I'm not sure if this has been posted before but someone shared this link to an old interview with Kolar and it sure made my eyes pop! I can't see what year it was released but that might be my phone's fault. It isn't recent though.
https://www.realcrimedaily.com/debu...what-was-the-familys-real-role-in-the-murder/
Now I really want to know how much Dr. Phil paid. Very intriguing that unlike what he told DP about being wary of the media and not wanting attention and he's only doing this to honor his sister's memory since it's the 20th anniversary, he seems to have been for sale as if a few years ago (read: somewhere in the timeframe the special task force trying to solve his sister's murder unsuccessfully tried to interview him) it's just no one would pony up enough cash. Puts this whole fiasco in a new light. I'm less inclined to think he was totally forced into it.
I completely agree with your reasoning set forth above.
As I have written elsewhere I have no respect at all for Lucien Wood. Based on his statements and posturing on McGraw show I can better understand how this "legal bully" intimidated Boulder DA for years. His legal fronting for the Ramsey Myth Machine is similar to the Scientology strategy of aggressively pursuing litigation against any "church critic". Scientology silences mavericks and whistle-blowers by intimidation. Wood bloviates and threatens anyone critical of the Ramsey image.
I assume Wood is lead attorney on McGraw's defamation suit against National Inquirer. And if you believe the wikipedia account of P McGraw there has been rarely a time when McGraw has not been a defendant of some sort of lawsuit and I assume Lucien is McGraw's go to guy.
So the closed and incestuous network of Wood's clients - Ramsey and McGraw - permitted a facile quid pro quo deal.
McGraw's production put together a nice piece of propaganda - using numerous preparatory video clips, buying Candice DeLong parading as a FBI profiler and used as a Greek Chorus excoriating all of Ramsey's detractors - lunatics, incompetents, ridiculous theory mongers etc- and getting Lawrence Schiller to verbally frame all the events to be covered in the "Show".
McGraw belied his true character of an opportunist and con artist when he inserted a special edition show in order to rehabilitate Burke's reputation degraded by the CBS documentary.
Naturally these sentiments proffered above represent "my opinion" and as one poster complained merely "speculative".
Having admitted that I am speculating, though, I would wager that if some investigative reporter probed into the McGraw Wood Ramsey connection they would unearth enough "dirt" to have McGraw defrocked and ridiculed by proponents of "honesty in reporting" and TV Production companies who believe their talk show hosts should declare any conflicts of interest before launching an advocacy piece.
So McGraw could have salvaged some of any dignity he has left had he stated before the Ramsey "exclusive"
Dr Phil McGraw:
"Before we begin this "revealing and penetrating examination of Burke Ramsey I wish to announce that the Ramsey attorney is also my personal attorney and personal friend. In fact, Lucien and I go way back.
Also I want to inform the viewing public that Wood JR "enterprise" was paid $x -vastly less than Burke initially demanded as payment for an exclusive interview. Procuring Burke's services at a fee that was deeply discounted was made possible in exchange for my promise to promote the Ramsey "myth" - to counteract the damning material you will shortly see on a CBS documentary and to showcase my good friend and attorney of the rich and famous "Lucien Wood". We bought the services of wanna be a star CandiceDeLong FBI profiler (over a decade ago) who has been practicing theatrical skills necessary so as to appear somber, wise, and honest. Ms DeLong will punctuate the Burke narrative with explanations outlining how ridiculous the assorted RDI theories actually are.
As a final note, please disregard my statement seen in the "exclusive teaser" that my questioning will be "hard hitting" using "no holds barred" method of interrogation since I want to preserve the illusion that I am sagacious, clever, with vast vast amounts of prior forensic psychology experience and that I do not SUFFER bull_________. Believe me folks, I can spot a criminal liar in a microsecond and you will see after my intense sweat evoking interrogation of Burke Ramsey that this charming naive boy is normal well adjusted a bit shy and certainly does not deserve the rumors swirling around these rogue crime blog sites that Burke might have done it.