The Ramseys claimed that they didnt know until Burkes testimony to the grand jury in early 1999 that he was awake prior to the 911 call to Boulder police.
We are expected to believe their claims that they had no discussion about the matter for more than two years.
Take note that the GJ testimony would NOT have been the first time that he gave this particular information to someone.
Again, how is that we are expected to believe that they didnt discuss what was said during the course of THREE DAYS OF INTERVIEWS???
Burke has been strangely quiet about his sister's murder, the Ramseys reveal. They say it wasn't until Burke's 1999 grand jury testimony that they found out he was awake before police arrived -- but was pretending to be asleep.
"Yeah, he testified to that. We thought he was asleep but he wasn't," said John, who had told police their son slept through the tragedy.
A source close to the case declared: "It's hard to believe that John and Patsy didn't find out until two and a half years after the murder that Burke was awake.
THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER, April 3, 2001
JonBenéts brother, Burke Ramsey, was interviewed in Atlanta for two hours a day on consecutive days in early June (1998,) after Deputy DA Pete Hofstrom and Detective Schuller visited Georgia for a while to determine whether the boy was a morning person or an afternoon person. Now eleven years old, Burke would be interviewed alone by Schuller while Hofstrom and Ramsey lawyer Jim Jenkins watched from another room. The arrangement seemed designed more to make the boy comfortable than to elicit information.
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Burke Ramsey seemed to have recovered his memory, but to me his answers seemed awkward and he was clearly uncomfortable. When asked how he thought JonBenét had been killed, he replied, I have no idea. In his first interview he had been explicit in describing what happened to her. He confirmed that her bed-wetting had been a big problem.
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He heard the house creaking during the night, he said, and when he awoke, his mother was turning on the lights and in a rush, saying, Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, then his father turned the lights off again. Burke stayed in bed wondering if something bad had happened. He heard his father trying to calm his mother, then telling her to call the police.
Burke told the detective he did not get out of bed that morning and that a policeman looked into his room. He re-called thinking that when the police arrived we would probably be tied up all day and that he was disappointed the family would not be going to Charlevoix as planned.
When the three days of interviews about his sisters murder were over, Detective Schuller asked the boy if there was anything he wanted to ask. Burke said yes and pointed to the detectives wristwatch. Is that a Rolex?
JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation, Steve Thomas, pages 355-356
The Ramseys stated publicly on more than one occasion that Burke was asleep, and they never asked him if he had seen JonBenét, or whether he had heard anything unusual that night. More importantly, what parent would not be screaming their childs name as they searched the house for her?
It was only Fleet White who stated that he had called for JonBenét as he checked the house after being summoned to the home that morning.
Foreign Faction: Who really kidnapped JonBenet? James Kolar, page 328
From the outset of this investigation, the Ramsey family appeared to have gone to great lengths to distance Burke from Boulder Police investigators. Rick French attempted to speak to him on the morning of the kidnapping as he was departing the residence with Fleet White. John Ramsey intervened and told the officer that Burke had been asleep and didnt know anything.
Well, how would Ramsey know that? The family has repeatedly stated that they never woke him up that morning to ask him anything about JonBenéts disappearance.
Boulder investigators did get one preliminary opportunity to speak with Burke, however, and Detective Fred Patterson had the foresight to scramble to the White residence not long after the discovery of JonBenéts body. This interview took place at approximately 1500 hours on the afternoon of December 26, 1996, and a woman at the residence, identifying herself as Burkes grandmother, sat in on the interview. The transcript of the recording
was the first glimpse I had into Burkes thought processes. It is not clear whether Burke was aware that JonBenét had been found at the time that this interview was conducted, but throughout the questioning, I found it odd that he never once expressed concern for his sister or asked about the status of the search for her. Quite the opposite was observed. Detective Patterson had to stop his interview at one point in order that Burke could finish
eating a sandwich. Here was a police detective, asking him about the disappearance of his sister, and he was so engrossed in the act of eating that he couldnt articulate his words with a mouth full of food.
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The only noise he reported hearing after going to bed was the squeaking water heater. He did not hear any scream, cry, yell or any raised voices during the night.
Burke provided conflicting information about waking: in one instance he advised that he woke and his father told him about JonBenét being gone. In another instance, he advised Detective Patterson that his dad had awakened him and told him that his sister was missing and that they were going to find her.
At the close of the interview, Burke again stated that he didnt hear any arguing between anyone the previous night.
A red flag fluttered when I noted that Burke concluded the interview, not with a question about the welfare of his missing sister, but with a comment about his excitement about going to Charlevoix. The anticipation of being able to build a fire at the familys second home apparently held some appeal to him. It was an odd comment, and I concluded my reading of the last page of this transcript with more questions than what I had going in at page one. How could Burke not be inquiring about the status or welfare of his missing sister?
Foreign Faction: Who really kidnapped JonBenet? James Kolar, pages 346-347
