The Typewriter That Shouldn't Have Typed: How They Framed Amy
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The Typewriter That Shouldn't Have Typed: How They Framed Amy
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A single fingerprint, letter by letter, from a typewriter that had been sealed in an evidence locker for twenty-six months turned a missing-child case into a fight over truth and trust. How could a machine with an intact seal and no access log leave the defective "e" impression on a ransom note that named a nine-year-old boy and demanded forty thousand dollars?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from a morning run to a forensic breakthrough and the impossible discovery that followed, and we ask whether the paper itself holds the answer to who really knew the department’s secrets.
Person: Amy Watson
Person: Cody Ashburn
Date: August 6, 2009
Item: Remington Portable Eight typewriter, serial RP8-441892
Demand: $40,000 ransom
- A jogger, Stanley Meyer, found a folded ransom note at 6:42 AM on August 6, 2009, wedged in a chain-link fence.
- The note demanded $40,000 for the return of nine-year-old Cody Ashburn and set a drop deadline of August 7.
- Forensic examiner Patricia Gould identified a hairline gap in every lowercase "e" matching a specific defective key.
- The matching typewriter (Remington Portable Eight, serial RP8-441892) was logged into Harwick Falls PD evidence locker on March 14, 2007, sealed and showing no check-outs for 26 months.
- Detective Howard Brent had the note bagged by 7:15 AM the same day it was found and by August 9 Gould had produced the typewriter identification.
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