CHAPTER 2 Flashcards
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From the very earliest time, man has put down marks on different materials to make forms _____ were simple pictures on the walls of caves.
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writing
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considered as the “HUMAN EARLIEST FORM OF COMMUNICATION”
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WRITING
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Ancient marks on walls and caves depict how human interact with nature. It also reveals early ______
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civilization and development.
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Ancient marks on _____ depict how human interact with nature. It also reveals early civilization and development.
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walls and caves
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What are the places mentioned that has pictures of animals in the walls of caves?
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- Lascaux, France
- Kakadu National Park and Other Rock Art Sites, Australia
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Early writings were on ____. Later skins of animals were used.
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stones and metal
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-The first American prominent in the field of forgery detection and author of the seminal “QUESTIONED DOCUMENTS” (1910, reprinted many times), on exhaustive work Indispensable even today.
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ALBERT SHERMAN OSBORN
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was first vented by the CHINESE more than 2,000 years ago but it was not common in other countries for a long time. With the making of paper, writing became more common to many people.
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Paper
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Early writings were on stones and metal. Later _____ were used.
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skins of animals
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- He was considered as a “Father of Scientific Examination of Questioned Document”
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ALBERT SHERMAN OSBORN
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Knowledge of the methods of making false document is therefore necessary to the
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police investigator.
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The examination of questioned document falls into
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broad classes
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With the making of paper, _____ became more common to many people.
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writing
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were quick to learn that it was profitable to make false documents.
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Criminalistics
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–It was from this early beginning as a teacher of handwriting, he extended his interests to the identification of handwriting, typewriting, paper, ink and to the many questions that arise concerning contested documents
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ALBERT SHERMAN OSBORN
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-He founded the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF QUESTIONED DOCUMENT EXAMINERS (ASQDE) on 2 September 1942 as its first president, a position he held for four years
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ALBERT SHERMAN OSBORN
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–born in 1858 on a farm near Grass Lake, Michigan
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ALBERT SHERMAN OSBORN
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–With sufficient training and practice, he felt he could become a teacher of penmanship
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ALBERT SHERMAN OSBORN
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-By his efforts, courts began to accept the presentation of forged documents as scientific evidence.
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ALBERT SHERMAN OSBORN
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–Farm life didn’t appeal to him, so he attended the STATE COLLEGE OF LANSING where he became interested in the art of penmanship
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ALBERT SHERMAN OSBORN
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–In those early days, ________ often consulted a local penmanship teacher to obtain opinions as to the genuineness or spuriousness of a signature.
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attorneys
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this book is on exhaustive work Indispensable even today.
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“QUESTIONED DOCUMENTS”
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he has become legendary throughout the world among handwriting experts, lawyers, judges, investigators and all who deal with questioned document cases.
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ALBERT SHERMAN OSBORN
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–He, more than any other document examiner who preceded him, was responsible for placing questioned document work on a scientific basis.
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ALBERT SHERMAN OSBORN
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ALBERT SHERMAN OSBORN has a book called
"QUESTIONED DOCUMENTS"
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What year did Questioned Document publish?
1910
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this book was reprinted many times
QUESTIONED DOCUMENT
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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF QUESTIONED DOCUMENT EXAMINERS (ASQDE) was founded on
2 September 1942
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first president of ASQDE and a position he held for four years
ALBERT SHERMAN OSBORN
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ASQDE means
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF QUESTIONED DOCUMENT EXAMINERS
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was the second of six children
ALBERT SHERMAN OSBORN
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how many years did Albert Sherman held his position being the 1st president in ASQDE?
4 YRS
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ALBERT SHERMAN OSBORN
attended the ______ where he became interested in the art of penmanship
STATE COLLEGE OF LANSING
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--In those early days, attorneys often consulted a local penmanship teacher to obtain opinions as to the genuineness or spuriousness of a signature.
