Linguistic, Documentary and Digital Forensics

Landmark cases whose defining forensic significance is the analysis of communications, writing style or digital data: an offender identified through forensic linguistic and stylistic analysis of a published manifesto, an offender identified through metadata recovered from a digital file sent to media, and a dark web marketplace investigation resolved through digital forensics tracing server data and cryptocurrency transactions. Belongs here: a case whose historical importance rests on analyzing text, authorship style or electronic data. Does not belong here: a case resolved through comparing physical trace evidence with no linguistic or digital component, grouped under Trace, Document and Physical Evidence Analysis.