Chapter 8 - The signature
A forensic document examiner compared the signatures on the parenting packet with genuine samples.
Mortgage documents.
Tax forms.
Our marriage license.
A medical insurance authorization.
The forged signatures were not handwritten imitations.
They were identical digital images.
Same pixel imperfections.
Same tiny break in the lower curve of the M.
Source:
A PDF of a mortgage-related authorization I had signed two years earlier.
How did Dorian get it?
We shared household files.
No hacking.
No spyware.
He had legitimate access to the original PDF.
The parenting packet had been assembled using a common PDF editor.
Metadata showed the files were created on Dorian’s laptop.
His user profile.
Could another person have used it?
Yes.
Then email:
Dorian to Clarissa:
I put Morwenna’s signature where the lawyer said hers would go if she agreed.
Clarissa:
Good. Keep a clean copy.
That changed everything.
Not accidental formatting.
Not staff error.
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He knew the signature represented consent.
He knew I had not given it.