ALBERT SHERMAN OSBORN
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--It was from this early beginning as a teacher of handwriting that Mr. Osborn extended his interests to the?
identification of handwriting, typewriting, paper, ink and to the many questions that arise concerning contested documents
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THE OBJECTIVES AND PURPOSES OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF QUESTIONED DOCUMENT EXAMINERS ARE TO:
* FOSTER EDUCATION
* SPONSOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
* ESTABLISH STANDARDS
* EXCHANGE EXPERIENCES
* PROVIDE INSTRUCTION IN THE FIELD OF DOCUMENT EXAMINATION
* PROMOTE JUSTICE IN MATTERS THAT INVOLVE QUESTIONS ABOUT DOCUMENTS
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was established due to the comprehensive interest or views of the experts on the questioned document
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF QUESTIONED DOCUMENT EXAMINERS (ASQDE)
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-36th President of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners (recent)
SAMIAH IBRAHIM
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ASQDE motto is
“JUSTICE THROUGH SCIENCE”
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-he was a co-author of “QUESTIONED DOCUMENT PROBLEMS”
ALBERT D. OSBORN
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- He was the third President of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners, founded by his father
ALBERT D. OSBORN
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-In 1942, he was one of the 15 men who founded the Society.
ALBERT D. OSBORN
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-Upon returning from oversea 1919, he began attending the meetings that eventually led to formation of the ASQDE.
ALBERT D. OSBORN
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served in the military during World War 1.
ALBERT D. OSBORN
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He was the son of the founding president of the ASQDE
ALBERT D. OSBORN
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ALBERT D. OSBORN was the co-author of the book
“QUESTIONED DOCUMENT PROBLEMS”
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was associated with Albert Sherman Osborn in private practice for many years.
ALBERT D. OSBORN
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In Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. Kidnapping Case. The defendant to the case was ____ Flemington, New Jersey in 1935.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
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were the world-famous handwriting experts who testified on Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. Kidnapping Case.
BJ VREELAND HARING AND J. HOWARD HARING
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-The father and son Haring of New York
BJ VREELAND HARING AND J. HOWARD HARING
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Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. Kidnapping Case is known as the
“CRIME OF THE CENTURY”
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-is known as the first aviator to complete a solo transatlantic flight, which he did in his plane, Spirit of St. Louis
CHARLES LINDBERG
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-he was later became an aviation icon
CHARLES LINDBERG
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CHARLES LINDBERG plane is called
Spirit of St. Louis
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-worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939.
GREAT DEPRESSION
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-Although it originated in the United States, the ______ caused drastic declines in output, severe unemployment, and acute deflation in almost every country of the world.
GREAT DEPRESSION
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-It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world, sparking fundamental changes in economic institutions, macroeconomic policy, and economic theory.
GREAT DEPRESSION
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struggle to cope with the great depression, Linbergh’s immense fame and financial success making them a suitable target to crime
Americans
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-While many Americans struggle to cope with the great depression, while he is immense fame and financial success making them a suitable target to crime
CHARLES LINDBERGH
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GREAT DEPRESSION is worldwide economic downturn that began in ___ and lasted until about 1939.
1929
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GREAT DEPRESSION is worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted until about ____
1939
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-At about _______, the kidnapper or kidnappers climbed by ladder into the second-story nursery of the Lindbergh home near Hopewell, New Jersey, abducted the 20-month-old child, and left a ransom note demanding $50,000.
9:00 PM on March 1, 1932
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-At about 9:00 PM on March 1, 1932, the kidnapper or kidnappers climbed by ladder into the second-story nursery of the Lindbergh home near Hopewell, New Jersey, abducted the ___, and left a ransom note demanding $50,000.
20-month-old child
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-Fourteen letters were directed to the famous parents of the Kidnapped Lindberg baby was abducted. The other letters contained
follow-up ransom demands and instructions
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how many letters were directed to the famous parents of the Kidnapped Lindberg baby was abducted.
14
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-At about 9:00 PM on March 1, 1932, the kidnapper or kidnappers climbed by ladder into the second-story nursery of the Lindbergh home near Hopewell, New Jersey, abducted the 20-month-old child, and left a ransom note demanding ____
$50,000.
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What are the things that was included on the letter in Lindbergh case?
