bonus mocking

My career as a CIA operative disguised as the stunt double for Angelina Jolie has become a bit old hat, somewhat of a bore, and I have been looking for something stimulating and excting. Something new I can really sink my claws into.

This morning I have a vision of becoming what David Pogue is to technology in the NYT - but the sassy sister of sensational smut. Gossip Goddess.......

The Tabloid Police.

Of course that means I will have to actually start reading the tabloids. I wonder if over the course of his career as a film critic there were movies Roger Ebert simply didn't want to see....

Seriously though, Matty Boy over at his "It's News 2 Them" blog has developed his own take on teasing the tabloids, dishing up some pretty silly stuff. Find Matty Boy "Keeping tabs on the tabs, so you don't have to. Now with Extra Bonus Mocking™!" - -

Creepiest story of the week:Jonbenet Ramsey's 20th Birthday
Posted at It's News 2 Them™
By Matty Boy

"I didn't include this as a nominee for Meanest Story, but I have given it the new label of Creepiest Story of the Week...The Globe makes no new allegations of cracking the case. They just wanted to put her picture on the cover because we haven't milked the last creepy drop out of this story yet."[read more]


For even more fun, if you have seen a a tabloid report of eminent death or tragic romantic break-up send it right over to Matty Boy - mookasaurus@gmail.com

unFREAKINGbelievable

Looks like it is going to be another long day - -

JonBenet Ramsey murder missing from CBI's new cold-case database
Published in the Daily Camera
By John Aguilar

CBI director says technical glitch may have led to omission of Colorado's most notorious unsolved killing.

Stop the presses: The murder of 6-year-old Boulder beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey has been solved.

At least it appeared that way Thursday on the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's freshly launched cold-case database, colorado.gov/coldcases, a Web site that lists 1,714 unsolved homicides and missing-persons cases in the state from the past 40 years....

Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner said he didn't know for certain if his department sent the Ramsey case to the CBI as part of its cold-case list. He said because investigators have "never stopped working it," it may not technically qualify as cold..."[read more]

Faith, family defined legendary detective Lou Smit

BY MATT STEINER
THE GAZETTE

Faith, family and profession.

Combine these facets of Lou Smit’s life with his humility and an impeccable attention to detail and you get what former El Paso County Sheriff John Anderson calls “the most thorough investigator and detective I’ve ever met.” Read more here

20

The anniversary of JonBenet's birth date came and went last week as many case followers, true-crime sleuths noticed by posting happy birthday messages in a variety of forms and content remembering JonBenet. It is good her case is not being forgotten by so many caring people out there.

This year more poignantly than others such remembrances and good wishes are still a tad unsettling for me. I think Mary Bowman has described that discord best in her blog --

JonBenet Ramsey
Posted by Mary Bowman

"I had to think a long time about this one. So, this entry is a day late. Yesterday, JonBenet Ramsey would have been celebrating her twentieth birthday...

One thing is happening that I find very disturbing. It happened to Etan Patz and Kelsey Briggs, as well. People are forgetting that these were children. They were NOT angels. They were human beings...

JonBenet Ramsey was not an angelic beauty queen. She was a normal six year old who loved to play outside, and was excited when Christmas came.

That's the hardest part with JonBenet's death. Her killer took her life in 1996. And her admirers have been murdering her memory ever since."[read more]

Mary Bowman is a child psychiatrist and blogger from New Jersey.

bewteen good and evil

An excerpt from Roger Depue's memoir of his work at the FBI on JonBenet's case and others that the investigators at the Fair Justice Foundation have also been called to consult - -

Bewteen Good and Evil

Chapter 1

"...Today, in a related incarnation, I am the founder of The Academy Group, an elite international crime consulting firm whose half dozen members, all FBI, CIA, or Secret Service veterans, constitute a brain trust of the world’s top forensic behavioral science experts in their respective fields: from sexual homicide and child predation, to international terrorism and espionage.

