SLIDE 1 Richard Orsini
Forensic Document Examiner
For Credentials:
www.richardorsini.com
SLIDE 2 Services
- Forgery detection
- Anonymous writings
- Handwriting authentication
- Altered & obliterated
documents
- Identity theft prevention
techniques
- Court qualified expert witness
testimony
- Seminar presentations & guest
speaker
SLIDE 3 Sources
Richard Orsini – personal case files Handwriting Consultants International National Assoc. of Document Examiners American Handwriting Analysis Foundation Time, Newsweek, Florida Times Union Colleagues: A. Bradley, T . Widmer, B. Link,
- A. McNichol, K. Amend, D. Anthony
Seagrams
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Factors that affect Handwriting
Physical factors: age, illness, injury, medicine, eyesight, alcohol, drugs. Mechanical factors: pen type, ink, surface, position, paper quality. Psychological factors: distress, anger, fear, depression, dishonesty, happiness, nervousness.
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SLIDE 10 FRAUD
1.4 million checks forged every day. $ 27.3 million lost to forgery daily. Employment fraud costs $ 3.5 TRILLION per year or 5% of Gross World Product. 15 million identity thefts per year. Median loss in fraud cases is $ 140,000. 87% of employees are first-time offenders. 81% either live beyond their means or have financial difficulties. …ACFE 2012
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THE SUNSHINE STATE
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Is there REALLY personality in handwriting?
SLIDE 15 Library of Congress
established as a branch of psychology in 1991.
- FBI agents were sent to Europe
to study graphology.
- Criminal Minds TV program is
based on Behavioral Sciences Unit of the FBI.
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The Felon’s Claw
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SLIDE 22 YOU and Your Private “I” by Jane Green
313 pages …on just the letter “I”
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William D. Lindsey
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The Ramsey Ransom “Note”
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Do the “bad guys” care if you’re tired?
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The FBI reviewed the handwriting of 73 suspects – only 1 person could not be eliminated…
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Signatures – Your Public Face
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John Mark Karr
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Peter Braunstein
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Dead body or rifle?
SLIDE 34 Axioms, Principles & Theories
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SLIDE 35 AXIOMS, cont.
A tracing can be made only
when a model signature is available.
A palsied hand cannot write a
normal signature.
An illiterate, unskilled writer
cannot simulate the writing
- f a literate, skilled writer.
SLIDE 36 PRINCIPLES, cont.
Handwriting is a learned,
complex skill of the mind, muscles, & nerves.
No two people are exactly
alike and no two people act, speak, or write exactly alike.
SLIDE 37 PRINCIPLES, cont.
An imitation of a signature will
resemble in some manner the genuine signature.
The person who imitates a
signature can rarely be identified by the imitated signature.
SLIDE 38 PRINCIPLES, cont.
You cannot determine the
age, sex, or handedness with certainty from handwriting.
One distinctive element
alone seldom justifies a definite conclusion.
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Signatures that are exactly
identical are replicas and
The writer who traces a
signature cannot be identified from the tracing.
SLIDE 40 THEORIES, cont.
Different writers are
established when there are structural differences between writings.
A person’s handwriting
changes during the course of a lifetime.
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CHECKPOINTS
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Natural Variation vs Different Writer
SLIDE 43 FORGERY CHECKLIST
HESITATION UNNATURAL PENLIFTS PATCHING TREMOR UNCERTAINTY OF
MOVEMENT
DRAWN QUALITY
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SPEED KILLS
THE DILEMMA FOR FORGERS: WRITE TOO QUICKLY – LOSE PICTORIAL RESEMBLANCE WRITE TOO SLOWLY – LOSE “NATURALNESS” & FLUIDITY
SLIDE 45 HANDWRITING ID
- MOVEMENT
- FORM
- ARRANGEMENT
SLIDE 46 MOVEMENT
- WRITING SPEED
- ZONAL PROPORTIONS
- LETTER SLANT
- WRITING PRESSURE
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- LETTER STYLE
- SIMPLE OR ELABORATE
- LETTER SIZE
SLIDE 48 ARRANGEMENT
- SPACE BETWEEN LETTERS
- SPACE BETWEEN WORDS
- SIGNATURE LINE LOCATION
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TEST TIME!
SLIDE 50 TES TEST TIME! T TIME!
- NO TALKING!
- NO CHEATING!
- NO LOUD LAUGHING!
- NO THROWING OF OBJECTS
AT THE INSTRUCTOR!
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LEFT OR RIGHT HANDED? 2
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Charles Weinstein
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A B
Bonus
Genuine
A B
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Genuine Forged
Left Hand
Genuine Forged
Left Hand
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Last Question
A woman, while at the funeral of her mother, met a man she didn’t know. She thought the man was amazing – a dream come to true. She immediately fell in love but forgot his name and could not find him. A few days later she killed her sister. Question: What was the motive for killing her sister?
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