Statement from Jameson April 12, 1999 I did not go on 48 Hours for " personal glory " or for 15 minutes of fame. I went on 48 Hours because I felt it important to encourage the public to question the work of Donald Foster. I believe he is a charlatan who is hoping to "cash in" on this case and others. I was not going to be silent and watch him present his 100 page report to the authorities without opposition.
Donald Foster claims he can tell a lot about a person from their writings.
Well, he read thousands of my on-line posts, he had scores of my e-mails, my work on the TimeLine... and he determined I was a 20 year old homicidal male.
I am not male, he missed the age by more than a quarter century, and I haven't considered killing anyone since.... well, no need to get into that. *grin*
Bottom line is this -
Donald Foster made a "mistaken attribution" in the jameson situation. He clearly indicated in his FAX to his literary agent that he had access to the ransom note.
(He was going to include a "close reading" of that note and the two Ramsey TV appearances in his article that he said he could have on their desk within days.) So he had access to the note (unless he was lying to his agent).
He believed Patsy didn't write the ransom note .
He thought jameson was John Andrew and was the killer.
If he was wrong with hundreds of jameson pages to examine, how can anyone believe NOW that he can really tell who wrote those 31 sentences that make up the ransom note?
jameson (END QUOTE)
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