Anonymous Letter through Snail Mail

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many of you need to put down the TV remote and step away from the CSI reruns. DNA testing? Fingerprints? WTF?

Exactly. To do any of these analyses, you need a comparison sample. So, unless you happen to have a sample of their DNA kicking around, or a fingerprint, you can't find out anything by looking at what you received. Not to mention a private DNA test would cost you about $1,000. If there are no threats, the police are not going to be bothered with doing these things for you (and even if the person's fingerprints or DNA are in the system because of a prior conviction, a private lab won't have access to those. Just the police/state crome lab).

[Anonymous]

I heard a saying once that went something like "he who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool and he who takes offense when offense IS intended is a bigger fool." The world is full of thoughtless people, although it's hard you need to just ignore them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:b/c this last letter is not necessarily threatening

It's cruel, written by a coward, and filled with lies, but there isn't enough to punish anyone over it.

I simply want it to stop, and that can only happen if I have enough concrete evidence to prove who sent it.

Over the years, when tragic events have occurred (mainly deaths, unfortunately), we've been attacked, for lack of a better term, but these incidents have been spotty.

It's all so complex and stems from very dysfunctional family relationships. But, sadly, although we've cut these people out of our lives, they still - on occasion - manage to re-enter our lives in the most negative way.

Thanks for any insight, PPs! I'm moving ahead with the P. I. plan to see how far that gets us. I just want some peace.


Take it from someone who has also cut toxic folks from our lives - they still send us stuff even though we have specifically asked them to cease and desist - know that no matter what you do they will always try to send you negative things. My opinion - if there is no return address and it looks suspicious don't ever open it - just put it in the trash - that's what we do.

[Anonymous]

I agree that it's pretty ridiculous to go all CSI (if it's even possible) on a sticks-and-stones letter. As for a PI, think realistically about how the confirmation will be obtained. Will the PI sit outside the writer's window, taking "money shots" of some scroogy person hunched over a typewriter? With telephoto enhancement of the letter in progress? I can't even imagine what kind of "proof" you might hope for. Save your money.

The PP who said to drop it unopened in the suspected sender's mailbox had a good idea. If they didn't send it, they'll return it to you, thinking they received it by mistake. If they did, they will see that you didn't open it, and you will have taken away the satisfaction.

[Anonymous]

Unless the letters are threatening, the police aren't going to bother trying to figure out whom they're from and I doubt a PI would have the resources and capabilities to determine their source. If you think you know who is sending them, have a letter drafted by an attorney requesting that they stop harassing you and your mother and if they don't, you'll pursue all available recourses. If the letters stop, then you'll know you had the right person.

[Anonymous]

Was it from Jwoww and Snooki?

[Anonymous]

OP, did you say you think it's a family member? If so could you have your own dna tested to see if it's related? I hear they are catching criminals this way nowadays.

I would send to the police in case it escalates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was it from Jwoww and Snooki?

ha, ha!!! it could only be from them if the letter was carefully typed on a computer and then addressed in marker, ruining all hopes of anonymity. i LOVE jersey shore. so much!

[Anonymous]

A PI could dust the "suspects" car for finger prints and then analyze the letter for a match.

[Anonymous]

OP here

We are Italian . . . So you never know!

Anonymous wrote:Was it from Jwoww and Snooki?

[Anonymous]

I don't think we need to go that far, but maybe the P. I. thing is a stretch, too. I'm just desperate to see it end and even more eager to confront the person.

Do private investigators really sit around and take photos? It's not as though we're dealing with an affair here. I just can't imagine how anyone could trace this letter to a computer.

Anonymous wrote:OP, did you say you think it's a family member? If so could you have your own dna tested to see if it's related? I hear they are catching criminals this way nowadays.

I would send to the police in case it escalates.

[Anonymous]

I like this idea, but how do you go about it w/o trespassing? even at someone's work?

Anonymous wrote:A PI could dust the "suspects" car for finger prints and then analyze the letter for a match.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think we need to go that far, but maybe the P. I. thing is a stretch, too. I'm just desperate to see it end and even more eager to confront the person.

Do private investigators really sit around and take photos? It's not as though we're dealing with an affair here. I just can't imagine how anyone could trace this letter to a computer.

Anonymous wrote:OP, did you say you think it's a family member? If so could you have your own dna tested to see if it's related? I hear they are catching criminals this way nowadays.

I would send to the police in case it escalates.

Supposedly every printer and copier prints an invisible watermark with identifying info on every page printed or copied.

[Anonymous]

[Eric] There was pollen on one of the letters that comes from an elm tree that no longer exists, except for three small locations within the DC area. A second letter from the same typewriter had detectable residues from hydrocarbons common to aircraft. So if we can get a map of the area....

[Horatio Caine] Good work, Eric. OK, team. Plot the elm tree coordinates ...

Now overlay flight paths from all national and regional airports....

And cross reference against properties owned by the family members ....

Gotcha Aunt Minnie! Guess who's not going to be home for this holiday...

[Anonymous]

*dons sunglasses*

YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!