I worked with this producer. Joe Halderman. It was in 2004.
In 2004 the Ramsey case was still somewhat hot so 48 Hours would fall at Professor Michael Tracey's feet whenever he would make one of his propoganda JonBenet Ramsey mockumentaries. Tracey had made a new "documentary" with the understanding 48 Hours would give him air time.
At the time Tracey's latest mock was shown in Europe and was scheduled to be shown in the U.S. Leading up to that showing was to be a full hour on 48 hours with Tracey as the star
At our sister forum, Forums for Justice.org we were able to prove without a shadow of a doubt that Tracey's 2004 doc was a croc. Full of lies. This was long before Tracey brough John Mark Karr into our lives.
As was Tracey M.O. he hid the truth by trying to hide the identity of the man he was accusing
We were able to prove that his "Mystery suspect" was a man who was in Indiana at the time of the killing and the D.A's office in Boulder NEVER considered him a suspect.
One of our members saw the doc first in Scotland, she taped it, and when Tracey showed this mystery perp's police record our member was able to get the police report number. From there we were able to identify this guy (who had nothing to do with the murder) and warn him.
Tracey has said in an interview that not blacking out that police report number was his biggest mistake. I bet he feels that way. We caught him literally and boldly accusing an innocent man of a murder so he could make money.
Loooong story but this leads me to Joe Halderman.
When we found out Tracey's doc was based on a bald faced lie I called 48 Hours and was put in touch with Joe. He was a complete JERK. OMG he was awful. We showed him the evidence and he STILL thought he had a great story about this innocent person.
Well, we talked a lot over the next month or so and he actually turned out to be a very nice guy. 48 Hours never did their story about this innocent man and Michael Tracey never made any money in the U.S. based on his phony story.
Back to Joe. The reason he was such a jerk the first few times, and I mean a rude and horrible jerk, must have been because he saw months of work and pre-interviews go down the drain with my phone call.
All of our correspondance is on one of my 378 laptops that no longer work. We talked on the phone too.
Halderman was wound pretty darn tight I can tell you that.
Oh, and to my stalkers that will foam at the mouth to try and confirm this I doubt Halderman remembers me since he has bigger issues to worry about. Plus it was 5 years ago. I didn't remember him until the press started writing "joe" in his name. I didn't recognize "Robert Halderman." His middle name is Joe and that is what he goes by.
What is fried in my brain is how stunned I was when during our first phone call he started yelling at me, "who are you? Who the **** are you?" I asked to speak to someone else rather than him because he had too much of a "prickly personality." I remember saying that to him. Just made him madder. LOL.
Eventually, he calmed down and was very sweet. I'm sorry to hear about his arrest. With the exception of our first few communications I found him to be professional. Unfortunately, he still had no problem giving Michael Tracey air time about other Ramsey related issues.
That's what I don't get. After we proved to Halderman what a liar Tracey was he still produced 48 Hours shows that featured Tracey and his "work" on the JBR case. You would think 48 Hours and Joe would have had the integrity to kick this guy to the curb.
If you want to read about how a bunch of Internet posters actually got the truth out and exposed Tracey you can do that
right here.
