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Pragmatist
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| DocTar wrote: |
Marco, I don't think you are understanding...they have a fairly new dna test that they did not have in years past....they originally found dna in Jon Benet's underwear. It is a fact and has been for 12 years that it did not match any of the Ramsey's dna. The new dna test is for 'touch' dna...the preserved clothing of Jon Benet was touched by someone who first removed it, then put it back on her body. What she was wearing, in particular, her leggings, had this 'touch' dna on it, and this dna also matches the first dna, the stuff on her underwear. And it is not a match with any of the Ramseys...it does not matter a hoot how weird or hinky they behaved...it was not their dna on their daughter's clothing, but the dna from someone else. And an apology goes a ways, but can never ever make up for losing their beloved child, and then being suspected of murdering her for 12 long freaking years, and that means being marked in the media for those 12 long years. Poor Patsy died and went to her grave and lies next to her child, the child she was falsely accused of killing. Can anyone imagine the hell she went through? Justice is slow, but it did prevail. And John Ramsey's comment was that now they have corroberating evidence to continue looking for who did it!
I will never understand how so many good people in this world believed the Boulder LE and the news media when they followed the wrong lead. |
'Touch DNA' huh?
Maybe that was from helping Jon Benet go potty. Seems the Ramsey's let anyone who would do it go potty with Jon Benet so's they could properly wipe her. And several people, including men at the Xmas party DID wipe Jon Benet that night. That's would give 'touch DNA' for sure...but you know they probably want the fact that they let non-family grown men wipe Jon Benet's butt on a regular basis go the way of the dinosaur. Who wouldn't? That's just sick.
I followed this case like a trouper! The DNA from the non-family man is not new. They just couldn't use it before since there was no fluids of any sort to suggest sexual molestation. So now they want to call it 'touch DNA' and use it to clear the family?
I'm not buying that one unless they can prove the 'touch DNA' did not belong to anyone who was at the xmas party the night before who may have wiped Jon Benet and helped pull up her leggings and undies.
Sorry to all Ramsey supporters, but I think Patsy did it accidently and John helped her stage a coverup.
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| PerryPeabody
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| SavannahStar wrote: |
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Ooops, forgot....as to "why JonBenet"?.....well she was a very pretty little girl. Why is ANYONE the target of a murder?  |
JonBenet was not only a VERY pretty little girl but she was also a very pretty little girl who was, at times, dressed and made up as an adult and posed "cutely" to some, provocatively to others. I don't know if it was the media that played up that aspect of her life or that was really a big part of her life that was well known to the general public in that area and, thus, she might have attracted unsavory attention.
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| woebedamned
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Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:43 pm |
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This new DNA evidence, taken from the long johns she was wearing, matches the DNA evidence found in the panties she was wearing. IIRC, the DNA found in the panties had long ago been tested against anyone and everyone even remotely connected to the case, with no match to be found. The previous team tried to say the DNA in the panties came from the manufacturer who packaged the panties, since the panties were new, and had only been worn that one night. Hard to use that logic now that the same DNA has been found on other items.
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| LovelyPigeon
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Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:47 pm |
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| Pragmatist wrote: |
And several people, including men at the Xmas party DID wipe Jon Benet that night. That's would give 'touch DNA' for sure...but you know they probably want the fact that they let non-family grown men wipe Jon Benet's butt on a regular basis go the way of the dinosaur. Who wouldn't? That's just sick. |
Where in the world did you get such ridiculous information?
| Quote: | | The DNA from the non-family man is not new. They just couldn't use it before since there was no fluids of any sort to suggest sexual molestation. So now they want to call it 'touch DNA' and use it to clear the family? |
The DNA from a drop of JonBenet's blood on her panties is not new. The DNA from skin cells recently found on the waistband of her longjohns is a new find, and it's a match to the DNA found years ago on the panties.
| Quote: | | I'm not buying that one unless they can prove the 'touch DNA' did not belong to anyone who was at the xmas party the night before who may have wiped Jon Benet and helped pull up her leggings and undies. |
JonBenet wore leggings to the White's on Christmas evening. When she was found dead the next morning, she was wearing white longjohn underwear over panties.
