It seems clear, also, that Patsy is really struggling to write with her left hand and many letters are distorted or even illegible. It looks to me as though the note might have been copied or even traced from a computer display, since the letters resemble a computer font. Patsy's example is more closely spaced, as is the example we have from John's deposition. With reference to the documents as a whole, one very distinctive feature of the ransom note is the way the words are laid out, with an unusual amount of space between them. And this is in fact what convinced a great many that Patsy must have written it. But this is how the editors of the Enquirer saw it, or wanted their readers to see it. The only clear similarities I see in any of these blown up comparisons are the 'f's and 'i's in 'faction' and the 'l' and the first 'e' in 'letter,' though even in these there are very real differences. Moving to 'that,' again we see striking differences in all four letters. The angle of the lower part of the 'y' is clearly very different in both. The 'l's in the note touch one another, but Patsy's are parallel. Her 'u' is a bit lumpy, while the 'u' in the note is not. The top of the ransom note 'f' is rounded while Patsy's is horizontal. Taking the first comparison, on the word 'carefully,' the 'a's are obviously very different, so are the 'r's. To make things easy, the Enquirer blew up comparisons they saw as 'an exact match.' Well, obviously they are not an exact match. But any two documents written in similar styles of 'manuscript' printing are likely to contain points of resemblance. And yes, superficially (the only way the Enquirer ever treated any topic), the two documents do look somewhat similar overall.

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