Thinking Sideways: The McCormick Cypher

Shattered Souls

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🗓️ 15 August 2013

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In 1999 Ricky McCormick was killed on the side of a freeway, 12 years later the FBI finally asks the public for help in decrypting a cypher found in his pants pocket. Ricky wrote them and to this day no one is really sure what them mean.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Steve here. You are listening to one of our original 26 episodes. If you listen to any of our new episodes, you're gonna notice that we're sounding a little different in these ones.
0:11.0	Yeah, there's a reason for that. There is. They've been remastered. They have been remastered.
0:15.0	Because they had a really annoying hum.
0:17.0	Yeah, I mean, huge thanks to listener James for doing almost all of the legwork on this thing.
0:23.0	You'll also notice if you had listened to what we're calling the last 26 episodes before, and you're re-listening now, the music and sound effects are gone.
0:32.0	Yes, we've gone back to straight audio. So, be warned. We sound a little different today than we do in what you're about to listen to.
0:39.0	Yeah. Bye.
0:40.0	Bye.
0:41.0	Thinking sideways.
0:46.0	I don't understand that.
0:48.0	It does not come to you.
0:50.0	You never know.
0:51.0	It's a big, big thing to listen to.
0:54.0	What?
0:55.0	Stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.
1:00.0	Thanks for coming back. I'm Steve.
1:03.0	I'm Devon.
1:04.0	And I'm Joe.
1:05.0	And we're gonna give you a new story today.
1:08.0	The story about a murder most foul or story begins or ends if you want to look at it that way on June 30th of 1999.
1:18.0	The body of Ricky McCormick was found face down in a cornfield about 20 miles from his home in St. Louis, Missouri.
1:29.0	Ricky had officially been missing for three days, though his family said they hadn't seen him in five.
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