Did Document Examination Help Or Crack This Case

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In 1932, a 20 month old son was kidnapped and a ransom note demanding $50,000 left in the son's room. The kidnapper covering his tracks investigators couldn't find any evidence, then a new note came demanding $70,000 telling where the baby would be but no luck. The body was discovered just a mile away from the home killed the night of the kidnapping. They tracked the kidnapper down by using a marked bill and tested his handwriting. It was a match for the ransom notes. How did document examination help or crack the case? The evidence was not strong enough without the handwritten note. Final Findings? Hauptmann was guilty and was electrocuted. The kidnapping was made a federal offense. JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her home December 24, 1996. Although police found a ransom note demanding $118,000, the money would never be necessary, because JonBenet’s body was found under a blanket in the basement that afternoon. Evidence was not preserved correctly with moving her body. There were no signs of forced entree and the ransom note left was suspicious matching the family's bonus. The investigation into JonBenet’s murder continued for more …show more content…

The case wasn’t solved but the ransom note helped narrow down the search of people. Final Findings? October in 1999, the grand jury hearing evidence in the case was finally dismissed with no recommendation, therefore the case has still not been solved. May 25, 1978 a package exploded at a college campus in Evanston which injured a security guard, it was the first in a 16 series killer bombing over 17 years. Throughout the series the bombs killed 3 people and injured many other people. Turns out a man named Ted Kaczynski was placing bombs into bags and killed many people. How did document examination help or crack the case? The document was 23 pages which had the order of all of the bombings and it was the outline of the manifesto and solved the case which found Kaczynski

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