What made the police look at this guy in the first place? Did he confess because of police attention or did the confession cause the police attention?
I saw on the news last night a story that said he was under investigation now for quite some time, in fact the police told Patsy Ramsey before she died that an arrest and closure to the case was imminent. I would guess (or at least hope) that after all the initial screw ups and after all this time they would take their time and be ultra careful before arresting someone, as another screw up would be horrible to their already messed up image. Plus there is no reason now to go rushing into an arrest after this much time has passed and people for the most part are not thinking about this case anymore.
The story also said though that they couldn’t figure out the connection to the Ramsey famioly or find evidence of him ever living in Colorado, but I guess if she traveled or was well known for her pageants he could have found out about her that way and come there from out of state just to kidnap her. That doesn’t explain the inside info on the ransom note and stuff though, but if they have DNA evidence it should be easy enough to see if he is a match. He did have inside knowledge of the crime that the police have never released, so if he is making a false confession he sure put a lot of effort into it.
I can see someone falling in love with a 6-year-old, as much as any other random person you don’t know that well, but I agree that those in the reality-based community usually would have enough common sense to not admit it, even if it rose to the level of obsession.
So either this guy is a wack-job who made all this up, or is a wack-job who was unhinged enough to go ahead with his plan.
He picked her up at school? I thought her parents put her to bed, and saw that she was missing the next morning. I never really followed the case though. Can someone who did clear this up?
He had been communicating with Michael Tracy, a CU professor who has made documentaries about the case, for some time. Apparently, recently Tracy became disturbed and went to the police.
I think that all of the people that are so ready to censure those that felt the Ramsey’s are guilty are way out of line. Listen, this whole thing is a freak show of humanity. If you had been the police, or the much maligned media, you would have written twice the adverse coverage, and you would have sworn that they were were guilty in court. The evidence that the public received for their guilt was much more convincing than that for their innocence, so if the confession is legitimate, it is only a chance thing that the ‘non-guilty’ faction is correct. There was so much pretrial disinformation from both sides that it could have been Larry King that did it, and nobody would have known.
The media never *convicted * the Ramsey’s. They presented the evidence that they were given, and by credible sources, so people should stop killing the messengers. If they had done more than this, the Ramsey’s could have, and probably would have, sued. The media owes nobody an apology.
Huh. So if he just kept his mouth shut no one would have ever looked at him. That’s creepy. I’ll be interested to see how this all went down if we ever get an ‘official’ answer that explains everything - DNA evidence, strange ransom note, connection to JonBenet and lies by the parents and all.
The media absolutely convicted those parents, despite the fact that there was no evidence against them. They constantly ran that pageant footage as though it had any relevance to the case. Any number of talking heads shows had the host and guests flatly accusing the Ramseys of doing it and sneering contemptuously at any other suggestion. The father was caricturized as a wild-eyed psychopath on Saturday Night Live (a man whose 6 year old daughter had just been murdered). Any evidence which pointed to an intruder (which was ALL of it, by the way) was waved away, denied, sneered at as “whacko.”
The Ramseys were victimized twice. Once by the killer and then again by ten years of character assassination in the media.
We’ll see if his DNA matches what was found on the body.
His ex could be mistaken. If you asked me how I spent Thanksgiving in 1997, I’m not sure if I could dig out an accurate answer from memory and I might mix a couple of years up.
Yes. She was put to bed after having gone out with her family delivering Christmas presents. Patsy found the note the next morning and JonBenet missing.
When this guy talks about picking her up from school and taking her to the basement, what he is probably referring to is taking her home from school BEFORE all this happened and going in the basement with her (which would explain why he knew about the room where she was ultimately found.)
Plust the fact that nobody would like to be known as the ex-wife of that guy who killed JonBennet. She’s not in a court of law, she can say anything she well damn please now.
I will wait to grab the torches and pitchforks until more information comes along unlike the people who privately convicted the Ramseys.
Honestly I have no idea what to think, as this was a case I really never bothered to keep up on aside from the occasional Rag cover or Southpark Joke.
If this fellow is the guy I feel bad the family has been put through the ringer so long. Actually, I should feel that way regardless becuase they were not found guilty of any crime and wild allegations seemed to have tainted people with no real knowledge of the case.
Maybe it should be used as an object lesson on how the Media tries to circumnavigate the “Presumed innocent until proven Guilty” to make a story more viewer appeling.
Somehow it should be used to find a way to fine tune the idea of freedom of information to prevent it from veering into speculation for entertainment purposes rather than journalism.
Let’s face it journalist’s are not police detectives, judges or lawyers and shouldn’t try pretend they are.
There was some FBI guy on TV this morning who said the same thing. He had been in the house earlier in the day, etc. He also said the guy had written the ransom note in advance – before the child “accidentally died” in the basement and that he probably had originally intended to kidnap her.
So she was kidnapped from school at some point before, returned to her family/school (not sure which), then the guy came back later and tried to take her again?
