http://www.physorg.com/news74408003.html
"Psychologists at the University of Leicester are to investigate texting language to provide new tools for criminal investigation. The forensic linguistic study will examine how well an individual can be identified by their texting style. A prior case where this was used was the investigation of murder a few years ago. At the 2002 trial an alibi was broken based on the evidence that the murderer and not the victim had sent crucial messages from her phone. Text analyses revealed that the texts had not been written by the victim herself, but that they had been faked to deflect suspicion from the killer as there were a number of differences in the texting styles between the victim and murderer. Linguistic analysis is therefore a useful tool which can reveal secrets within the criminal investigation, which otherwise would not be apparent. This present study aims to develop the technique further by investigating text language and style." [Forensic Science]