Even if one of the Whites' 2 male guests, or Fleet White himself had pulled up JonBenet's leggings while they were at the Whites' house on Christmas night, it isn't those leggings that have been found to have the 'touch DNA' on the waistband.
I don't know of any information given from anyone at the dinner party that night at the Whites that anyone, male or female, accompanied JonBenet to the toliet or wiped her afterwards. If you actually have that information, I sure want you to give the source.
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| MediumRareTBone
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Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:24 pm |
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| Pragmatist wrote: |
'Touch DNA' huh?
Maybe that was from helping Jon Benet go potty. Seems the Ramsey's let anyone who would do it go potty with Jon Benet so's they could properly wipe her. And several people, including men at the Xmas party DID wipe Jon Benet that night. That's would give 'touch DNA' for sure...but you know they probably want the fact that they let non-family grown men wipe Jon Benet's butt on a regular basis go the way of the dinosaur. Who wouldn't? That's just sick.
I followed this case like a trouper! The DNA from the non-family man is not new. They just couldn't use it before since there was no fluids of any sort to suggest sexual molestation. So now they want to call it 'touch DNA' and use it to clear the family?
I'm not buying that one unless they can prove the 'touch DNA' did not belong to anyone who was at the xmas party the night before who may have wiped Jon Benet and helped pull up her leggings and undies.
Sorry to all Ramsey supporters, but I think Patsy did it accidently and John helped her stage a coverup. |
I'm not sure what case you followed like a trouper, but it certainly wasn't this one
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the Ramsey's have been officially cleared of having anything at all to do with the death of their beloved daughter.
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| Dani
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May Patsy finally rest in peace.....to lose one's daughter and then endure the accusations that the Ramsey family did was horrendous...and very sad! the police and the prosecutors were simply brain dead! of course there is no punishment for false accusations and the hell that family was put through at the hands of incompetant law enforcement! patsy is with her little angel now...... 
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| DocTar
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Come on Prag...you were wrong. The parents didn't do it, accidentally or on purpose. That whole idea has always been sick. I know it was weird to dress her up like a little movie queen, but it was not an aberration...others do it, too...some people dress up their dogs. Some people dress up behind closed doors. She was beautiful, but she was a child and didn't deserve to be murdered or for her parents' lives to be RUINED through false accusations for 12 freaking years.
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| Saucey
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Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:37 pm |
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| yankee-in-france wrote: | | -- but why, Jon Benet, and how did he get into the house? |
I almost feel like it had to be someone who had been in that house before, prior to her death. Because she was found in that hidden wine room.
Like in the Elizabeth Smart Case, the guy who took her had been at her house to do work, prior to her missing. He was never even suspected or looked at.
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| gwen
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Case shows importance of DNA tests, Ramsey says
BOULDER, Colorado (CNN) -- The father of murder victim JonBenet Ramsey hopes that something worthwhile can result from his family's tragedy: More emphasis on collecting DNA from every felon in the United States.
On Wednesday, authorities announced that recently developed "touch DNA" technology had cleared all members of JonBenet Ramsey's family of her slaying. The family had lived under a cloud of suspicion for nearly 12 years.
Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy formally apologized in a letter to John Ramsey.
In an interview with CNN affiliate KUSA, John Ramsey said what is needed is "a law that requires police agencies to DNA print individuals arrested for felony and put it in the national database."
"We have a great national database that's been set up; it's been in place for a number of years with very little population in it. There's a huge backlog of DNA samples from crimes scenes and some states submit samples, some states don't."
John Ramsey had a message for lawmakers.
"For those that will have the authority and the power to pass this DNA legislation I think is so important. . . It just hasn't gotten on the radar in a lot of state legislatures, and it needs to be there.
"If we could achieve that then at least I would feel like we've contributed something to better society," Ramsey said.
As it stands now, it could still take years for authorities to arrest the real killer in the JonBenet case because of a backlog in the FBI's DNA database, the Ramsey family attorney said Thursday.
Atlanta attorney Lin Wood said there is a backlog of over "tens of thousands" of DNA evidence-related crime cases that have yet to be put into the DNA database.
