ThinkHard
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Sorry, I will never believe that a 10 year old who had issues putting thoughts on paper in school would write a 2.5 page ransom note with the sentence structure, linguistic uses, grammar, punctuation, syntax, words and phrases with which we are all too familiar, leave no fingerprints and then return the pad and pen back to where he got them.
Authorities, exhausting, countermeasures, tactics, monitor, attache', provoke, proper burial, adequate, behead, etc., particularly, withdraw, account, law enforcement, and hence are just some of the words that I do not think a 10 year old would choose. The word choice would be more like 'get the money from your bank', 'we are watching', 'don't make us mad', 'we will cut her head off', 'don't tell police', 'it will be tiring', 'take a big enough bag'. Let's not forget the editorial carrot (is that how it is spelled? lol) or the decision to not use 'delivery' twice in the same sentence or the acronym.
But first and foremost is Cina Wong, the only handwriting expert I have seen interviewed who said she found 200 similarities between the RN and Pasty's samples in that 380 word letter. To me it is a stunning number of matches. No one else even came close.
On DP BR said he had never been to a funeral before, do you really think 'proper burial" would be in his life experiences or vocabulary?
Did your 10 year old have a school homework assignment to write a 380 word essay? Was that a pleasant experience for you? LOL
IMHO, using my own eyes, the RN screams that PR wrote it.
Very smart children often struggle with school work simply because whatever is being asked of them isn't something they are particularly interested in. Yes it's torture sometimes getting kids through school work.......
But the same kid when working on a project of their interest and choosing can move mountains.
There actually the most frustrating because you see the capability but it is selectively applied.
So yes, if Burke planned out this fantasy I can see him mimicking an adult in that letter...but if he did he had been thinking about things he'd say in it before hand.
I honestly do not think the penmanship or style is very sophisticated.
And just because a child has never been to a funeral certainly doesn't mean they've never heard the term "proper burial"