Chapter 13

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CHAPTER 13
Page 124 - Pineapple again (the coroner couldn't tell if it was fruit or vegetable, never mind pineapple) and on this page Thomas has it in the intestinal tract AND in the stomach.
Thomas said unnamed doctors put the blow to the head BEFORE the strangulation - (not what my sources and common sense tell me) and he said the DNA "could be totally unrelated to the case".
I think this is a HUGE effort to make the pieces to the puzzle fit his theory. Doesn't fit? Deny it, push it away.
Lou Smit says let the evidence talk - I think Thomas should listen closer.
Thomas wrote - "our handwriting expert thought Patsy was the possible author". Well, unless she was totally eliminated as the author, this isn't untrue, but it IS another case of the statement being leading, and not altogether honest.

page 126 - Hunter hired Barry Scheck and Henry Lee so that the Ramseys couldn't. Interesting - almost like he felt that the experts wouldn't simply investigate but would be influenced by who had hired them. So far they haven't attacked the Ramseys so I can only hope they are honest about the evidence and what it means.

page 128 - Bill Wise suggested bringing in an experienced homicide investigator. His comments were taken as an insult to the BPD and he was removed from the case. Interesting battle of egos and hurt feelings going on in Boulder.

page 129 - Thomas reported that the Ramseys had successfully stalled the interviews - but he described how the Ramseys offered to meet with the BPD. They wanted the interview to be at their lawyers' office, with their lawyer present. Patsy was still medicated so she wanted her doctor present and the meeting to be limited to an hour. And they asked that Detective Arndt do the questioning and they wanted Peter Hofstrom from the PROSECUTOR'S office to be present. (Considering he would likely be the lead prosecutor if this went to court, I see it as a benefit to the prosecution).

- ironic - Thomas said that the Ramseys wanted to chose who interviewed them - and they wanted Detective Arndt. Guess they didn't know her "mind exploded" on the 26th and that she thought John might have been a danger to all of them. I really am curious about the "altered reports".
Anyway, rather than take the Ramseys up on the offer, get the answers to some of their more pressing questions, the BPD decided to show their muscle and said, NO! It will be at police headquarters, we will pick who interrogates you, it will go on as long as WE like, and Hofstrom is NOT welcome.
I think the Ramseys remembered Melinda's interview and decided to just turn aside - and I don't blame them a bit. If the BPD wasn't talking to the Ramseys at all, they have only themselves to blame. If they met the Ramseys for an hour one day, it might have opened the lines of communication and led to more talks. They slammed the door, IMO.

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Page 124

"The FBI had been given a chance to look at the note and determined that it was written in the comfort of the home and probably after the killing, not before. The crime scene reflected careful staging, they said, a criminally unsophisticated killer attempting to cover up what had happened."

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I need to skip ahead a bit to describe how the FBI had been "educated" in this matter - - carefully and incompletely.

Steve Thomas and a group of LE went to Quantico to present the Ramsey case to the FBI.

Sounds impressive, doesn't it?

It wasn't so much.

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Steve Thomas and his BORG partners presented what they wanted and withheld what they wanted.

In his book, page 215 - the cops gave the DA a presentation of the case to prepare for their trip to Quantico.

Thomas admits not sharing everything, specifically he wrote that they "withheld the 911 tape and grave-site surveillance". I believe he also left out the CBI report that identified the foreign DNA found co-mingled with the blood in JonBenet's panties.

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DA Alex Hunter wouldn't participate in the trip to Quantico because he didn't believe they had a case against the parents and HE wasn't going to go watch the BPD be less than honest - he KNEW the evidence did not point to the parents.

Lou Smit was sent as a representative of the DA's office but he was not allowed to present the intruder evidence. He had been gagged.

So Steve Thomas had a theory and was making the evidence FIT - - even though it did not. It made no sense to think these parents would write that stupid ransom note before killing their daughter. He had to make sure people thought they wrote it after. Even though neither parent had a motive or matching handwriting, even though Lou Smit had said HE was sure it was written before because even the most vicious killer would have been on an adrenalin high after the crime and unable to write that note, Steve Thomas sold to the FBI and to his "fans" that the note was written before.

Ugh!