Wood pointed to the Colorado murder case of 23-year-old Savannah Chase that recently got a DNA match 10 years after the crime as an example of how long a family sometimes has to wait.
"We know DNA evidence identifies killers. We know DNA exonerates innocent individuals, but unfortunately sometimes it takes years before you get that hit," Wood told CNN's "American Morning." Watch what else Wood had to say »
Prosecutor Lacy apologized Wednesday for the suspicions that had surrounded the Ramsey family since the 1996 discovery of 6-year-old JonBenet's body. Follow the timeline »
Late last year, Lacy ordered a test using new methodology known as "touch" testing on genetic material found on a pair of long johns that had been pulled up over the girl's underwear. That material matched DNA that was found on the girl's underwear and under her fingernails in a test conducted in 1998. The DNA belongs to an unidentified man, Lacy said.
This second match was "powerful evidence" that allows investigators to believe that the Ramsey family were victims in the crime and not suspects, Lacy said Wednesday.
John Ramsey found his daughter's body in the basement of the family's Boulder, Colorado, home on December 26, 1996. The girl had been strangled and beaten.
Early on in the case, Boulder police said that the young girl's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, and their son, Burke, were under "an umbrella of suspicion" in JonBenet's death, although they were never officially named as suspects.
Wood praised Lacy's work Thursday and said he hoped a DNA match could be found soon.
"I am very hopeful it will happen and I'd like to believe that it will not be in the too distant future," Wood said.
John Ramsey also told CNN affiliate KUSA that his wife, who died in 2006 after a lengthy battle with ovarian cancer, would also be "thankful for the continuing efforts to find the killer."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/10/ramsey.dna/index.html
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| Pragmatist
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Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:17 pm |
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| MediumRareTBone wrote: |
I'm not sure what case you followed like a trouper, but it certainly wasn't this one
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the Ramsey's have been officially cleared of having anything at all to do with the death of their beloved daughter. |
Oh, don't worry too much about it...you're not bursting my bubble. It wasn't my kid and I don't care if the Ramsey's get cleared or if John ends up in jail or if Patsy rots in hell...it's not personal to me, you know? I just have opinions....and I don't let my opinions keep me awake at night.
As for the source of my potty-helper story, it was in a book written by one of the original detectives who just so happened to believe the Ramsey's were innocent.
I opine unpopularly sometimes....the Ramsey's are not innocent, OJ is innocent and Joran does not know what happened to Natalee but Paulus does.
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| CherokeeKid
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Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:19 pm |
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| gwen wrote: | snip...
In an interview with CNN affiliate KUSA, John Ramsey said what is needed is "a law that requires police agencies to DNA print individuals arrested for felony and put it in the national database."
"We have a great national database that's been set up; it's been in place for a number of years with very little population in it. There's a huge backlog of DNA samples from crimes scenes and some states submit samples, some states don't."
John Ramsey had a message for lawmakers.
"For those that will have the authority and the power to pass this DNA legislation I think is so important. . . It just hasn't gotten on the radar in a lot of state legislatures, and it needs to be there.
"If we could achieve that then at least I would feel like we've contributed something to better society," Ramsey said.
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OMG! If not even all the DNA of all those criminals are in the database, that's quite sad! IMO.
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| Pragmatist
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Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:22 pm |
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| DocTar wrote: | | Come on Prag...you were wrong. The parents didn't do it, accidentally or on purpose. That whole idea has always been sick. I know it was weird to dress her up like a little movie queen, but it was not an aberration...others do it, too...some people dress up their dogs. Some people dress up behind closed doors. She was beautiful, but she was a child and didn't deserve to be murdered or for her parents' lives to be RUINED through false accusations for 12 freaking years. |
Fine. Who cares? Let the child rest in peace. I was just adding my two cents based on a book I read - see above post.
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| SavannahStar
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Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:06 pm |
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| MediumRareTBone wrote: |
I'm not sure what case you followed like a trouper, but it certainly wasn't this one
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the Ramsey's have been officially cleared of having anything at all to do with the death of their beloved daughter. |
Amen and amen!!!!
EOS and bottom line.
Done deal.
Patsy....God be with you...RIP.
