Can You Have the Perfect Training Case?

This case involves a bomb threat letter listing the Aurora Police Department in Colorado as its intended target. When responding to the return address on the letter, officers retrieved multiple harassment letters with pornographic material and were informed by the individuals at this address of stalking by a suspicious neighbor. The recipients of these harassing letters offered that there were additional victims in the neighborhood. Examination of the initial bomb threat document using the elements of document examination tied the multiple cases in the neighborhood together. This case involved handwriting identification, indented writing, observations of an ink defect in the printing process of a notepad and a crease in another notebook, and a physical match to prove the connection between the multiple cases. The results of these examinations were instrumental in obtaining a conviction.