In that role I have listened to tapes of the Columbine school shootings, studied the rage wounds inflicted with a golf club on Martha Moxley’s skull, analyzed the JonBenet Ramsey ransom note, and helped a colleague plan his approach in debriefing the notorious FBI agent-turned-traitor Robert Hanssen. I am summoned to cases when all other investigations have failed, when law firms, police jurisdictions, or the emotionally devastated families of victims have nowhere else to turn..."[read more]


About Roger Depue

In addition to his work as head of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit and founder of the elite private sector consulting firm, The Academy Group, Roger L. Depue has also worked as a police chief, a SWAT Team member, and is a former Brother of the Order of Missionaries of the Holy Apostles. He speaks widely as a corporate consultant and has been interviewed by People magazine, CBS’ 48 Hours, and most recently The Discovery Channel, for whom he constructed a hypothetical profile of Deep Throat for an upcoming program pegged to the 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in. The Academy Group also served as the real-life basis for the Fox television series, Millennium.

Most recently, in addition to his ongoing casework with The Academy Group, Depue acted as a consultant on Universal Studio’s Red Dragon, a feature film version of Thomas Harris’ first Hannibal Lecter novel, which opened in October 2002 starring Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton. His memoir, Between Good and Evil co-written by Susan Schindehette, was recently published by Warner Books.

threat to public safety

When JonBenet was murdered in 1996, community officials appeared to downplay the potential of a killer on the loose in Boulder, so as not to 'alarm the public'. Not so in the case of 19 year-old Vanessa Pham, where the authorities have been straight-up with the public about the potential that in June 2010 an unknown murder - even a serial killer - took this lovely girls life. And Vanessa's killer, like the one that tortured and murdered JonBenet, is still on the loose - -

Police: Vanessa Pham's Unknown Killer a 'Threat' to Public Safety
Published in the Falls Church News-Press
By Natalie Bedell


A cousin of the 19-year-old Falls Church woman murdered last month described herself Monday as a “wreck” who’s been playing detective from her Norwalk, Conn. home while the stabbing of her relative, Vanessa Pham, goes unsolved by Fairfax County police.

Theories ranging from a slaying by a member of nearby homeless communities to the plotted jealous rage of a female acquaintance are being mulled by friends and a local private investigator. But Fairfax County Officer Don Gotthardt said Tuesday police are now convinced the killer is an unknown person, having already eliminated any potential suspects from Pham’s inner circle.

“I don’t want to scare the public, but we believe this is a whodunit,” he added.

Monday marked the one-month anniversary of her death, a reminder too her murderer is still on the loose...

“I don’t want this to be a JonBenét Ramsey-type case, where no one ever knows what happened,” [Vanessa's cousin Tracy To] she said. “That would make me a very angry and bitter person for the rest of my life. I need to have closure.” [read more]

spendy spitball sessions

There are some crimes that have benefited from true crime enthusiast research and internet forum discussions, but this would be the exception, not the rule. So far as these somewhat downright nasty discussions can go, these often slanderous or ugly discussions between armchair detectives may be just one of the prices that victims families pay while searching for or waiting for justice for their children, as in the case of adorable little Kyron Horman.

How much does this social phenom hurt an investigation?
That is yet to be fully articulated and monetized, but there is a cost to investigations for good or ill. We can recall that obsessed armchair detective pedophile who convinced himself he was JonBenet's killer, costing tax payers tens of thousands of dollars and law enforcement man-hours. Much of the content of that pitiful character's false confession and writings can easily be tracked to (bogus) public domain information he would have found in media articles and interaction on internet forums - -

Armchair detectives:
True-crime websites are nonstop outlets for facts and opinions on Kyron Horman case
Published in The Oregonian
By Kimberly A.C. Wilson

"When word broke Thursday that authorities were putting the squeeze on DeDe Spicher...In real time, members of true crime Internet forums around the country began searching for the woman's footprint in the public domain.

What happened to little Kyron? And the hobbyists' work raises a larger question: Has it helped or hindered the real police work?

That depends on whom you ask. And entering the eighth week since Kyron was seen, it may not even be a fair question.

Or even the right question...

Court of public opinion

Trying to make sense of the morass is nothing new for veterans of unresolved mysteries, including the 1997 death of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey in Colorado...the late Richard Jewell, the security guard at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics whose journey from hero to bombing suspect ...The Justice Department formally cleared Jewell of involvement in the bombing, and another man, Eric R. Rudolph, was eventually convicted of the explosion that killed one and injured 111 others. But Jewell, who died of natural causes in 2007, went down as the man wronged by hasty judgment.

