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...Saturday's performers--such as Sister Hazel--were the one-hit-wonders that fueled much of the summer radio season, the early evening offered 10,000 Maniacs and The Monkees. Even without Natalie Merchant, the 10,000 Maniacs are still a pleasure to see. New lead singer Mary Ramsey, who sounded almost too much like Merchant at first, proved that she is beginning to establish herself in the band. The crowd, however, was most pleased by older Merchant hits like "Because the Night," and "These are the Days...
...initially reported as a kidnapping had allowed contamination of evidence that might have been found at the crime scene. Detective Linda Arndt waited hours for a ransom call that never came before ordering a search of the house. She gave that order not to other cops but to John Ramsey, who found his daughter's body in a basement room and carried it upstairs--a complete violation of police procedure. Meanwhile, Arndt allowed friends and neighbors to wander in and out; coroner John Meyer, arriving to examine the body, had to push through a crowd to enter the house...
...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 is vulnerable to big money, that he is protecting the Ramseys"--who are very big money. John Ramsey is head of a computer-products distributor that racked up 1996 revenues of $1 billion...
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...
...grand jury could even crack the case. A Colorado law permits one spouse to testify against another in cases of child abuse that results in death or serious injury. But the right against self-incrimination would still apply. That raises the bizarre possibility that either John or Patsy Ramsey could be granted immunity and then confess to committing the murder--and could no longer be punished...