the two coded notes in a dead man's pocket (St. Louis, 1999) — the FBI literally gave up and asked us

Posting this one because it actually creeps me out more than the ancient stuff. June 1999, a partly decomposed body turns up in a field in St. Charles County, Missouri. Guy's name was Ricky McCormick. In his pants pockets: two handwritten notes. Capital letters, numbers, dashes, the odd bit in paren……