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The years since the murders. now we ve got a real suspect. but we were still a little bit apprehensive. okay, it is a fingerprint, an old fingerprint, what else do we have? one of the robbery victims, bob dewar, was brought in for a photographic lineup. but couldn t identify mason as the man who stole the car. so police needed to look further. they needed something more. and what more was, me. the man who bought the murder weapon in 1956 and rented a room at a ymca in shreveport, louisiana, had printed his name on the register. paul edholme, a forensic document examiner, was asked to compare gerald mason s handwriting to the signature of george wilson on the ymca register. almost immediately, edholme noticed some letters seemed to jump off the page. ....
first was the capital g, because we had g in george and g in gerald. and as far as the height relationship, as far as the width of the letter, as far as the slant, the amount of strokes it took to form the letter, each one of those was consistent, and that was very important. there were other similarities in the letter d and s, o, n. and there was something more. what i noted in mr. mason s handwriting was from 1957, at that time he was 23 years old, until 1999, his handwriting did not change one iota. it was exactly the same. edholme was convinced that gerald mason signed the ymca register with the alias george d. wilson. ....