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Speaker 1: Did you know that the FBI has a world class
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Speaker 1: code breaking team. Basically, their job is to decode any
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Speaker 1: encrypted evidence. So imagine coming across a piece of evidence
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Speaker 1: that appears to have secret messages embedded inside of it.
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Speaker 1: It's the job of these brainiacs on the decoding team
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Speaker 1: to go in there and figure out what those secret
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Speaker 1: messages are. Now, this decoding team is incredibly good, but
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Speaker 1: periodically they do run into riddles, if you will, that
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Speaker 1: are just way too.
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Speaker 2: Difficult and they can't figure them out.
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Speaker 1: And when this happens, they will often appeal to the
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Speaker 1: public and say, hey, anyone out there, if you can
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Speaker 1: solve this riddle, let us know. And so today's story
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Speaker 1: will involve one of those types of impossible riddles. And
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Speaker 1: if you stay till the end of the video, you'll
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Speaker 1: actually see the mystifying evidence and I'll show you where
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Speaker 1: you need to go online to literally help the FBI
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. At around five o'clock in
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Speaker 1: the evening on June twenty fifth, nineteen ninety nine, a
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Speaker 1: man named Ricky McCormick stumbled into an emergency room in
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Speaker 1: Saint Louis, Missouri, with his hand over his chest, complaining
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Speaker 1: that he couldn't breathe. He said he had asthma, and
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Speaker 1: earlier that day he had been cutting the grass, and
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Speaker 1: so maybe that had caused a flare up, but either way,
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Speaker 1: here he was in a lot of discomfort, saying, you know,
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Speaker 1: I need help. Ricky was forty one years old, and
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Speaker 1: for his whole life he had had heart and lung problems,
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Speaker 1: and so him arriving in this state in the er
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Speaker 1: was actually not all that uncommon for him. And so
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Speaker 1: this hospital did what they did with anyone who came in,
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Speaker 1: complaining that they couldn't breathe. They immediately took Ricky to
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Speaker 1: a back exam room and they hooked him up to
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Speaker 1: all these monitors to make sure his heartbeat was steady
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Speaker 1: and that his oxygen levels were plenty high. And once
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Speaker 1: Ricky was in the exam room getting hooked up, he
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Speaker 1: started acting really agitated, and he kept looking around the
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Speaker 1: room like he was scared that someone was going to
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Speaker 1: jump out at him. And he was also sweating profusely,
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Speaker 1: and whenever he did speak, he spoke so quickly no
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Speaker 1: one could really understand him. But despite Ricky's odd behavior,
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Speaker 1: the heart monitor showed his heart was beating steadily, his
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Speaker 1: oxygen levels were perfectly fine. And when the doctor came
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Speaker 1: in and examined Ricky, even though he clearly saw that
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Speaker 1: something was off about Ricky, there wasn't any sign that
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Speaker 1: there was anything physically wrong with Ricky, and so the
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Speaker 1: doctor and the nurses agreed that whatever was going on
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Speaker 1: with Ricky had to be psychological.
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Speaker 2: And as it happened, Ricky.
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Speaker 1: Did have a long history of psychological issues. He was
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Speaker 1: known for making things up all the time, just telling
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Speaker 1: people these crazy stories about himself, like how he was
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Speaker 1: this talented singer and he was about to go on tour,
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Speaker 1: or that he was actually a prince, or that he
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Speaker 1: was studying to be a doctor. I mean things that
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Speaker 1: nobody thought was true, but Ricky would say, as if
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Speaker 1: this is.
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Speaker 2: Just common knowledge, this is who I am.
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Speaker 1: And so Ricky's family, for the longest time had just
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Speaker 1: assumed that Ricky was either bipolar or maybe schizophrenic.
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Speaker 2: Those are both.
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Speaker 1: Serious mental health disorders that totally disrupt normal thinking. But Ricky,
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Speaker 1: despite being encouraged by his friends and family to go
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Speaker 1: get help, never got help for any of his psychological issues.
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Speaker 1: And so Ricky's life had kind of gone off the rails.
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Speaker 1: He had dropped out of high school and not gone
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Speaker 1: back to any sort of schooling, and he had spent
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Speaker 1: some time in jail. Now Ricky was living and a
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Speaker 1: low income, very dangerous part of Saint Louis, which is
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Speaker 1: a big Midwestern city on the Mississippi River that in
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine had a very serious issue with gang violence.
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Speaker 1: Ricky absolutely hated it there, but he had no way
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Speaker 1: to actually leave Saint Louis. In fact, Ricky didn't even
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Speaker 1: have his own place. He bounced around from his mother's place,
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Speaker 1: his aunt's place and his girlfriend's place. Ricky did work,
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Speaker 1: but the work was very sporadic and it was for
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Speaker 1: the most part, just night shifts for random odd jobs.
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Speaker 1: And when Ricky was actually working, he really just spent
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Speaker 1: his time chainsmoking cigarettes and drinking literally gallons of coffee.
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Speaker 1: Back at the er, Ricky, who was still in the
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Speaker 1: exam room, had only been there for less than an
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Speaker 1: hour when the doctor came back in and told Ricky
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Speaker 1: that he was okay.
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Speaker 2: And he was going to be discharged now.
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Speaker 1: Ricky immediately said, no, no, I have to be here tonight.
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Speaker 1: I need to stay here. You need to admit me.
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Speaker 1: But the doctor just kind of ignored what he said
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Speaker 1: and handed him the discharge paperwork. Fifteen minutes later, when
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Speaker 1: a nurse came back into the exam room to get
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Speaker 1: this paperwork from Ricky, she would walk in and see
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Speaker 1: Ricky still sitting on the exam bed kind of fidgeting around,
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Speaker 1: looking down at this paperwork on his lap.
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Speaker 2: That immediately she saw he had not filled out.
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Speaker 1: He had just signed his name at the bottom, and
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Speaker 1: when she walked in, Ricky looked up at her and
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Speaker 1: he kind of shrugged his shoulders and looked at her
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Speaker 1: and was like, I don't know how to read or write.
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Speaker 2: Can you help me?
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Speaker 1: And so the nurse immediately felt bad for Ricky. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's got dirty clothes on, he looks thin and frail.
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Speaker 1: He's clearly very down on his luck. There's some issues
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Speaker 1: happening with this guy, and he can't even fill out
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Speaker 1: his discharge paperwork. And so she said, no problem. She
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Speaker 1: sat down with him and together they filled out his paperwork.
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Speaker 1: And then afterwards, when she walked him out of the
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Speaker 1: exam room back to the front of the hospital, Ricky
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Speaker 1: turned to her and said, you know, instead of going home,
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Speaker 1: can you just let me stay here in the lobby
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Speaker 1: just for tonight. And this nurse, who knew she was
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Speaker 1: not allowed to do this, she looked around and saw
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Speaker 1: it was not a busy night night there, and so
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Speaker 1: she said, okay, as long as you don't bother anyone,
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Speaker 1: you can stay here. And so Ricky thanked her repeatedly
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Speaker 1: and then walked over to the corner, kind of far
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Speaker 1: away from the front desk and far away from the
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Speaker 1: front door, and he sat down and folded his arms
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Speaker 1: and then he just stared at the front door. And
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Speaker 1: so this nurse assumed that Ricky actually must be homeless,
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Speaker 1: especially based on how he came in and how he
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Speaker 1: was acting, and so she figured, you know, he needs
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Speaker 1: a place that's warm to stay tonight. And so the
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Speaker 1: nurse went back to her station, and over the course
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Speaker 1: of the next several hours, she would periodically look out
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Speaker 1: into the lobby, expecting to see Ricky kind of curled
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Speaker 1: up asleep in the corner. But every time she looked
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Speaker 1: out there, Ricky was still sitting upright, arms folded, staring
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Speaker 1: at the front door of the hospital, as if he
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Speaker 1: was expecting someone to come in at any moment and
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Speaker 1: he needed to be ready, And so she thought this
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Speaker 1: was unusual, but she decided not to intervene. She just
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Speaker 1: let him sit there and do his thing. Later that morning,
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Speaker 1: at eleven thirty am, when the nice nurse who had
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Speaker 1: allowed Ricky to stay in the lobby was leaving her shift,
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Speaker 1: another crew of nurses came in and right away they noticed.
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Speaker 2: Ricky was just sitting in the corner for no apparent reason.
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Speaker 1: And when they walked up to him to ask if
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Speaker 1: he was okay, you know, what are you doing here?
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Speaker 2: What can we do for you? Ricky?
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Speaker 1: Instead of trying to talk to any of these nurses,
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Speaker 1: just got up and walked out of the hospital. After
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Speaker 1: leaving the hospital, Ricky walked to a nearby pay phone
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Speaker 1: and he called his girlfriend, Sandy, And when Sandy picked
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Speaker 1: up the phone, she immediately recognized her boyfriend's very familiar voice,
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Speaker 1: but she also picked up that he sounded really tired
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Speaker 1: and kind of out of it, and so when she
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Speaker 1: asked him, you know, are you okay?
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Speaker 2: What's going on?
