BUMP
So nobody wants to talk about these suspects?
If they're not named, what's to talk about?
It's only important when it's about PR isn't it?
Yes it is, for a couple of reasons. For one thing, I have my doubts about the other people not being eliminated. Alex Hunter mentions that he was aware of the reports from Rile and Cunningham, the two Ramsey-hired experts. Given what I can gather from other sources, they were the only ones who put the bead on other people. And the context of Hunter's answer suggests that's what he was going by. Madeleine, you said it yourself: you don't trust experts who are hired just to provide someone with a defense. I can't think of a better example.
Secondly, and even more importantly, even IF what Hunter says is true, she's still the only one who can be proven to have been there that night. If memory serves, she was also the only one whose left-handed samples bore any resemblance to the note writing.
And I hate repeating myself BUT "she can't be ELIMINATED" is NOT the same with "she wrote it"
True. But in court, the two are sometimes synonymous.
There was something else, too. I was reading PMPT last night and I came upon something interesting. Page 536, paperback version:
"Hofstrom may have been happy with Beckner, but the CBI wasn't pleased with how he was handling things. Chet Ubowski, the CBI's handwriting expert learned from Detective Trujillo that Beckner had requested - and the DA's office had authorized- another handwriting analysis of the ransom note. Hofstrom and the police had looked for an expert who would testify that Patsy had written the note. They turned to the U.S. Secret Service and got an opinion less conclusive than Ubowski's. The UPSHOT was that the CBI's CONCLUSIONS were now COMPROMISED. Under the process of discovery, the Ramseys would have the right to use the second analysis in the defense. The police had never bothered to ask Ubowski if he had put his entire analysis of the ransom note into his report and whether it was his final report. Either way, Ubowski was prepared to say, "Patsy wrote the note." The CBI saw this as one more example of the MISSED OPPORTUNITIES in the investigation."
The "UPSHOT?" How could that possibly be an UPSHOT? Is it just me, or is there something rotten about this? Like maybe the examiners were being pressured NOT to say flat-out that PR wrote the note? To me, it's worth discussing, either way.