JonBenet Ramsey death: Late child beauty queen's father claims handwriting analysis of ransom note proves his wife's innocence
ATLANTA, GEORGIA: JonBenet Ramsey's father has affirmed that a recent handwriting analysis not only exonerates his wife but also implicates convicted pedophile Gary Oliva as a potential suspect for the death of his daughter.
The tragic incident unfolded shortly after Christmas in 1996 when a six-year-old beauty queen was mysteriously killed in her serene home while her family slept upstairs.
This perplexing crime has sustained America's intrigue for over 25 years, marked by numerous false leads, mishandled evidence, and a slew of shocking allegations.
Initially, the primary suspects in the case of the child pageant queen were her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey.
However, more than ten years after her death, DNA evidence exonerated them of any wrongdoing. Subsequently, officials explored numerous other potential suspects before eventually focusing their attention on Oliva.
In a report, experts Mozelle Martin and Dawn McCarty identified similarities between Oliva's handwriting and the ransom note left by the killer.
What did the handwriting experts say?
Two handwriting experts, Mozelle Martin and Dawn McCarty, independently conducted analyses obtained by The US Sun, revealing significant parallels between Oliva's writing and the ransom note of the killer.
The groundbreaking report unveiled a score of 1.75 on a scale of 1 to 5, where one signifies a definitive match, making it an almost identical match to the ransom note.
McCarty emphasized the striking similarities, stating, "You can't make this up... two separate sets of documents by two different authors that have the exact same spacing and all the consistent inconsistencies, how could that possibly be? There's too many things that are just hard to ignore."
McCarty compared the shapes of individual letters, symbols, and words in the ransom note and Oliva's writing. Meanwhile, Martin focused on slant variations, pressure points, spacing, letter sizing, and additional characteristics present in both documents.
Both experts concurred on consistent similarities, such as the distinctive features in lowercase A's found in both Oliva's writing and the killer's. McCarty highlighted patterns, including flattened tops in the letter A and an overall similar shape.
"The contour of the oval segment of the lowercase a showed a likeness when overlapped, as did the inward lean of the stem of the a and the irregular top portion of the letter," she claimed. "There’s a notable indent on the stem of the a and both sets of samples lean inwards toward the left."
Martin also emphasized Oliva's A's, describing them as resembling a backward number 6 with a distinctive "leftward tilt."
The experts concluded that their independent analysis indicated Oliva "most likely" authored the Ramsey ransom letter. Private investigator Jason Jensen, independently investigating JonBenet Ramsey's murder, commissioned the forensic handwriting analysis.
It's noteworthy that in 2016, another handwriting expert, Cina Wong, who examined the ransom note, claimed it was highly probable that the letter was written by the child beauty queen’s mother, Patsy.
Wong spent three weeks comparing the note to 100 examples of Patsy's handwriting in 2000, finding multiple similarities, which presented strong evidence that made the child's mother a suspect.
After analyzing the disparities in the claimed handwriting by the experts, JonBenet Ramsey's father concluded and demonstrated the innocence of his wife, Ramsey's mother.
Gary Olive confessed in letter: 'It was an accident'
Following the discovery of unmatched DNA under the child's fingernails and on her clothes, along with a perplexing ransom note demanding $118,000 found in the family's home, a significant development occurred in 2019.
Daily Mail unveiled the confession of a longtime suspect in the murder of JonBenet, who finally admitted to killing the then six-year-old beauty pageant queen.
Gary Oliva, a convicted pedophile currently serving a 10-year sentence in a Colorado prison for child pornography, confessed in letters obtained by DailyMailTV that he killed JonBenet accidentally.
In one letter, Oliva, who had a history of violence and had previously been jailed for attempting to strangle his mother, expressed remorse, stating, "I never loved anyone like I did JonBenet and yet I let her slip and her head bashed in half and I watched her die."
He added, "It was an accident. Please believe me. She was not like the other kids."
In another letter, Oliva wrote, "JonBenet completely changed me and removed all evil from me. Just one look at her beautiful face, her glowing beautiful skin, and her divine God-body, I realized I was wrong to kill other kids."
He further wrote, "Yet by accident she died and it was my fault." These letters were sent to music publicist Michael Vail, a former high school classmate of Oliva's.
