[fhayek]

It's one thing to be a forger, it is another to be a stupid forger. There are always things that you don't know, and they come back to bite you in the butt (see GW Bush, Texas Air National Guard typeface).

Anyway, it seemed just a tad too convenient for all of that information to be in that yearbook. Date, place, title ("DA"). I mean even if you were a powerful person, would you sign a yearbook in such detail? And of course the two colors of ink is just amatuerish.

[backwoods-engineer]

Yep. First Ra^ther, now D.A., down in the annals of the history of the struggle for freedom against the Uniparty.

[Sacajaweau]

Neither Beverly or Allred is the actual forger. It's not as easy as you think.

So there's another little rat in the trap....that is scurrying for a place to hide.

On another note...I'm betting that the note was written by an aunt, uncle, cousin...close/old family friend who stopped at the Beverly Young house just before Christmas....someone who knew Beverly from when she was a little girl. And she brought out her book. Now that scenario makes sense. The Olde Hickory scenario makes "0" sense.