Word: jonbenets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rush? More than nine months have passed since JonBenet's beaten and strangled corpse was found the day after Christmas; yet tabloid speculation about why Hunter hasn't brought charges in the case of the slain little queen of prepubescent beauty pageants hasn't let up. And being in a "rush" is one charge no one would lodge against District Attorney Hunter...
...contrary, furious feuding between Hunter's office and the Boulder police seems to have brought the investigation to a halt. Frustrated members of the Boulder police department insinuate that Hunter has been sitting on the case because he is pals with lawyers for JonBenet's parents, who remain the chief suspects. A police source goes so far as to contend that "the Ramsey attorneys are making the calls, telling us [presumably through Hunter's office] what we can do and when we can do it." Hunter's many defenders--he is so popular that he has been elected to seven...
...feuding has certainly done nothing to salvage any remaining chance of developing a prosecutable case. At times, both sides have seemed to devote more energy to sniping at each other than to looking for JonBenet's killer. D.A. Hunter went so far as to refuse to attend a September session in Quantico, Va., at which Boulder police sought the guidance of FBI experts in evaluating evidence. His explanation was that the cops were going to show the FBI only some of the evidence and there was little point to his attending a partial review. Earlier, the police had enlisted three...
...they don't. Though Hunter has said from the first that JonBenet's parents were "a focus" of the investigation--and says it still--many police and other critics think he has no zeal to prosecute them. Indeed, they say, historically he has not been enthusiastic about prosecuting anybody; police bitterly accuse him of negotiating far too many plea bargains. Dale Stange, just retired as a Boulder patrolman, says the D.A. has long been known to the police as "Alex Let's-Make-a-Deal Hunter." Carla Selby, a community activist, voices another suspicion: "There's a feeling that Alex...
...fact, the same police who criticize Hunter have hardly been moving with lightning speed themselves. They took months to even set up an interview with JonBenet's parents--partly, according to insiders, because the police were maneuvering, though unsuccessfully, to keep Hunter's prosecutors from attending...