our friend carla

I really like Carla Baron. Not only is she a trusted professional but off case or camera she is really a wonderful and compassionate person. So I am elated to see her career continuing to soar - you go Carla!

Carla Baron, Famed Psychic Profiler - Primed For More "Primetime"
Published in Online PR News

Online PR News – 19-March-2010 – Carla Baron, internationally known psychic/medium, and psychic profiler, has appeared on numerous television programs including Court TV’s Psychic Detectives, ABC’s Primetime, MTV’s Fear, Biography Channel’s Dead Famous, and recently seen on History Channel’s MysteryQuest. She hosted a long running nationally syndicated radio program for CRN called The Crystal Palace.

Baron was catapulted into the limelight as a psychic profiler on the successful TruTV (formally Court TV) reality series, “Haunting Evidence,” where she assisted police departments in identifying perpetrators of unsolved crimes, homicides, and abductions. Several of the cases that have been profiled on the show include some of the nation’s more notorious murders such as JonBenet Ramsey, Natalee Holloway, Madeleine McCann, and the Zodiac Killer....

You can learn more about famed tv psychic/ medium Carla Baron @ www.carlabaron.net

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cold start

As long as the JonBenet Ramsey case remains unsolved, her story will serve as a reminder of what a botched investigation looks like that just might help of the hundreds of thousands of cases that are also in desperate need of attention - -

One arrest, more cold cases to solve
By Rupa Mikkilineni

New York (CNN) -- The photographs are haunting: a toddler with huge, saucer eyes; a teenager smiling shyly; a middle-aged couple; a freckle-faced Little Leaguer.

A year ago, the Cold Case feature was launched to bring a fresh look at unsolved cases that Nancy Grace had covered. The aim was to pull these cases from their vaults, dust them off and refocus attention on them, reminding the public that police and families need help seeking justice and closure.

Through the year, the definition of a cold case evolved beyond high-profile ones such as Natalee Holloway and JonBenet Ramsey. A cold case involved anyone who vanished without a trace or was murdered, any time the police and family were left without an arrest or explanation.

Cold cases tell the stories of lives interrupted....

Focusing attention on investigations that have gone cold is exactly what police and the families of victims need to jump-start an investigation...."[ ... read more]

kindred spirits

Few people could relate to the loss of a child in the way the parents of JonBenet Ramsey and Natalee Holloway can. Still looking for answers in these tragic cold cases, John Ramsey and Beth Holloway have formed a bond of friendship not many could ever imagine or begin to fully understand based on the tragic losses they share--



Mom of missing teen reveals her agony
Published in the Bermuda Sun
by Sirkka Huish

The mother of a teenager who went missing in Aruba clings to the hope that ­justice will be served thanks to the discovery of "a new thread of evidence".

Beth Holloway, who is coming to Bermuda to share her story, refuses to give up in the world-­famous, unsolved case....

It has been widely reported that Ms Holloway is in a ­relationship with John Ramsey, the father of ­murdered child beauty queen JonBenet, after meeting at a fundraiser.

But Ms Holloway says they are "just really good friends", adding: "We have a friendship based on tragedy as we feel we have so much in common. We've been able to learn from and ­encourage each other."...[read more]

About Beth Holloway and her book, Loving Natalee

Beth Holloway is the mother of Natalee Holloway, who vanished on the last night of her senior class trip on May 30, 2005. To this day Beth continues to search for the truth of what happened. She grew up in Arkansas, then lived and worked in Tennessee, Mississippi, and finally Alabama where she now lives with her son, Matt. Today Beth addresses schools, churches, law enforcement groups, and other organizations on personal and travel safety.

third tier saga

Combined with stats on viewers interested in Michael Jacksons death compared to the likes of Princess Diana or Pope John Paul II, the AJR editor writes about media transformation and coverage of high profile cases. He goes on to rank JonBenet, Laci Peterson as second or third tier sagas while referring to Natalee Holloway as "the missing blonde girl". Now it's a given these three girls became famous as a result of their respective tragedies, but was it really necessay to illude to Natalee like that?--

The Michael Jackson Explosion
By Rem Rieder (rrieder@ajr.umd.edu) is AJR's editor and publisher.
7/10/09

"Has the death of Michael Jackson been seriously overcovered? Of course. But I'm having trouble working up much outrage over it...

The problem with the cable channels is that they ALWAYS have to have a top-of-the-charts story. That leads to the ridiculous excesses on famous-for-being-famous people like Anna Nicole Smith and Paris Hilton, on second- or third-tier sagas like Laci Peterson and JonBenet Ramsay and the missing blonde in Aruba...

31.1 million tuned in to 19 TV networks, according to Nielsen, more than three times more than watched Pope John Paul II's funeral and nearly as many as watched Princess Diana's. Many millions more watched online – global Internet traffic jumped by a third during the service. A figure with that kind of impact deserves a lot of attention, whatever you thought of him.

The news media, as you might have noticed, have no shortage of problems as they struggle to survive in a wrenching era of transformation. Saturation coverage of Michael Jackson's death isn't very high on the list."

About the American Journalism Review (AJR)

"American Journalism Review is a national magazine that covers all aspects of print, television, radio and online media. The magazine, which is published six times a year, examines how the media cover specific stories and broader coverage trends. AJR analyzes ethical dilemmas in the field and monitors the impact of technology on how journalism is practiced and on the final product. The magazine is published by the University of Maryland Foundation with offices in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland..."

on blog radio

JonBenet's case will be discussed this evening, 12/21/2008 on blog talk radio's "Heading Right" hosted by Levi Page with special guests Dr. Maurice Godwin, Prosecutor Robin Sax and web sleuthers. Call into the show to offer up your thoughts on one of these cases or to ask guests a question call 347-838-9781 at 10 PM EST / 9 CST / 7 PST --

The Levi Page Show
Sunday night, December 21st

"Host Levi Page takes a look at the crime news of 2008:

Caylee Anthony, Stacy Peterson, JonBenet Ramsey, and the Natalee Holloway case are all on tap.

Guests include: Profiler Dr. Maurice Godwin, Blogger Michelle Simonsen, Prosecutor Robin Sax, Private Investigator Vito Colucci, and websleuther Tricia Griffith.

To call into the show to give your thoughts on a case, or ask our guests a question call:
347-838 -9781

To listen GO HERE."

the quirks

Referring to the armchair detectives following JonBenet's case as 'quirky', strangely obsessed, web sleuthers have a role in Stewart O'Nan's latest book "Songs for the Missing".

All considered, 'quirky' or strangely obsessed probably won't be received as a flattering description by some of these case followers, many who are only interested in convicting JonBenet's parents despite them being cleared by the DNA. Guess they missed that memo.

Honestly though, 'quirky' is kind of cute compared to the nasty names some case followers lob at one another. And the Ramseys.

Reading some of the amateur investigators' case discussions I easily can imagine bantering-turns-catfight over which real-life citizen sleuth O'Nan might have borrowed from for the character in his book. Here is the review, and 'the quirks'--

Man of our times
Stewart O'Nan's latest is firmly rooted in the here and now
By Clay Evans

"The fiction of Stewart O'Nan may not be widely read in 50 years, or perhaps even 20.

His latest novel, "Songs for the Missing," is a pitch-perfect examination of character and a quietly suspenseful story about what happens when a popular teenager from a small Ohio town goes missing.

.....a strangely obsessed woman resembled the 'quirky' armchair detectives (mostly women) who have dedicated their lives to finding Natalee Holloway or JonBenet Ramsey's murderer."