Quotes Crediting E. Miller's Work
"Obviously this man [Miller] has done a lot of sleuthing. It’s a kind of psychoanalytic whodunit. . . The fact that Freud was an exceedingly nasty individual is well documented. So then it becomes a factual question of whether he was nasty in this particular way [as a serial killer]."
Dr. Thomas Szacz, famous psychiatrist, Professor Emeritus, State University of New York
"[you] undoubtedly introduced some important new biographical facts", "your theory is intriguing, your book splendidly written", “[I] applaud your efforts to discover the truth. If I can do anything to add to the pressure please let me know."
Elizabeth Thornton, Lay Fellow, Royal Academy of Medical Science, historian of medicine and author of Freud and Cocaine (1985)
"Elwood [Eric] Miller is a literary supersleuth. The published author and playwright has dedicated decades of his life researching his topics and his works present intriguing looks into the lives of famous names from history we thought we knew, but are truly just beginning to learn about." (2007)
Steven Sable, Our Town Editor, REDLAND DAILY FACTS
CRYPTOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NOT “PSYCHOANALYSIS”
In the Editor’s Note at the beginning of Passion for Murder, it is stated that by "decoding Freud's murder confessions" I was able to identify him as a homicidal maniac. And that is correct. I did not "psychoanalyze" Freud, I "decoded" him. And just in the sense I contend that the greatest cryptologist who ever lived expressed it in his remarks that you just sent me:
"This may be a good place to point out that a valid or authentic cryptanalytic solution cannot be considered as being merely what the cryptanalyst thinks or says he thinks the cryptogram means, nor does the solution represent an opinion of the cryptanalyst . Solutions are valid only insofar as they are objective and susceptible of demonstration or proof employing scientifically acceptable methods or procedures. It should hardly be necessary to indicate that the validity of the results achieved by cryptanalytic studies of authentic cryptograms rests upon the same sure and well-established scientific foundations, and is reached by the same sort of logic as are the discoveries, results, or "answers" achieved by any other scientific studies, namely, observation, hypothesis, deduction, induction, and confirmatory experiment. Implied in what I have just said is the tacitly understood and now rarely explicitly stated assumption that two or more equally competent and, if necessary specially qualified investigators, each working independently upon the same material, will achieve identical or practically identical results."
(UNITED STATES CRYPTOLOGIC HISTORY, Sources in Cryptologic History, Number 3: THE FRIEDMAN LEGACY: A Tribute To William and Elizebeth Freidman, Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, p.22, 992) – in a letter to my good friend, Dr. Albert Burghstahler (May, 2008)
