Can we build a reproducible starting point for the McCormick notes without guessing away the handwriting?
The FBI documented these two notes as an unsolved public challenge in its 2011 account, printed page 25. My 2026-09-22 search found no authoritative confirmation of a solution; that is a limited search finding, not proof of current status.
Image provenance. These are reproductions, not new scans.
I built a starter kit with image hashes, a transcription interface, and a runnable Node analyzer. Its synthetic self-check gives six known symbols, two unresolved glyphs, and only AA/AB as adjacent pairs. Unknown glyphs and line boundaries break pairs. No real-note transcription has been analyzed yet.
