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As long as these forgery trends continue, Forensic Document Examiners are becoming an asset to justice and a thorn in the side of criminals nationwide. http://HandwritingExpertUSA.com [Bart Baggett] leads the nation in training and mentoring new experts in this growing field. Pursuing a career in Forensic Document Examination becomes more viable … and rewarding. “The court actually gave me 2 hours and a desk to study the original will before my testimony. They obviously care about the truth.” said Baggett of the generosity and special effort made by the Probate Department of the Los Angeles Superior Court staff on June 18th, 2009.

“This case is typical of the crimes me and my graduates see everyday in this line of work. In most cases which get to trial, at least one person is lying… the job of the forensic document examiner is to allow the evidence to point in the direction of the truth. We interpret the evidence and share it with the court. It is a great job when justice prevails.” said Bart Baggett, President and founder of http://InternationalSchool.us [The International School of Forensic Document Examination]

Bart Baggett, Forensic Handwriting Expert

It is believed that someone forged Sammie McGrue’s signature on a false 1993 Last Will and Testament. Despite presenting the court with a color photocopied “original”, the fake will utilized 2008 version legal forms and a notary seal issued in 2006. In other words, part of the 1993 will was actually created on software and documents which did not exist in 1993… and the perpetrators of the crime left the copyright notice on two of the forms. It is even believed the notary of the document purgered herself on the witness stand and is in fear of losing her notary license. “There is no doubt the notary committed perjury on the witness stand today.” said Barbara Brunner, a witness in the case and owner of  [Paralegal Probate Service.]

Commissioner Goetz was quick to see the evidence clearly and guided the beneficiaries to find a honest and fair settlement of the estate. There was no valid will, so the estate will be split equally among the children. Howard Lynch, the attorney who successfully contested the fake will said,”Submitting a forged will to the court is serious business. I’m glad justice prevailed today, but criminal charges could be filed in a case like this. ”

Until 2003, training for this unique Crime Scene Investigator-type career was only available: 1) in a government crime lab at very low wages, 2) at a private lab where apprentice examiners worked for free, or 3) for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where employment is nearly impossible to obtain. http://InternationalSchool.us [The International School of Forensic Document Examination] recognized this need, becoming the only non-governmental institution that offers a structured 6 module curriculum and certification program in forensic document examination. Graduates has successfully become part of the fabric of forensic examiner having testified in both civil and criminal cases nationwide. The school has helped dozens of work-at-home entrepreneurs find rewarding careers in forensic document examination. The school currently has students in Australia, New Zealand, India, Canada, Taiwan, Slovakia, and the United States.

President and founder of the International School of Forensic Documents Bart Baggett sparked interest in handwriting analysis when he was a teenager, and even secured an internship with a leading authority in the field while still in high school. Baggett’s passion for handwriting brought him to study both sciences relating to handwriting, eventually becoming one of the few experts frequently called up on for commentary on both criminal personality profiling and forensic identification through handwriting.

After graduating from Pepperdine University, Baggett then turned his attention to writing, speaking and building an internationally acclaimed training program for personality profilers http://HandwritingUniversity.com [Handwriting University International]. In 2003, he founded the http://InternationalSchool.us [The International School of Forensic Document Examination] which exclusively teaches forensic document examination to students worldwide.

Since 1996 the national media has been calling on Baggett to comment on top news stories involving handwriting such as the BKK killer, Anthrax letters, JonBenet Ramsey and the Zodiac murders, on shows like The Today Show, America’s Most Wanted, and CNN’s Larry King Live. Baggett began testifying in court during the 1990’s and remains a frequent qualified expert witness in courtrooms in California and the Southwest. He currently resides in Studio City, CA.

For more information on the International School of Forensic Documents, including details and qualifications of the two-year distance-learning and mentoring program, please log onto http://internationalschool.us or call toll free in North American 1.877.297.4846 or at 310.926.1822. Class start each  Fall

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Debra Perez at San Francisco Press Conference

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solve this crime, once and for all?

http://cbs13.com/local/zodiac.killer.claims.2.997766.html

Coded message: Longtime San Francisco attorney Melvin Belli was addressed directly in a letter from the serial killer who called himself “Zodiac.”

