While I was looking in the Ramsey book for something else, I ran across the following passage. It just struck me as so laughable now in light of what the CBS special was able to show about the 911 call. From
DOI, enjoy:
BY NOW ANYONE WHO KNOWS John and me will agree that if there’s anything we avoid, it’s the tabloids. When I pass the magazine rack in the grocery store, I literally try to look the other way. Unfortunately, the tabloids certainly don’t go out of their way to avoid the Ramseys. One of their most creatively written stories came out in August, claiming that they had obtained a copy of the taped conversation when I called 911 early in the morning of December 26, 1996, asking the police to come at once to our house. The tabloids had come up with a new twist.
The National Enquirer ran a story saying that our telephone had not been hung up properly and the police had heard additional voices on the 911 tape. The tape, the story said, had been enhanced technologically to produce a message, which supposedly occurred in the hallway area near the kitchen, just after I “thought” I hung up the telephone. According to unnamed sources, the Enquirer claimed that you could now hear Burke on the tape saying, “Please, what do I do?” and John replying, “We’re not speaking to you.” Obviously, if this were true, then John and I had been inaccurate when we testified that we had not awakened Burke or talked with him until later in the morning. Their scenario ran along the lines that we couldn’t have possibly forgotten such an important conversation. Therefore, the enhanced tapes would represent a major flaw in our explanations. We must have done something we were trying to cover up.
John and I saw the story as another one of those crazy accounts the tabloids kept running on us. We knew it was probably a police leak that in time would be viewed as misinformation. As a matter of fact, an accurate account was later published in Newsweek. The magazine reported that some of the people who had heard the tape—the police—thought they heard Burke’s voice, while others said no conversation was heard, even after the tape was enhanced in the lab. Why would the police have had to enhance the tape if the wall phone was off the hook? we wondered.
What makes this account even more ludicrous is the fact that after having written the above account, the Ramseys did a sit down interview with the very same tabloid (
NE) as part of a lawsuit settlement. Patsy even brought cookies:lol:. But in that interview, the Ramseys admitted that Burke was awake, then they denied it, and then after they left (and probably called Woody) they called back and changed their story again.:floorlaugh:
