THE UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF THE CIPHER IN THE CORN: The Mysterious True Crime Murder of Ricky McCormick
Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.
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IN THIS EPISODE: We explore the unsolved murder of Ricky McCormick, and the mysterious pages of code found in the dead man’s pocket after his body was discovered in St. Charles County, Missouri, in 1999. The FBI’s top cryptanalysts have appealed to the public for help deciphering the enigmatic scribbles—and you may hold the key.
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“Cipher In The Corn” written by Stu Wahlin for Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/hstndhs
If you have info that could help solve the Ricky McCormick case, visit https://forms.fbi.gov/code; you can also write to: FBI Laboratory Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records, Unit 2501 Investigation Parkway, Quantico VA 22135 - Attention: Ricky McCormick Case
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Originally aired: November, 2016
EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CipherInTheCorn
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| 0:00.0 | Do you like my horrorable humor episodes called Mind of Marler? |
| 0:06.1 | If so, and you'd like more, it now has its very own podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | Comedic creeps, sarcastic scares, frivolous frights, macabre madness. |
| 0:15.4 | Every week I dive into strange history, twisted true crime, and paranormal weirdness. |
| 0:20.1 | All the stuff you'd expect from me on weird Darkness, but delivered with dark comedy, satire, |
| 0:25.0 | and just the right amount of absurdity. |
| 0:27.5 | Monsters, myths, mysteries, mirth, and more every Monday with Mind of Marler. |
| 0:32.4 | I like alliteration, can you tell? |
| 0:34.3 | You can find a list of where you can subscribe to the podcast at weirddarkness.com |
| 0:38.5 | under the menu tab for podcasts. |
| 0:40.6 | Hold the kaleidoscope to your eye. Peer inside. One twist changes everything. A woman |
| 0:52.9 | awakens in a grotesque, human-sized arcade game. A mysterious cigar box |
| 0:59.2 | purchased at a farmer's market releases an ancient gin who demands a replacement prisoner. An elderly |
| 1:07.1 | woman possesses the terrifying power to inflict pain through handmade dolls. |
| 1:13.6 | An exclusive restaurant's sinister secret menu includes murder for hire and harvested organs. |
| 1:22.4 | With each turn through these 20 tales, Reddit No Sleep favorite AP Royal reshapes reality, creating dazzling |
| 1:31.4 | patterns of horror that entrance as they terrify. |
| 1:36.1 | The kaleidoscope, 20 terrifying tales of horror and the supernatural by AP Royal, narrated |
| 1:43.6 | by Darren Marler. |
| 1:45.3 | You're a free sample on the audiobooks page at Weird Darkness.com. |
| 1:54.1 | The Voynic Manuscript. |
| 2:01.1 | The Beal Papers. |
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