I separated Oliva's letters and lined them up with those of the Ransom Note. Even with these few comparisons I think it'll knock your socks off. Better be sitting down when you read this.

Some comments first. The RN generally has three or more variations on each character. I might think of this as the writer's attempt to disguise his handwriting as most of us have a persistent way of making our alphabet characters when printing or writing.

Curious thing. Even in the short example that we have of Oliva's writing he exhibits the same tendancy for making variations of characters. And most of the ones he makes are eerily sim.......:

http://b.heart.50megs.com/ramsey/RnR.htm
http://b.heart.50megs.com/ramsey/RnT.htm
http://b.heart.50megs.com/ramsey/RnF.htm
http://b.heart.50megs.com/ramsey/Rn1a.htm
http://b.heart.50megs.com/ramsey/Rnd.htm

More to come later