Just some of the lies the police pushed to the media, Of the Guilt of the Ramsey's.
December 28, local news sources made it clear to their readers that the Ramseys were Prime
suspects in the case. and the police made few comments on any evidence they had to implicate the
Ramseys, the media began to cite their own "evidence." 1 the media reported on was the supposed lack of
footprints in the snow surrounding the house, which suggested that someone inside was responsible for the murder. Later the
media admitted that this opinion was in fact based on an official report from police ,who said ,"Strange no footprints." due to the Snow melting.
2 .next false lead from a police ,stated that there were allegedly
no signs of forced entry.
Then the mayor of Boulder, Leslie Durgan, stated ,when she appeared on television saying
— "By all reports there was no visible signs of forced entry. The body was found in a place where people are
saying, someone had to know the house."
The mayor said.
3 snow covering grass
. News video footage shot on December 26 morning of the murder, clearly shows
that areas around the house had no snow cover at all. Julie Hayden, the television
reporter states:
"We looked at the videotape once the footprints in the snow started becoming an issue and one of the things that I
observed was, there did not seem to be snow going up to all of the doors. So, in my opinion, this thing about
footprints in the snow has always been much ado about nothing she said.
4 Broken window
This did not come to public attention until a year after the event.
Reporter Charlie Brennan stated that up
until March 1997, he and other members of the press did not know that there was a broken window in the
basement ," and believed that his police source had fed him false information"
an intruder or intruders could have easily entered the house through the basement window ,on the night of the murder,
and moved around the house undetected and unheard.due to JonBenet's bedroom is one floor below her
parents' room, all walkways, covered by thick carpeting, making it ideal for a intruders not to be heard.
5. What about the hidden room in the basement, there is no hidden room, carpeted spiral staircase, a few feet from her room, leads
down to the kitchen. From the kitchen, it is only a few metres to the door that leads to the basement stairs. At the
bottom of the stairs is a corridor that leads directly to the room where her body was found.
No need for forced entry ,and No snow, No forced entry, and No secret hidden room
Did the press distorted the facts to their story or did the police
department leaked false information, why?
All these leaked misinformation were given coverage. by the press
On December 29, four days after the murder, when the Ramseys were at their lowest point,and morning the loss of their daughter .
But it didn't stop there.
The memorial service for their daughter was held at a local church, as the
Ramseys mourned their daughter, the police and press turned their attention to the behavior of Patsy and
John. One story, by Vanity Fair,, quoting that John Ramsey had left the house before the
police had arrived. Ann Bardach, the journalist who wrote the story, said in Vanity Fair, how John Ramsey had used the
excuse of going out to get the mail. The story was a lie ,and was traced back to leaked police statements.
the story was proved to be false
The police did not make any attempts to correct the lie.
Then also reported in Vanity Fair magazine the family's grief, quoted a policeman saying that on the first day of the
morning, Patsy Ramsey, while crying had been "peering at him through spread fingers." This quote I remember from long ago and I thought how ridiculous ,Friends and
family of the Ramseys, who were present at the time tell a different story, describing both John and Patsy were so
overcome with emotion and grief, both they were unable to talk due to crying.
JonBenet's funeral took place on New Year's Eve, 1996, at church in Atlanta. That day,
family had to protect the Ramseys from the media . Even as they
buried their daughter, a story emerged that John and Patsy hired several criminal lawyers.
Mike Bynum hired the attorneys, it was seen by the press media as another indication of the parents' guilt. the
mounting criticism, by the media and police, Bynum and Ramseys family urged the Ramseys to go on television and defend
themselves. The next day they appeared on CNN.
One questions raised during the interview : "Do you believe that someone outside your home killed
JonBenet?"
Patsy answered in a tearful voice: "There is a killer on the loose, I don't know who it is, I don't know if it's a he or a
she — but if I were a resident of Boulder I would tell my friends to keep their babies close to you."
Rather than explain their point of view, the broadcast only served to bolster the theory that the Ramseys were
Police reports stated that the Ramseys we're not cooperating and would prefer to talk to the media and not police .
The next day, Mayor Leslie Durgan gave a press conference to reject Patsy's claim, stating: "People in Boulder
have no need to fear that there is someone wandering the streets of Boulder, as has been portrayed by some
people, looking for young children to attack. Boulder is safe, it's always been a safe community and it continues to
be a safe community."
The family was outraged,They couldn't understand why Mayor Durgan would make these statements to the press.
During a 1997 interview, Durgan explained her reasons for making the statement to the press: "It was done in large part
to allay the fears of children in our community and to let people know that the information that I had at that time
was that we did not have some crazed person wandering the streets of University Hill."
The interviewer ask where she had gotten her information from, she replied, "The police chief."
New statements by police which which lies
appeared reporting that the police believed that JonBenet had been sexually
assaulted weeks and months before her murder. footage from JonBenet's beauty pageants implied, the Ramseys might have sexually abused their daughter, brought horde of journalists to Boulder.
after,the story aired
Mainstream journalists followed the tabloids. The stories continually criticized Ramseys. for sexualized their daughter in pageants, and by hiring
two lawyers; the ramses were
accused of refusing to cooperate with the police .
The Ramsay's attorney ,Brian Morgan, stated
"The Ramseys were interviewed on the 26th, the Ramseys were interviewed on
the 27th. On the 27th they give samples of physical evidence, blood, hair and
fingerprints. When they returned from Atlanta, the Ramseys gave five
handwriting samples, voluntarily. To say that the Ramseys had not cooperated
in this investigation is a gross mischaracterization."
The samples of handwriting the Ramsey's provided to the police were
found to have no similarities to those on the ransom note. After all this and cooperating with the police as much they could, how would you feel ,you probably feel you couldn't trust the police.
Then the Ramsey's learned from Mike Bynum that the police had
refused to release JonBenet's body until John and Patsy agreed to be interviewed, the police unaware that Bynum had
success in having the body released in time for the funeral, the police continued to press for interviews with the Ramsay's,
Ramsey's finally realized that the police,
"Weren't there to help us, they were there to hang us." John Ramsey’s words.