Word: jonbenets
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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...
...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...
...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 on local...