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Encrypted communications and right now they are stumped at an old murder investigation they're asking for your help. cnn's jeanne meserve with the story. >> reporter: in 1999 in this field near st. louis, police found the body of ricky mccormack, unemployed, 41 years old. authorities think he was murdered, but why? by whom? two pages of encrypted notes written by mccormack and found in his pocket could hold key clues but 12 years after they were found, no one has broke on the code. >> could it just be gibberish? >> i don't think so. we have patterns and very consistent character repeating sequ...

Whose real life job is unlocking encrypted investigations. right now, they're stumped on an old murder investigation, and they're asking for your help. >> reporter: in 1999, in this field near st. louis, police found the body of ricky mccormack, unemployed, 41 years old. authorities think high was murdered, but why? by whom? two pages of encrypted notes written by mccormack and in his pocket could find clues, but 12 years after they were found, no one has broken the code. could it just be gibberish? >> i don't think so. we have patterns. we have character repeating sequences. there are almost ...

They have unlocked lots of other messages relating to murder and lots of other illegal activity. their biggest triumph cracking a code by brian regan. >> this message contains the locations of seven different drop sites in maryland where brian hid the most sensitive and the most secret documents that he had stolen. >> reporter: in the end, a gag photo in regan's middle school yearbook was the key to decoding the sequence of numbers. what is the most important skill for someone in your line of work? >> tenacity. high self-esteem. you can't get discouraged and you also have to know when to let i...

cooperation i hope we have going forward because this is what america is all about. >> lincoln, of course, being one of obama's main heroes. now, cnn congressional correspondent dana bash joins me live. after all that drama, do we actually know where the cuts are coming? >> we know generally where the cuts are coming from. and from the perspective of the democrats, they're not coming from the position they were most worried ut, at least for the most part. they were most worried about the part the cuts that republicans had initially put in were hitting too hard at the people who actua...

>> reporter: seems there has been a letter found in his apartment or in his car but police do not want to confirm that piece of information but it seems weird that three hours after the shooting they have decided to block off and evacuate new centers, shopping centers in this town so i think that points to the direction of him leaving the note saying he has also planted other bombing materials in different spots in this town but that is rumor, it's not a fact. i have not confirmed that yet. this is cairo, machine gunfire in the middle of the night. soldiers in armored vehicles forc...