“Baby taken good care of look for instructions Saturday if police get to close look out” and “Baby safe instructions later”
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-The kidnapper received bags of ___; in exchange, the latter handed a letter to the authorities pointing the whereabouts of the baby, directing them to a boat named Nelly near Martha’s vineyard. However, the baby was no where to be found
bills and gold notes
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-The kidnapper received bags of bills and gold notes; in exchange, the latter handed a letter to the authorities pointing the whereabouts of the baby, directing them to a boat named ___ near Martha’s vineyard. However, the baby was no where to be found
Nelly
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how many years did they found the baby of Lindbergh
one year
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indicate death by trauma to the head
Skull bruises
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-One year after the kidnapping the abducted baby was found dead and decomposed less than ____ from the Lindbergh’s home.
five miles
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the suspect on Lindbergh's case was caught due to?
serial number of the gold notes and bills
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- a Consultative Expert in Disputed document and in 1955 he authored the book "LAW OF DISPUTED AND FORGED DOCUMENTS"
J. NEWTON BAKER
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--lawyer, political leader and U.S Secretary of war during World War I
J. NEWTON BAKER
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--In his book “THE LAW OF DISPUTED AND FORGED DOCUMENTS” states that “Forgery was practiced from the earliest times in every country where writing was the medium of communication”
J. NEWTON BAKER
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this book states that “Forgery was practiced from the earliest times in every country where writing was the medium of communication”
“THE LAW OF DISPUTED AND FORGED DOCUMENTS”
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J. NEWTON BAKER book is called
"LAW OF DISPUTED AND FORGED DOCUMENTS"
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was practiced from the earliest times in every country where writing was the medium of communication”
Forgery
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is our medium of communication
Document
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authored "Evidential Documents" which was published in Springfield Illinois, USA in 1959.
JAMES V. P. CONWAY
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-was an Examiner of Questioned Documents of San Francisco, California Postal Inspector in-charge, San Francisco Identification Laboratory U.S. Postal Inspection Service
JAMES V. P. CONWAY
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--from 1936 to 1938, he received training in the field of questioned document examination under the direction of the Chief Postal Inspector, the National Bureau of Standards and other government laboratories
JAMES V. P. CONWAY
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--during the period 1935 to 1936 he studied penmanship under the Director of a Master penman at Cambria-Rowe Business College in Greensburg, PA.
JAMES V. P. CONWAY
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--He retired from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in 1980 after more than thirty years with that agency to open a private practice in Alameda, California.
JAMES V. P. CONWAY
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--In 1959, he authored “EVIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS”, a standard textbook for anyone seeking to become a Forensic Document Examiner.
JAMES V. P. CONWAY
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--he served in various position on the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners Executive Committee prior to being elected President in 1988
JAMES V. P. CONWAY
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--he also served as a Director of the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners (ABFDE)
JAMES V. P. CONWAY
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JAMES V. P. CONWAY studied penmanship under the Director of a Master penman at
Cambria-Rowe Business College in Greensburg, PA.
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this book was published in Springfield Illinois, USA in 1959.
"Evidential Documents"
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--during the period ____ he studied penmanship under the Director of a Master penman at Cambria-Rowe Business College in Greensburg, PA.
1935 to 1936
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--from ____, he received training in the field of questioned document examination under the direction of the Chief Postal Inspector, the National Bureau of Standards and other government laboratories
1936 to 1938
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When did “EVIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS” PUBLISH
1959
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JAMES V. P. CONWAY retired from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in 1980 after serving more than _______ with that agency
thirty years
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JAMES V. P. CONWAY received training in the field of questioned document examination under the
direction of the Chief Postal Inspector, the National Bureau of Standards and other government laboratories
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a standard textbook for anyone seeking to become a Forensic Document Examiner.
“EVIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS”
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JAMES V. P. CONWAY retired from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in
JAMES V. P. CONWAY retired from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in 1980
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-The Board's objectives are two-fold: to establish, maintain and enhance standards of qualification for those who practice forensic document examination and to certify applicants who comply with ABFDE requirements for this expertise.
THE AMERICAN BOARD OF FORENSIC DOCUMENT EXAMINERS (ABFDE)
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Board aims to safeguard the public interest by ensuring that anyone who claims to be a specialist in forensic document examination does, in fact, possess the necessary skills and qualifications.
