Lou Smit was hired to reexamine the unsolved Ramsey case and the first to suggest police should investigate an unknown intruder. Investigators cleared the Ramsey family as suspects.The Colorado detective who died from cancer in 2010 had investigated over 200 cases over the course of his career and every one of them had led to a conviction, according to his granddaughter Jessa van der Woerd.
The three-page long note said in part that if JonBenét’s parents called the authorities, she would die, and asked for $118,000. It also said that JonBenét’s parents would receive a call from the supposed kidnapper “tomorrow” between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. After several hours, the police began to leave the Ramsey home. JonBenét’s parents anxiously waited for the supposed kidnapper’s call with just one detective there: Linda Arndt.
Arndt said the moment sparked fear in her that JonBenét’s father might have killed their daughter, and so she braced herself for a possible confrontation. He said police began to suspect that maybe the Ramseys had “harmed their child in some way, then panicked and tried to create basically a kidnapping scenario.”There were some reasons to suspect this. The three-page ransom note, for example, was written on Patsy Ramsey’s notepad with a pen that had come from the house. The $118,000 figure also seemed suspicious to authorities.
“We were perfectly willing and anxious to speak with the police to find the killer,” he told Walters in 2000. “We had a higher priority at that point and that was to bury our daughter.” “We were outraged. We were shocked,” added John Ramsey. “How could they think that? We were a normal family.”Despite their denials, police continued to suspect the parents in JonBenét’s murder. Boulder County District Attorney Alex Hunter, however, wasn't convinced of their guilt and wanted to explore other theories. Three months after JonBenét’s death, he brought Smit into the fold.
“The big question is could you have gotten through this window -- this small window -- without disturbing this cobweb,” Garrett said. “I think the answer to that is ‘maybe.’ … But the other important point is how soon was this picture taken after JonBenét was killed because spiders can replicate webs very fast.”
“In that particular movie, a ‘fat cat’ industrialist, his son was kidnapped. There’s a lot of the same verbiage in this note as was in even the note that was written in that particular movie,” Smit said in the recordings.
It was her parents!
Poor kid
It occurs to me, you have to be pretty old to remember this. I was still fairly young when it obsessed the nation, and I'm 52 now. Cold case, indeed.
The poor girl was murdered just let her rest in peace
if she hadnt been a cute lil white girl then this would never have been a story
Michael Helgoth was the killer
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Although the old wan was quite interested in the investigation, it doesn't necessarily mean that his granddaughter would like to follow his way. And if the daughter was interested in another career, the determination of her career would destroy her future.
RealSaavedra It’s already been solved and they already killed the man. It was a private contactor, who ended up dead in his trailer.
Isn't it pretty widely accepted that her brother did it?
One of the most strangest cases I remember, everybody suspected the parents but they had no evidence to prove it
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