Dueling handwriting experts - woohoo.
O'Reilly has on a guy who says his handwriting guy is certain Patsey wrote the ransom note, and at the exact same time Nancy Grace has on a guy who says he thinks Karr's handwriting is entirely consistent with the ransom note.
Yeah, yeah hate me for watching Nancy - but she knows this case inside and out. If you can get past the hairdo of the week she's actually pretty damn good at what she does. I liked her on CourtTV - I still do.
From the yearbook: "Sometimes, so blurred by my own eyes, I've seen the best things come and go simultaneously".
While in Thailand, Suwart said the suspect described the encounter (crime) as a "blur".
Both imply crying and something bad.......and they're more than twenty years apart.
How many killers would describe the crime as "a blur"?
Wonder if he used the word/term "blur" in any of his other correspondence.
One thing that none of the handwriting experts ever tell anyone, because it's impossible to measure, is how many of the people in the world, or just the US, happen to make their letters some certain way.
If they are the experts and analyze thousands of handwriting or printing exemplars every day, week, year, why haven't they kept some kind of database or made a survey of the styles?
They might say that putting the cap on the lower-case "a" is unusual, for example. Well, how do we know it's unusual? In comparison to what perentage of all the people who write is it unusual?
Same with the squiggly "l" they showed - same in ransom note as in Karr's yearbook signature. OK, what if 85% or 99% of people make squiggly l's? Then what?
Oh, and they're acting like the lower-case "e" in each sample is something extraordinary in its formation. It's just a cursive "e" interspersed with printing. There may be hundreds of 1000s of people who switch back and forth between printing and cursive and would form their "e" the same way, sometimes because it's easier to connect with the next letter and not have to lift the pen or pencil.
It's what they *don't say* that's often important.