paul edholme, a forensic document examiner, was asked to compare gerald mason's handwriting to the signature george wilson on the ymca register. almost immediately, edholme noticed that some letters seemed to jump off the page. >> first was the capital "g," because we had "g" in george and "g" in gerald. and as far as the height relationship, as far as the width of the letter, as far as the slant, the amount of strokes it took to form the letter, each one of those was consistent, and that was very important. >> there were other similarities in the letter "d" and "s," "o," "n." and there was something more. >> what i noted in mr. mason's handwriting was from 1957, at that time he was 23 years old, until 1999, his handwriting did not change one iota. it was exactly the same. >> edholme was convinced that gerald mason signed the ymca register with the alias george d. wilson. nearly five decades after the crime, mason was arrested and charged with murder. >> when we introduced ourselves and told him we were homicide investigators, he was a little bit irritated and it was almost like you're here