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Chaffin Forgery Theory

The sceptical case that the disinherited Chaffin sons forged the 1919 holographic will themselves, exploiting North Carolina’s witness-free holographic-will law, and constructed the dream narrative as a sympathetic cover story; no independent forensic handwriting examination was ever conducted.

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  • Chaffin Will CaseJune–December 1925

    Chaffin Forgery Theory attempts to explain Chaffin Will Case — North Carolina’s holographic-will law required no witnesses, and no independent forensic handwriting examination of the 1919 document was ever conducted.

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