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| Noor
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I do not know what's going on behind the scene.
I do not know who killed JonBennet.
But I do not ever remember hearing of a police department offer an apology to a 'suspect', let alone a person who was convicted and sent to prison.
I do not remember ever hearing when in a cold case, which this is, the police so publicly announce that former 'suspects' are being cleared.
Again weird.
Something just does not add up.
Would this ever happen to any Joe on the streets?
I think not.
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| LovelyPigeon
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Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:48 pm |
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| Pragmatist wrote: |
As for the source of my potty-helper story, it was in a book written by one of the original detectives who just so happened to believe the Ramsey's were innocent. |
Perhaps you were partially recalling what Nedra Paugh, JonBenet's grandmother, told BPD in Steve Thomas' book p137 about JBR not always wiping properly after a bowel movement, and "...often an adult would have to wash her bottom and change her undies." Nedra stated that on 2 occasions JBR had returned from playing with her best friend Daphne White, and Fleet White said she had had an accident while visiting. There is no time frame given, and certainly no indication that Fleet had wiped JBR's bottom.
I know of nothing in his book that claims any males at the Whites' Christmas dinner wiped JonBenet that night or helped her with tolieting.
Former Boulder detective Steve Thomas, however, did not believe the Ramseys were innocent. He accused them publicly, and was sued. He lost.
What other original detective on the case do you think wrote a book? None that I know of.
Lou Smit, a then-retired detective and investigator hired by the DA's office on the case, believed and still believes the family entirely innocent. He has not written any book about the case, however he has given interviews to networks and documentaries on the case. He has made the case that an intruder entered the house, molested and killed JBR, and in the process left his DNA on her clothing.
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Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:42 am |
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| marco wrote: | I do not know what's going on behind the scene.
I do not know who killed JonBennet.
But I do not ever remember hearing of a police department offer an apology to a 'suspect', let alone a person who was convicted and sent to prison.
I do not remember ever hearing when in a cold case, which this is, the police so publicly announce that former 'suspects' are being cleared.
Again weird.
Something just does not add up.
Would this ever happen to any Joe on the streets?
I think not. |
That really struck me as well, that they would make such a public announcement along with such a public apology.
I can't imagine they would put themselves out like that unless they were sure that the Ramsey's were no longer involved.
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| Pragmatist
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Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:28 am |
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| LovelyPigeon wrote: |
Perhaps you were partially recalling what Nedra Paugh, JonBenet's grandmother, told BPD in Steve Thomas' book p137 about JBR not always wiping properly after a bowel movement, and "...often an adult would have to wash her bottom and change her undies." Nedra stated that on 2 occasions JBR had returned from playing with her best friend Daphne White, and Fleet White said she had had an accident while visiting. There is no time frame given, and certainly no indication that Fleet had wiped JBR's bottom.
I know of nothing in his book that claims any males at the Whites' Christmas dinner wiped JonBenet that night or helped her with tolieting.
Former Boulder detective Steve Thomas, however, did not believe the Ramseys were innocent. He accused them publicly, and was sued. He lost.
What other original detective on the case do you think wrote a book? None that I know of.
Lou Smit, a then-retired detective and investigator hired by the DA's office on the case, believed and still believes the family entirely innocent. He has not written any book about the case, however he has given interviews to networks and documentaries on the case. He has made the case that an intruder entered the house, molested and killed JBR, and in the process left his DNA on her clothing. |
Ok, first I never read anything about the grandmother saying JB didn't wipe well.
Second, the bolded part...I don't 'think', I know...but I no longer have the book....gave it to a friend....but I saw the same book at the bookstore the other day so I know it's still out there. Next time I go shopping I'll get the title and the author for you and even scan through the book and find you the pages where I read this.
Until then, whateva! 
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| Pragmatist
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Food for thought.....if the mystery perp left touch DNA on JB's clothing, just on articles covering that one particular area of her body, then why did he also not leave this touch evidence on the paintbrush piece, the note, and her nightgown? Was he/she wearing gloves part of the time and took them off just to handle her undies and leggings?
I don't think so.
