Team Ramsey has been spreading disinformation about the Grand Jury proceedings since Hunter's "not enough evidence" speech. Yesterday I used terms related to this news and had countless old articles popping up about how the Grand Jury voted NOT to indict...and one source named was Paula Woodward, a Colorado journalist who was at one time a client of...ha...Haddon's law firm. (Others have noted this connection for years, by the way. It certainly implies to me that Woodward was biased in her reporting on this case, which was consistently sympathetic to the poor, innocent Ramseys.)
What I find most evil about this disclosure is how many vulnerable people, including one mentally ill, homeless man and even a deceased suicide victim, got libeled and slandered by Team Ramsey. So many were dragged through the Ramsey mud...and Hunter and Lacy and Smit and so many others not only turned their heads, but aided the Ramseys in this.
Personally, it would be the shock of a lifetime if Garnett or any DA or gov't. investigatory org. actively went after anyone in this case. The statute of limitations on every crime committed except murder has run out long ago--including those I believe the DAs committed.
But even more than that, airing the dirty laundry that Boulder LE buried long ago would be a scandal like no other in the history of our justice system. It's only my opinion, based on all the info we have from disclosures from so many detectives and case insiders who worked this case, but I believe Hunter deliberately buried the Ramsey phone records from the start because they would have provided damning evidence proving the Ramseys were lying and involved in this horrible crime. After it blew up in all their faces as a national crime story, Hunter was stuck because the Ramseys could have destroyed his career with his complicity in obstructing the investigation. So Hunter had no choice at that point but to stick with his "story," I believe, and to make sure no one ever prosecuted this case. This is what I believe, but as I said, it's based on conjecture.
Of course, Garnett and Beckner might be able to put that suspicion to rest if they only walked to the evidence storage rooms and delved into the Ramsey phone records obtained illegally by a man named Rapp, who was prosecuted for it. Thomas wrote about those records being walked right by the Ramsey case investigators as they were told they'd never see them. I don't believe for one minute a subpoena can't be obtained for them now, as the old records were purged long ago at the phone company. If the DA wanted them, he'd get them--if they exist, which they might have been destroyed long ago.
And what might they reveal? That this case could have been solved in one week, if the Ramseys had calls recorded from their home during the hours they claimed to be in bed while JonBenet was being murdered? Who knows?
But they should know. And they would have known in the first month, but for the OBSTRUCTION OF THE INVESTIGATION BY ALEX HUNTER.
On the upside, today's google results are stunning: every news org that didn't carry this yesterday now is reporting it, including cable and network news. I was wondering if they'd totally ignore it, but it seems Team Ramsey's strangle-hold on the truth in this case may have been loosened.
Bravo to Charlie Brennan. The man has always been the truest, most diligent, and professional source in this case.
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