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Speaker 1: Ricky would tell her that he had just spent the
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Speaker 1: night in the hospital, but he didn't clarify that he
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Speaker 1: had spent the night in the lobby of the hospital,
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Speaker 1: not admitted as a patient at the hospital. But to Sandy,
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Speaker 1: it really didn't matter because already this was raising red
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Speaker 1: flags for her because this was actually the second time
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Speaker 1: that Ricky had gone to the er just that week.
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Speaker 1: Just a few days earlier, Ricky had been relieved from
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Speaker 1: a different hospital in Saint Louis after telling doctors there
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Speaker 1: that he had had these chest pains and he couldn't breathe,
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Speaker 1: and so he had been admitted for a couple of days,
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Speaker 1: but ultimately they determined that there really was nothing wrong
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Speaker 1: with him, and they too believed whatever was happening with
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Speaker 1: him had to be psychological, and so he had been released. Additionally,
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Speaker 1: Sandy had been growing increasingly worried about Ricky because over
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Speaker 1: the last several weeks, Ricky had begun acting really paranoid,
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Speaker 1: to the point where anytime he was in her apartment
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Speaker 1: and somebody outside the apartment just walked down the hallway,
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Speaker 1: Ricky would jump as if he was worried whoever was
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Speaker 1: out there was going to barge in at any moment.
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Speaker 1: But whenever Sandy asked, Ricky, you know what's going on?
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Speaker 1: Why are you so paranoid, he refused to elaborate. So,
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Speaker 1: feeling very concerned about Ricky, on this phone call, Sandy
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Speaker 1: would say to Ricky, please come to my apartment and
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Speaker 1: let me take care of you. If you're not feeling well,
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Speaker 1: I'll make you feel better. Just please come to my
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Speaker 1: apartment right now. But Ricky said no, he did not
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Speaker 1: want to go to Sandy's apartment. He told her instead
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Speaker 1: he was going to walk to a nearby gas station
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Speaker 1: to get a bite to eat, and then afterwards he
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Speaker 1: would give Sandy a call, and so the two of
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Speaker 1: them agreed to this plan. They hung up, but then
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Speaker 1: Ricky did not call Sandy. Later, a worker at the
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Speaker 1: gas station where Ricky said he was going would later
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Speaker 1: tell authorities that Ricky did come into the gas station
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Speaker 1: and he got a hot dog on that day, the
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Speaker 1: twenty sixth, and then the next day, this same worker said, yep,
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Speaker 1: we saw Ricky again on the twenty seventh.
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Speaker 2: He came in here, he got a bite to eat,
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Speaker 2: and then he left.
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Speaker 1: But after that, nobody saw Ricky, not his aunt, not
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Speaker 1: his mom, not his girlfriend. He didn't show up in
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Speaker 1: any other emergency rooms in Missouri.
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Speaker 2: He just disappeared.
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Speaker 1: On June thirtieth, So three days after Ricky was last
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Speaker 1: seen at this gas station, a woman was driving her
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Speaker 1: car twenty miles north of Saint Louis on this highway
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Speaker 1: when she looked out into this cornfield that butted up
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Speaker 1: against the highway, and she saw kind of in the
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Speaker 1: middle of it was this dark shape that looked totally
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Speaker 1: out of place, and so she was intrigued enough that
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Speaker 1: she actually pulled over on the road. She got out
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Speaker 1: and began walking into this cornfield to see what this
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Speaker 1: thing was. And when she got up to this thing
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Speaker 1: and saw what it was, she froze in horror and
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Speaker 1: then she screamed, turned around and ran back to her car,
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Speaker 1: and she flew to the nearest gas station.
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Speaker 2: She grabbed a payphone and she called nine to one one.
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Speaker 1: When the police arrived at this cornfield, they too walked
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Speaker 1: out towards this dark thing, and then finally they saw
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Speaker 1: what this thing was that had scared this woman.
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Speaker 2: It was a dead person who was lying face down.
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Speaker 2: Their body was.
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Speaker 1: Very badly decomposed, and in fact, their body was just
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Speaker 1: kind of falling apart, like the fingers of this person's
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Speaker 1: body had just kind of crumpled off.
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Speaker 2: Of their hands.
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Speaker 1: Now, based on what this person was wearing, they appeared
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Speaker 1: to be male, but there was no way to tell
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Speaker 1: how this person died or really how long they had
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Speaker 1: been dead for. But despite the advanced decomposition, authorities were
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Speaker 1: able to get a good fingerprint, and it would turn
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Speaker 1: out that this body belongs to Ricky McCormick. The day
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Speaker 1: after Ricky's body was found, the police would come out
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Speaker 1: and say they were treating his death as a homicide.
