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How ransom notes could help catch Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper - BBC

How ransom notes could help catch Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper - BBC

A forensic linguist told the BBC it's possible to glean crucial information about a person from just a few sentences.

"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 Briโ€ฆ [+54 chars]

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