Donald Doud was a forensic document examiner (FDE) who gained fame through exposing fraud and forgery as an expert witness in courtroom trials. The opening chapter of his memoir Witness to Forgery (2009) discusses the case of the Womble will and claims of forgery, and it has all the elements of a Hollywood trial drama: small-town Texas courts, big-city lawyers, six-shooters for protection, inept government expert witnesses, and a housekeeper revealing herself to be the deceased common-law widow. This all leads to a verdict that will leave an estimated windfall of a $2 million estate to either the housekeeper-turned-widow or the Buckner Orphan Home and the Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children.

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