Yep I knew that about inside job, I am olde, books are filled with stuff I donut know, but I know that one.
Yes a common perp, an intruder if you will, or a foreign faction, would be having a problem with 'IMITATING' PR's handwriting. A common perp would not have all of the letters down pat, a,b,c's yah dah etc.
An intruder who is an 'insider' might have a Christmas or greeting card from PR, with some of the a,b,c's in it, but not all of the letters used in the note.
Then of course we have the foreign faction aspect, gee whillikers, IF they are foreign, they know how to write by hand in their foreign language. Whats the chance that a foreigner would make letters a,b,c's etc, so similar to PR's?
I don't remember IF anyone of our super sleuthies here on WS ever made a comparative of just how MANY letters a,b,c's etc, were nearly the same as PR's? Now that would be interesting to mull over.
I would think that a foreign faction person would not have to bother to disguise their handwriting, fingerprints on the note might nail em, but of course there were not any fingerprints found on the ransom note paper. Again, IF the note writer was a terrorist or just in from a foreign country, WHO would have a record of their dna. DO other countries keep dna records, I am guessing not, particularly if the FF person had never been convicted of a sexual crime.
A drooling perp the same deal, donut leave fingerprints or dna, IF they have a sexual pervert record!
An insider would not want to leave fingerprints or dna either.
I as a common law abiding person, don't think anyone has my dna in a system anywhere, huh, er?
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