1-Response from a handwriting expert:
Subject: Fatima
release a forgery?
Posted At: 6/27/00
Posted At: 6/27/00
Well Marden,
Having examined, and manipulated the items offered, it does seem as though the
conclusion of forgery is valid, assuming that the handwriting offered in all cases is as warranted.
The hand that penned the presumed forgery appears to have left traces of the
effort in the writing. Great care was taken in that article in that the 'weight' of the stroke is
almost flat, relative to the plane of the paper, throughout the whole document. Humans don't as a
rule write that way. As an expert on legibility (among other things), I can state with some
confidence that except for persons trained in the ritual art of copying or caligraphy, humans leave
impressions in the act of writing which betrays things like how the body was held at the time of
writing. Such things as whether there is something to act as a wrist brace and how far away from the
writing surface, all leave impressions in the act of writing.
The offered document has none of these apparent. In fact the absence of normal
human writing 'quavers' (as they are known in the trade) suggests with some certainty that this
person was trained to penmanship as an adult. Such people are rare these days, except in the
catholic and orthodox (russian/greek) churches. I discount caligraphers even amateurs as their
styles are not so clearly roman.
So maybe a forgery. At least the writing is totally inconsistent from one to
the next.
2- Speckin Forensic Laboratories, an international forensic firm specializing in forgeries and handwriting (famous for the JonBenet Ramsey case) states, "it is my opinion, based on the documents examined, that the Questioned Document 'Third Secret' can not be identified with the purported known writings of Sister Lucy."
2- Speckin Forensic Laboratories, an international forensic firm specializing in forgeries and handwriting (famous for the JonBenet Ramsey case) states, "it is my opinion, based on the documents examined, that the Questioned Document 'Third Secret' can not be identified with the purported known writings of Sister Lucy."