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| woebedamned
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| Pragmatist wrote: | Food for thought.....if the mystery perp left touch DNA on JB's clothing, just on articles covering that one particular area of her body, then why did he also not leave this touch evidence on the paintbrush piece, the note, and her nightgown? Was he/she wearing gloves part of the time and took them off just to handle her undies and leggings?
I don't think so. |
The same dna was found under her finger nails.
ETA: I looked to see which books I have concerning this case. My list is:
Perfect Murder/Perfect Town - Lawrence Shiller
Death Of Innocence - John Ramsey
JonBenet - Steve Thomas
Who Killed JBR - Charles Bosworth
Cases That Haunt Us - John Douglas
Presumed Guilty - Stephen Singular
If there is another book out there, I would like to add it to my collection. I dont have Hodge's book, nor would it be something I would want.
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| LovelyPigeon
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| Pragmatist wrote: | Food for thought.....if the mystery perp left touch DNA on JB's clothing, just on articles covering that one particular area of her body, then why did he also not leave this touch evidence on the paintbrush piece, the note, and her nightgown? Was he/she wearing gloves part of the time and took them off just to handle her undies and leggings?
I don't think so. |
The nightgown was nearby JonBenet's body, but it has been determined if the killer handled and/or placed it where it was found.
Unless all the articles you mention have been tested for DNA touch evidence, and you must admit we have never heard that it has been tested, it sure can't be said yet that he didn't leave some there.
Now that touch DNA has been found on the waistband of her longjohns, there may be other evidence from the case examined using this new method. The cord that was wrapped and tied on the broken paint brush handle now seems especially likely to reveal DNA.
Brown cotton fibers were found on JonBenet's body, the duct tape, the broken paint brush pieces, and the cord that made the garotte. Maybe these fibers can also be tested for touch DNA.
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| LovelyPigeon
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| Pragmatist wrote: |
Ok, first I never read anything about the grandmother saying JB didn't wipe well.
Second, the bolded part...I don't 'think', I know...but I no longer have the book....gave it to a friend....but I saw the same book at the bookstore the other day so I know it's still out there. Next time I go shopping I'll get the title and the author for you and even scan through the book and find you the pages where I read this.
Until then, whateva! |
You can find a list of books, in addition to those listed by woebedamned in the post above, at http://www.amazon.com/Books-About-JonBenet-Ramsey/lm/3GNX77MD09YK6
Steve Thomas is the only author in the list who was a detective on the case.
John Douglas, former FBI profiler and head of FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, was hired by the Ramseys for private investigation. (He concluded the family was innocent)
Stephen Singular is a crime writer, but never connected to the investigation, and never a detective anywhere. He believes JonBenet was taken out of her home on Christmas night, killed somewhere, and returned. He believes someone other than family killed JonBenet, but IIRC his book is heavy on conspiracy theories and low on facts. I don't have a copy of his book, but if he's the "detective on the case" you read, I'll look up the pages if you find them.
Not on that Amazon list is Dr Henry Lee, who was consulted by the BPD on forensics, and he has a chapter in a book (Cracking More Cases, 2004) about the JBR case.
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JonBenet Ramsey case will get 3rd DA in 12 years
By IVAN MORENO
Associated Press Writer
DENVER (AP) -- When district attorney candidate Stan Garnett checked his cell phone after a long flight last week, he had dozens of messages asking his opinion about the latest DNA tests in the JonBenet Ramsey case.
The barrage of e-mails and voice mails reflects the scrutiny the case could bring Garnett, who appears likely to become Boulder County's third district attorney on the 12-year-old homicide.
Garnett, 52, a Democrat, has no opposition in either party for the November election. He would replace Mary Lacy, who must step down in January because of term limits.
What changes he might bring, if any, to the investigation are not clear.
"I intend to treat the case like any other case, in that the DA's job is to take a very thoughtful, careful and clear-eyed view of the evidence and what can be proven in court," he said.
JonBenet, a 6-year-old beauty queen, was found dead in the basement of her parents' Boulder home just after Christmas in 1996. Since then the investigation has undergone a series of jarring twists and public embarrassments but has never led to a trial or a conviction.
