Honestly I don't think they really have any DNA worth much on the size-12's. They intentionally keep us focused on this one bit of evidence that will never amount to anything as you just pointed out.
I am sure there is a lot more evidence locked up in the LE vault that is worth bringing forward. But without a judge and DA that are willing to open the door and let the contents spill out is all together another matter. Just makes me more convinced that the truth lies in an accident turned into cover-up probably involving a minor/minor's.
Ah. Would the Wizard of Oz have willingly pulled back his own curtain without Toto to expose him?
To open that door to answer questions long haunting this case would be to expose the corruption behind it for all to see.
They'll guard that door with everything they have, IMO, as they have for 15 years.
The cover up started before the child's body was cold, IMO. Possibly before she was even dead.
It began with a phone call...IMO.
Because I wasn't online during the James Rapp investigation and conviction, which included Rapp illegally obtaining the Ramsey's phone records and credit card info, I wasn't aware of how hot that case was until I found some old articles on it recently. The Rapps got much worse treatment than a child molester/killer ever feared.
Sure, Rapp gathered personal info on people and companies by lying, for sale to any bidder; I have no problem with him being nailed for it. But I find it hard to see anyone in Colorado LE get on their moral high horse about any crime as I'm convinced they darn well chose to allow a child molester and killer to walk away, even aided it, and continue to cover it up--IMO--and that was much more corrupt than information gathering--IMO.
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/private-detectives.html
July 1, 1999
Law Confronts Seller of Private Data
By DOUGLAS FRANTZ
DENVER -- Using deception to ferret out personal information, including Ennis Cosby's credit card records after his killing and the home addresses of organized crime detectives in Los Angeles, a private detective built a $1-million-a-year business here selling information that ended up in the hands of everyone from the tabloid press to a reputed member of the Israeli Mafia.
Working out of his office in suburban Aurora, the detective, James J. Rapp, took in daily requests from people who wanted the confidential phone numbers and bank accounts for celebrities and victims of high-profile crimes, like the Columbine High School shootings. Rapp obtained records on the visits of television's "Ally McBeal" star, Calista Flockhart, to a doctor in Beverly Hills, Calif., at a time when the tabloids were filled with articles that she had an eating disorder, investigators and prosecutors said.
The authorities also said Rapp sold information about the Princess of Wales and her boyfriend in the hours after their deaths and information about JonBenet Ramsey, the 6-year-old beauty queen killed in nearby Boulder.
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Nearby, the ex-employee said, an elderly man faked a foreign accent and pretended to be confused to get information.
Essentially, it is not illegal to lie about identity, except when impersonating a police officer or government official. The Colorado authorities hope to build a successful prosecution because their state is one of the few that make it a crime to impersonate someone else for gain.
Unless, of course, you're Team Ramsey member Susan Stine, in which case the BPD Police Chief you're impersonating in emails (Beckner) will chuckle with you and blow it off as a joke.
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Former Touch Tone employees said information on celebrities and victims of accidents had been extremely valuable because it could be sold over and over. For instance, in a letter to one client about the JonBenet Ramsey slaying, Rapp listed 14 categories of items for sale, ranging from phone and credit card records for the girl's parents to phone records for the family's private detective and the home address and phone number for the Boulder police detective investigating the death.
The indictment of the Rapps spelled out how they obtained some information about the Ramseys. Within days of the child's death on Dec. 26, 1996, callers from Touch Tone used pretexts to obtain American Express credit card records for her parents, John and Patricia Ramsey, according to the charges. Those records showed that purchases were made at a Boulder hardware store several days before the child's death.
On Jan. 14, 1997, a Touch Tone investigator called McGuckin Hardware pretending to be "John" and asking for information concerning two American Express charges. The investigator followed up with a letter identifying the charges and seeking the invoices. The letter was signed "John Ramsey."
Six days later, the hardware store provided the information on the purchases, which investigators said later found its way into an article in the tabloid Globe.
Lawrence Olmstead, who operates a research firm called Press Pass Media in Palmdale, Calif., acknowledged that Rapp sent him a letter offering the Ramsey information for sale but Olmstead said he did not buy any of it.
Olmstead acknowledged that he often bought phone numbers and addresses from Touch Tone on behalf of news media clients, whom he would identify only as some tabloids and mainstream media.
"A lot of guys make promises, but James really delivered," said Olmstead, who said everything he bought was used in legitimate news media inquiries.
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The Colorado authorities said constructing the indictment was complex and unusual. Hall, the lead prosecutor, said some people had to be convinced that obtaining confidential information by lying broke the law.
In the end, however, he said the charges hinged on the state law that prohibits impersonating someone for profit or to harm them and on the broad Federal wire fraud statute, which makes it a crime to use a telephone to commit an illegal act.
The racketeering indictment was based on what on what prosecutors said was a pattern of violating the state and Federal statutes.
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Steve Thomas told us about this case; otherwise, I'd never have heard of it. It essentially means the Ramsey's phone records, which DA Hunter refused to subpoena and which, one year later, had the full month of Dec. 1996 released "voluntarily" by the Ramsey lawyers to the BPD without one phone call on a cell phone which was active up to the month of Dec.--and who knows if it was active after that month, since the BPD wasn't allowed to see those records, either.
Seems important, doesn't it? Not only would it not be an extremely suspicious "development" in the forever unsolved case all these years later, but couldn't it have contained that "one clue" the Ramseys and their shills so soulfully begged for on national TV? Not to mention, does anyone with an IQ over 70 believe that rambling, too-much-information story Patsy told LE in '98 about that "lost" cell phone?
Every IDI who holds onto the laughable excuses about why the Ramsey's phone records weren't obtained with a subpoena immediately should ask themselves why that huge hole in the Ramsey's own "world-class" investigation remains to this day? Only a fool would call himself a serious detective who didn't follow that lead to "wherever it may lead." [Lou Smit]
This one piece of missing evidence, deliberately covered-up with the complicity of the DA, is unquestionably the smoking gun Boulder and Colorado LE will always wear as a badge of corruption and shame.
How many people were taken to trial and/or locked up for various charges and misdemeanors in the Ramsey case over much less than molesting, bludgeoning, and strangling a six year old child, and covering it up in a conspiracy that will haunt our justice system for decades?
This case will never see anything like justice: no trial, no conviction for the crimes against JonBenet; no investigation, no indictment, no trial or conviction for the crimes committed by all those who obstructed justice in this case, as well.
The only people ever to be punished by the legal system in this case were those who interfered in that cover-up.
