People lie. Handwriting doesn’t.
For nearly sixty years, court-qualified forensic handwriting expert Sheila Lowe has examined the intimate marks people leave behind: signatures on wills and contracts, anonymous letters, suicide notes, threatening messages, journals, and countless other questioned documents.
In Case Files of a Forensic Handwriting Expert, Lowe opens her files to share the fascinating, disturbing, funny, and occasionally surreal experiences that shaped her extraordinary career.
Part professional memoir, part true-crime casebook, this candid collection takes readers behind the scenes of murder trials, celebrity controversies, television interviews, and courtroom battles where a few strokes of ink could carry life-changing consequences. Lowe recounts her involvement in cases connected with the O.J. Simpson trial, German conman ‘Clark Rockefeller,’ the anthrax attacks, John Travolta, Jeffrey Epstein, and lesser-known disputes involving forged wills, fabricated suicide notes, insurance fraud, inheritance battles, and anonymous threats.
Along the way, she explains what handwriting can reveal, why experts sometimes disagree, and why the most responsible answer is occasionally, ‘It cannot be determined.’
Engaging, revealing, and laced with dry humor, this is ultimately a book about the human beings behind the evidence—their hopes, fears, secrets, motives, and lies.
For nearly sixty years, court-qualified forensic handwriting expert Sheila Lowe has examined the intimate marks people leave behind: signatures on wills and contracts, anonymous letters, suicide notes, threatening messages, journals, and countless other questioned documents.
In Case Files of a Forensic Handwriting Expert, Lowe opens her files to share the fascinating, disturbing, funny, and occasionally surreal experiences that shaped her extraordinary career.
Part professional memoir, part true-crime casebook, this candid collection takes readers behind the scenes of murder trials, celebrity controversies, television interviews, and courtroom battles where a few strokes of ink could carry life-changing consequences. Lowe recounts her involvement in cases connected with the O.J. Simpson trial, German conman ‘Clark Rockefeller,’ the anthrax attacks, John Travolta, Jeffrey Epstein, and lesser-known disputes involving forged wills, fabricated suicide notes, insurance fraud, inheritance battles, and anonymous threats.
Along the way, she explains what handwriting can reveal, why experts sometimes disagree, and why the most responsible answer is occasionally, ‘It cannot be determined.’
Engaging, revealing, and laced with dry humor, this is ultimately a book about the human beings behind the evidence—their hopes, fears, secrets, motives, and lies.
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