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Speaker 1: This area along this highway, in this cornfield was actually
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Speaker 1: a fairly commonplace for murderers to dump their victims, and
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Speaker 1: it was very unlikely that Ricky had gotten there by himself.
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Speaker 1: He didn't have a car. In fact, he didn't even
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Speaker 1: have a driver's license. There was no public transportation that
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Speaker 1: could have brought him to the spot, and if Ricky
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Speaker 1: had decided to walk to this area for some reason,
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Speaker 1: it was a solid fifteen miles from where he.
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Speaker 2: Lived and worked.
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Speaker 1: Also, Ricky's body was way too decomposed relative to when
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Speaker 1: he had last been seen alive just three days earlier,
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Speaker 1: and so there was a theory that perhaps he was
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Speaker 1: killed somewhere else and then kept indoors in heat, and
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Speaker 1: that had accelerated his decomposition, and that at some point
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Speaker 1: whoever had killed him had moved his body and dumped
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Speaker 1: it in this cornfield. And so on that first day
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Speaker 1: of the homicide investigation in July first, the police put
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Speaker 1: eighteen detectives, so a ton of detectives on this case,
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Speaker 1: and they also appealed to the public to come forward
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Speaker 1: if you had any information about what could have happened
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Speaker 1: to Ricky McCormick. But just a day later, on July second,
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Speaker 1: the police came out and made an announcement that after
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Speaker 1: looking at all the evidence and looking at Ricky's body again,
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Speaker 1: it did not appear in fact that he had been murdered,
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Speaker 1: but instead he must have died of natural causes. This
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Speaker 1: is a guy that had lung and heart problems and
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Speaker 1: so that is likely what killed him.
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Speaker 2: Case closed and so.
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Speaker 1: After this announcement, all of the evidence in Ricky's case
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Speaker 1: was bundled up, put into storage, and people just kind
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Speaker 1: of forgot about it. Six months later, the Federal Bureau
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Speaker 1: of Investigation the FBI got a tip that involved Ricky McCormick.
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Speaker 1: They were working on a case in Saint Louis, Missouri,
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Speaker 1: about this major drug dealer who apparently was ordering hits
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Speaker 1: on his rivals, and a confidential informant came forward and
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Speaker 1: told the FBI that the sky Ricky McCormick, had gotten
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Speaker 1: wrapped up with this major drug dealer. But they didn't
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Speaker 1: really know what role Ricky was playing with this drug dealer.
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Speaker 1: It was just kind of a rumor on the street that,
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Speaker 1: you know, Ricky was involved somehow. This did not make
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Speaker 1: any sense to the FBI because they're thinking, why would
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Speaker 1: this big time drug dealer who really was a mover
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Speaker 1: and shaker in Saint Louis get involved with this guy,
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Speaker 1: Ricky McCormick. Who was obviously deeply mentally ill and borderline homeless.
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Speaker 1: I mean, what role could Ricky play for this drug dealer?
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Speaker 1: But the FBI still did follow up on this tip
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Speaker 1: because it was very credible, and when they spoke to
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Speaker 1: the local police who had investigated Ricky's death, they got
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Speaker 1: Ricky's file, which meant they got all of the evidence.
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Speaker 1: And immediately the FBI realized the local police had overlooked
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Speaker 1: a very strange piece of evidence found in Ricky's pocket.
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Speaker 1: This strange evidence was quickly sent to FBI headquarters in Quantico, Virginia,
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Speaker 1: and it landed on the desk of a forensic analyst
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Speaker 1: named Dan Olsen. Dan was relatively new to the FBI,
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Speaker 1: but he was highly disciplined and very methodical, and so
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Speaker 1: when he received this piece of evidence, he got to
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Speaker 1: work right away trying to figure.
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Speaker 2: Out what it was.
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Speaker 1: You know, what it meant in relationship to Ricky and
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Speaker 1: the drug dealer, and you know, maybe does it answer
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Speaker 1: the question of how these people are connected.
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Speaker 2: But despite his best.
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Speaker 1: Efforts and calling in the experts and using every computer
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Speaker 1: program to analyze this evidence, he just could not figure
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Speaker 1: out what it meant. At the same time that Dan
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Speaker 1: was doing this. The big drug dealer who was the
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Speaker 1: target of that big FBI investigation in Saint Louis was
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Speaker 1: arrested on gun and drug charges, and so the big
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Speaker 1: case was now over, and suddenly trying to figure out
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Speaker 1: what connection Ricky McCormick had to this drug dealer was
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Speaker 1: kind of irrelevant because the drug dealer was behind bars
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Speaker 1: and Ricky was already dead, and so the FBI kind
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Speaker 1: of put a pause on trying to figure out what
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Speaker 1: this evidence was. And so Dan, even though he was
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Speaker 1: really curious now he was fully invested in trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out what this thing was, he realized he had
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Speaker 1: to give it up too and move on to something else,
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Speaker 1: and so these strange evidence went back into storage and
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Speaker 1: once again everyone just kind of moved on from Ricky McCormick.
