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How ransom notes could help catch Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper - BBC
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Linguistics experts are exploring how individual writing patterns, known as idiolects, can be used to identify suspects through ransom notes. This forensic technique relies on the unique linguistic fingerprints left behind in written communication.
"It's built upon the premise that we each carry an idiolect, or a word print, of our own that distinguishes our language from others," said William Eggington, a retired linguistics professor from Bri…
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