THE AMERICAN BOARD OF FORENSIC DOCUMENT EXAMINERS (ABFDE)
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--He retired from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service to open a private practice in Alameda, California.
JAMES V. P. CONWAY
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-was established in 1977 and is accredited by the Forensic Specialties Accreditation Board.
THE AMERICAN BOARD OF FORENSIC DOCUMENT EXAMINERS (ABFDE)
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JAMES V. P. CONWAY open a private practice in
Alameda, California
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THE AMERICAN BOARD OF FORENSIC DOCUMENT EXAMINERS (ABFDE) was established in
1977
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THE AMERICAN BOARD OF FORENSIC DOCUMENT EXAMINERS (ABFDE) was established in 1977 and is accredited by the
Forensic Specialties Accreditation Board
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THE AMERICAN BOARD OF FORENSIC DOCUMENT EXAMINERS (ABFDE) two fold are?
-to establish, maintain and enhance standards of qualification for those who practice forensic document examination and
-to certify applicants who comply with ABFDE requirements for this expertise.
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-A Doctor of Law and Director of the identification Bureau of the Police Department of Berlin until 1928.
HANS SCHEICKERT
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-- _____ focus on giving seminars, education for the forensic document experts while _________ made qualifying exams for you to become experts
ASQDE
ABFDE
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-He authored the book “SUSPECT DOCUMENT EXAMINERS THEIR SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION", first published in London in 1958.
DR. WILSON R. HARRISON
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-He was a Criminology Professor at the University of Berlin in 1920 and a well-known handwriting expert.
HANS SCHEICKERT
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--he is a notable British Examiner of questioned documents said that an intelligent police investigator can detect almost 75% of all forgeries by careful inspection of a document with a simple magnifiers and measuring tools
DR. WILSON R. HARRISON
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- was the Director of the British Government's Office Home Office Forensic Science Society of Questioned Document Examiners.
DR. WILSON R. HARRISON
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-He had over twenty years' experience in the examination of suspect documents for the police forces of England and Wale and for many government departments.
DR. WILSON R. HARRISON
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DR. WILSON R. HARRISON book called
“SUSPECT DOCUMENT EXAMINERS THEIR SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION"
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--he was the Director of the British Government’s Office Home Office Forensic Science Society of Questioned Document Examiners
DR. WILSON R. HARRISON
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“SUSPECT DOCUMENT EXAMINERS THEIR SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION", first published in London in
1958
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the book was first published in London in 1958.
“SUSPECT DOCUMENT EXAMINERS THEIR SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION"
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an intelligent police investigator can detect almost ___ of all forgeries by careful inspection of a document with a simple magnifiers and measuring tools
75%
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DR. WILSON R. HARRISON had over twenty years' experience in the examination of suspect documents for the police forces of ______ and for many government departments.
England and Wale
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- was the sixth president of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners.
ORDWAY HILTON
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he said that an intelligent police investigator can detect almost 75% of all forgeries by careful inspection of a document with a simple magnifiers and measuring tools
DR. WILSON R. HARRISON
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--he is a notable British Examiner of questioned documents
DR. WILSON R. HARRISON
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--He also authored Detecting and Deciphering Erased Pencil Writing.
ORDWAY HILTON
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was the first questioned document examiner in the then new crime laboratory of the Chicago Police Department.
ORDWAY HILTON
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--A prolific writer of journal articles and professional papers, he authored one of the best known texts in the field, Scientific Examination of Questioned Documents in 1956, and a revised edition of the text in 1982.
ORDWAY HILTON
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--was a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Document Examiner
ORDWAY HILTON
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is the first country to have the Questioned Document Examination Laboratory
CHICAGO
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ORDWAY HILTON best known texts in the field is called
Scientific Examination of Questioned Documents
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Mr. Hilton authored one of the best known texts in the field, Scientific Examination of Questioned Documents in __, and a revised edition of the text in 1982.
1956
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a revised edition of the text in 1982.
Scientific Examination of Questioned Documents
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ORDWAY HILTON another book is?
Detecting and Deciphering Erased Pencil Writing.
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- was the 24th President of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners.
