It is VERY likely that when cornered on why the inks don’t match up, she’s going to say she put in the rest of the information for posterity, but that he really did sign her yearbook.
I still have several questions, though:
1. What year is the yearbook from? Is this from a 1976-77 yearbook, or a 1977-78 yearbook? If it’s a 1977-78, the date is almost certainly wrong, and thus indicates a real likelihood of a forgery-gone-wrong. Yearbooks don’t come out in the middle of the year for many reasons. One of the big ones is that some of the sports seasons are not over at that time (e.g., basketball season). There would be no indication of team results, etc. That, by the way, would be another way to validate the signature date. If the basketball season record is given in the yearbook, and it’s a 1977-78 yearbook, then it’s a fake signature/date.
2. Under exactly what situation is a deputy DA signing a kid’s yearbook? By her own account, how did this even happen? I’ve never heard of getting people from outside your school (i.e. students, teachers, staff) to sign yearbooks. It seems very odd to me, just for this single reason.
I remember being a 14-year old girl. It’s possible that she forged his name back then to make herself seem important to her friends. A girl has a crush on a guy and pretends...
Did I read that she was working at the restaurant? What age were teens allowed to work in 1977? Today teens can work ages 14-15 in retail, clerical, or child care; no place where alcohol is served.