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Seven months after JonBenet Ramsey's murder, with the investigation going nowhere, police detectives in her hometown of Boulder, Colo., took an extraordinary gamble. They flew to Atlanta, Ga., where her parents had moved after the killing, and drove to the suburb where the children's beauty-pageant queen was buried. On the eve of what would have been her seventh birthday, Aug. 6, 1997, the investigators broke into St. James Episcopal Cemetery with the help of a Georgia state cop who picked the lock on the gate. The Boulder detectives then planted a hidden microphone and camera...
Recalling those tragicomic efforts last week, former Boulder detective Steve Thomas said, "We were grasping at straws." JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, didn't visit the grave. They have denied any culpability in their daughter's death and have not been charged with any crime. Yet they were the primary targets of the graveyard stakeout. And several investigators still consider them the likeliest suspects in the unsolved killing, as Detective Thomas makes clear in his new book, JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation, St. Martin's Press, written with Don Davis, a former wire-service reporter. Thomas...
Thomas quit the Boulder force in August 1998, blasting prosecutors for crippling the case by failing to collect or test key evidence like phone records and hairs found at the murder scene and for denying detectives' requests for warrants for financial and movie-rental records. Thomas seizes on what he believes to be contradictions and inconsistencies in the Ramseys' statements. Did John check the doors the night of the killing and find them secure, as he said right after the murder, or did he not, as he said four months later? Did John read to his daughter...
...matter would stop. Such utter atomic stillness is not possible, since the colder atoms become, the more they draw warmth from anything in the vicinity--often from one another. In 1995, however, a team led by physicists Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell of the University of Colorado at Boulder used lasers and evaporation to achieve something known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, a supercold gas in which atoms overlap and begin to move in synchrony. "We get to within a billionth of a degree of absolute zero," says Wieman...
...Million __ March (gun-control event slated for May 14) 4. Sprint competitor 7. Stare stupidly 11. Versatile vehicles, for short 13. U.S.S.R. successor 14. Boulder County D.A. Hunter, who is leaving office 15. Mohammed Mustafa __, Syria's new Prime Minister 16. "Wheels" 17. Like a sourball 18. Clinton retraced a march here 20. Bush labeled Gore "an __ of Washington" 22. Article of the Constitution that defines treason 23. J.F.K. sked information 24. The Pope apologized for the church's sins at the Day of __ Mass 27. Three ex-N.Y.P.D. officers were convicted of conspiracy in the __ torture case...