ROY A. HUBER
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- After joining the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in 1940, he worked as a police constable at various detachments in the Province of Saskatchewan.
ROY A. HUBER
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wrote and presented more than 30 papers including such titles as Typist Identification, Modern Trends in Counterfeiting, The Production and Identification of Embossing Seals, and The Quandary of "Qualified" Opinions.
ROY A. HUBER
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-In 1949, he transferred to the Document Section of the RCMP's Regina Laboratory to commence a career that would span more than fifty years.
ROY A. HUBER
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--In 1999, he published a book entitled HANDWRITING IDENTIFICATION - FACTS AND FUNDAMENTALS, which has become an important text in the training of forensic document examiners.
ROY A. HUBER
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--was also one of the first document examiners to be certified by the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners.
ROY A. HUBER
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--he received his certificated in 1979 and later served as an ABFDE Director, Treasurer and Vice President
ROY A. HUBER
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Roy Huber worked as a police constable at various detachments in the Province of ___
Saskatchewan.
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--Mr. Huber wrote and presented more than 30 papers including such titles as
-Typist Identification,
-Modern Trends in Counterfeiting,
-The Production and Identification of Embossing Seals, and
-The Quandary of "Qualified" Opinions.
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Roy Huber transferred to the Document Section of the RCMP's Regina Laboratory to commence a career that would span more than ____
fifty years
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Roy Huber published a book entitled
HANDWRITING IDENTIFICATION - FACTS AND FUNDAMENTALS
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the book become an important text in the training of forensic document examiners.
HANDWRITING IDENTIFICATION - FACTS AND FUNDAMENTALS
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-was an English graphologist who, as part of the firm of Netherclift, Chabot and Matheson, was an early practitioner of questioned document examination.
CHARLES CHABOT
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he was baptized 19 March 1815 15 October 1882
CHARLES CHABOT
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was born Battersea, the son of Charles, a lithographer, and Amy née Pearson, a couple of Hugenot descent.
CHARLES CHABOT
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-Beginning as a lithographer, he developed as an expert in handwriting and became sought after as an expert witness in a variety of famous trials including the Roupell case and the Tichborne Case.
CHARLES CHABOT
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- study of handwriting in lined with the men’s behaviour and personality
GRAPHOLOGY
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became involved in establishing the identity of Junius and concluded that he was Sir Philip Francis.
CHARLES CHABOT
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CHARLES CHABOT became sought after as an expert witness in a variety of famous trials including the
Roupell case and the Tichborne Case.
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WORLD'S CASES ON DISPUTED DOCUMENT
1. JOHN MAGNUSON CASE
2. ARTHUR PERRY CASE
3. HITLER DIARIES CASE
4. GRAHAM BACKHOUSE CASE
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CHARLES CHABOT was an English graphologist who, as part of the firm of ____, was an early practitioner of questioned document examination.
Netherclift, Chabot and Matheson
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-On a late _______, James Chapman received what he thought was a late Christmas gift in the mail. However, when he opened the package, it exploded. His wife was killed in the explosion and James lost a hand. In their investigation, the police were able to locate part of the mailing label from the package
December day in 1922
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cited the world's cases on disputed document
Colin Evans
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-In examining the portion of mailing label that they had, the handwriting expert called on to help the police realized that there was a ___in the name of the town.
misspelling
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-On a late December day in 1922, James Chapman received what he thought was a late Christmas gift in the mail. However, when he opened the package, it exploded. His wife was killed in the explosion and James lost a hand. In their investigation, the police were able to locate part of the mailing label from the package.
JOHN MAGNUSON CASE
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-On a late December day in 1922, __ received what he thought was a late Christmas gift in the mail. However, when he opened the package, it exploded. His wife was killed in the explosion and James lost a hand. In their investigation, the police were able to locate part of the mailing label from the package.
James Chapman
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they analyzed the ink from the pen and found that the colorants were unique and were an exact match to the ink used on the mailing label. After a trial at which other evidence was presented as well, Magnuson was sentenced to life in prison.
forensic chemist
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Chapman lived in Marshfield, but the mailing label had the town listed as
Marsfild, Wis.
