ABSTRACT
Six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was found dead in her home on December 26, 1996. Before she was found, a three-page ransom letter (Figure 10.1) was discovered in the Ramsey home, precipitating the search for the missing child. In early January, 1997, attorneys for John and Patricia Ramsey anticipated the need to determine if each parent could be excluded as the writer of the ransom letter. Therefore, they sought assistance on the Ramsey matter, requesting a forensic stylistic analysis of the questioned ransom note vis-àvis the known reference writings of each parent.
