1.   Police sources revealed earlier that the three-page ransom note had been handwritten on paper from a legal pad found in the home.

2.   The ransom note explained the terms under which she would be released.

3.   A spokesman for the World Wide Fund for Nature described it as a combination of a ransom note and a blank cheque.

4.   A confounding ransom note later said the painting would not be returned unless there was peace in the Middle East.

5.   A scrapbook of headlines from this puzzling Rangers season would look like a ransom note.

6.   After using an old typewriter to create a ransom note, Harry tosses it off a causeway, only to see it land in an inch of water.

7.   Boulder police already had said that the ransom note was written on a pad found in the house.

8.   But no ransom note was ever found, and the authorities concluded that the women were victims of random foul play.

9.   Detectives want to compare the new samples with the two-and-a-half page ransom note.

10.   Hauptmann was convicted in part on the basis of expert testimony that he had written the ransom notes.