Has anyone ever done a handwriting analysis on him. My goodness every letter is going a different direction. It is crazy looking. I think it would be interesting to see an analysis. jmo
From the transcript of Dr. Drew's show.
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1201/18/ddhln.01.html
OK. With me to discuss this, I`ve got Melissa Moore, she is the daughter of a serial killer, Keith Jesperson, who is serving life behind bars for having killed eight women; and a Handwriting Expert, Pennie Morehead to help us look at somebody`s letters; and also staying with me as well is Michelle Ward, she`s a criminal psychologist.
I`m going to start with you, Penny, and say, you say van der Sloot`s handwriting is consistent with someone who maintains a psychological distance between himself and others. Tell us what you mean by that.
PENNIE MOREHEAD, HANDWRITING EXPERT: Yes. If you can see the sample of handwriting, you`ll notice wide, wide spaces between the separate words in the writing as well as wide spaces between the lines of the writing. And -
PINSKY: Pennie, I`m going to stop you. Can you guys zero in on that a little bit? Can you get it closer so people can see what we`re talking about? You can see that - you can see - there you go. It`s a little better. And you can see it`s a very childish, a very immature-type block lettering with big spaces in between letters, words, and the lines of sentences.
So go ahead there, Pennie, I`m sorry.
MOREHEAD: Yes. And what we know is when we see these wide spaces, very extraordinary wide spaces between the words and the wide spaces between the lines of the writing, this suggests that the writer is - has a very massive psychological buffer around himself. He`s choosing not to interact emotionally with others. He just doesn`t care to understand their thoughts and feelings, as well as keeping this barrier, this thick barrier so that others may not view his true thoughts and feelings.
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All right. I want to take one look here at the last part of the letter where van der Sloot is signing it, you can`t even read the signature. Bu, Pennie, there it is there. His writing is in block letters, and then he signs on top of that in this very chaotic scratch. What do you make of that?
MOREHEAD: Well, I think this signature suggests that the writer is trying to deceive us. The body of his handwriting is not the same as his signature, and there is a lot of what I call bluffing in the signature. You`ll notice that we cannot clearly see what the letters are.
There`s a lot of scribbling, going round and round and round, up and down, back and forth, and what this writer is doing, maybe unconsciously, is trying to create a lot of chaos and a lot of confusion around his name, around his signature so that we cannot see who he actually really is.
I also see something in here that we call self cancellation, when an individual writes their name and then they sort of scribble and scratch out over the top of it, it`s sort of a - it`s sort of an indicator of self hatred.
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