Under Alex Hunter, the district attorney at the time, the investigation seemed to go nowhere. Hunter said John and Patsy Ramsey were under an "umbrella of suspicion," but a grand jury returned no indictments. Lou Smit, an investigator hired by Hunter for the case, resigned and proclaimed John and Patsy Ramsey innocent.
Lacy was elected in 2000, after Hunter decided not to seek another term. She took the investigation away from police in 2002, promising to look at the evidence with "fresh eyes."
By 2003, she began to poke holes in Hunter's umbrella of suspicion. She publicly agreed with a judge in a related defamation case who said the evidence pointed more toward an intruder than a family member as the killer.
Lacy's tenure saw perhaps the most bizarre chapter in the investigation, the 2006 arrest and subsequent release of John Mark Karr. He claimed he was with JonBenet when she died, but DNA tests failed to put him at the crime scene.
The case took a significant step forward last week when Lacy announced that male DNA found on JonBenet's clothes almost certainly came from her killer and that the killer was an outsider.
Lacy publicly exonerated JonBenet's family and said she was sorry for the years of suspicion they endured.
Patsy Ramsey did not live to hear the apology; she died of cancer in 2006.
Authorities say the DNA doesn't match any profiles in state or national databases. But both databases are growing, and investigators say a match may be found one day.
A former FBI criminal profiler, Gregg McCrary, said the impending handing over of the investigation to another DA could be a good thing.
"One of the reasons cases sometimes remain unsolved is because a DA or an investigator has a particular hypothesis of who did it," he said. "So it can be helpful to get fresh eyes on the case, assuming they're not coming in with a preconceived idea."
L. Lin Wood, an attorney for the Ramseys, criticized the police but praised Lacy.
"I can tell you the differences are very simple. The Boulder (Police) Department had investigators who had no homicide experience," he said.
In contrast, he said, Lacy and Smit "took the proper approach," focusing on the DNA and following the evidence.
Wood said he hopes the next district attorney will take the same approach. But "short of a dramatic new lead," there's not much to do but wait for a DNA match, he said.
Garnett, a former Denver deputy district attorney who has been specializing in commercial civil cases, said the topic of JonBenet still comes up frequently as he campaigns, but he said public fatigue is setting in.
"Most people in Boulder County are tired of the case," Garnett said. "I had one person at a political event say 'The people in Boulder County don't ever want to hear about this case until you've solved it."
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Renewed hope for Ramsey detective
Long before others, Lou Smit concluded that an intruder killed JonBenet.
By Erin Emery
The Denver Post
COLORADO SPRINGS — Veteran homicide detective Lou Smit, who long maintained that an intruder killed JonBenet Ramsey, said a letter last week from Boulder DA Mary Lacy exonerating the Ramsey family may change public opinion in the case.
"Public opinion now, I think, is going to be affected to where perhaps they will look very strongly now at an intruder. There's still things that could be in the police reports that could be followed up on," said Smit, who investigated the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old girl. "I'm sure they'll look again at police reports very carefully to try to find some undeveloped leads there."
Three months after JonBenet was found beaten and strangled in her parents' basement, then-District Attorney Alex Hunter asked Smit to come out of retirement and help with the investigation.
But in September 1998, Smit quit, convinced the Ramseys didn't kill their daughter and that investigators were ignoring evidence pointing away from the couple. In 2000, Smit went public with evidence that he said pointed to an intruder. --->>
Smit said that the DNA left behind in the JonBenet case will be the killer's "undoing some day. Once we identify him and start checking into his background, who knows what we will find. This was a brutal murder."
Smit said the Ramsey case could lead investigators to other cases.
"Up until this time, when the Ramseys were exonerated, who actually was looking into the police reports to determine if there were similar cases out there?" Smit said. "If the police agencies aren't involved in looking for the killer, nobody is going to even look at similarities. . . .
"If it's not the Ramseys," Smit added, "it's an intruder, and he's still out there." --->>
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| CherokeeKid wrote: | | OMG! If not even all the DNA of all those criminals are in the database, that's quite sad! IMO. |
There are refrigerated trucks all over the USA with thousands of untested rape kits in them for lack of money. Meanwhile the rapists are free to continue.
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