
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