One letter received by Police

The Zodiac killer, who taunted and terrified Bay Area residents in the late 1960s with cryptic letters and a trail of victims, has been identified, according to a group claiming to have cracked the case that has baffled police for decades.

The killer is not one of the handful of men repeatedly linked to the 40-year-old crime spree, according to the group, which plans to announce its findings today.

The group also says new evidence shows the killer had an accomplice for some of the slayings.

Two years ago, colleagues of the late Melvin Belli, a prominent San Francisco attorney, organized a team of investigators and forensic experts to probe the Zodiac case after a woman came forward claiming to be the killer’s relative.

Belli, who died in 1996, became connected to the hunt for the Zodiac after a man claiming to be the killer wrote him a letter containing a scrap of shirt from his last known victim, San Francisco cab driver Paul Lee Stine.

Edward Lozzi, spokesman for the group and former communications director for Belli’s law firm, said the team will support its claims with forensic evidence, including cryptology and handwriting analysis, along with new information from law enforcement investigations and murder accomplice evidence.

Bart Baggett, Forensic Document Examiner, has submitted a letter to authorities of his findings.

“The murders were not random. They were definitely people who were targeted,” Lozzi said, adding that the recent findings show that none of the previously suspected men is the Zodiac Killer. “This is an entirely new direction.”

The killer, who claimed to have killed 37 people, sent coded messages and letters promising more deaths to the press.

Investigators linked the elusive suspect to the killings of five people in San Francisco, Vallejo, Lake Berryessa and Benicia from December 1968 to October 1969.

Two more victims were shot but survived. The Zodiac continued to send letters to authorities and newspapers throughout the 1970s.

Arthur Lee Allen, a former Navy man who died in 1992, is the potential suspect most widely mentioned in the case. Other names that have surfaced over the years include Jack Tarrance, Larry Kane and former Manson Family member Bruce Davis.

The San Francisco Police department, which reopened the Zodiac case in 2006, is not involved with today’s noon news conference, department spokesman Sgt. Wilfred Williams said. He declined to comment further.

Lozzi has said that all evidence his group has collected has been turned over to the FBI.
Zodiac timeline

* Dec. 20, 1968: David Farraday, 17, and Betty Lou Jensen, 16, are killed in a gravel parking area near Lake Herman Road in Vallejo with a .22-caliber semiautomatic pistol.
* July 4, 1969: Darlene Ferrin, 22, and Mike Mageau, 19, are each shot several times with a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol while parked in Blue Rock Springs Park in Vallejo. Ferrin dies, but Mageau lives to provide a description of their assailant. That night, a man calls the Vallejo Police Department, identifying the murder weapon and claiming responsibility for the killing and the Lake Herman Road murders.
* July 31, 1969: The Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Vallejo Times-Herald receive letters from a person claiming to be the killer. The letters each contain one-third of an encoded message cipher. The letters are signed with a crossed-circle symbol. The logo is also used on Zodiac brand watches.
* Aug. 4, 1969: In a letter to The Examiner, the killer first uses the famous greeting, “This is the Zodiac speaking,” thus coining the name by which he will be known.
* Aug. 8, 1969: Donald and Bettye Harden crack the cipher codes and produce a statement from the Zodiac describing his enjoyment of killing.
* Sept. 27, 1969: On the shores of Lake Berryessa in Napa, Cecilia Shephard, 22, and Bryan Hartnell, 20, are approached by a man in a hooded costume with the Zodiac’s symbol. Both are stabbed several times, but Hartnell survives. The symbol and the message “Vallejo 12-20-68, 7-4-69, Sept 27-69-6:30 by knife,” identifying the previous murders, are found written on Hartnell’s car door.
* Oct. 11, 1969: Yellow Cab driver Paul Stine, 29, is shot and killed just before 10 p.m. at the intersection of Washington and Cherry streets in San Francisco. Police officers speak to a man who may have been the killer, but they do not suspect him because their dispatcher had given them an inaccurate description.
* Oct. 13, 1969: The Chronicle receives a letter and a portion of Stine’s bloodied shirt from the Zodiac.
* Nov. 8, 1969: A fourth cipher, 340 symbols long, is sent to the Chronicle. That cipher has yet to be solved.
* Letters are sent until the 1970s, but there are no more confirmed Zodiac victims.