Excellent post otg....
Thanks for bumping the two discussions. I will read those tonight. It will never cease to amaze me how this party and the 911 call played such a minor role in the investigation and as I said previously, I do believe the crime can potentially be solved if they ever go deeper into that night's events. After the murder when BPD realized the potential importance of this party, every single person at this party should have been rounded up(including the children) and interrogated. Unfortunately several key witnesses(Patsy and Santa) are dead, some others as well, and the children may have little to no memory of the evening. I think the surviving witnesses should be interviewed anyways.
TMK, White has never spoken publicly about whether or not he had anything to do with it, knew anything about it, or (if he was responsible) why he dialed 9-1-1. Speculation (unconfirmed) about his dialing it has included the following:
- Wanting to reach Information at 411 for a number he didnt have, he instead mis-dialed a 9 instead of a 4, and then realizing his mistake, hung up.
- He was accustomed to dialing a 9 first to get an outside line (as is typically done in an office with internal extensions), then a 1 for Long Distance Direct Dialing (LDDD), then the area code (or alternately that he accidentally punched the 1 twice before the area code because there are no area codes in Colorado that begin with a 1).
- He was making a call to a drug firm in another country using International Direct Dialing (IDD) where one first dials 011 and then the country code, but he unintentionally hit a 9 instead of a 0.
Each of these scenarios hinge on his mis-dialing somehow, then hanging up without saying anything to the responding 911 operator.
Personally, I cant imagine White doing something like this --
Me either. I'm on the fence generally speaking in regards to Fleet. While I think there's a less than zero percent chance he murdered her, its clear that he knows more than he's told.....publicly anyways. I also feel sorry for him. He was crucified by many for years....unfairly I might add. NEVER should've been considered a suspect in her murder but instead as a crucial witness in the days, weeks, hours leading up to her murder and discovery of her body. A colossal mistake.
If this case is ever going to be solved, he is a key figure in the puzzle just on the oddities in what is known as the basement sequence alone. I wish some experts like Ressler, Douglas, etc. could've had a crack at this guy back then. Instead of treating him like garbage, they might have got him to open up about the Ramsey family dynamic which could open many doors that were painted shut early on.
Neither can I understand a party going on where the front door isnt opened for policemen to find out why they are there. Instead you have a guest at the party respond and speak to them through a cracked door refusing to let them in while that person goes around the house asking who called 911
Yeah there is absolutely nothing kosher about how the people in the house responded to the police and this hangup call. Many sleuthers like to gloss over the events on the 23rd because its difficult to fit into their theories. I wont do it. There's a connection.....we just don't know what it is yet.
Its also strange that the police didnt insist on speaking to the person who made the call to verify the information given to them.
I understand your feelings on this but I'm willing to give the cops in that situation a free pass to an extent. Only her murder 48 hours later makes this call a huge clue.
There are thousands of 911 hangup calls every day. Cops must go to these houses just to make sure everything's ok and on the surface it was.....a holiday party, I assume they heard people talking, maybe laughing, children, many cars at the house, etc. I doubt anything looked suspicious. Only hindsight makes us(and even those cops) wish they had forced that door open and went into the house.
What if there had been an emergency that the person refusing to let them in was trying to hide? What if an intruder (yeah, right :giggle
was holding a gun to the person at the door telling them to get rid of the cops?
Good points of course but like I said, its basically a judgment call for the cops at the scene of 911 hangup calls and I doubt anything looked out of the ordinary.
All very hinky. I wish Fleet White would at least address this publicly.
Me too. Since shows are being planned for the 20th anniversary of her murder, I really hope Fleet will offer to appear on one of them. Fleet always seemed to genuinely care about Jonbenet and expressed real outrage at how the case played out. If he knows info that can blow the lid off this case and heat things up, I hope he is willing to move forward in that regard.
