Best book?

[DeeDee249]

Boy, if that's what he considered the "biggest error"....I don't see how it mattered at all to the case whether PR wrote the check to LHP or not anyway. LHP freely admitted asking PR for a small loan, PR admitted agreeing to loan the money. It was just the Rs attempting to fit one more person under that bus. It just wouldn't make sense for LHP to be behind this "kidnapping" for the simple reason (among many) that with a dead child, the reason for paying the ransom vanishes, especially when the dead child is still in her own home. NO real kidnapper would think she wouldn't be found. And when found, that the need for ransom would be moot.
If this had been a real kidnapping/murder, even if JBR had been killed by her kidnappers, it would not have taken place in the home and the fact that she was dead would not be made available until after the ransom was paid.

 

[JMO8778]

Boy, if that's what he considered the "biggest error"....I don't see how it mattered at all to the case whether PR wrote the check to LHP or not anyway. LHP freely admitted asking PR for a small loan, PR admitted agreeing to loan the money. It was just the Rs attempting to fit one more person under that bus. It just wouldn't make sense for LHP to be behind this "kidnapping" for the simple reason (among many) that with a dead child, the reason for paying the ransom vanishes, especially when the dead child is still in her own home. NO real kidnapper would think she wouldn't be found. And when found, that the need for ransom would be moot.
If this had been a real kidnapping/murder, even if JBR had been killed by her kidnappers, it would not have taken place in the home and the fact that she was dead would not be made available until after the ransom was paid.

yes and with Patsy agreeing to give her the money,there would be no need to KN JB and risk not getting anything at all.
If the R's had really thought LHP might have had JB,then they could have easily called her..why not,they called everyone else.Oh yes,wait a minute...they were advised 'not to provoke them'.
Still, Patsy went on to say she knew LHP would never hurt JB...uh,ok,then in that case,she would have called her and tried to talk it out..as in 'I've got your check,just let us have JB back b/c we need to be on our way.If you need more than we agreed on,then we'll talk about it when you bring JB home '.And if she'd still decided to get LE involved,she could still have done so afterwards.(for myself,I'd try to be understanding,but after all,if someone was upset enough to take my child and scare the bejeebers out of me,I'm not sure I'd let it go completely unpunished,although I'd give that illusion to get her back).

 

[IrishMist]

Thanks for the info, RiverRat, I appreciate it. Along with any more that people would like to add.

 

[coloradokares]

http://www.jonbenetindexguide.com/02261999NEWS-WhitesCallBookLies.txt

Whites call book pack of lies

Former Ramsey "suspect" says factual corrections never made

By Matt Sebastian
Camera Staff Writer
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A pair of key witnesses and a onetime suspect in the JonBenét Ramsey murder investigation are openly criticizing a new book on the 2-year-old slaying, saying the work is peppered with inaccuracies.

Fleet and Priscilla White, in a rare public statement, delivered a letter to the Daily Camera on Thursday, calling author Lawrence Schiller's book "a disorderly amalgam of police evidence, facts, lies and gossip."

"Not surprisingly, very little in the book regarding our family and our role in the investigation is true," wrote the Whites, who say they repeatedly refused interview requests from Schiller.

The Boulder oilman and his wife, who were in the Ramseys' Boulder home the day JonBenét's body was found, also declined to be interviewed for this story. Their letter appears in today's Open Forum.

Jeff Merrick, reportedly labeled a possible suspect by his former employer John Ramsey, also refused to be interviewed for "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder," which hit bookstores last week.

"Unfortunately it wasn't accurate at all," Merrick said of Schiller's account of his role in the Ramsey case.

Although he didn't consent to an interview with the author, Merrick said he was asked to verify passages about himself.

"I corrected it — all of it — and they didn't use any of my corrections," Merrick said, pointing out one 12-sentence section he says contains 17 factual errors.

Schiller's book, Merrick said Thursday, "makes me sound like I was more of a suspect than I ever was."

