Charlie Rose: Interview with Ann Louise Bardach and Gregg McCrary

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I stumbled across this interview earlier, I had not seen it in quite some time. Thought I'd post it in case some have not seen it, and I think both interviewees make some good points.

Some of the points that stood out to me......

JR to this day continues to brand the BPD's "incompetence" as the main reason why this case remains unsolved. And while we can certainly agree that in particular on that first day a lot of unfortunate mistakes were made by police, they were also operating under the order to treat the Ramseys as "victims". In addition to those mistakes, in hindsight it also feels very much as if their efforts were hampered by higher ups in the department.

But as Ms. Bardach points out, the Ramseys assembled a million dollar team which included lawyers, private investigators, a PR team, handwriting experts and a couple of medical experts as well. All on the Ramsey payroll and they were not able to solve the case either. Their efforts did seem to be more focused on putting out their own narrative of the intruder theory, rather than actually trying to solve the crime. Pointing the finger away from the Ramseys.

It was also interesting to hear Ms. Bardach say that it felt as if the Ramseys were more hurt and insulted by the fact that people thought they were guilty than they were by the actual murder of their child. And that does track with what we know about JR and PR......they were very appearance conscious and oriented.......PR almost to the point of obsession. They spent a large part of their married life manufacturing a facade of the "perfect family" that they presented to the outside world. That was a priority for them. In most of the interviews I have seen with them, it has always felt to me as if they were trying a little too hard to convince people that they were not appearance oriented. They tried to downplay the pageant stuff (which it was obvious to many that PR was obsessed with), they tried to downplay the bedwetting, soiling and wiping issues as not a big deal. In their book, they are the victims, not JB.

I also found McCrary's comments about the perception of good people vs. bad people to be very valid. How some in the DA's office couldn't fathom the Ramseys might be guilty because they considered them to be "good Christian people". And the expectations that we tend to have that "bad" people will somehow look like bad people, that there will be some obvious outward sign, a deformity or something that sets them apart, when in reality they look just like the rest of us. People from all walks of life are capable of awful things, no matter how upstanding and "normal" they appear to be. The statistics are pretty clear that family members are often the perpetrators of harm (and worse) to their children, more so than someone else.

It's good to hear directly from the author of the Vanity Fair article which I feel is a very good overview of the case, and McCrary I think is both very knowledgable and credible.

 

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Bummer, just seeing that playing on other websites has been disabled, so you have to go to YouTube to view. Sorry about that........it's worth the extra step though, IMO.