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In his home, they found a fountain pen filled with the type of ink that the document examiner had found on the mailing label.
John Magnuson
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-The expert's opinion was enough for a judge to issue a search warrant for the home of ____, the town's only Swedish immigrant.
John Magnuson
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The expert thought that the misspelling was more than likely a certain type of spelling mistake. He suggested that the person writing the label may have been a Swedish immigrant, because that language does not use the sounds
"sh" or "ie"
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The expert also analyzed the ink on the label and noted that it was Carter's black ink and that it probably came from a fountain pen nib.
JOHN MAGNUSON CASE
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-5 types of trace evidence found in Magnuson case is
Handwriting (14 points of similarity) on scraps of the bomb,
the writing style of the message (Swedish),
custom ink mixture (Cartel's black ink and Sanford's blue-black ink),
fragments of white elm wood used in the bomb were found in his workshop,
metal from bomb's trigger matched steel in his workshop.
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-On the morning of July 2, 1937, a battered body of a young woman was found in an empty parking lot in Jamaica district on the South side of Queens, New York. Next to me body was a baby girl crying but was untouched and unharmed.
ARTHUR PERRY CASE
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-5 types of trace evidence found: Handwriting (14 points of similarity) on scraps of the bomb, the writing style of the message (Swedish), custom ink mixture (Cartel's black ink and Sanford's blue-black ink), fragments of white elm wood used in the bomb were found in his workshop, metal from bomb's trigger matched steel in his workshop.
JOHN MAGNUSON CASE
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-A forensic chemist analyzed the ink from the pen and found that the colorants were unique and were an exact match to the ink used on the mailing label. After a trial at which other evidence was presented as well, Magnuson was sentenced to life in prison.
JOHN MAGNUSON CASE
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-On the morning of____, a battered body of a young woman was found in an empty parking lot in Jamaica district on the South side of Queens, New York. Next to me body was a baby girl crying but was untouched and unharmed.
July 2, 1937
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-In examining the portion of mailing label that they had, the handwriting expert called on to help the police realized that there was a misspelling in the name of the town. Chapman lived in Marshfield, but the mailing label had the town listed as Marsfild, Wis. The expert thought that the misspelling was more than likely a certain type of spelling mistake. He suggested that the person writing the label may have been a Swedish immigrant, because that language does not use the sounds "sh" or "ie" and this might explain the misspellings. The expert also analyzed the ink on the label and noted that it was Carter's black ink and that it probably came from a fountain pen nib.
JOHN MAGNUSON CASE
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-The expert's opinion was enough for a judge to issue a search warrant for the home of John Magnuson, the town's only Swedish immigrant. In his home, they found a fountain pen filled with the type of ink that the document examiner had found on the mailing label.
JOHN MAGNUSON CASE
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the husband of the murdered woman, was then interrogated. He had on alleged alibi for the period during which the murder was committed, which tended to show that he had not been near the scene of the crime.
Arthur Perry
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-In addition to the alibi, he unwisely produced a letter addressed to Mrs. Perry purported to have been written to her by the landlord. This letter contained some improper suggestions, combined with velled threats of bodily harm if the contents of the letter were ever disclosed to her husband.
Arthur Perry
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-An investigation at the home of Mrs. Perry's father and mother resulted in securing two letters that ____ had written to his wife just before they were married.
Arthur Perry
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-Date: 1937;
-Location: New York City;
-Significance: So many factors were combined in this case that it has come to be regarded as an AMERICAN DETECTION CLASSIC.
ARTHUR PERRY CASE
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-he easily admitted that he had written these two letters. The police suspected that he had murdered his wife and had written the letter he produced and that he had planted the other evidence to cast suspicion upon the landlord
Arthur Perry
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regarded as an AMERICAN DETECTION CLASSIC.
ARTHUR PERRY CASE
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-Date 1981;
-Location: Hamburg, West Germany;
-Significance: History's greatest publishing fraud was first legitimized and then exposed by scientific analysis.
HITLER DIARIES CASE
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-Without the twin interventions of fate and forensic science, it is entirely conceivable that he may well have taken Perry's place in the
electric chair
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-In all, through outright swindle, royalties, fees, lost advertising, and sundry other commitments, the Hitler Diaries were estimated to have cost Stern more than
twenty million marks (sixteen million dollar).
