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I am no handwriting expert. In fact, I know nothing about it. However, I find this letter completely inappropriate and presumptuous. I would have been furious to receive this letter given the circumstances.
I don't know the details of handwriting analysis, but I DO know when I see this type of handwriting, it's done by someone who's focused and trying to get ahead, who perceives themselves as being kind of a "pillar" of the group, reliable, dependable, consistent, trustworthy, and capable. They may not BE that, but that's how they perceive themselves and how they want to come across to others.
This handwriting, in my somewhat large experience, is very typical of officers of volunteer organizations.
That's what came to my mind too. I always thought Lori Drew is a social climber, like Wanda Holloway, Betty Broderick, and to some extent Jerry Sandusky. They are very narcissistic and always want to be ahead and have a "dog eat dog" mindset. She sees herself as dependable and trustworthy. Ashley Grills views Lori Drew as a "motherly figure". She is very nosy and meddling in nature, typical of a social climber.
It would certainly explain why she is a member of many organizations, like St. Peters Chamber of Commerce. She needs to be around people and she feels she is important because she feels deeply inferior about herself and has issues of self-hatred. Drew hates being alone, yet always feels lonely. She always gets her daughter involved in every extracurricular activities. Lori Drew is extremely narcissistic in absence of megalomania and "god complex". She is paranoid, but not consumed by it.
Broderick's handwriting is bold and angled, which is more fanatical in nature. Sandusky's handwriting is more enthusiastic. I don't have a handwriting sample of Holloway. Broderick and Sandusky's handwriting is at the bottom. Lori Drew gets angry easily, but does not show it like Broderick, more like Seung-Hui Cho. Cho was anger prone, but never showed it. Drew pents up her rage more. I don't think Holloway and Sandusky were known for angry personalities.
However, Drew's handwriting fades to the right, which suggest someone fearful of rejection and abandonment. I have read that Drew was angry that her daughter Sarah was no longer friends with Megan Meier. Drew felt a sense of rejection and abandonment.
Any normal parent would work to help their daughter. The thing is the hoax was planned months after Megan taunted Sarah. More than likely, they would of made amends and became friends again. Drew likely harbors grudges and they fester over time. The insult was being called a "Lesbian", not being called "fat", which makes me think Drew maybe a closeted homosexual and is in deep denial about it, like Fred Phelps. I think Drew and Phelps look alike in their appearance.From what I understand, this whole fiasco began with Megan being cruel to Sarah. What a more mature mother, centered on adult behaviors would have done is counsel Sarah to distance herself from Megan and develop other friendships, perhaps setting up a couple very fun pizza parties/slumber parties/whateverisfun stuff with her daughter and neutral or new friends, and advise her not to associate anymore with Megan, who was cruelly sabotaging her.
She is really immature, acts like an overgrown teenager. Yes, parents who live through their children are nuts. Sadly, there are many parents like that. Lori Drew is a textbook example of a toxic person. This caught my attention.Instead she acted like a 13 year old and schemed a way to find out what Megan was saying about Sarah, behind her back. That immature behavior came out again, in this letter to Megan's parents. A normal mother would have written a very simple note expressing grief and compassion, and left it at that. instead it's a let's get together because everyone's mad at me. Mothers who live through their daughters are odd characters. And destructive.
I can't say why Ashley Grills was ignored. Perhaps, it was Drew who wanted revenge and Grills did most of the dirty work. Lori Drew likes to manipulate dependent and disturbed people like Ashley Grills. Grills is depressed and psychotic possibly has avoidant, dependent, borderline, and schizotypal personality disorder. Grills reminds me of Dylan Klebold, Mary Hamer, Susan Smith, Luke Woodham, or Molly Wei. They are easily influence and volatile. However, Klebold had a "god complex" and was more independent, while Woodham had weird beliefs. She likes comes from a dysfunctional family from what I have noticed. The Grills got foreclosed on and have been at court many times.An aside, I still don't know why the 18 year old employee who actually WROTE the offending note to Megan has been ignored in all this. While I would never want to have Lori for a friend, I don't think she caused Megan's suicide. I do think she never matured past middle school thought processes.
I agree with The Bard. A mob mentality can develop, even with as few as two people, and especially with three or more. I haven't studied this as Miss R. has, but I have looked at certain cases. It seems the everyday inhibitions we all carry around can somehow get short-circuited in a group (mob) situation.
The other issue windfall brought up was whether cases like this where a woman was the 'ring-leader,' so to speak, in a brutal attack on another woman. They are not that common, but they exist. For example:
In 1965, Sylvia Likens, a 16-year-old girl, was murdered over several weeks by a group led by a 35-year-old mother of seven children named Gertrude Baniszewski. Sylvia and her younger sister Jenny, a polio victim, had been left in Gertrude's care as their parents made the carny circuit. Several of Gertrude's own children (including 3 girls) and several neighbor boys joined in the torture and abuse, that led eventually to Sylvia's death.
Karla Homolka clearly 'enjoyed' and participated in the sexual assault and murder of several girls and women over several years with husband Paul Bernardo. (1991-92)
Janet Chandler's gang-rape and murder were facilitated by and participated in by Laurie Swank, her supposed 'friend' and roommate. (1979)
Lori Drew, a Missouri housewife, led a group of young women/girls (including her own daughter) to tease and torment Megan Meier online (on MySpace) by first convincing her (Megan) that a cute young boy was interested in her, and then abruptly ending the 'relationship' by having a bunch of myspace 'friends' join in the taunting, resulting in Meier's suicide. (1996)
In all of the above cases, there was both the element of 'mob mentality' as well as a woman playing a leading or prominent role in the physical (or psychological, in the case of Drew) assault.
One would hope someone is studying these phenomena. In my layperson's mind, it is probably related to deep-seated sexual shame in the perpetrator. It does seem the most evil thing in the world.