Chapter 14 - THE PAPER TELLS A STORYForensic document examiner Dr. Melissa Greene studied the codicil.
Ink.
Toner.
Paper.
Indentations.
Staple holes.
Printer characteristics.
The signature itself was genuine.
That surprised everyone.
Samuel had signed page three.
Witness signatures also appeared genuine.
Richard’s lawyer smiled for approximately a day.
Then the rest arrived.
Page one and page three were printed on paper from one batch.
Page two—the page containing the inheritance shift to Richard and the “physical incapacity” proxy clause—came from a different batch.
Printer microcharacteristics suggested page two had been printed on a different office machine.
Staple holes showed the document had originally been assembled differently.
Even more important:
A faint indentation on page three showed the bottom lines of another page had once rested above it during signing.
Those lines did not match the current page two.
The codicil had been altered after Dad signed.
That was the first strong forensic proof.
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Not who altered it.
That would come from digital records.
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