reputation management

From the outside it looks like it has been a wild ride for attorney Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, starting with taking on his employer back when he was a tabloid reporter covering the JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation. He contradicted the media persecution of the Ramsey's and proposed the possibility that an unknown male may have killed JonBenet before anyone else was willing to whisper that possibility that has since been proven true. Now in another bold move, he is stepping up to cure the tarnished reputation of our past President George W Bush. Yes, I think W really needs some help in this area, however doing so may be risky in opening another can of worms many folks remain incredibly passionate about. It's a tall order in front of Shapiro and I have to give him credit; the guy has stamina and guts. Admirable. At the same time I have to wonder what advice he might have for undoing the years of demonization of the innocent parents and brother of a brutally murdered 6 year old - -

The Bush Restoration Project
Published in Slate
By Jordan Michael Smith

"Jeffrey Scott Shapiro talks about George W. Bush the way Buddhists talk about the Dalai Lama.... It's hardly surprising, then, that Shapiro founded Honor Freedom, an organization devoted to restoring Bush's reputation. And Shapiro may actually succeed—especially since Bush, too, will be working on the same project, if not the same organization.

Shapiro's views of the media were shaped by experience. After covering the JonBenét Ramsey case for the Globe tabloid as a reporter, he voluntarily reported his editors to the FBI for criminal violations and testified against them in a grand jury as a key witness. Shapiro says his coverage of the Ramsey case and the Chandra Levy case led him to resent the media's abuse of the First Amendment, which "probably led to my feelings about the media lies told about President Bush."

...And though Shapiro's cause may seem unlikely, it's possible—even likely—that Bush's popularity will at least partially recover..."[read more]

hooks

Subject matter experts and armchair case followers alike still rehash what the pivotal point in the investigation of the murder of JonBenet Ramsey might be that would lead to the identity of her killer. Almost 14 years later there continues pondering of any overlooked details once law enforcement arrived at the Ramsey home; failing to secure the crime scene and neglecting to search behind a simple-latched door that would have immediately revealed the body of the tortured, molested and murdered six year old - -

JONBENET RAMSEY, JUST 6 YEARS OLD
Posted at K'TELONTOUR TRAVEL THE WORLD; BUT S-L-O-W-L-Y...

"...Because the Ramseys (and even JonBenét's 9-year-old brother Burke) were under such suspicion, with authorities seemingly looking for evidence that would directly link them to JonBenet's death, is it possible that investigators overlooked crime scene details that pointed in a different direction? Critics say yes. In 2008, advancements in DNA sampling allowed the Ramseys to be cleared in JonBenét's death — but for Patsy, it was too late: She died in 2006 of ovarian cancer..."[read more]

crawford hill house

For being a young city Denver has some very captivating architecture like the Crawford Hill House a French Renaissance mansion built in early 1900's, shortly after the Italian Renaissance designed Brown Palace set the bar for local socialites growing expectations.

Crawford Hill House is absolutely lovely, meticulously restored and maintained, home to Haddon Morgan and Freeman, PC one of the law firms selected by the parents of JonBenet Ramsey to help deal with the totally unfounded persecution for their daughter's murder. Partner Bryan Morgan, now retired from practice, was a friend of the family prior to the 1996 tragedy. Partner Hal Haddon is busy as ever, seen paying attention to the DV hearing for Charlie Sheen in Aspen - -

Sheen's next Aspen court appearance set for June 18

Published in the Aspen Times
By Rick Carroll

"ASPEN — Actor Charlie Sheen is scheduled to make his next Aspen court appearance June 18 for a motions hearing regarding his domestic violence case.

Sheen's Aspen attorney, Richard Cummins, appeared Monday in Pitkin County District Court during a discussion of further proceedings in the case....Also attending the hearing was Denver defense attorney Harold Haddon...

Haddon, who owns a house in Aspen, declined to discuss his involvement, if any, in the case.

“It's an interesting case,” Haddon said.

