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...famed "Mayflower Madam") has filed suit against district attorney Alex Hunter, charging--under an obscure Colorado statute that allows private citizens to question the actions of prosecutors--that Hunter has "unjustifiably refused" to charge Patsy Ramsey. Hoffman's evidence? Testimonials from four writing experts alleging it is probable the ransom note discovered when JonBenet was first reported missing is in her mother's hand. A judge has yet to decide whether the suit merits a hearing...
...then came the stinging public criticism of Tom Mashberg and the Herald. A criticism that until then had been only privately grumbled by both law enforcement and museum officials. "In helping these crooks get a ransom, they have been a facilitator of criminal conduct," says attorney Alan Dershowitz, who mercilessly flogged his targets in Boston Magazine. But he didn't stop with Mashberg and the Herald. The Federal Government and the Gardner took some lashes too, for negotiating with scoundrels. "We're not talking about kidnap victims or terrorists holding hostages. It's art. It's great...
...toilet in the first five hours." From the beginning, it was obvious that the cops who were called to investigate what was 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...
...body of JonBenet Ramsey was found by her father in the basement of the family's home in Boulder, Colo., local authorities, under a district court order, last week released the full autopsy report on the murdered little girl. Anyone who had predicted last Dec. 26, when a ransom note found by JonBenet's mother turned later in the day into a homicide investigation, that the big news about the case in August would be the grudging release of the autopsy would have been called crazy. What, no arrests, charges, indictments, trial? But, as last week's development underscored...
...forensics experts, including several handwriting analysts and a linguist. On Sunday, moreover, the Ramseys ran their fourth local newspaper ad appealing for help from the public. The ad noted that the killer "appears to be obsessed with techno-crime movies and phrases from them" and included quotes from Ransom, Dirty Harry and Speed that the family says are similar to ones in the bogus ransom note...