Some things I forgot to post here

on the page labeled notes.

line five the sixth character is a 6
line ten, the seventh character in from the left is a 7, the seventh character in from the right is also a 7

Also on line ten it starts with what looks like a crossed out 1 followed by 6mLSE7
assuming the first character is a 1 you have 16mLSE7 if the m is actually a sideways 3 and the S is actually a 5 you have 163L5E7 which makes the 1,3,5, and 7 appear in the proper sequence for the line.

Gambling references??

Others have put forth theories on this being gambling notes for a bookie.  I don't give that theory much weight because bookies can normally pay their bills and don't get evicted.  The word bets does appear a fair amount and I noticed red sox at the top of P1.  Here is an attachment in case anyone is interested.

Return to the bus route theory

Having the knowledge that Ricky was being evicted I am wondering if it is possible that these two pages could include information on his search for a new apartment.  I am going to look up apartment complex names aroud these bus routes to see if anything matches up with any of the code.  Also, the 71, 74, and 75 NCBE on the page with P1 at the top.  I wonder if those could be dates.  July 1, 4 and 5th.

A little light hearted guessing

A theory I briefly entertained but I don't think I posted about was that Ricky was jotting down notes about such things as Movies.  Some movies that came out around the time of his death that can be found in one form or another in the text are:

South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut  sprk and uncut clearly appear in the code.
Sixth Sense
200 Cigarettes

I have seen some others but I am curious if anyone else sees this.  I quickly moved on from this but thought I would revisit it here.

My theory so far

I have read many theories on this and a good number of them seem plausible. I believe the numbers are all bus routes. The biggest problem with definitively proving this theory is that I only have access to current bus routes and not the routes that existed in 1999.

Almost all of the numbers found on the notes are bus numbers in the St Louis area. I suspect that this would probably be true of most areas so I had to make more sense of them before I felt comfortable about this. On one of the pages the number 75 appears. On the other page there are a series of numbers which when taken in order are routes that intersect with the 75 route.

Line 10 on the page labeled NOTES has the numbers 36 74 27(9) and 75.
The 27 could be a 29 although that would not work out with the current bus lines. If looking at the bus system map of the area traveling west - east on the 75 line each of these numbers is a bus route heading south in the order listed above.

I have also noticed some patterns which could be streets individual bus routes take although this will take a good bit more investigation on my part.

One additional item I thought of while writing this post was that what look like the letter k could be a symbol denoting a bus turning. That is wild speculation at this point though.

Location the body was discovered

Through some thorough searching of the area and local news footage I think I have found the exact area the body was found. Here is a link to the area on Bing maps