Haddon is a partner with the Denver law firm Haddon Morgan Freeman PC, which specializes in criminal defense and civil law. His firm represented NBA star Kobe Bryant in his sexual assault case in Eagle County, as well as John Ramsey, the father of JonBenét Ramsey, the 6-year-old who was found slain in her Boulder home..."[read more]

baby face

Another article about child beauty pageants mentioning how the murder of JonBenet Ramsey thrust a so called 'subculture' into the spotlight as though beautiful child contests are something new and unusual, rather than a generations old, well established element of society - -

Girls line up to be 'Little Miss Perfect
Published in the LA Times
By Jon Caramanica

"In reality television, to film something is to judge it...The murder of JonBenét Ramsey a little more than 13 years ago helped thrust the child-pageant subculture into the spotlight, and it appears little has changed since then. Young women still get unreasonably dolled up in pursuit of trophies, and an entire coterie of leech-like figures -- coaches, dressmakers, makeup artists -- are there to expedite the process.

"Little Miss Perfect" focuses on glitz pageants (natural pageants forswear makeup and tanning and the like, and what kind of TV show would that make?) though what's overwhelming on this show is the sheer averageness of the proceedings, which take place in hotel ballrooms on makeshift stages while an audience of decidedly unglamorous parents and supporters look on.[...read more]

matters of hate

I've never known a child prodigy along the line of a young Christina Aguilera. Since JonBenet became famous as a result of a brutal crime, it is hard to guess if prior she was once perceived as some kind of prodigy too. I am quite taken back by the hate and violence Aguilera's family apparently experienced while Christina was growing up - because of Christina's gift of voice. Sure, there are various flavors of competitive jealousies but I've never heard of such a thing, a family run out of their neighborhood, hated for a child's God given talent - -


Queen Christina: Christina Aguilera Marie Claire Interview
Posted at Rouge

"Christina Aguilera’s 22-month-old son, Max, is giving me a guided tour of their Beverly Hills home—

...Growing up, Aguilera was such a bigvoiced prodigy—the voice of Etta James trapped in the body of JonBenét Ramsey, with slightly less makeup—that kids mocked her mercilessly, threatened her mother, slashed the family’s car tires. (Eventually, the family had to move.) Not only did she have incongruous technical gifts, but she also brought to the music she sang a kind of heartbreak well beyond her years....[...read more]

new old news

As I have come to learn where there is new information about JonBenet there is certain to be an edgy opinion coming from Alan Prendergast over at the Westword. There is no point to debating the faults in Prendergast's same ol'spin, but his last sentence did catch my attention. He claims there are clues and leads the Ramsey 'family let slip away'. And here I have always thought that was law enforcement's responsibility in a homicide investigation, following up and managing all those leads or clues - -

John Ramsey's hunt for suspicious characters
Published in the Denver Westword
By Alan Prendergast

"It wouldn't be the holiday season without the annual appeal from John Ramsey for help solving the 1996 murder of his six-year-old daughter, JonBenét. Check out the latest announcement on his Fair Justice Foundation website and this video.

...As Alex Hunter once said, the list of suspects narrows--but 13 years after the endless dance among cops, prosecutors, lawyers and the victim's family that let so many leads and clues slip away, it may be entirely too little too late.[...read more]

socio

Fading of the Cries, a horror film to be released in 2010, features MacKenzie Rosman who previously played JonBenet Ramsey in the Fox murder mystery that aired in 2000--

Mackenzie Rosman 7th Heaven
posted at NewsNidea.com
By : newmusicnlyrics

"...In 1996, Mackenzie Rosman got the part of Ruthie Camden on 7th Heaven...

Her film roles have included JonBenét Ramsey in Getting Away with Murder: The JonBenét Ramsey Mystery..."[...there's more]

move over, Boulder

After 12 years of waiting for progress and answers to who murdered JonBenet Ramsey, a college cold case club has it's goal set to do what Boulder authorites have never been able to accomplish, can't or won't. An impatient drum beat in the distance --

Denver Metro State cold-case club set to solve
Denver Post article
by Kirk Mitchell


"Aspiring crime analysts and detectives at Metropolitan State College will soon spend their free time trying to solve some of the nation's most perplexing cold-case homicides.

It is possible the first Colorado case they investigate will be that of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, who would be of college age had she not been murdered in her home on Dec. 26, 1996.

