ABSTRACT
In Chapter 7, we went back to our case of the corporate leaker and showed how a psycholinguistic “footprint” of his anonymous communication could identify a likely suspect through comparison of writing samples. Combined with the CPIR analysis, these tools gave the investigative team added confidence that they could direct their resources efficiently. We then introduced the executive protection problem of erotomania, a delusion that a powerful individual is secretly in love with a subject and covertly communicating this attachment, as in the case of the attempted assassination of President Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, DC, in 1981, to impress Jody Foster. We showed how our psycholinguistic tools could be used to track the waxing and waning of these emotions over time as the grief process kicked in to reduce the attachment and risk involved.
