I just had occasion to watch a made for TV depiction of the JB Ramsey case - 8-2017. This movie covered the initial investigation conducted by Boulder PD circa 1997. The film focused on the sorts of evidence gathered, the views of neighbors including Fleet White, the Alex Hunter DA office influence. The film highlighted key (selective) events statements positions of all actors in this case. Lou Schmitt and his theories were shown in this backdrop. The Boulder police converged on a theory that RDI and a cover up had been staged. For assorted reasons "influence" was exerted to prevent any sort of formal charge of a crime against John Betsy Ramsey being brought forward into a pubic forum. The movie ends upon release of the grand jury actions ie a decision to return a "true bill" to the prosecuting body relating to the JB Ramsey homicide matter. This result was an affirmation of "probable cause" in the commission of a crime"; a violation which could be prosecuted in a court of law. This finding is to be contrasted with a jury finding of "ignoramus"; a writ which states, in effect, we find "no good reason to prosecute". The movie pointed out that the GJ outcome was a lay jury determination stating the obvious: "there are "grounds' to pursue further the charge of "a crime". Alex Hunter opted not to pursue a charge of suspected “negligent homicide” or reckless child endangerment” presumably on the grounds that such an allegation could not have been successfully prosecuted by the “state”. Subsequent events have taken place such as release of touch DNA findings, the Burke Ramsey Interviews, the 2016 Sweep documentaries by CBS, and the Lin Wood $750 defamation lawsuit.
For the record, I am RDI “true believer”. And indeed I favor, the BDI denomination. However what interests me most is the phenomenon of how big money can be used to “thwart” justice, and how big money, “big law” are deployed as a cudgel to threaten intimidate and silence critics or opponents. Ramsey et al used the Lin Wood LLC as a weapon against the “state” - Boulder Police, District Attorney. Ramsey et al aptly deployed media consultants PR experts private investigators to blunt an official investigation. Methods used included raising claims of “witch-hunt’ “incompetence” “ill- will” “rash justice” and to control- in the realm of public opinion - “the story”. Anybody or any agent suggesting a Ramsey ie John, Patsy or Burke, may be guilty of such a crime, immediately would be set upon by threats of litigation expressly designed to harass, to publicly embarrass, and to destroy by attrition. One need only to read through Wood’s narrative in the CBS suit. It would be of keen interest to know all of the background details respecting Ramsey’s strategy and tactics with lawyers, advisors, experts, consultants, together, from 1998 through to the present. Indeed it is interesting even to speculate on the sort of arrangements struck between Lin Wood and Phil McGraw of Dr Phil Show ( Wood is McGraw’s personal attorney, hence creating a serious conflict of interest between these two parties) during the production of the Burke Interviews. For me, John Ramsey’s conduct is a case study of how to beat a murder rap; assuming the price is right. John Ramsey managed to control the story and to control decisions arising from the police, the district attorney, media centers, and the governor’s office. Ramsey also successfully created a modern myth. He established himself as “the victim” “ an innocent father suffering a tragedy”. Lin Wood et al, in exchange for a presumed hefty fee, insured the preservation of this urban American myth.
BRAVO . BRAVO. Kudos to John Ramsey PR machine and to Lin Wood who made the "myth" come true. May Jon Benet RIP.
For the record, I am RDI “true believer”. And indeed I favor, the BDI denomination. However what interests me most is the phenomenon of how big money can be used to “thwart” justice, and how big money, “big law” are deployed as a cudgel to threaten intimidate and silence critics or opponents. Ramsey et al used the Lin Wood LLC as a weapon against the “state” - Boulder Police, District Attorney. Ramsey et al aptly deployed media consultants PR experts private investigators to blunt an official investigation. Methods used included raising claims of “witch-hunt’ “incompetence” “ill- will” “rash justice” and to control- in the realm of public opinion - “the story”. Anybody or any agent suggesting a Ramsey ie John, Patsy or Burke, may be guilty of such a crime, immediately would be set upon by threats of litigation expressly designed to harass, to publicly embarrass, and to destroy by attrition. One need only to read through Wood’s narrative in the CBS suit. It would be of keen interest to know all of the background details respecting Ramsey’s strategy and tactics with lawyers, advisors, experts, consultants, together, from 1998 through to the present. Indeed it is interesting even to speculate on the sort of arrangements struck between Lin Wood and Phil McGraw of Dr Phil Show ( Wood is McGraw’s personal attorney, hence creating a serious conflict of interest between these two parties) during the production of the Burke Interviews. For me, John Ramsey’s conduct is a case study of how to beat a murder rap; assuming the price is right. John Ramsey managed to control the story and to control decisions arising from the police, the district attorney, media centers, and the governor’s office. Ramsey also successfully created a modern myth. He established himself as “the victim” “ an innocent father suffering a tragedy”. Lin Wood et al, in exchange for a presumed hefty fee, insured the preservation of this urban American myth.
BRAVO . BRAVO. Kudos to John Ramsey PR machine and to Lin Wood who made the "myth" come true. May Jon Benet RIP.
