In the News
- Letter from Nicolo's files likely a forgery, expert says
- Letter linked to Matt
- Dead patient's medical records 'altered': expert
- Pair found guilty in Chester fake autographs trial
- Juror now living overseas because of threat
- The Smoking Gun's story on the fabricated Tupac Shakur documents
- Crawley woman cleared of faking mother's will
- Is Savio's signature faked?
- Playing Tricks with the Fort Dix Six?
- Autographs via LongPen
- State asks for samples of Cortez’s handwriting
- 14-year-old charged with threats to Colony High School
- Expert queries Guzzo documents at Cornwall sex inquiry
- Experts testify on remains at trial
- Handwriting expert testifies in murder case
- Expert links Navy doctor to writing on sex video
- Mack wrote 'end problem' list of things to do the day his wife was killed, expert testifies
- Exclusion of prints could stir legal tests
- The Writing On The Wall
- Handwriting expert settles JonBenet Ramsey suit
- Woman accused of killing Ossining mom told about kidnapping plot
- Expert testifies burned bone could be from Meyer
- Govt buys forgery detecting machines
- Former police officer denies charges of sexual assault
- Handwriting expert debunks Habib evidence
- Davy Crockett Letter Purchased by Texas Could Be Fake
- Torres trial continues today
- Alaska finally begins offering e-prescriptions
- Brooke Astor's Son Caves On Will Codicil
- Felony perjury trial set for Ed Jew
- Tamper-resistant drug pads may spell trouble
- Man claims mortgage fraud as home foreclosure looms
- Authority investigates police scientists
- Dummar files new suit over Hughes estate
- Handwriting expert says author stole her JonBenet Ramsey work
- The Truth About Forensics
- U.S. Attorney calls bid for Cochonour probe ‘troublesome’
- Zodiac Movie Review
- Your new ID-theft worry? Photocopiers
- Zodiac's written clues fascinate document expert
- Students learn to connect the letters in a world of cursive
- Moscow’s Assault on the Vatican: The KGB made corrupting the Church a priority
- Amateur Sleuthing Lands Grisham in Real-Life Court
- Jail for woman who used DIY kit to forge dying mother's will
- Gas station cashier: Customer's counterfeit $20 bill was blank on one side
- Astor Will a $ham
- Handwriting expert: Astor signature on amended will is not from her
- Anonymous letter causes high school row
- Fingerprint focus in Dina bail application
- Writing analyst was disqualified
- Fujifilm's Crime Camera: Fujifilm Finepix S3 Pro UVIR
- Three South Africans deported
- Court: Man threatened judge
- Who Killed the Lindbergh Baby?
- Correction fluid covered victim's name, court told
- Judging By His Handwriting: Holier-than-thou jurist scrawls an illegible signature order (from The Smoking Gun)
- Diary entries to be dated
- Oric Handwriting Testimony Questioned
- Himmler files confirmed as forgeries
- Forgeries exposed by a hunch and by science
- Expert: Handwriting sample links retired nurse to slain law student
- Forensic examiners testify that Cameron Diaz signature forged on release
- Mandela signature 'imitation'
- Forensics scientists reconstruct diary of Israeli astronaut
- Government Uses Color Laser Printer Technology to Track Documents
- The CBS Whitewash
- CBS News Execs Ousted After Scathing Report on Bush Story
- Retrial Starts of Ex-Cops Called 'Riders': D.A. says he has new evidence of altered documents
- Printer Forensics to Aid Homeland Security, Tracing Counterfeiters
- Day of Reckoning Approaches for Those Who 'Float' Checks
- CBS Can't Vouch for Bush Guard Memos
Reports of Marcel Matley and James J. Pierce
CBS' Experts Say They Didn't Authenticate Bush Memos
Key Challenges to National Guard Documents Answered: Type Style, Typewriter and Superscript Function All Existed in the Early 1970s
- A Safer America: The Document Problem
- Husband forged dead wife’s will signature
- Daubert successes:
- "Picking Up the Pieces"
New York Times article about reconstruction of shredded documents.
- Mel submitted this interesting article about using DNA to tag inks.
- Read a copy of an Order of the Court from a Daubert hearing in Wichita, Kansas January 14th.
- Read a trial transcript featuring Mark Denbeaux as a witness.
- HK's richest woman loses will battle
The judgement is posted online. (Warning: it is very long but worth at least skimming through.) The second section deals with the handwriting, and the third with ink dating. Links to the rest of the document are found at the very end of the pages.
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Archer's secretary "created bogus diary."
- "Williams' daughter questions letter claiming desire to be frozen."
- "A harder day in court for fingerprint, writing experts"
- "Writing's on the wall for Shakespeare"
- "Revenge For Wild Bill"
- "University at Buffalo software identifies handwriting"
- "In the center ring, now and forever: JonBenet Ramsey"
Document examiner does the right thing
- "Author Unknown" by Don Foster
Read a review of a new book in which the author claims he can identify writers using stylistics.
- "The New Bogus Majestic-12 Documents"
A UFO expert determines UFOlogists "top secret" documents are bogus.
- "Memorandum Reviewing Standards for Forensic Handwriting Analysis"
According to this article, forensic handwriting analysis is an insufficient method in determining authenticity of the Tibetan Buddhist Prediction Letter, which recognizes the 17th Karmapa.
- Baseball memorabilia case
- U.S. vs Van Wyk
This court opinion considers forensic stylistics expertise.
- U.S. vs Hines (6-99)
- U.S. vs Paul (5-99)
- U.S. vs Ruth (2-97)
- U.S. vs Velasquez (8-95)
