[hummingbird]

I don't know all the ins and outs of computers

Same here, but can't those "computer forensics" people look at the hard drive and at least determine when the message was written, and if the computer's clock had been tampered with?

As another poster noted above, I recall that the spokespeople at the time said that there was no suicide note. Time to put on our "google goggles" and have a look!

[brytlea]

I thought maybe they could tell when it was written, but I'm not positive.
I wonder what color google goggles go with my nice tinfoil hate?? ;)
susie

[weegee]

Same here, but can't those "computer forensics" people look at the hard drive and at least determine when the message was written, and if the computer's clock had been tampered with?

If it was Word, there is an autosave feature (may not have been on) that keept some of a draft. Does it rewrite the file even if there are no changes?

There are all sorts of details that are stored (including last accessed documents) and recent web cache.

Everyone leaves a virtual paper trail of their thoughts now.