Robert Durst leaves a New Orleans courthouse in the back of a police vehicle on March 17. Reuters HOUSTON — A document examiner’s erroneous handwriting analysis 14 years ago delayed authorities in ...

Two days after a 7-year-old girl disappeared from her Canton apartment complex in 2011, a handwritten note was taped to the complex’s trash compactor inscribed with a chilling message: “She’s in the ...

IDAHO, USA — Crossing T’s and dotting I’s may just be what a forensic documentation expert needs to determine if someone’s handwriting is a fraud. Harassment letters, forged wills, receipts and ...

Prosecutors in Ventura County once used a woman’s distinctive signature — with its angular J and a D with a flowing tail — to help put her behind bars for the murder of her lover’s wife. The ...

Handwriting analysis helped convict Bruno Hauptmann in the 1932 kidnapping and killing of Charles Lindbergh’s baby, a case that transfixed the nation and is often referred to as the crime of the ...

ATLANTA - The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is eliminating its Handwriting Analysis Unit, which had been operating for 20 years. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that experts say that the ...

The FBI’s Laboratory Division, in conjunction with Noblis, Inc., has published a major scientific research paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences about the accuracy and ...

Writer identification and handwriting analysis represent a confluence of pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and forensic science, aiming to determine the unique characteristics embedded in ...

ATLANTA | The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is eliminating its Handwriting Analysis Unit, which had been operating for 20 years. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that experts say that the ...