Nuisanceposter said:
Can I request more details, please, BlueCrab? Who are these six, and who were they able to eliminate? On what reasons were they unable to eliminate Burke?
Nuisanceposter,
Boulder authorities appointed the six qualified document examiners to examine writing samples from 73 suspects. The six were:
Chet Ubowski, Colorado Bureau of Investigation
Leonard Speckin, private examiner
Edwin Alfred, Jr, private examiner
Lloyd Cunningham, private examiner
Richard Dusak, U.S. Secret Service, and
Howard Rile, private examiner.
The six were the only QDE's who who had the original ransom note to work with (The note was later destroyed by the CBI while attempting to chemically lift fingerprints from it).
The results of the 73 examinations, given in December of 1996, were never released to the public. However, from the examinations the authorities selectively and publicly cleared John Ramsey as the writer and stated that Patsy Ramsey came very close to being eliminated as the writer but could not be eliminated. An undisclosed number of other suspects who were examined also could not be cleared as the possible writer.
But in a 3/6/97 affidavit to the court to get a search warrant for the Ramseys Charlevoix house in Michigan to look for historical Ramsey handwriting samples, the CBI and the cops cryptographically worded it this way:
o "The analysis of the handwriting samples obtained from John Ramsey showed "indications" that John Ramsey did not write the reported ransom note."
o "The analysis of the handwriting samples obtained from Burke Ramsey showed that it was "probable" that Burke Ramsey did not write the reported ransom note."
0 "The analysis of the handwriting samples obtained from Patsy Ramsey showed "indications" which suggest that Patsy Ramsey may have written the reported ransom note."
The wording was intentionally not made clear, but we know that John had already been eliminated as the writer by the QDE's, so why weren't John's and Burke's analyses worded the same?
BlueCrab