Video: The Ricky McCormick Codes Explained

By Tom Carlson on Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:24 pm

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Video: The Ricky McCormick Codes Explained

This week's Riverfront Times feature story, "Code Dead," examines the encrypted messages discovered a decade ago on the body of Ricky McCormick and why the FBI's foremost code-breakers remained stymied by the ciphers.

In the following video, expert cryptographer Elonka Dunin walks author Christopher Tritto through the challenges of solving the elusive McCormick codes.