Only hours after Patsy Ramsey's death from cancer over the weekend, news outlets across the nation began discussing the impact the death of JonBenét Ramsey's mother might have on the "investigation" in Boulder. For those of us involved in the case since it first started, we know there is no real investigation taking place. The notion that District Attorney Mary Lacy is committed to this case is wishful thinking at best.
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Obsessed Reporter Reveals Dark Under World of Ramsey Case
It was nearly midnight on a warm summer night, May 1998, and the moon was shining brightly above the Flatirons. I quietly stepped out of my Dodge Intrepid, where I had been listening to John Fogerty singing "The Midnight Special."
Around my shoulder was a backpack-filled with a white nylon cord, a roll of black duct tape and a black metal Mag-Lite. The ingredients of the bag were all too familiar to any Boulder cop-the same types of items that may have been used in the murder of 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey on Dec. 25, 1996.
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By Richard Woodbury and Jeffrey Scott Shapiro
Although no suspects other than John and Patsey Ramsey have been named in the 1996 murder of their daughter JonBenét, a key figure in the investigation remains convinced that the killer was a pedophile bent on kidnapping who broke into the Boulder, Colo., home and assaulted the six-year-old while her family slept.
Lou Smit, a retired Colorado Springs homicide detective, worked on the case for 18 months before quitting in protest over the direction the probe was going. Smit formed another theory using key pieces of evidence.
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