# METHOD — Human Disposal

**Packet:** `evidence_packet_HUMAN_DISPOSAL`
**Source data:** `_workspace/packet_assembly/Adrian_Wesley__deep_dive/` (original deep-dive directory; all primary source files retained)
**Discovery date:** 2026-05-16
**Validation date:** 2026-05-16

## Discovery procedure

**1. Bulk download.** All 73 PDF filings publicly available on MCRO for guardianship case 27-GC-PR-09-77 were retrieved on 2025-12-08 (with one supplemental filing — the 2024-06-24 Affidavit of Service — retrieved 2026-05-15 and reserved as a control). Source: `https://publicaccess.courts.state.mn.us/`.

**2. Object extraction.** Each PDF was passed through `mupdf-tools` (`mutool extract`) to dump its embedded image and font objects into a per-PDF directory. Output: `Adrian_Wesley__deep_dive/object-hashing/objects-folders/<pdf_basename>/`.

**3. Hash inventory.** Every extracted object file was SHA-256 hashed and renamed by its hash. Full manifest: `Adrian_Wesley__deep_dive/object-hashing/objects.csv`.

**4. Cross-filing match detection.** The objects manifest was sorted by SHA-256. Groups of 2+ rows sharing the same hash across distinct source PDFs were identified. The four 27-GC-PR-09-77 Affidavit of Service filings (2022-10-05, 2023-12-14, 2024-11-11, 2025-11-06) produced an extraordinary number of shared SHAs — 19 distinct strip hashes appearing in 2–4 of the 4 filings, totaling 62 row appearances. The curated cross-filing match table is this packet's `shared_objects.csv` (originally `Adrian_Wesley__deep_dive/object-hashing/objects__duplicate_image_strips.csv`).

**5. Signature validation.** Each PDF was inspected with `pdfsig` (poppler-utils) for digital signature metadata. Output: `Adrian_Wesley__deep_dive/case-filings/new/pdfsig.csv` and `sig_report_full.csv`. All four target Affidavits carry valid Minnesota Judicial Branch digital signatures (single-signer, `Minnesota Court Records Online (MCRO) Watermark`, `/adbe.pkcs7.detached`, 98.93–99.24% byte coverage, no edits-after-sig).

**6. XMP metadata extraction.** Each PDF was inspected with `exiftool` for XMP-bound author, creator, producer, toolkit, and timestamp fields. Output: `Adrian_Wesley__deep_dive/case-filings/new/metadata.csv`.

**7. Terminology rollup.** All extracted text content (via `pdftotext`) was scored against the 484-term, 20-group `children_doc_strings.csv` vocabulary derived from the broader Synthetic Court Matrix. Output: `02__writing_analysis_and_word_counts_for_the_fake_persons_case/loaded_word_counts/TERMINOLOGY_SUMMARY.md` and five companion CSVs.

**8. Four-layer language analysis.** Wesley's 6 cases (excluding the misattributed 27-GC-PR-08-55) were added to the broader 162-case MCRO Pass-B cohort, and the four-layer authorship-detection methodology of Packet 33 was re-run against the 166-case combined corpus. Output: `02__writing_analysis_and_word_counts_for_the_fake_persons_case/writing_style_analysis/` (Layer 1 inverse uniqueness · Layer 2 TTR/MATTR/Heaps · Layer 3 n-gram saturation · Layer 4 stylometric distance · `WESLEY_HEADLINE_SUMMARY.md`).

**9. Operator-name extraction.** `grep` was run on all Wesley-cluster agent_outputs files for the names `Otte` and `Barbo`. Output: `03__the_examiners_named_in_the_fake_case__Otte_and_Barbo/grep_barbo_otte.txt`.

## The 27-GC-PR-08-55 exclusion

Initial automated case-aggregation included `27-GC-PR-08-55` in the Wesley cluster. Subsequent manual review identified this case as belonging to a different defendant (**Nathaniel Wesley**), not Adrian Wesley. **All terminology and language-analysis outputs in this packet were re-run with `27-GC-PR-08-55` excluded.** The five terminology CSVs and the four language-analysis layer outputs are clean and may be quoted directly.

## Reproduction — five-minute path

To reproduce the smoking-gun finding from primary sources alone:

1. Download the four target PDFs from `01__the_4_fake_court_filings/court_filings_chronological_story/`.
2. Extract embedded objects from each via `mutool extract -o <out_dir>/ <pdf_file>`.
3. Compute SHA-256 of every extracted object file (`sha256sum` or equivalent).
4. Sort by hash and identify SHAs appearing in 2+ of the four PDFs' object directories.
5. Cross-reference against `shared_objects.csv` for description and pixel dimensions.

The cross-filing byte-equality is reproducible from the public MCRO PDFs in approximately five minutes on a standard laptop. The 19-strip × 62-row topology is direct hash inspection; no advanced tooling required.