“Handwriting Analysis of Serial Killers” is an interesting observation on the analysis of several different serial killers’ hand writing, including John Wayne Gacy, Charles Manson, and Jack the Ripper. The author, Anna Koren, is a foremost world expert in graphology, in Haifa, Israel. According to Wikipedia, Graphology is the study and analysis of handwriting especially in relation to human psychology. In the medical field, it can be used to refer to the study of handwriting as an aid in diagnosis and tracking of diseases of the brain and nervous system. The term is sometimes incorrectly used to refer to forensic document examination and according to some skeptics, graphology may not live up to its meaning.

Check out this excerpt from The Skepdic.com’s article:

“Graphology is another pipe dream of those who want a quick and dirty decision making process to tell them who to marry, who did the crime, who they should hire, what career they should seek, where the good hunting is, where the water, oil, or buried treasure is, etc. Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with such troublesome matters as research, evidence analysis, reasoning, logic, and hypothesis testing. If you want results and you want them now and you want them stated in strong, certain terms, graphology is for you. If, however, you can live with reasonable probabilities and uncertainty, you might try another method to pick a spouse or hire an employee.

If on the other hand, you don’t mind discriminating against people on the basis of pseudoscientific non-sense, then at least have the consistency to use a Ouija board to help you pick the right graphologist.”

Regardless of what you believe, Koren’s article is certainly interesting and contains images of a lot of notorious serial killers’ handwriting.

What do you think?

Charles Manson's Handwriting

Jack the Ripper's Handwriting

Ted Bundy's Handwriting