In article , Richard says...

Respectfully disagree. Looks to me like there are some primary
artistic/frustrated architect elements in the handwritten notes.

I could be wrong. Leroy seems to me to be the wrong time frame. My
guess is the age range is too young to have been employed using Leroy.
I presume the profilers had this run through some handwriting
experts. I'm certainly not one.

By "leroy set" I was implying that some of the notes were done
in the style of lettering on a mechanical drawing. The letters
are drawn in a very rote fashion where each letter is exactly the
same shape, and the distances between letters are all the same.
All vertical lines exactly vertical, all horizontal lines
exactly horizontal, etc.

I was taught to make the Gs differently, without the extra vertical
line inside the horizontal line. But if he knows how to do this,
he's a *lot* older than computers. They don't teach lettering like
that in drafting classes today, I think.

As you say of course there are other pages where the style is not
all-upper case, it's an appropriate mix of upper and lower. I would
guess that the person (single person) is trying to deliberately
confuse handrighting experts by mixing styles. To pretend that there's
more than one person planning this - see also the 'we' references
in the text. There' no 'we' there, it's only him.

I would be willing to wager a coke that when he's caught they
will find that he's had formal training of some kind in mechanical
drawing or drafting. He adopted that style of drafting lettering
to eliminate any personality in his writing for that page - but
in doing so he pegged himself far more than any handwriting analysis
could ever do.

Lettering like that is done on 'the other side of the brain,' which
is to say the verbal side is not doing anything, it's the graphic
and visual side working. I recall lettering drafted drawings, and by the
time I was done, I could no longer 'read' them because I'd been
analyzing them as abstract patterns. The words no longer had any
meaning as sounds - they were just pictures. Hence the drawing
that I produced for the metal shop in my high school, of a "Parallel
Clamp Vice" which I think may still be used as a teaching tool...

This guy's spent many hours at a drafting table.

Jim


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