And the blogosphere is nothing if not a watering hole for hasty judges..."[read more]

open source rules

Anyone that knows me is probably familiar with convictions that technology, and lots of it, will serve a major role in solving the murder of JonBenet Ramsey - -

CIA Software Developer Goes Open Source, Instead
Published in Wired
By Noah Shachtman

"For three years, Matthew Burton has been trying to get a simple, useful software tool into the hands of analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency. For three years, haggling over the code’s intellectual property rights has kept the software from going anywhere near Langley. So now, Burton’s releasing it — free to the public, and under an open source license...


Burton, for example, spent years on what should’ve been a straightforward project. Some CIA analysts work with a tool, “Analysis of Competing Hypotheses,” to tease out what evidence supports (or, mostly, disproves) their theories. But the Java-based software is single-user — so there’s no ability to share theories, or add in dissenting views. Burton, working on behalf of a Washington-area consulting firm with deep ties to the CIA, helped build on spec a collaborative version of ACH. He tried it out, using the JonBenet Ramsey murder case as a test. Burton tested 51 clues — the lack of a scream, evidence of bed-wetting — against five possible culprits. “I went in, totally convinced it all pointed to the mom,” Burton says. “Turns out, that wasn’t right at all.” ...[Read More]

So What's Left?

So What's Left?

We often think of the term Cold Case though it may not apply to the JonBenet Ramsey investigation. I do not wish to split an already fine hair but sometimes I wonder if a case can ever be referred to as cold if there was no initial investigation but instead only a police orchestrated media campaign took place.

Many cold cases are solved by advances in technology. We already have a dna sample. Of what use would be further dna testing? Touch DNA analysis of JonBenet's clothing provided confirmatory evidence of what was already abundantly obvious. That is all well and good. Should there be Touch DNA analysis of the kitchen counter top? Its a bit late for that now. The actions of the BPD in cleaning that counter top that morning can not now be undone. What about Touch DNA analysis of the bedsheets? It is unlikely the intruder was bare handed and unlikely he touched the bed sheet. However, forensic testing of the bed sheet has now rendered any collection of dna samples impossible.

Many cold cases are solved due to altered personal relationships between suspects and their alibi witnesses. Of course if the intruder into the Ramsey home acted alone and unaided it will be hard for the investigators to benefit from any altered personal relationships. I believe that many pedophiles lack the social skills to have friends but many investigators on the case consider pedophiles to have sufficient social skills to establish and maintain friendships.

Some cold cases are solved simply by the review process itself. Something laying in some hitherto unexplored nook or cranny is found during the review process. This would make a review desirable but its hard to place one's hope on some ill defined glitch in the original filing process. Its hard to plow through hundreds of boxes hoping to find something that has been misfiled or misinterpreted.

So what's left?

Aftershocks ...

Not just earthquakes have aftershocks. Entire communities are affected by crime. Increased police patrols in affected areas tend to mean a decrease in police patrols in other areas and those other areas are often the places where the patrols are sorely needed. A recent homicide in an upscale area of Ventura County alarmed the populace and greatly affected the utilization of police resources. Oh sure, there may be a boom in the sales of locks and burglar alarms after a homicide but the cost of crime is often very high on both a personal basis as well as a community basis. Southern California real estate has been beset by major problems that are totally unrelated to crime, but it should be remembered that crime does indeed have a financial impact on us.

According to Scott Hadly, Ventura County Star, Ventura, California two properties owned by murder victims Brock and Davina Husted have gone into foreclosure.

The Faria Beach home failed to garner any bids at a trustee's sale. Another home the couple owned in the Ventura Keys is scheduled for auction on June 22. The couple had purchased the Faria Beach property for about $2.1 million in 2005.

The Husteds were stabbed to death in their beach house on May 20, 2009, while their two young children were home. This spring, a security guard was charged with the murder of the Husteds and the death of couple's unborn child.

More information at: http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/4212743 and at The Ventura Star.

myob shapiro style

Great article from Jeffrey Scott Shapiro about JonBenet; my sentiments, exactly - -

Leave JonBenet Alone
Posted in FOXnews Forum
By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

Recently, FoxNews.com reported that John Mark Karr, a cleared suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case and reputed pedophile, was the subject of a new national law enforcement investigation because he’s trying to “create a cult of JonBenet Ramsey lookalikes.”

Tragically, Karr’s sick obsession with JonBenet Ramsey is part of a larger epidemic that started over a decade ago when her murder was highly publicized by the national media...

Sadly, there’s more to it than that, and I realize that now.

