Lindbergh Baby:
Overview- The 20 month year old baby was kidnapped in the baby's own home. They used the window and then left a ransom letter behind. The abductor got their money and said the baby was with two women but the baby was actually dead. A truck driver found the baby in the woods dead one day.
Document examination- There was multiple different ransom notes sent to the parents saying to send the money for the baby. Officer Osborn carefully examined the notes for a while to try and link the handwriting with hauptmann.
Final findings- Officer Osborn did end up finding the letters to be traced to Hauptmann. Osborn tested the way Hauptmann wrote and found similarities in the handwriting.
Jonbenet Ramsey:
Overview- Jonbenet was kidnapped from her own house, there was no trace of forced entry in the entire house so the daughter disappeared out of nowhere. The mother and father in the case were very suspicious and there are assumptions of them being part of the murder. The ransom note was left behind that was abnormally long. …show more content…
The note was written in a rush towards the end. They looked very closely through to figure out how the person was trying to disguise their writing and found a very strange pattern with the way they wrote their “a’s”.
Final findings- Overall the ransom note was very tricky and till this day the kidnapper has not been found. The strange writing habits throughout the letter did not fully match the people they thought of it
Overview- The 20 month year old baby was kidnapped in the baby's own home. They used the window and then left a ransom letter behind. The abductor got their money and said the baby was with two women but the baby was actually dead. A truck driver found the baby in the woods dead one day.
Document examination- There was multiple different ransom notes sent to the parents saying to send the money for the baby. Officer Osborn carefully examined the notes for a while to try and link the handwriting with hauptmann.
Final findings- Officer Osborn did end up finding the letters to be traced to Hauptmann. Osborn tested the way Hauptmann wrote and found similarities in the handwriting.
Jonbenet Ramsey:
Overview- Jonbenet was kidnapped from her own house, there was no trace of forced entry in the entire house so the daughter disappeared out of nowhere. The mother and father in the case were very suspicious and there are assumptions of them being part of the murder. The ransom note was left behind that was abnormally long. …show more content…
The note was written in a rush towards the end. They looked very closely through to figure out how the person was trying to disguise their writing and found a very strange pattern with the way they wrote their “a’s”.
Final findings- Overall the ransom note was very tricky and till this day the kidnapper has not been found. The strange writing habits throughout the letter did not fully match the people they thought of it