Editing Questioned document examination (section)

==Historical and noteworthy cases==
===Pre-1900===
* The [[Howland will forgery trial]] (1868)
* Although the crimes were committed before the discipline of document examination was firmly established, the letters of the [[Jack the ripper#Ripper letters|Jack the Ripper]] case have since been examined in great detail
* The [[Dreyfus Affair]] (1894), involving non-FDE [[Alphonse Bertillon]], although professional comparisons exonerating Dreyfus were ignored
* The [[James Reavis]] ([[Baron of Arizona]]) land swindle trial about forged documents involved in a Spanish barony and land grant (1895)
* The [[Adolf Beck case]]s (1896 and 1904) where handwriting expert Thomas H. Gurrin repeated an erroneous identification

===1900-2000===
* The [[Lindbergh kidnapping]] (1934) where comparison of the ransom note and [[Bruno Hauptmann]]'s handwriting, by expert [[Albert S. Osborn]], was crucial
* [[Operation Bernhard]], a secret [[Nazi]] plan to destabilize the [[United Kingdom|British]] economy through counterfeited banknotes (1939)[[File:forgednote.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|A £5 note ([[White fiver]]) forged by [[Sachsenhausen concentration camp]] prisoners as part of Operation Bernhard]]
* [[Active measures]], a [[Soviet]]-era [[political warfare]] program, led by the [[KGB]], including the spreading of disinformation using falsified documents
* The [[Alger Hiss]] perjury appeal where the "fake typewriter hypothesis" saw expert [[Martin Tytell]] recreate a perfect replica typewriter (1952)
* The [[Zodiac Killer]] (1969)[[File:Door of Bryan Hartnell's car.jpg|thumb|Photo of victim Bryan Hartnell's car door, onto which the Zodiac Killer wrote details of his attack upon Hartnell and Cecelia Shepard]]
* The [[Clifford Irving]] claim that [[Howard Hughes]] authorized his biography (1972)
* The [[Mormon Will]] that [[Melvin Dummar]] claimed left him part of [[Howard Hughes]]' fortune (1978)
* The [[Mark Hofmann]] forgeries and murders (1980–84)
* The [[Hitler Diaries]] printed by the magazine ''Stern'' and determined to be forgeries (1983)
* The [[Paul Jennings Hill]] murders (1994)
* The [[JonBenét Ramsey]] murder (1996)

===Post-2000===
* The [[2001 anthrax attacks|anthrax attack]] mailings on the US Senate (2001)
* The [[Nina Wang]] case of the Teddy Wang wills (2002 and 2010)
* The [[Yellowcake Forgery]] (2003)
* The [[Killian memos]] (2004)
* The [[ImClone stock trading case|ImClone / Martha Stewart trial]] (2004)
* The [[The National Archives (United Kingdom)#Forgeries discovered in 2005|National Archives forgeries]] (aka Martin Allen forgeries or [[Himmler]] forged documents) (2005)
* The [[Hassan Diab (sociologist)|Hassan Diab]] extradition hearing (2011)
* The [[Panama Papers]] document leak (2016) which led to numerous investigations world-wide, including the [[Panama Papers case#JIT report and recommendations|Panama Papers case]] (officially titled ''Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi v. Muhammad Nawaz Sharif'') in which false documents were provided to the [[Supreme Court of Pakistan]] (2017)