Karl Schaffenberger is a court qualified Document Examiner with 30 years
of experience.

For additional information, please email: forgeryfinder@hotmail.com

Handwriting Expert and Document Examiner (since 1975)

- Handwriting identification: disputed handwriting, disputed signatures, anonymous   letters, graffiti.
- Ink identification: infrared photographic discrimination.
- Alterations: erasures, obliterations, over-writing.
- Indented writing.
- Line sequencing.
- Laboratory: light sources (conventional - long and short wave ultraviolet),   magnifying devices, stereo microscope, photographic equipment.
- Extensive library pertaining to Document Examination.

Qualified and testified as a Questioned Document Examiner in various courts of Bergen, Passaic, Hudson, Essex, Middlesex, Ocean, Union and Morris Counties of New Jersey, various Boards of Arbitration, New York State Court (Clinton County) and United States Federal Courts of both New York and the United States Virgin Islands. (over 80 appearances)

Interview:  Court TV - The Forensic Files:  "Traces of Truth"  (January 2004)

Interview:  Court TV - The Forensic Files:  "Sign of the Crime"  (October 2003)

Interview:  Court TV - The Forensic Files:  "The Sniper's Trail"  (November 2002)

Instructor: Conducted a seminar for the Bank Examiners of Summit Bank:
                Ridgefield Park, New Jersey (February 1997)

Instructor: Eastern Division Association of Insurance Investigators Training Seminar:
                Long Branch, New Jersey (October 1991)

Instructor: Eastern Division Association of Insurance Investigators Training Seminar:
                Rochelle Park, New Jersey (February 1989)

Instructor: World Association of Document Examiners Northeast Regional Conference:
                Rochelle Park, New Jersey (March 1988)

Instructor: World Association of Document Examiners Annual Congress:
                Chicago, Illinois (July 1986)

Instructor: East Coast Regional Seminar of Bank Security Officers:
                Newark, New Jersey (June 1982)

Instructor: National Association of Document Examiners Spring Seminar:
                Rochelle Park, New Jersey (April 1982)

Instructor: National Association of Document Examiners Annual Conference:
                White Haven, Pennsylvania (September 1981)

Instructor: Independent Association of Questioned Document Examiners Annual
                Congress:   Panama City, Florida (September 1977)

Training in Document Examination and Forensic Sciences

- World Association of Document Examiners Northeast Regional Conference:

   Rochelle Park, New Jersey (March 1988)
   Providence, Rhode Island (April 1984)

- World Association of Document Examiners Annual Conference:

   Chicago, Illinois (July 1986)
   Chicago, Illinois (August 1985)
   Chicago, Illinois (July 1976)

- National Association of Document Examiners Spring Seminar:

   Saddle Brook, New Jersey (April 1983)
   Rochelle Park, New Jersey (April 1982)
   Princeton, New Jersey (May 1981)
   Princeton, New Jersey (May 1980)

- National Association of Document Examiners Annual Conference:

   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (October 1982)
   White Haven, Pennsylvania (September 1981)
   Princeton, New Jersey (September 1980)

- Independent Association of Question Document Examiners Annual Congress:

   Panama City, Florida (September 1977)
   Dayton, Ohio (October 1976)

- New York Chapter of Graphoanalysts' Seminar on Questioned Document

  Examination: Victor, New York (October 1976)

- Full time apprenticeship under the direction of Norman G. Werling, CDE

  (September 1975 - January 1978)

- Ramapo College - Mahwah, New Jersey (1994-1995) History
- Fairleigh Dickenson University - Teaneck, New Jersey (1969-1978) Psyche/Music
- Bergen Community College - Paramus, New Jersey (1977) Criminal Law

- World Association of Document Examiners (1976-1979) (1984- )
- National Association of Document Examiners (1979-1983)
    Charter Member
    Member of the Board of Examiners
    1981 Conference Chairman
    Vice President (1983)
- Independent Association of Questioned Document Examiners (1976-1980)