Handwriting analysts detect a passionate man on the edge

THE WASHINGTON TIMES via Drudge ^ | October 19, 2001 | Frank J. Murray

[freedom4ever]

Two handwriting analysts independently concluded yesterday that the person who addressed the envelopes containing anthrax to NBC anchor Tom Brokaw and to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is dangerously depressed and determined.

"The writer is very tired and at the breaking point emotionally," said graphologist Glenda Ross of Olympia, Wash. "The writer is too violent and unable to listen" but feels he is doing the right thing.

[freedom4ever]

Haven't Bill and Hillary been strangely quiet and missing from the TV screen during the anthrax stuff? For two or three weks after 9-11, they were on the tube daily. Now they are MIA for at least the last week.

Otherwise, this is an interesting article.

[Ymani Cricket]

The description sounds a lot like the one in Florida we discussed HERE.

Be interested to see the differences between these two. Does someone have a .jpg pic of these two letters mentioned in this article? If so please post.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

"The overall impression is that the writer has lived a long time in America. The numeral 1 is the only indication on the envelope that it could be written by someone from another country, as the American numeral 1 is just a straight line," she said.

I've always thought handwriting analysis was as bogus as astrology. Now I'm certain of it. I know dozens of Americans including myself who use serifs when writing the number 1.

[lute]

This is a very interesting anaylis. To find out the disposition, the approximate age, the nationality and the gender of the terrorist who sent the anthrax is simply amazing.

I'm indeed impressed.

I wonder why the handwriting experts couldn't find information like this from the JonBenet Ramsey ransom note?

But then again we know that money will buy all the justice one can afford.

[dbbeebs]

Graphology is a hoax.

[Clinton's a rapist]

"Many men who wear a uniform write with all capital letters,"

So do many terrorists, kidnappers, extortionists, and mad bombers. I can't imagine why, can you?

[freedom4ever]

Kind of like psychological profiles.

[spycatcher]

After an independent analysis I've determined it's an angry male with passionate beliefs. A swarthy, middle-eastern terrorist type who may be in the U.S. He wants to strike out against various people in the US power structure, and may also be considering bombing large buildings, dams, pipelines, power grids, etc.

[jpthomas]

[NYpeanut]

The writer is very tired and at the breaking point emotionally...is too violent and unable to listen, but feels he is doing the right thing.

Yep, sounds like the impeached rapist, all right.

[piasa]

"Many men who wear a uniform write with all capital letters," said Mrs. Webb, education officer of the British Institute of Graphologists whose previous analyses included serial murderer Dr. Harold Shipman. This habit can indicate a person feels "self-important, dominating, self-focused and independent."

Most youngish engineers from American universities- male and female- that I've encountered, also write with block letters. Physics students do that a lot as well.

[piasa]

That is slanted WAY too much to be a lefty. More like a rightie trying to look like a lefty. (Lots of lefties don't slant their writing at all.)

[FreeYourMind]

Um, I could have told you the guy who sent the Anthrax was passionate and on the edge even if I hadn't seen his handwriting...

[logos]

Trained handwriting analysts are able to determine if a particular writer executed a specific piece of suspect writing. For best results, even that requires the voluntary submission of handwriting exemplars from the suspect. They are unable to determine anything at all about the psychology of the writer.

Graphology is a hoax, and a surprising number of graphologists are co-located with palm readers.

[jpthomas]

The arabic script is written and read from right to left. I'm wondering whether the slant could be a side-effect of a native arabic speaker/writer contending with writing in the direction opposite to which he/she is accustomed.

[Ymani Cricket]

thanks :)

[Aquinasfan]

My study of the writing tells me that the writer is inclined to mail letters containing anthrax to famous people. He also wet his bed in childhood.

[Izzy Dunne]

Handwriting analysts detect a passionate man on the edge

Well, duhhh.
It doesn't take any talent to know that a man who sends an anthrax letter is "passionate" and "on the edge".

[bimbo]

I've always thought handwriting analysis was as bogus as astrology.

True. And like Astrologists, Graphologists usually try to tell the client what he wants to hear.