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Permalink Reply by just some dude on November 16, 2017 at 2:41am

I thought of this site as soon as I heard this on the news. I say real.

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Permalink Reply by Scott Paul on November 16, 2017 at 4:47am

I appears authentic to me. The fact in the original there is so much writing this should not take experts at the major TPA's long to figure out one way or another.  This was a one shot deal were it to be forged since it is unlikely there are stacks of old yearbooks around.  I cannot see someone studying his handwriting and signature in such a short period of time to come up with something that looks as good as this does.  I am not worried about exemplars being found of Moore.  Alabama is filled with lots of examples of Moore's hand writing especially in the clerk of court (prothonotary here in in Penna.) office,  Even if the original legal documents are not there they would be required to have microfilm copies.  So I suspect there would be hundreds upon hundreds of exemplars there.  The only problem would be the "experts" they get to look at these would I suspect not be "autograph" experts but "forensic handing writing" experts.  My opinion of those is limited.

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Permalink Reply by Woody2Shoes on November 16, 2017 at 11:00am

Shouldn't they be comparing this to other verified exemplars that Moore signed in 1977? I'm sure there's still plenty available to choose from. Wouldn't that be best instead of comparisons to signatures 20 and 40 years later? If you compare Marilyn's 1942 signature to one from 1960, you wouldn't know it's the same person. That can be said of many people's signatures over a 20 to 40 year swath.

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Permalink Reply by Woody2Shoes on November 16, 2017 at 11:39am

Here's someone's online analysis:

http://cowgernation.com/2017/11/14/vindicated-signature-forged-12-d... 

Although from what I gather just by skimming the article is that the analyst is conducting his examination under the impression that everyone signs their name exactly the same, like a machine, each and every time.

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Permalink Reply by James on November 16, 2017 at 12:36pm

Yes, as most of us here know, no two signatures are ever exactly the same. Plus, signature styles often vary over time. With some signers it can be much more pronounced than with others. Take Mickey Mantle's autograph, for example. The Mick altered his autograph immensely as time went by. His more we-known autograph varies greatly from how he signed very early in his career.

In the case of Moore, it appear that there was a little variation over time, but nothing too radical. And the way "Moore" is signed in the accuser's yearbook appears pretty spot-on compared to the upper-left example.

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