bad airs

Excellent post yesterday from Laura James over at Women in Crime Ink on JonBenet's case about the misinformation promoted by the media and case interlopers which turned into legends that continue to haunt this case even today--

Why Crime History Matters
by Laura James
March 5, 2009

"Unfortunately, the media often errs badly in its crime reporting because some reporters don't know a thing about the history of crime. And I guess they're too lazy to look it up before speaking on the subject...

One example everyone knows: the press has erred badly in its coverage of the JonBenét Ramsey case on one small but perhaps important detail.

"Sex murderers never leave ransom notes." That's what the experts told us in the JonBenét Ramsey case. For years, in fact, that "fact" has been repeated...

And it wasn't true...

William Heirens was a sex killer. He left a ransom note. He kidnapped a little girl from the bedroom of her family home in the middle of the night, and later raped and killed her. Then he went on to kill again..."