JonBenet was a real person. She was a little girl who lived and loved like the rest of us. She laughed and she cried. She went to school and she played when she got home. She was a real human being.

Millions of Americans however, have turned her into an icon, a symbol, and even a sick, sexualized object of obsession. She has been immortalized within a cult much like the Kennedy assassination, Sharon Tate murder and the deaths of Jim Morrison and John Lennon, but in a perverse way.

Just think for one moment how it would feel if your six-year old daughter or sister was brutally tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered – and was then talked about, obsessed over and even sexualized. It’s almost incomprehensible to imagine the pain, heartbreak and outrage the Ramsey family must continue to feel...

Other than that however, JonBenet’s family deserves peace and privacy. It’s time to leave JonBenet – and her family alone..."[read more]

Jeffrey Scott Shapiro is an investigative journalist and former Washington, D.C. prosecutor who has researched and reported the JonBenet Ramsey case for 13 years.

how much is enough?

The public is frequently left to statements from experts like Dr. Henry Lee in the most tragic of cases; the loss of children like JonBenet or 12 year old Nicolas Parisot. These homicides share a very few similarities with a remarkable difference in that if one is to accept Dr. Lee's statements as absolute conclusions, there is apparently no more forensic evidence to further learn what happened to Nicolas. Since I have never heard even a whisper of the same tone from Dr. Lee - - no more forensic evidence - - in the investigation of JonBenet's murder, I have to wonder how much more evidence is sitting untouched scientifically in an evidence room somewhere that would help solve this case - -

Henry Lee: Evidence in Parisot case taken as far as science will allow
Published in the Wilton Villager
By KARA O'CONNOR

"WILTON -- Scientifically, nothing more can be done with forensic evidence in the Nicholas Parisot homicide, according to Wilton Police....

Lee has assisted in more than 6,000 investigative cases, including the O.J. Simpson case, review of the JFK assassination and the death of JonBenet Ramsey, according to his website, www.drhenrylee.com.

"We know that Dr. Lee, the FBI and the state have all thoroughly looked over every bit of evidence we have," said Wakeman. "And Dr. Lee has concurred, along with the other labs, that there isn't anything more we can do with this forensic evidence."

Last June, Nichols Parisot's parents, Wilton residents Rick Parisot and Katherine Throckmorton, of 274 Nod Hill Road, filed a civil suit against Glenn and Barbara Knight, formerly of Wilton, and their 12-year-old son, claiming the "willful and malicious conduct" of the 12-year-old caused the death of Nicholas Parisot..." [read more]

lacy and mcguire

Former Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacy, a long time advocate of justice in the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, has crossed to the other side of the courtroom with her well respected colleague Pete McGuire--

Ex-Boulder DA Lacy Now A Defense Lawyer
Published in the Daily Camera
By Vanessa Miller

After working together for more than 20 years as prosecutors in the Boulder County District Attorney's Office, former District Attorney Mary Lacy and her top prosecutor Pete Maguire are back together -- this time to defend the accused.

The pair decided to combine their attorney skills and experience in April last year, just a few months after term-limited Lacy left the office and incoming District Attorney Stan Garnett hired someone else to replace Maguire. Under the "Lacy & Maguire Law Firm" name, Maguire almost immediately started defending accused criminals and taking personal injury and administrative-type cases as well.[...read more]

word from the wise

If I watched lots of TV, Keith Ablow, MD would be one on a top ten list for more specials or a series. I am more apt to read one of his books.

Keith is very kind and down to earth, not to overlook brilliant. Dr. Ablow is weiging in today on his experiences with self-professed pedophile John Mark Karr aka Delia Alexis Reich aka Alexis Valoran Reich --

Dr. Keith: The John Mark Karr I Know
Published on FOXnews

"John Mark Karr, who received worldwide attention in 2006 for confessing to the 1996 murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, is back in the news. Now, he is reportedly attempting to create a network of young girls with blonde hair and small feet, traits they share with the late JonBenet. He calls this network “The Immaculates.”

...When he knew he was being taped, Karr played it cool, insisting he had no sexual impulses toward children, only a desire to nurture them. Off camera, Karr confessed that he indeed desired sex with little girls, considered it normal to have sex with them, and thought our society’s sanctions against sexual intercourse with children deprived those children of their natural instincts to want sex with adults....