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Speaker 1: But Dan never really forgot about this mystifying piece of evidence.
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Speaker 2: It was always in the back of his mind.
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Speaker 1: Twenty two years later, Dan Olsen had now become very
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Speaker 1: senior at the FBI. He was actually in charge of
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Speaker 1: their cryptanalysis and racketeering unit. Basically, he was in charge
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Speaker 1: of the people at the FBI who specialized in code breaking,
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Speaker 1: meaning they were the people that would pull any sort
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Speaker 1: of secret messages embedded inside of evidence. And so at
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Speaker 1: some point after taking over this unit, Dan pulled out
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Speaker 1: of storage this strange piece of evidence connected to Ricky McCormick,
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Speaker 1: and he said, you know what, I just need to
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Speaker 1: know what this means. I have to figure it out.
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Speaker 1: I've never been able to. It's haunted me ever since.
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Speaker 1: And so Dan went public. He went to the media
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Speaker 1: and he asked the world to take a look at
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Speaker 1: this mystifying piece of evidence and come forward if you
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Speaker 1: have any idea what it means. When Ricky was discovered
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Speaker 1: in that cornfield, the local police quickly emptied his pockets,
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Speaker 1: and in his pants pocket were two documents that contained
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Speaker 1: an incredibly complex cipher or code. It was basically thirty
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Speaker 1: lines on each piece of paper with different symbols and
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Speaker 1: letters and capital letters. I mean, it looked like total
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Speaker 1: gibberish to the untrained eye, but to people like Dan
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Speaker 1: and his code breaking team, these symbols and letters could
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Speaker 1: mean there was a secret message hidden inside of these
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Speaker 1: documents if you could break the code system.
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Speaker 2: But of course no one could ever break that code.
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Speaker 1: So how in the world does a guy like Ricky
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Speaker 1: who is basically functionally illiterate and can only write his name.
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Speaker 1: He's clearly mentally ill and he's not really in touch
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Speaker 1: with reality all the time. How does a guy like
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Speaker 1: that come to be in possession of these complex ciphers?
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Speaker 1: And if he didn't write these ciphers, because that's possible,
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Speaker 1: maybe somebody else gave them to Ricky.
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Speaker 2: Well, why would anyone who came up with.
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Speaker 1: This very complex cipher and trust a guy like Ricky
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Speaker 1: to be the one to carry these things around? I mean,
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Speaker 1: presumably they contain confidential information that's been very carefully hidden
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Speaker 1: inside of the cipher, and so why give it to Ricky?
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Speaker 2: He's such a liability.
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Speaker 1: And also what happened to Ricky in that cornfield? I mean,
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Speaker 1: we don't even know how he got there, we don't
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Speaker 1: know how he was killed. All we know is that
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Speaker 1: he had these ciphers in his pocket when he was found.
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Speaker 1: And so many people believe, including law enforcement, that the
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Speaker 1: answer to you know, what happened to Ricky and what
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Speaker 1: was his connection to this drug lord in Saint Louis,
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Speaker 1: If any.
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Speaker 2: Or you know what was he up to? Will all
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Speaker 2: be solved if we can just figure out what these
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Speaker 2: two ciphers mean.
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Speaker 1: But as of right now now no one has solved
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Speaker 1: the riddle of what these two ciphers mean. All we
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Speaker 1: know is that Ricky McCormick, a couple of weeks before
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Speaker 1: he died, became increasingly paranoid and was so scared of
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Speaker 1: someone or something that he was likely running into these
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Speaker 1: hospitals just to hide out. But eventually, whoever or whatever
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Speaker 1: Ricky was scared of very likely caught up to him
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Speaker 1: and killed him. But until we crack these ciphers, we
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Speaker 1: very likely will have no idea what actually happened to
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Speaker 1: Ricky McCormick. Today, the FBI has set up a special
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Speaker 1: website where you can look at these two ciphers that
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Speaker 1: Ricky had in his pocket and if you're able to
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Speaker 1: crack them, because someone's going to eventually, you can tell
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Speaker 1: the FBI through this website and potentially helped solve Ricky's murder.
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Speaker 1: To go to this FBI website, click the link in
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Speaker 1: the description below.
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