The
BPD has finally agreed to work with Lou Smit, where as
in the past, because of his convictions that the Ramsey’s
are not the perpetrators of this crime, the BPD didn’t
want his help. He was too biased. In fact, the BPD doesn’t
want anyone’s help. They have never publicly acknowledged
that their ineptitude and inexperience made it damn near
impossible to find the killer.The BPD didn’t even want
help from the FBI and The Serial Killer and Child Abduction
Unit in Quantico, Virginia. When Lead Detective Steve Thomas
went to the FBI briefings, the officials there were stunned
by the information that had been presented. One FBI official
said that if anything like this had happened in Quantico, “Thunder
would be rolling down the halls” according to Thomas’s
book. There has been new DNA evidence that is being tested
to see if there is something that was overlooked in the frenzy
to convict John and Patsy. There was DNA everywhere that
has been overlooked and not properly tested. Lou Smit has
brought that DNA evidence with him to be retested. His dedication
to this case has never wavered, personal feelings aside,
the man has never given up on finding the perpetrator of
this crime. The DNA will be tested and with a new cast of
Boulder law enforcement and politicians, they have pledged
to find the killer.
How did
JonBenet get downstairs without anyone knowing? According
to “The Death Of Innocence” both John
and Patsy said JonBenet went strait to bed, wearing white
long john leggings and a red turtleneck top. While investigating
the house, a red, balled-up wet turtleneck top was found
on the counter of JonBenet’s bathroom. Someone changed
JonBenet’s clothing before her death. Why? This obviously
happened before she was killed, she was found in a white
long john shirt with a decorative sequined star. If the red
turtleneck was upstairs, someone changed her before her trip
downstairs. Her long johns were stained over the crotch with
both urine and several areas of red staining, according to
her autopsy. This shows that her top may have been changed
but most likely her pants were not.
On the
dining room table there was a bowl with Patsy’s
fingerprints on it, full of pineapple. According to JonBenet’s
autopsy, she had a small amount of, “fragmented pieces
of yellow to light tan apparent vegetable or fruit” which
several leading forensics experts, including Dr. Cyril Wecht,
a former president of both American Academy of Forensic Sciences
and American College of Legal Medicine, concluded that the
matter could have been pineapple. The only fingerprints on
the bowl belonged to Patsy Ramsey. Patsy said JonBenet went
strait to bed eating nothing at home. The autopsy findings
show that the matter moving through her body could have taken
about two hours for the pineapple to reach her small intestine.
Who gave her that pineapple? Or did she just make the bad
decision to go get a midnight snack and dump a can of pineapple
in a bowl only Patsy had touched?
JonBenet
told her friend Megan Kostinick that “Santa” had
told her that he would make a special visit to her on the
day after Christmas. Megan’s mother, Barbara, told
JonBenet that Santa came on Christmas Eve, that night, not
December 25. No, JonBenet insisted that Santa said it would
be after Christmas, and it was a secret. After
the crime, Barbara tried to get the police to listen to her
story, but they didn’t seem interested. Did JonBenet
see Santa at the mall or maybe another Christmas party? How
many men dress up and play Santa at Christmas? Could that
person have seen her in a pageant or riding her float? I
believe that is possible and something the BPD neglected
to investigate thoroughly. No one has investigated that theory.
And I think many people would agree with that. What if it
is was someone watching and waiting? The Steve Thomas book
asserts that there is no way they could account for the whereabouts
of the hundreds and hundreds of people who saw JonBenet on
her float in the Christmas parade. Hundreds and hundreds
of people aren’t suspects. Maybe just one person watching,
waiting.
The note
that was left on the stairs, as Patsy claims, was written
on a pad that the BPD claimed came from a tablet
that was in the Ramsey home, with a sharpie that came from
a cup of pens and pencils directly below the phone Patsy
used to call the police from. This, unfortunately for the
Ramsey’s, turned out to not only have matched the pad
of paper but experts have concluded that the sharpie used
to make the pen was a pre 1978 ink based pen that had been
purchased and used within 3 months of the testing. The sharpie
ink was compared to the ink on the ransom note. A perfect
match. The note was tested and analyzed by several experts,
and all of them had the same unfortunate conclusion: Patsy
Ramsey was the only suspect they could not completely rule
out as the writer of the note. Many, many people were asked
to give numerous samples of handwriting with both right and
left hands. This is a common police procedure, called an
exemplar, a way of eliminating suspects. The Ramsey’s
took many, one of them in the comfortable, plush living room
of a high-ranking member of the Boulder District Attorney’s
Office. It has made me wonder: if I was a suspect in the
murder of my daughter, would my handwriting sample be taken
on a soft couch with a cup of coffee and a plate of cookies
in front of me? Somehow, I doubt that would be the case.
The bottom line is that the Ramsey’s were given preferential
treatment because of their wealth and the lawyers that their
money was bought with.
Finally, there was a Grand Jury. They had three options:
indite a suspect, write a report, or do nothing. They chose
to do nothing. With the power of the law behind them, they
were derelict in their duty to help find the killer, by doing
nothing. In my opinion, the Grand Jury was a political dog
and pony show. Nothing more than an illusion to make the
taxpayers think that the city of Boulder was trying to solve
this case. Even writing a report to make public some of the
evidence that could have helped to solve this crime was too
much work for them. They had the power to help find the killer
of this innocent baby and chose to do nothing.