There is no question in my mind that Karr is indeed a pedophile and that he represents a risk to the community. While his writings and the news of him collecting JonBenet look-alikes may mostly reflect a flair for the dramatic, he is not pretending one bit when it comes to being willing to do almost anything in order to have a sexual relationship with a little girl...[read more]

Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatry correspondent for Fox News Channel and a New York Times bestselling author. His book, "Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty" has launched a new self-help movement including www.livingthetruth.com. Dr. Ablow can be reached at info@keithablow.com.

Third Impressions -- The Phony Investigation.

Third Impressions -- a/k/a Plausible Deniability.

During the protracted battle of wills between the Boulder authorities and the Defense Lawyers, it was clear the Boulder Authorities knew that time was on their side. The Defense Lawyers were being undermined by their own clients who were desperate to see progress made on the case no matter what the cost. The authorities were clearly the source of media leaks and had some grinning mouthpiece holding formal press conferences so the authorities knew they had the lawyers outgunned.

The Boulder Authorities did have available to them the concept of Plausible Deniability. The BPD in failing to test a blood spot on the panties knew that they could always avail themselves of that tired old standby excuse: we were awaiting further technological developments prior to submitting the sample for destructive testing. The BPD also knew that in sending investigators around to gather dirt on the Ramseys they need only demonstrate the depth and breadth of their efforts. Anecdotal statements from the various interviewees that the BPD were clearly fishing for dirt and ignoring any positive statements by the witness are simply never sufficient to overcome the public's belief that there was a neutral investigation.

Sending a team to the Vietnamese underwear factory or testing endless numbers of unsold packages until some human dna is finally found demonstrates the lengths to which the BPD would stoop in order to maintain their anti-Ramsey stance. Having a legitimate belief that the dna found at the crime scene came from the sneeze of a Vietnamese factory worker is absurd. As to how such a sneeze could cause dna to fall only on those minute portions of the panties on which Jonbenet's blood would later fall makes even the contemplation of such an absurd possibility an almost criminal waste of investigative resources and constitutes clear proof that there was no investigation going on. Clearly the BPD were conducting an enterprise that was closer to a legal witch hunt than an investigation.

Yet the police can always fall back on their plausible deniability stance. They control access to the investigative files and the allocation of resources. They know how the resources were deployed and they know what the real agenda was but they also control the speechwriters and public information spokesmen. So there is really no way to force the police to move in any direction than that which they choose.

There are notable cases wherein police forces have carried this to an extreme. Rapid LAPD were repeatedly urged by relatives of the victim to look at one female officer but this was resisted until dna tests were performed almost two decades later. Lothian and Borders police had even announced the magic phrase of "no other suspects" and "not a sex crime" despite the dead 14 year old girl having the dna from several men associated with her corpse and clothing. Only the boyfriend whose dna was not found at the crime scene was ever a suspect. The police are simply without proper oversight. One police force was able to properly deal with twelve separate homicide scenes during a one-day killing spree. A nearby police force found one corpse in a wooded area and simply left it unattended and uncovered in a rain storm until the next morning. Yet nothing happens to these incompetent police officers who are skilled mainly at finding excuses for themselves. After all, if two fourteen year old teenagers can make it over a low wall and half the drug buyers in the village can routinely make it over a low wall, don't you think a police officer should be able to make it over that wall so as to preserve the crime scene?

While the police are careful to maintain a facade of Plausible Deniability sometimes its just clear that the situation is simply "We Don't Want To Do Anything That Is Contrary To Our Whims"!

Second Impressions

Second Impressions.

After the series of errors at the crime scene and the series of errors involving the collection of forensic evidence and the interactions with other agencies, the case more or less settled down to a contest between the stubborn and arrogant BPD and the rest of the world.

The Boulder police were willing to do battle with the Denver homicide experts, with the Boulder District Attorney (even though he thought the parents were guilty), with a variety of experienced public defenders in Colorado and with a variety of Colorado sheriffs and prosecutors. Much of the battle took place behind the scenes, some of it was rather public. The parents may or may not have been ill-advised to go on CNN, but the BPD were already so stubborn that it seems greater consideration of the BPD's miffed egos would have made little difference.

The investigation soon deteriorated to a contest involving an embarrassed police department who felt it was their turf and they would call the shots versus defense counsel who had to battle not only bruised egos of the police but also their overly naive clients whose desires to have the investigation move forward betrayed their clients inability to realize that there was not and would not be an investigation, only a witch hunt.

