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a typewritten note lies next to a dead a document examiner must read between the lines to lead authorities to the killer a murderer writes then destroys the story of his crime investigators will do everything to assure the tale ends with a conviction and a to-do list scrawled on an ordinary piece of cardboard includes an extraordinary task detectives look to handwriting to prove a murder was premeditated among today's new detectives are the forensic document examiner's under their keen eye a scrap of paper or a typewriter ribbon can be as incriminating as a confession signed in blood [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] in Minneapolis Minnesota February 6th 1995 police officers responded to a 911 they arrived at the home of Ted Mills his wife Mamie Hernandez Mills and stepson Nathan LA to Mamie and Nathan had come home from a dental appointment to find Ted Mills dead and the house ransacked [Music] Mills lay with a shotgun wound in his head the back door of the house showed signs of forced entry the strewn clothing seemed to indicate a robbery had taken place then police found a note if somebody's been through this dresser typed on a torn sheet of lined yellow note paper it read this is for our bud that you sent to jail sent the rest in peace it was one clue that would speak volumes not just in the words on the page but in its paper and ink Sergeant David Palmer of the minneapolis homicide unit relied on the expertise of forensic document examiner Karen Runyon to help him read between the lines document examiner's match writers with their penmanship typists with their typewriters counterfeiters with their forgeries using computers microscopes and digital enhancement these new detectives delve into the minuscule world of paper fibers and carbon particles to solve crimes as the document examiner in this case it was up to Runyon to learn all she could from the slip of paper the note was collected by the crime scene people and brought to me and I first made an examination to determine how the note had been prepared and it had been prepared with a typewriter that used a carbon film ribbon which told me that if the ribbon could be located the ribbon could be read and matched possibly to this entry Runyan told officers to look for an electric typewriter with a carbon film ribbon and if they found one like that they should collect it as evidence as well they should be aware that this document had a fractured lower edge to it where it's been torn off of the rest of the piece of paper and they should look for any pieces of paper like this with any fractured edge or any type of tablet that this might have been torn out of [Music] while Runyon focused on the note the police questioned the victim's wife and stepson [Music] according to Mamie and Nathan they were at...