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...murderer of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey not been arrested, almost 10 months after her bludgeoned body was found in the basement of her house? If Boulder, Colo., police chief Tom Koby is to be believed, the problems lie in the press coverage, in strains with the district attorney's office, even in the "very intense personality" of Boulder's chief detective--and not in Koby's much criticized leadership of the police department. Brandishing a copy of the U.S. Constitution, Koby stunned a press conference in Boulder last Friday by dumping his top detective from the case and railing...
...great surprise to see AOL chairman Steve Case on your cover [BUSINESS, Sept. 22]. But he is newsworthy not so much as a champion of a burgeoning industry but rather as a man with more dissatisfied customers than anyone else on the planet. RICK RAUCH Boulder, Colo...
...strongest suspicion, though, is that Hunter is partial not so much to the Ramseys as to their lawyers. Boulder, for all its academic eminence as the site of a University of Colorado campus and its reputation as a refuge for dropouts, is very much a small town where "all the lawyers are friends," says a retired judge. The Ramseys' legal team is headed by Hal Haddon--and if Hunter is a midsize fish in Colorado Democratic politics, Haddon is a whale. He was a close adviser to former Senator Gary Hart and a strong ally of Governor Roy Romer...
Hunter shrugs off all the charges. Too many plea bargains? Just "locker-room talk" from cops. Closeness to Ramsey lawyers? "A bogus issue," he says. (Boulder lawyer Tom Lamm agrees that "Alex doesn't cross over that line to do anything that would suggest collusion.") The D.A. insists he is not being slow, just deliberate. Says Hunter: "This case is not in a posture for presentation" to a judge or jury. The obvious, though unspoken message: for all their leaking of dark suspicions about the Ramseys, the police have not shown Hunter enough hard evidence to support an arrest...
Police chief Tom Koby is said by some of his own officers to have more interest in community-outreach programs than in solving crime. Most of the time that approach might fit the needs of Boulder, where police spend as much time seeking bicycle thieves as hunting for more hardened criminals. JonBenet's murder was the only one in 1996. But, say critics, Koby should have realized early that his troops were in need of outside help. Instead, he seemed to resent the idea that anyone outside Boulder should even take an interest in the case. In a January appearance...