Cryptic notes are found in the pocket of a man found dead in a rural field Ricky McCormick, age 41, male, Black, vanished from the St. Louis area in late June 1999 after a string of medical visits and small, ordinary touchpoints that would later feel like the last clicks of a door locking shut. Days earlier, McCormick had been in and out of hospitals complaining of chest pain and breathing trouble, and on June 26 called a girlfriend to say McCormick was heading to the Amoco gas station near the apartment. A clerk would later place McCormick there on June 27, 1999—the
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