I would appreciate any comments on the following.
The ransom note has been examined a number of times and although it has been stated by various experts, that there is a very low chance that Patsy Ramsey wrote it, the doubts still remain.
The only way now to really to prove one way or another, is to look for tiny pecularites that are present in the writing.
What I have done, is to mark out certain things, which can be compared alongside each other. This being the ransom letter itself and handwriting samples provided by the prime suspect - Patsy Ramsey.
In the ransom note, the dotted letter i is used on a total of 97 occasions. Out of the 97, all but two are normal. By normal, I mean that the dot and the vertical line are in the normal position. In the ransom note, the i{s} are virtually 100% correct. In other words, the 'dot' is in line.
Now, we look at the same letter iwhen written by Patsy Ramsey.
First of all, we start with the page 1 copy of the ransom note [Ref. 0028] which was provided by Patsy Ramsey, as a handwriting sample for police.
Here are words in the sample, which are of great interest:
individuals
business
time
instruction
eighteen
in
remains
size
advize
getting
Now we look at handwriting samples that she provided [Ref.0080] which were of certain words, contained in the ransom note.
Here are the words of special interest:
instruction
faction
individuals
business
possession
insructions
remaining
Now we look at the 'London letter'.
Again, here are words of special interest:
business
is
quiet
Switzerland
join
arrive
Yet another handwriting sample [Ref.0101] contains these words:
sitting
in
officer
is
sitting
looking
is
right
professional
morning
their
finally
dispel
some
think
immediate
boring
miss
darling
Now we come to the historic handwriting samples.
Here is the 'Hi Bob' letter. The words of interest are:
is
doing
having
is
going
Hawaiian
tropic
An entry form.
One word, which is:
tiny
Finally, the 'Miss Kit' letter.
Words of interest are:
in
did
in
with
This is the staggering result. Of all available handwriting samples of Patsy Ramsey, she used the letter ia total of 167 times. Of these 167 - only 47 were normal. This means, that virtually 66% of the dotted i{s} that she wrote - were off centre. Some of them [check for yourselves] were way off. If you look at the same individual letter in the ransom note, you will see that the percentage figure here, comes out at just over 2% When subtracted from the Patsy Ramsey figure, this gives a final figure of 64% A figure that indicates that there is only a 36% chance that Patsy Ramsey wrote the ransom note. Or if you want to look at in a more clear-cut way, if she had written the ransom note, then instead of there being just two that were not normal i{s} then there should have been approximately - 30.
I can decrease that figure even more, by reference to another letter. For the moment, I will not post precise details, as with the above example, but I can give a rough idea of the result. The figures here, give a result of about 66% as with that, which resulted from the letter i.
The letter in question here - is u.
When I posted this on another forum, it was removed for no apparent reason. Also, none of the posters there, offered any discussion, even though it as the potential to finally rule out a certain person of being the writer of the ransom note.
The ransom note has been examined a number of times and although it has been stated by various experts, that there is a very low chance that Patsy Ramsey wrote it, the doubts still remain.
The only way now to really to prove one way or another, is to look for tiny pecularites that are present in the writing.
What I have done, is to mark out certain things, which can be compared alongside each other. This being the ransom letter itself and handwriting samples provided by the prime suspect - Patsy Ramsey.
In the ransom note, the dotted letter i is used on a total of 97 occasions. Out of the 97, all but two are normal. By normal, I mean that the dot and the vertical line are in the normal position. In the ransom note, the i{s} are virtually 100% correct. In other words, the 'dot' is in line.
Now, we look at the same letter iwhen written by Patsy Ramsey.
First of all, we start with the page 1 copy of the ransom note [Ref. 0028] which was provided by Patsy Ramsey, as a handwriting sample for police.
Here are words in the sample, which are of great interest:
individuals
business
time
instruction
eighteen
in
remains
size
advize
getting
Now we look at handwriting samples that she provided [Ref.0080] which were of certain words, contained in the ransom note.
Here are the words of special interest:
instruction
faction
individuals
business
possession
insructions
remaining
Now we look at the 'London letter'.
Again, here are words of special interest:
business
is
quiet
Switzerland
join
arrive
Yet another handwriting sample [Ref.0101] contains these words:
sitting
in
officer
is
sitting
looking
is
right
professional
morning
their
finally
dispel
some
think
immediate
boring
miss
darling
Now we come to the historic handwriting samples.
Here is the 'Hi Bob' letter. The words of interest are:
is
doing
having
is
going
Hawaiian
tropic
An entry form.
One word, which is:
tiny
Finally, the 'Miss Kit' letter.
Words of interest are:
in
did
in
with
This is the staggering result. Of all available handwriting samples of Patsy Ramsey, she used the letter ia total of 167 times. Of these 167 - only 47 were normal. This means, that virtually 66% of the dotted i{s} that she wrote - were off centre. Some of them [check for yourselves] were way off. If you look at the same individual letter in the ransom note, you will see that the percentage figure here, comes out at just over 2% When subtracted from the Patsy Ramsey figure, this gives a final figure of 64% A figure that indicates that there is only a 36% chance that Patsy Ramsey wrote the ransom note. Or if you want to look at in a more clear-cut way, if she had written the ransom note, then instead of there being just two that were not normal i{s} then there should have been approximately - 30.
I can decrease that figure even more, by reference to another letter. For the moment, I will not post precise details, as with the above example, but I can give a rough idea of the result. The figures here, give a result of about 66% as with that, which resulted from the letter i.
The letter in question here - is u.
When I posted this on another forum, it was removed for no apparent reason. Also, none of the posters there, offered any discussion, even though it as the potential to finally rule out a certain person of being the writer of the ransom note.