This is the stage wherein greater tact, diplomacy or experience might have avoided a disgraceful lack of progress. Had the police been more skillful in asking the Ramseys to come to police headquarters that afternoon it might have been a totally different investigation. It takes skill to deal with people in extreme emotional situations and its clear that the BPD was never skillful in anything they said or did at the crime scene. Had some of the other agencies expertise been utilized, progress might have been made. Cops are very territorial and no street gang is more defensive of its turf than a police department is. Denver's experienced homicide detectives would have been an asset, but the Boulder police chief was not going to permit anyone to come into his turf wearing some other gang's colors. The lack of a neighborhood canvass is something that is universally condemned by other departments albeit usually in a private manner. The comments by witnesses concerning obvious bias in police questioning is from a class of persons not normally prone to complain of police methodology.

The focus was on the parents for emotional and irrational reasons but that focus stayed fixed on the parents due to police stubbornness. No one would budge and the BPD made it clear that their focus would remain on the parents. The leaks to the media were designed to create a psychological pressure on the parents not as some investigative function but solely as a retribution for having had the audacity to retain counsel,appear on CNN and generally fail to kow tow to the local police.

First Impressions.

I've wondered recently about first impressions and the JonBenet Ramsey case. We invest a great deal of discretion in our police and be they patrol officers or detectives they are pretty much on their own. Oh there can be budget constraints and a variety of other constraints such as a hot pursuit policy, but in reality the beat cop is pretty much on his own.

So in the very early stages of the investigation when information is filtering in and its all pretty much jumbled, contradictory, vague, ambiguous and confusing we have to have some action being taken despite all the uncertainty involved.

Someone contacted the FBI profiling types. Oh, okay so the unit has a fancy name and it doesn't use the title profiling but that's what they do, nevertheless. So what was given to the profilers? I don't know. What was available to be given to them? Well, such gems as "No Footprints in the Snow". Not exactly a true statement to begin with because one of the invited guests left his footprints in the snow. Also of great relevancy to the question of footprints is the corrollary: there was no snow on the paved approach paths that surrounded the house. There was never any reason to suspect that an intruder would have had some reason to cut across the snow covered grass and leave footprints.

What else was available? Okay, so we got a ransom note. Its long and its weird. That's about it. The profiler might have had nothing more specific than "there is something hinky about the note". We know that the FBI agents at a conference in Denver who were "beeped" to be on standby status for possible travel to Boulder felt the ransom demand was strange though they made no precise analysis of it.

What else: How about demographic information. The profilers might have been told that the parents are rich, the home seems neat and fairly presentable, there is no obvious drug use, the parents support their church and school. However, its unlikely that any of this information was really made available to the profilers. Probably the main thing that was said is that the kid's corpse was found inside the home ... by the parents! We surely know that the BPD didn't fess up right away to those profilers that the cops had bungled the initial searches and that having an ineffective detective on-scene sure didn't help matters any. Do we really expect the profilers to stop and recall that all their expert interviewing of perpetrators had involved low-class common vulgar drug addicts who live a life of constant strife, inescapable poverty and prior involvement with police and social service agencies? No. The profilers shoot from the hip and provide their "expert guidance" which basically is "look to the parents". This guidance from the FBI profilers then is used to re-inforce the opinions already held by the those luminaries at the BPD who have trouble with opening simple wooden latches.

Is it really any wonder the case got derailed right from the start? Stubborness aside, the performance of the first responders was so bad that the case went askew right away. No real case management. No control over the crime scene. Cops sent to search the basement but not knowing just how thorough to be or what they are really looking for. Cops certainly not reporting back what they have done and not done in that basement. On-scene detective never once went to the basement. Fouled up case right from the start!

Go Away!! Don't Bother Me!!

Go Away!

No, I do not know who this mononymous Beyonce is.

No, I have not ever before heard of a musical work entitled Single Ladies.

No, I have not ever seen anything that might be described as a Beyonce video associated with a song known as Single Ladies.

No, I've never heard of some eight hour competition known as World of Dance. Eight solid hours of anything boggles my mind. Eight hours of dancing would be an ordeal for me to watch. Eight minutes of dancing would be more than I could perform and anyone interested in watching me dance is hereby advised instead to simply use google to find a video of a beached whale.

No, I'm not sure exactly what a Precision Dance Team is, but I hope its fun, particularly if it has to be done for eight hours!

