The FBI needs your help!

[UnendingRequiem]

The FBI needs the help of the public to solve a murder. They have been working on the murder case for 12 years now, but they still haven't managed to decipher a secret code left by the killer on his victim. So they are now calling upon the public to decipher the code for them. Let's do this guys.

Text from one of the notes (may not be 100% accurate)

ALPNTE GLSE-SE ERTE
VLSE MTSE-CTSE-WSE-FRTSE
PWRTRSE ONDRSE WLD NCBE
NWLDXCRCMSP NEWLD STS ME XL
DUCMT6TUNSE NCBEXC
(MUNSA I? STENMU NARSE)
KLSE-LRSTE-TR SE-TRSE-MKSEN-MRSE
(SAE6NSE SE NMBSE)
NMNRCBRNSEPTE2PTEWSRCBR (N?U?)SE
26MLSE 74SPRKSE 29 KCNO (O?B?S?)OLE 175RTRSE
35GLE CLGSE UUNUTXEDKRSE PSESHLE
651 MTCSE HTLSEN CUTCTRS NMRF
99845 ZUNEPLSEUCRSEAOLTSEN SKSEN (D?)SE
NSREONSE PUTSEWLDNCBE (3XORL)
NMSE NRSE IN2NTRLERCBANSENTSRCRSNC
LSPNSEN GSPSE MKSERBSENCBEAVXCR
HA CREN MRENCBE 1/2 MUNDDLSE
D-W-M-Y MPL XDRLX

Number of appearances of individual letters

A - 24
B - 47
C - 44
D - 23
E - 130
F - 9
G - 7
H - 4
I - 9
J - 1
K - 10
L - 49
M - 26
N - 81
0 - 14
P - 31
Q - 0
R - 64
S - 96
T - 54
U - 10
V - 7
W - 19
X - 14
Y - 3
Z - 0

Sources: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/30/fbi-public-help-needed-crack-encrypted-notes-1-murder-mystery/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelo...-breaking-encrypted-notes-tied-to-1999-murder

 

[amadeus]

It says Paul is dead.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Spoiler :

The butler did it

 

[Kozmos]

Colonel Mustard in the Library with a pipe wrench.

 

[madviking]

Zodiac killer?

 

[ParadigmShifter]

(MUNSA I? STENMU NARSE)

Mansa Musa did it. I KNEW it!

 

[madviking]

Mansa Musa did it. I KNEW it!

All those years tech whoring finally caught up to him.

 

[GamezRule]

The answer is as always: 47

(thread will be locked soon)

 

[BuckyRea]

Have they tried spelling it out backwards?

 

[NickyJ]

It says that Mrs. Periwinkle killed Doctor Baker using her flower pot, of course. Really, Watson, how could you not have noticed that?

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Have they tried spelling it out backwards?

I think so, the answer was:

Spoiler :

ti

EDIT: Or "tuo ti" for pedants.

 

[Ajidica]

The answer is as always: 47

(thread will be locked soon)

42, you dimentionaly challenged mouse!

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Dimensionally... But I wouldn't want to be a spelling Nazi in a spam thread. Move along.

 

[Miles Teg]

I'm surprised that they're only just releasing this now.

In any case, I don't have the hubris to think that I'm a better code cracker than the FBI's cryptography unit, so I'll sit this one out.

 

[GamezRule]

I wish to say that 47 is superior to 42 before the thread is locked.

 

[Ajidica]

Dimensionally... But I wouldn't want to be a spelling Nazi in a spam thread. Move along.

That was intentional. I was demonstrating my intellectual superiority over him by including a spelling mistake that was beyond his capacity to recognize it!
Foolish Jesus look-alike!

 

[ParadigmShifter]

47 is a prime number. I like.

 

[warpus]

It's obviously an acronym

ALPNTE GLSE-SE ERTE

Announcing legal Polish nanobot technology - EXCELLENT

Gary left something earlier - sexy earings! Everyone remembers those earings.

 

[amadeus]

They should give this to the guys over at (3+1)chan.

 

[bathsheba666]

I was demonstrating my intellectual superiority over him by including a spelling mistake that was beyond his capacity to recognize it!

If you're trying to demonstrate IT skills, best not do it by adding a superfluous 'it' at the end of your sentence.