Saturday, May 10, 2008
Palfrey
The 'suicide' of DC madam Palfrey is the topic of plenty of speculation and conspiracy-mongering. Not the sort of thing I usually bother about, but looking at the 'suicide note' caught my attention forcefully. Those two samples are unquestionably written by two different people. Absolutely no way the same hand, driven by the same brain patterns, could make those two curves naturally or incidentally.
Good lord, if I were trying to forge a note, I'd at least try to get the basic muscle-shapes right.
Also, the word monies in the note strikes me as suspicious, though not as definite as the writing. Monies is a word used naturally by bureaucrats and Nigerian scammers, not by ordinary people. I suppose Palfrey could have acquired the habit of using the word ... she did deal in an intimate way with lots of bureaucrats ... but it's still "out of tune" for a well-educated businesswoman. It would not seem "out of tune" to a bureaucrat who was trying to forge a note. ¶ 8:16 PM
Good lord, if I were trying to forge a note, I'd at least try to get the basic muscle-shapes right.
Also, the word monies in the note strikes me as suspicious, though not as definite as the writing. Monies is a word used naturally by bureaucrats and Nigerian scammers, not by ordinary people. I suppose Palfrey could have acquired the habit of using the word ... she did deal in an intimate way with lots of bureaucrats ... but it's still "out of tune" for a well-educated businesswoman. It would not seem "out of tune" to a bureaucrat who was trying to forge a note. ¶ 8:16 PM