"I think Larry Schiller had a little story he wanted to tell, and he juiced it up a bit," Merrick said.

Boulder County Commissioner Paul Danish and Pam Griffin, JonBenét's dressmaker, also have claimed Schiller inaccurately used a small portion of the information they provided the author.

Schiller couldn't be reached for comment Thursday, although he did discuss inaccuracies during a brief interview with the Camera on Tuesday.

"There's been kind of a positive response from both sides of the fence," Schiller said.

The "biggest error," according to Schiller, came in a passage about a check Patsy Ramsey supposedly wrote to housekeeper Linda Hoffmann-Pugh before the killing. JonBenét's mother didn't write the check, Schiller now says, but intended to.

"The book represents the spirit of what went on," Schiller said.

Six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey's beaten and strangled body was found in the basement of the family's Boulder home Dec. 26, 1996, about eight hours after the discovery of the ransom note.

Although they maintain their innocence, John and Patsy Ramsey remain under suspicion in their daughter's death. Boulder County's grand jury is currently hearing evidence in the unsolved slaying."

Two points of interest should be FORMER SUSPECTS when referring to the Whites and John and Patsy Ramset remaind under suspicion in their daughters death. That was also reaffiirmed much to the chagrin of Boulder DA Mary Keenan Lacy when the whole Karr Fiasco went down. Nuff said

 

[RiverRat]

So, Steve's book was the winner of this thread?! :clap:

 

[azwriter]

I'd pick Steve's book as a winner for discussion on the investigation of JonBenet's death.
I really enjoyed "A Mother Gone Bad" by Dr. Andrew Hodges. He attempts to read between the lines of the ransom note and show how Patsy is confessing to the crime as she pens the letter.
The author also points out how he believes Patsy left clues in the note that John was sexually abusing JonBenet.
There are some way out ideas presented in his book, but it certainly makes for OMG reading. I think it was released in 1998.

 

[icedtea4me]

I'd pick Steve's book as a winner for discussion on the investigation of JonBenet's death.
I really enjoyed "A Mother Gone Bad" by Dr. Andrew Hodges. He attempts to read between the lines of the ransom note and show how Patsy is confessing to the crime as she pens the letter.
The author also points out how he believes Patsy left clues in the note that John was sexually abusing JonBenet.
There are some way out ideas presented in his book, but it certainly makes for OMG reading. I think it was released in 1998.

I also enjoyed Hodges' book, especially his analysis of the 1996 Christmas letter.


-Tea

 

[angelwngs]

I'd pick Steve's book as a winner for discussion on the investigation of JonBenet's death.
I really enjoyed "A Mother Gone Bad" by Dr. Andrew Hodges. He attempts to read between the lines of the ransom note and show how Patsy is confessing to the crime as she pens the letter.
The author also points out how he believes Patsy left clues in the note that John was sexually abusing JonBenet.
There are some way out ideas presented in his book, but it certainly makes for OMG reading. I think it was released in 1998.

Thanks, AZ. I was looking at this book and reviews at Amazon. The reviews there are not so hot, so I appreciate your input as I value your opinion.

Has anyone else here read "A Mother Gone Bad" by Andrew Hodges???

 

[SleuthyGal]

Question: in this thread it was mentioned that Melinda's then-fiance 'overheard' JR say something...but I cannot find what that something is that he overheard.

Can someone please educate me on this?

thanks!

 

[angelwngs]

Question: in this thread it was mentioned that Melinda's then-fiance 'overheard' JR say something...but I cannot find what that something is that he overheard.

Can someone please educate me on this?

thanks!

When Melinda's then fiance, now husband, was questioned he mentioned that JR said that he found JonBenet at 11:00.


This is about the time that LA lost track of JR in the home. FW and JR were not told by LA to go check the home from "TOP TO BOTTOM" for anything out of the ordinary until much later. It was on that 'search' that JR went straight to the basement, the opposite of his directional instructions from LA and it was then that he located JonBenet in the same room FW had looked in prior to 11:00 and seen nothing.