The public to try to crack the code which they say is a maddening variety of numbers, letters, dashes, par parentheses, the encrypting and racketeering unit cannot break through the lines, the fbi is basically hoping now fresh sets of eyeballs will reveal something about the victim whom they say was a street smart high school drapout dropout. his family said he used codes like this since he was a kid but they, like the fbi, don t know how to read it, gregg. gregg: i was looking at these two notes myself, not that i m an expert, but you know t. could be just gibberish. does the fbi really think these codes will solve the case? reporter: they say that breaking the code could reveal where ricky was before his death and it might help the case, but the head of the unit in charge, dan olson also said says, this is a quote, even if we found out he was writing a grocery list or love letter we would still want to see how the code is solved, this is a decipher system the fbi