[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

The author uses the words "can not," when many people prefer to spell it as one word, "cannot."

Author is used to using contractions and made an attempt to seperate the contraction can't. Likely someone with good comfort level with American idioms.

However, the first letter of the first word of each sentence is written in slightly larger upper case lettering. Also, the first letter of all proper nouns (like names) is slightly larger. This is apparently the author's way of indicating a word should be capitalized in upper case lettering.

Author understands the importance of capitalization, and it appears that he sub-subconsciously "capitalized" where he should have.

The names and address on each envelope are noticeably tilted on a downward slant from left to right.

Author is right-handed and is not used to writing on non-ruled paper. Very familiar with writing in western form (left to right).

KEY POINT

The author uses dashes ("-") in the writing of the date "09-11-01." Many people use the slash ("/") to separate the day/month/year.

Author may be a computer user as most software packages will not allow dates to be written with a slash as that has a mathematical value associated with it.

My Analysis

Author is a western born and raised individual. Likely male, intelligent, under 50, with plenty of experience with computers. Likely not a programmer, but maybe a power user. Database entry or similar job at night would be a good starting profile. He has to have access to chemisty equipment of moderate sophistication, so check Universities in Trenton area first.

[jacquej]

I noticed the extra stroke, or the very heavy stroke on the T's, and one other intital letter, and wondered what that meant. It looked as if he had gone over the crossbar on the top twice, and hope someone might have some insight as to what that might mean.

It would seem to me, a real amatuer, that the downhill writing would indicate someone who wasn't used to writing from right to left. The spacing between the individual letters was a bit wide, also, reminding me of the wide spacing that appears in Arabic writing...

[vbmoneyspender]

I like your analysis. Explains why he would be using '09' for September instead of just 9.

[Revolting cat!]

Groovy! Has anyone considered that the author of these letters intentionally placed false leads such as the ones discussed? I guess not, 'coz that would make all the experts look like complete fools. Still I think that is worth taking into account. In particular, the date thing may be intentional, because it is such an obvious red herring to plant. An educated person, if that's who it is, would be educated enough to know that different countries and continents have different ways of writing dates. Instead, we (the FBI) are saying that this dude was highly educated in one area (say bio-technology,) but a complete dumbie (an FR expression) in all others? Unfreakingbelievable!

[RickGee]

The names and address on each envelope are noticeably tilted on a downward slant from left to right.

Someone here said that this indicates that the person is right-handed, but I'm right-handed
and my writing/printing has always slanted upward as I go to the right, unless I am being careful.

[cynwoody]

However, the first letter of the first word of each sentence is written in slightly larger upper case lettering. Also, the first letter of all proper nouns (like names) is slightly larger. This is apparently the author's way of indicating a word should be capitalized in upper case lettering.

Author understands the importance of capitalization, and it appears that he sub-subconsciously "capitalized" where he should have.

That's the Microsoft Word "small caps" font style.

It's also the way the Cyrillic alphabet is written. Cyrillic evidently lacks lower case. Might he be a former employee of Biopreparat?

[syriacus]

However, the first letter of the first word of each sentence is written in slightly larger upper case lettering.

This is also the way capitalization was done on a very old typewriter we had. "Upper case" and "lower case" letters were the same, except "lower case" letters were smaller than the "upper case" ones.

[GOPJ]

Maybe he knows he's a robot: no feelings, just logic. The "Data" syndrome.

"The author uses the words "can not," when many people prefer to spell it as one word, "cannot." "Author is used to using contractions and made an attempt to separate the contraction can't."

[Bernard]

And probably feels betrayed by the entities that the packages were mailed to. I also noticed the part about no slashes - sounds like the writer usese Windows explorer much more than a filing cabinte with drawers and handles.