Mystery of Ricky McCormick's Deadly Notes: The 1999 Missouri Case 🕵️‍♂️

In 1999, 41-year-old Ricky McCormick was found in a Missouri field with two pages of hand-written codes in his pocket—and no clear cause of death. He didn’t own a car, yet he turned up miles from home. Were those notes a private system only he understood, or a message meant for someone else? In 90 seconds, we walk the timeline, the cipher clues, and the theories that keep this forgotten American case unsolved.
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