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Nearly three weeks into the investigation of the murder of six-year-old JonBenet, the Little Miss Colorado whose battered body was found in the basement of her parent's Boulder home the day after Christmas, the mystery of her death has only become more confusing. Boulder police have not named a suspect, while JonBenet's parents, John and Patricia, are now communicating with investigators only through their lawyers and a media consultant. And as a side effect of the intense scrutiny the case is receiving, JonBenet's world--the glittering, multimillion-dollar world of children's beauty pageants...
...journalism, it seemed the right time to slow down, find a nice, quiet place to write books and do some teaching, a place where my three young children could grow up without worrying about having their bicycles hijacked. Just before Christmas, my wife and I decided to move to Boulder, Colorado...
What happened in Boulder on Christmas night was, among other things, proof that tragedy honors no boundaries. Of course we knew that, but one continues to hope. I read in a magazine once that Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl decided to leave Manhattan after their son Theo was brain damaged in a car accident; his nanny was pushing him across the street in a carriage when a taxi jumped the light. Deciding Manhattan was not a safe place to raise kids, they moved to a farmhouse 30 miles outside of London. A year later, their daughter Olivia died...
...Still, Boulder is not New York City, and Boulder, which averages three murders a year (to New York City's 900 or so), was shocked. Adding to the city's sense of its own plundered innocence was that of the victim, a six-year-old girl: a lovely six-year-old girl, a Little Miss Colorado, it turned out (an invitation to the tabloids if ever there was one), and the more we saw of her--her beautiful eyes, her coquettish smile, her perfect hair and make-up, her seductive walk--the lovelier she became, until the unwanted thought arose...
...BOULDER, Colorado: The uncertain and mistake-prone investigation of JonBenet Ramsey's murder found a focus today, if only a sidelight, with the arrest of two people for illegally providing photographs of the homicide scene to a tabloid. Lawrence Smith, a processor for Photo Craft Laboratories, which develops photos for the Boulder County coroner's office, and Brent Sawyer, a private investigator and former Boulder County deputy sheriff, allegedly handed the photos over to the Globe for a $5,500 pay-off. Smith, 36, who made only $200 for the act that could get him 8 1/2 years in jail...