Gerald McMerminin Forensic linguistics

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question about forensic linguistics, i.e


Forensic Linguistics: Advances in Forensic Stylistics - Hardcover (Mar. 28, 2002) by Gerald R. McMenamin

comes to the conclusion that the Jonbenet Ramsey's parents did not write the ransom note using forensic linguistic stylistics.
This conclusion is at serious odds with other evidence, like handwriting.

A related question is Donald Foster's Forensic linguistics


Have you read or are you familar with McMenamin's work and how definitive is his conclusion? He looked at stylistic markers in Patsy and John's historical exemplars, and the ransom note, such as spacing, misspellings, punctuation, and concludes, against handwriting evidence, that Patsy and John Ramsey did NOT write the ransom note.

One obvious objection is that Gerald uses Colorado writers to establish frequency of stylistic markers, but Patsy is originally from West Viginia.

This is a link to a partial preview from google books,

http://books.google.com/books?id=oFMW8R ... &q&f=false

and at amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Forensic-Linguist ... 784&sr=8-8

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… It will undoubtedly be received as a standard text on the subject …
-Roy Huber, author of Handwriting Analysis
Product Description
Ted Kaczynski's manifesto.The ransom note for Jon Benét Ramsey.The anthrax letters threatening our government and media agencies.With the aid of forensic linguistics, the words criminals leave behind in their unsigned letters can be as distinctive as a signature or voice. Although the linguistic study of language is well established, this important analytical tool is something new for many jurors, judges, attorneys, and other forensic specialists dealing with both criminal and civil cases. Forensic Linguistics: Advances in Forensic Stylistics provides an introduction to the field for those who need to understand what linguist-witnesses do, and aids those experts who need to talk about what they do in non-technical terms.Stylistics is an identification method which seeks to match one piece of writing to another by analyzing such factors as spelling, text arrangement, abbreviations, word formation, characteristic words and phrases, and syntax. Forensic
Linguistics: Advances in Forensic Stylistics documents current advances in this field, including%