The Typewriter Locked in Evidence That Wrote a Ransom Note
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The Typewriter Locked in Evidence That Wrote a Ransom Note
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A sealed evidence bin held a Royal Empress typewriter for eight and a half years - and a ransom note demanding $40,000 was later typed on that same machine. How could a note matching a machine never signed out of the Caldwell evidence locker appear in the middle of a child’s disappearance?
In this episode, we lay out the timeline, the physical details of the typewriter evidence, and the courtroom moments that turned certainty into doubt. What overlooked fact inside the sealed bin ultimately unraveled the prosecution’s case?
Person: Iris Fowler
Date: August 16, 2011
Location: Kettner Avenue; Dunmore Street; Caldwell Public Safety Building evidence locker bin 1142-C
Case: Kidnapping and extortion charges filed September 2011 against Cynthia Stewart
Item: Royal Empress typewriter serial RE-741-09224, logged February 2003
- The ransom note demanded forty thousand dollars and was found August 18, 2011 inside an unsealed white envelope behind 14-B on Dunmore Street.
- The note used Pica twelve-pitch typeface consistent with mechanical typewriters.
- The Royal Empress typewriter with serial RE-741-09224 was logged into evidence bin 1142-C in February 2003 and remained there sealed for 8.5 years.
- Document examiner Bette Holt identified a malformed lowercase "t" and a left-leaning numeral "4" linking the note to Royal Empress machines made 1974-1976.
- The Caldwell evidence corridor visitor log showed 14 entries over 8.5 years, with 12 recorded property checks by officer Ron Vesey.
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