Cryptanalysis

‘Codebreakers’ Author on the Undecipherable

In 1999, the body of 41-year-old, high school dropout Ricky McCormick was discovered in a St. Charles County, Missouri cornfield. There were no weapons, no motives, no suspects in the case. The only clue investigators had were two hand-written documents found in the pockets of the victim’s pants, a scrambling of letters that read like […]

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