Private investigator "Pete" Peterson has been around for a long time trying to use the Ramsey case for personal publicity. He originally accused Santa Bill of the crime, but got laughed at for his foolish ideas and even taunted by reporters at a press conference he held to accuse McReynolds of the murder.
Here's the interesting part:
Remember in the 48 Hours Mystery show how Peterson was talking about how two crimes were related where an intruder entered another girl's house who took lessons at the same dance school JonBenet attended?
Peterson forgets that at the press conference where he accused Santa Bill of murder he also mentioned that he was hired by the father of the second girl and found the girl's mother had a boyfriend who attacked the girl, not an intruder. Read this:
Peterson: We started out working for a client in Boulder, a Dr. Steve Dubovsky, whose daughter was molested in their house, and there are a lot of parallels to this case. A lot of parallels overlapped to this case, and--misdirected routes in the process. But we think we're onto the right route.
RPTR: You're saying this same suspect could have been responsible for both?
Peterson: No, no. We excluded the first one, who was involved in our client's case. But in the process, through that process, we got into this case with the blessing of the client. And determined--we know what occurred.
RPTR: So who is your client?
Peterson: We have no client. We had a client when we got into this case. It was a psychiatrist in Boulder whose daughter was molested in their house, and there are a lot of parallels to the Ramsey case. This person got in the house, hid in the house, after the alarms were set--or before the alarms were set, three hours later attacked the daughter. We thought there were parallels to the Ramsey case, and that's how we got into it.
RPTR: Has the psychiatrist client been paying you for two years?
Peterson: No, he paid us for about four months.
RPTR: Who was that person? Can you name him, the psychiatrist?
Peterson: Dr. Steve Dubovsky of Boulder.
RPTR: How do you spell that?
Peterson: D-u-b-o-v-s-k-y, probably...s-k-i, possibly.
Peterson: (OFF MICROPHONE) ...home, yes. He was out of town. The wife was there and the wife kept on bringing the guy into the house. He went out, went off the balcony. There were a lotta similarities there. This was about three months after the Ramsey murder.
http://thewebsafe.tripod.com/09241999petersonconference.htm
(I edited for brevity to focus only on the story of the second girl instead of Peterson's accusations against Santa Bill McReynolds. Read the entire press conference, it's a hoot!)
So now Peterson is back trying to get more publicity from this case. This time he's given up accusing Santa Bill and is trying to link the two cases together so he can expose more of his fantasy suspects. I guess he forgot his original findings that the two cases were not related and that he had "handwriting proof" that Santa Bill murdered JonBenet.
Maybe 48 Hours should have done a little homework and found out what a fraud Peterson is before they went and created some ridiculous news program that featured the guy like he is a credible source with new information about the Ramsey case.
(Thanks to the fantastic ACR who archived Peterson's B.S. press conference back in 1999!)
Here's the interesting part:
Remember in the 48 Hours Mystery show how Peterson was talking about how two crimes were related where an intruder entered another girl's house who took lessons at the same dance school JonBenet attended?
Peterson forgets that at the press conference where he accused Santa Bill of murder he also mentioned that he was hired by the father of the second girl and found the girl's mother had a boyfriend who attacked the girl, not an intruder. Read this:
Peterson: We started out working for a client in Boulder, a Dr. Steve Dubovsky, whose daughter was molested in their house, and there are a lot of parallels to this case. A lot of parallels overlapped to this case, and--misdirected routes in the process. But we think we're onto the right route.
RPTR: You're saying this same suspect could have been responsible for both?
Peterson: No, no. We excluded the first one, who was involved in our client's case. But in the process, through that process, we got into this case with the blessing of the client. And determined--we know what occurred.
RPTR: So who is your client?
Peterson: We have no client. We had a client when we got into this case. It was a psychiatrist in Boulder whose daughter was molested in their house, and there are a lot of parallels to the Ramsey case. This person got in the house, hid in the house, after the alarms were set--or before the alarms were set, three hours later attacked the daughter. We thought there were parallels to the Ramsey case, and that's how we got into it.
RPTR: Has the psychiatrist client been paying you for two years?
Peterson: No, he paid us for about four months.
RPTR: Who was that person? Can you name him, the psychiatrist?
Peterson: Dr. Steve Dubovsky of Boulder.
RPTR: How do you spell that?
Peterson: D-u-b-o-v-s-k-y, probably...s-k-i, possibly.
Peterson: (OFF MICROPHONE) ...home, yes. He was out of town. The wife was there and the wife kept on bringing the guy into the house. He went out, went off the balcony. There were a lotta similarities there. This was about three months after the Ramsey murder.
http://thewebsafe.tripod.com/09241999petersonconference.htm
(I edited for brevity to focus only on the story of the second girl instead of Peterson's accusations against Santa Bill McReynolds. Read the entire press conference, it's a hoot!)
So now Peterson is back trying to get more publicity from this case. This time he's given up accusing Santa Bill and is trying to link the two cases together so he can expose more of his fantasy suspects. I guess he forgot his original findings that the two cases were not related and that he had "handwriting proof" that Santa Bill murdered JonBenet.
Maybe 48 Hours should have done a little homework and found out what a fraud Peterson is before they went and created some ridiculous news program that featured the guy like he is a credible source with new information about the Ramsey case.
(Thanks to the fantastic ACR who archived Peterson's B.S. press conference back in 1999!)