No, I've not watched that darned viral video everyone has been emailing me about.

Yes, After getting all those emails I did eventually click on a link and watch a few moments of the darned thing.

No, I did not find it the least bit interesting.

No, I don't think there is anything wrong about the costumes.

No, I don't think there is anything wrong about the dance routine.

No, I don't think those girls are victims of anything. They appear to be rather too happy for anyone to be even thinking of the word victim much less using it.

No, I have no idea at all about whether 8 or 9 year old girls should be doing this. I actually have no idea at all what 8 or 9 year old girls should be doing. They are dancing, They are not shooting heroin. It seems that they are happy doing so. It appears as if the dancing requires great preparation and practice as well as good nutrition and exercise. They are learning to focus their energy and achieve a goal. They seem happy and at ease with themselves during a public performance. I see nothing wrong with any of this and I most assuredly see nothing evil about it.

No, I see absolutely no basis for any of these endless allegations about sexually suggestive activities. Quite frankly, the comments about those dance moves or costumes being sexually suggestive made me think of the days of old wherein Abbie Hoffman would run alongside the tour buses that took suburban gawkers around the East Village. Abbie Hoffman was right. In running alongside the bus holding up a large mirror he was indeed allowing those tour guides to provide views of weird people who engage in strange activities. To those who see that dance routine as sexually stimulating, I can only roll my eyes in amazement at such thoughts and remind you that if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then so too is filth! May I suggest that all those who are looking askance at the dance routine look instead into Abbie Hoffman's mirror.



No, I see no rational basis for invoking the name of JonBenet Ramsey as some sort of mantra in this situation.

No, I see very little potential for a viewer of the dance routine to somehow track down the participants and creep into their homes during the night to kill them.

No, I still do not see any evidence at all that JonBenet's pageant activities had the slightest thing to do with her murder.

No, I do not see anything wrong with her choosing to be participating in pageants or with her parents supporting her choice and making it fun for her. It was their daughter, their time and their money.

No, all this palaver and nonsense about some California dance troupe will not in any way solve the murder case!

So go away and leave me alone. I'm working on a homicide case and can't be bothered dealing with some busybody who wants to tell other parents what their young daughters should be wearing and what their young daughters should be doing.

Turning to a new page.

1. In the JonBenet case, the DNA was so small and could have came from the manufacturer of her underwear instead of an intruder..

2. Touch DNA aint gonna convince me JonBenet wasn't murdered by John or Patsy. I know damn well it was an inside job..

3. I think people can use DNA and hype it up like in the JonBenet Ramsey case..

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Sometimes it gets tiresome. These particular gems of wisdom happen to come from Levi Page, some sort of youthful internet Media Darling who is often on TV news shows.

I mean consider that underwear theory of his. Someone sneezes in a Vietnamese factory and the dna winds up in the panties but only in the locations that later had blood spots but not in any of the test swatches, yet that dna also somehow migrates to other garments, but only in the locations where an attacker would have placed his hands to undress her.

Consider his evaluation of the quality of evidence: DNA is the most reliable forensic tool we have but that is of no concern to him. He somehow knows that it was an inside job which of course is some sort of code phrase. A shorthand way of saying that the parents decided to kill their daughter, cause the husband to lose his job and the wife to lose her health insurance, spend all their money on lawyers and become the most hated couple in America. He somehow knows this and considers this knowledge that somehow came to him to be sufficient for us to ignore the highly reliable scientific results that are available as evidence.

Hype it up? You should know, pal!! Pure, utter hype.

I think I will turn the page!

Rest In Peace.

The Daily Camera has reported that a college sophomore died of a drug overdose. It appears that alcohol intoxication is often overlooked by today's youth. The official determination regarding the possible presence of more potent drugs will await further toxicology testing.


Son of former Boulder County DA Alex Hunter dies of apparent overdose
By Erica Meltzer Camera Staff Writer

The son of former Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter, who was in office during the initial investigation into the death of JonBenet Ramsey, has died of an apparent overdose.

John Hunter Hauck, 20, was found by his roommates around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in an off-campus home in northwest Fort Collins. The death is not considered suspicious.

Excerpted from the following link.

Edit: BAC was .212 which is more than twice the legal limit for operating an automobile in Colorado. Toxicology tests for the presence of Oxycontin or other opiodlike sedatives have not been completed as of 21 May 2010.