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...disclosed that his 10-member legal team was pursuing an assortment of "solid" outside leads. The computer-company executive, who has spent hundreds of thousands on lawyers and private eyes, is enlisting experts in language forensics and handwriting. They have created a template for comparing writing samples against the ransom note found in the Ramsey home...
...Kidnappers in Italy chop off the right ear of E. Paul Getty Jr., grandson of the world's richest man, when their ransom demands are not met in a timely...
With DNA testing apparently inconclusive, investigators are pinning hopes on an array of forensic testing, including the garrote and duct tape used to strangle and gag the little girl, and handwriting and handprint analyses of the ransom note. Detectives are using advanced software to inspect and magnify crime-scene photos--a technique that enables them to examine minute marks on door locks. The probe is still hobbled by tensions between Hunter's office and the Boulder police. For six weeks the cops refused to share the DNA findings with the D.A., making them available only last week...
...potential is there for some form of nukenapping--grabbing weapons for ransom or nuclear blackmail--or sales to rogue states or terrorists, or unauthorized launches by renegade commanders. Some Russians even fret about a nuclear civil war. If a region in Siberia were to declare its independence, a retired senior officer in Moscow speculates, "the entire missile force in the area might cut itself off from the chain of command and control and get reprogrammed to be able to launch at will...
...longer. "I'll be surprised if the Ramseys are ever charged," says Bob Miller, a former U.S. attorney in Denver. A grand jury with subpoena powers might have speeded up the case, but now it may be too late. Meanwhile, the Rocky Mountain News reported excerpts from the ransom note, which began, "Listen carefully, the two gentlemen who have your daughter don't like you," going on to claim authorship by a "small foreign faction." Yet why has Patsy Ramsey not been ruled out as the writer of the note that threatened to behead JonBenet (a fifth handwriting sample...