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considered as the History's greatest publishing fraud
HITLER DIARIES CASE
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-In all, through outright swindle, royalties, fees, lost advertising, and sundry other commitments, the ________ were estimated to have cost Stern more than twenty million marks (sixteen million dollar).
Hitler Diaries Case
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-The cost in careers, reputations, and personal humiliation was incalculable.
Hitler Diaries Case
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had bought the volumes for some 3.7 million dollars in 1983 and then sold serial rights to various news outlets, including to Rupert Murdoch's London Sunday Times for more than one million dollars
STERN
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The diaries had actually been produced between
1981-1983
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-The diaries had actually been produced between 1981-1983 by forger
KONRAD KUJAU
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-Believing the diaries were authentic-rescued from a plane that had crashed in East Germany at the end of the war-the West German magazine
STERN
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who posed as a Stuttgart antiques dealer, Herr Fischer, and who had previously forged and sold paintings also purportedly by Hitler.
KONRAD KUJAU
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STERN had bought the volumes for some __ million dollars in 1983 and then sold serial rights to various news outlets, including to Rupert Murdoch's London Sunday Times for more than one million dollars
3.7 million dollars
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-the West German magazine
STERN
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-On _____, Graham Backhouse (44 years), a Cotswold farmer, at Widden Hill Farm, reported to the police that a threatening note sign "YOU NEXT” and a severed lamb's head impaled on his fence post.
March 30, 1984
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a Cotswold farmer, at Widden Hill Farm, reported to the police that a threatening note sign "YOU NEXT” and a severed lamb's head impaled on his fence post.
Graham Backhouse
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-Within two weeks, on _____, threats became violent.
April 9, 1984
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Graham's wife, decided to take his husband's Volvo car shopping, and as soon as she ignited the car engine, a pipe bomb under the driver seat exploded, but luckily, she survived.
MARGARET BACKHOUSE
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-The powder of ___ shotgun shells had been used as the explosive and it had been packed with around 4,000 lead pellets. It had been aimed upward through the driving seat
12
133
-The powder of 12 shotgun shells had been used as the explosive and it had been packed with around ____ lead pellets. It had been aimed upward through the driving seat
4,000
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-The powder of 12 shotgun shells had been used as the explosive and it had been packed with around 4,000 lead pellets. It had been aimed ____ through the driving seat
upward
134
- Graham also receives another letter. Police hand over all the letters to the forensic document examiner for handwriting analysis. Forensic examiners were able to find some
deliberate grammar mistakes and a doodle-intended sign.
135
-Now investigators were checking who might harm the Backhouse family. On asking about the suspects, Backhouse framed these letters to _____ whose wife had a relationship with him.
David Hodkinson
136
Now investigators suspect that it may be the Backhouse's neighbor,
COLYN BEDALE-TAYLOR
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he told investigators that Colyn admitted the he had planted the car explosives and when Colyn attacked him with Stanley knife
GRAHAM BACKHOUSE
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-Two weeks after the police escort was removed, police arrived at the Backhouse and they found COLYN BEDALE-TAYLOR lying dead with________ and Stanley's knife clutched in his hand
two gunshot wounds to the chest
138
-However, forensic evidence and blood stain analysis deduce a different story. There were inconsistencies in his story and blood evidence doesn't imply what he told the police
GRAHAM BACKHOUSE CASE
138
-Other evidence such as a notebook with a doodle impression was found in his drawer of the house. While he was held in prison, he also wrote another letter to a newspaper publication. On handwriting analysis, it was proven that _____ wrote those and all threatening letters
Graham Backhouse
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-The prosecution showed that Backhouse had debts of
£70.000
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Until March 1984 his wife had life insurance cover of $50,000 but this was increased by a similar amount. It was alleged that HE had tried to kill his wife for the insurance money and when that failed, he attacked Bedale-Taylor to shift police investigations away from himself. The jury preferred the prosecution version.
GRAHAM BACKHOUSE CASE
140
Until March 1984 his wife had life insurance cover of
$50,000
