Over the course of the investigation Boulder Police had investigated the case, they conducted 590 interviews, collected handwriting and non-testimonial samples of evidence from 215 people, and had travelled to 17 states and 2 foreign countries in their pursuit of the perpetrator. They thoroughly vetted well over 100 possible, viable suspects. In addition, they received approximately 6500 telephone tips and over 5000 letters that purported to identify people involved in the murder. Over 1500 pieces of physical evidence were collected, and 64 experts were consulted from a variety of fields. The investigative file, which I came to describe as a library, exceeded 60,000 pages of reports and documents. These were the details that emerged as I began to explore the steps that had been taken to investigate this murder. This is hardly the picture the Ramsey camp has liked to paint about the Boulder Police Departments search for the murderer of JonBenét. The truth is, however, that a number of other potential suspects stood with the Ramseys beneath the umbrella of suspicion at one time or another.
