Scarlett, you couldn't knock me down with a lead pipe. And you better believe I'll keep coming back. I'll never give up. No retreat, and no surrender.
You WISH that was all we had!
I agree wholeheartedly. In fact, it was the comparison of this case to others that help in my conversion. Allow me to post an excerpt from An Angel Betrayed:
Finally, in 2002, the dents became large holes. That year, American television screens were full of the faces of kidnapping victims, whose names we still remember to this day: Danielle Van Dam, Samantha Runnion, and Elizabeth Smart (who was returned safely, thank the gods). And of all of those little girls who were murdered, not one of them even remotely resembled what happened to JonBenet. For years, Team Ramsey told us that JonBenet was killed by some pedophile killer, and we were forced to see what real pedophile killers do: they don’t kill their victims inside the home, they don’t redress their victims, and they dump their victims after killing them. Lin Wood, the Ramsey lawyer, had the unmitigated gall to co-opt the pain these families were in to push his clients’ wild claim. Well, he didn’t get away with it. Nancy Grace, the tough-as-nails Southern hellcat prosecutor was on that Larry King show that night, as was Marc Klaas, who has been a tireless advocate for laws to protect children from predators ever since his daughter Polly was kidnapped from her bedroom and murdered by a career criminal who had just gotten paroled for the umpteenth time in 1993. And they didn’t go for it. Nancy pointed out how different JonBenet’s killing was from those other cases, and Klaas, who is in a unique position to understand just what an insult Wood was committing to the memories of the victims’ families, really went to town, reminding the audience that, like the Ramseys claim they have, David Westerfield, the killer of little Danielle Van Dam, also had no history of violent or deviant behavior. He also noted the tendency the Ramseys and Wood have for threatening lawsuits against anyone who questions their version of what happened. And it was in that moment that I saw just what kind of people the Ramseys associate themselves with to destroy their enemies. Wood, this backwoods John Edwards-with-a-mean-streak redneck lawyer, sat there with his trademark “don’t-******-with-me-punk” grin and said that no one should be intimidated by the facts, and if you don’t know about the case, don’t talk about it. The heated sibilance in his voice made his polite words poisonous with very thinly-veiled threats. I couldn’t believe it. This man, supposedly an advocate for his “victim” clients, had just threatened a genuine victim’s advocate.