For nearly a decade, sleuths had tried to decode a cryptic note discovered in the silk bustle dress. An analyst finally cracked the case. By Livia Albeck-Ripka Sara Rivers Cofield was on her usual ...

Usually, a story about hacking a coded message will have some computer element or, at least, a machine like an Enigma. But [Ruth Selman] recently posted a challenge asking if anyone could decrypt an ...

A coded letter from the Zodiac Killer was finally deciphered after over 50 years. A code breaking team tested thousands of ways to crack the code on one of the killer's messages from the late 1960s.

BISMARCK — Sara Rivers Cofield loved the dress at first sight. It was a beautiful brown silk bustle dress with original buttons from the 1880s, on sale at an antique mall in Maine. Rivers Cofield, an ...

A woman in Maryland discovered a coded message hidden within the pages of a secondhand book bought for her by her mother. Sydney, from Baltimore, had been eager to read La Belle Sauvage by Philip ...