"The jackpot at the end of the rainbow is finding that investigative nugget that helps solve a case," said Noah Fritz, an assistant professor of criminal justice at Metro State...

number 8*2

Not surprisingly, the murder of JonBenet Ramsey did not place in the top news stories of the century according to the Newseum survey of the general public and journalists. Last year JonBenet's story was featured as number 8 in Time's most famous unsolved crimes of all time. Entertainment Weekly Hotsheet author Jim Mullen's has his own very special calculations that includes the importance of JonBenet's story to cable new$ this past century--

1) Michael Jackson Dies!

2) Anna Nicole Smith Dies!

3) Who Fathered Anna Nicole Smith’s Baby?

4) Laci Peterson Disappearance

5) Natalee Holloway Disappearance

6) The O.J. Simpson Trial

7) The Terri Schiavo Death Watch

8) JonBenet Ramsey Murder

9) Janet Jackson “Wardrobe Malfunction”

10) 9/11

11) Anything Twitter

12) Princess Diana Dies!

13) Elian Gonzalez Saga

14) Tawana Brawley Saga

15) The Millennium Bug

16) John Wayne Bobbitt and Lorena Bobbitt Incident

17) The Joey Buttafuoco/Amy Fisher Affair

18) The Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan Incident

19) The Last “Seinfeld” Episode

20) Princess Di Weds...

Jim Mullen is the author of “It Takes a Village Idiot: Complicating the Simple Life” and “Baby’s First Tattoo.” You can reach him at jim_mullen@myway.com

positioning for a win

The unsolved murder of JonBenet Ramsey continues to be actively worked by a band of dedicated civilians and independantly, the Ramsey family's investigation team. Elsewhere across the nation engaged and proactive law enforcement agencies are seeking out new technologies and available resources to forward cases like the unthinkable murder of little Evelyn Miller--

Police are confident they'll find girl's killer
Nancy Grace Cold Case Files

NEW YORK (CNN) -- On a July morning in 2005, Noel Miller came home from working the night shift at an Iowa nursing home. She told police she arrived around 6:20 a.m. and discovered that her 5-year-old daughter, Evelyn, was missing.

Everyone else was fast asleep...

Investigators said they need additional corroborating evidence to make an arrest and are waiting for the final piece of the puzzle.

They plan to use a new piece of investigative equipment that is expected to move the inquiry forward, Lynch said. "It's something that came up in the last few months."

For now, he's not discussing details. "We just can't explain what the equipment is," Lynch added, "because if we explained when we were going to do it and what the equipment was, it could expose information to a perpetrator."

Evelyn's grandmother, Linda Christie, is hopeful police soon will provide the answers she has been waiting four years to hear. She doesn't consider Evelyn's death to be a cold case.

"They work on this case at least every two weeks," she said. But, she admits, "It is a waiting game."

Anyone with information that could lead to the arrest or conviction of the persons responsible for Evelyn Miller's death is asked to call the Floyd County Sheriff's Office at 641-228-1821. A $5,000 reward is offered.

octobad

As if it's not bad enough, Octomom is being linked to JonBenet Ramsey's wanna-be killer in a spoof over at CelebJihad--


Octomom’s kids to star in “Temptation Island” with John Mark Karr

"The Associated Press is reporting that “Octomom” Nadya Suleman has arranged for her 14 children to star in a new reality television show.



While details remain unconfirmed, rumor has it that the show will be a spin-off of the popular series Temptation Island, and will co-star America’s favorite pedophile, John Mark Karr.



Karr, who won America’s hearts after his famous JonBenét Ramsey murder prank, will host the show which will be filmed on an undisclosed island off the coast of Thailand, outside the jurisdiction of any pesky American laws.

Sources say Suleman’s older children as well as the octuplets, who should be able to walk by the start of production, will compete for Karr’s attention though a series of physical challenges and fashion shows. Each child will also be given one-on-one time with Karr so he can get a better sense of their individual personalities.

At the end of each episode, Carr will distribute a limited number of candy bars to the children he wishes to remain on the Island. This will continue until the final episode, in which the remaining three children will square off for the final spot.

Suleman’s children will reportedly earn $250 per day over three years, which will total approximately $250,000.

Karr’s is seeking a comeback after his previous game show, Are You Hotter than a 5th Grader, was killed in pre-production, and will be working pro bono."