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https://www.the-sun.com/news/6876550/jonbenet-ramsey-murder-cold-case-link-boulder-police/

The U.S. Sun  

Luke Kenton

Published: 7:20 ET, Dec 11 2022    Updated: 8:59 ET, Dec 11 2022

TWO of the lead investigators on the JonBenet Ramsey case also oversaw the "botched" probe into an attack on another young girl that happened just months after the child beauty queen's infamous unsolved murder.

JonBenet Ramsey was just six-years-old when she was found beaten and strangled to death in the basement of her parent's ritzy Boulder, Colorado mansion on December 26, 1996.

Just over nine months later, a 12-year-old girl who attended the same dance school as JonBenet awoke in the middle of the night on Sept. 14, 1997, to find a man clad in all black standing at her bedside with his hand over her mouth.

The girl, who The U.S. Sun is referring to under the pseudonym Amy, was sexually assaulted by the assailant over a period of several horrifying minutes.

The sickening attack was interrupted by Amy's mom who burst into the room wielding a can of mace after she heard whispering and other strange noises coming from her daughter's room.

The assailant pushed passed Amy's mom and escaped from the home via a second-floor window.

Neither JonBenet's murderer nor Amy's attacker has ever been caught.

Amy's father has long suspected the two cases may have been carried out by the same individual, but he claims the Boulder police bungled the probe into the attack on his daughter and "laughed off" any suggested parallels between the incidents.

Case files obtained by The U.S. Sun regarding Amy's case reveal that two of the detectives who oversaw JonBenet's murder also investigated the attack on Amy.

Those detectives were Linda Arndt and Thomas Trujillo.

 

Earlier this week, Trujillo, the head of BPD's Investigations Unit, was reassigned to night patrol by superiors after an internal review revealed that a number of unspecified cases had not been properly investigated between 2019 and 2022.

A 36-year veteran of the force, Trujillo also received a three-day suspension without pay and was placed on a Performance Improvement Plan, a press release published Tuesday said.

As consequence of the reassignment, Trujillo will no longer be involved in any of the department's ongoing investigations, including the JonBenet Ramsey case, a spokesperson confirmed to The U.S. Sun.

Four other officers in BPD's investigations division were also cited for misconduct.

The Police Oversight Panel has recommended the termination of all five officers, according to the release.

“While upgrading data and transitioning to a new open data portal, department officials became aware of cases assigned to a particular detective that had not been investigated or investigated fully between 2019 and the present,” the department release stated.

“Upon the discovery of this issue, in July 2022, the police chief immediately brought it to the attention of the Professional Standards Unit and the Independent Police Monitor, with allegations of several different rule/policy violations made against five officers: the detective and four others within his chain of command.

“A subsequent internal Professional Standards Unit investigation sustained the violations against all five officers.

“In August 2022, the PSU investigation was sent to the Office of the Independent Police Monitor and the Police Oversight Panel for review prior to the chief making a final disciplinary determination.”

'INCOMPETECE AND ARROGANCE'

Trujillo was one of the detectives tasked with questioning JonBenet's parents, John and Pasty Ramsey, when they finally agreed to interview with police in April 1997.

Five months later, he would be summoned to the Boulder Community Hospital in the early hours of Sept. 14 after being alerted to the attack on Amy.

According to a report obtained by The U.S. Sun that was written by Trujillo, he arrived at the hospital after 5.25am and conducted interviews with Amy and her mom later that morning.

Also assigned to Amy's case was then-detective Linda Arndt, who had been the only cop on the scene when JonBenet's body was found.

Amid stinging criticism and widespread ridicule of the way she handled the investigation and failed to properly secure the crime scene, Arndt was removed from the Ramsey case by then-Police Chief Tom Koby in May 1997.

After taking an extended period of medical leave, citing "physical exhaustion and strain", Arndt then was assigned to Amy's case on Sept. 17 - three days after the attack.

According to a report she wrote in the April of the following year, Arndt conducted a walk-through of the home with Amy and her mom and obtained fingerprints on the frame of Amy's bed.

It was Arndt who Amy's parents had told they both believed the attack was linked to JonBenet's case, the report reveals.

Arndt also conducted interviews with some of Amy's friends, something that had angered her father.

Her report reads: "[Amy's dad] did not want me to interview any of [Amy's] friends. [Amy's dad] threatened to sue myself and the department if I continued this investigation, certainly if I interviewed [Amy's] friends.

"On the morning of April 7th I received a message on my voice mail from [Amy's dad] ... [the] tone was angry and threatening.

"[Amy's dad] was clear that unless there was specific suspect information to go on, he did not want the investigation to continue."

Amy's father told The U.S. Sun that he had been left furious when he learned that Arndt had conducted interviews with a number of his daughter's friends, outing her as a victim of sexual assault - something they had hoped to keep secret.

He said Boulder PD was "grossly disinterested" in his daughter's case as a whole but cited Arndt for being particularly "incompetent" and "dishonest" in the interactions he shared with her.

JonBenet's family has also been particularly critical of Arndt in the past.

In a 1999 interview with Good Morning America, shortly after she resigned from Boulder PD, Arndt sensationally claimed she feared John Ramsey was going to kill her after JonBenet's body was found.

She said she knelt down next to JonBenet's body, face to face with John, and shared a "nonverbal exchange that I will never forget."

"And as we looked at each other, I remember, and I wore a shoulder holster, tucking my gun right next to me and consciously counting out the 18 bullets," Arndt said.

When asked why, she responded: " 'Cause I didn't know if we'd all be alive when people showed up."

 

PERCEIVED FAILURES

Amy's father, during his interview with The U.S. Sun, said he shared the Ramsey family's view that the BPD's investigations unit at the time was riddled with incompetence.

Despite apparently frequent requests to Arndt and other investigators to look into perceived links between Amy's and JonBenet's cases, they were "dismissive" of any potential parallels and even at times hostile towards him for making the suggestion.

The reason, Amy's dad believes, is because the department was so fixated on John and Patsy Ramsey being JonBenet's killers at the time.

"They were completely uninterested," he charged. "They didn't care about my daughter's case and they didn't even really care about the Ramsey case.

"I'd contact them regularly, asking if they'd looked into this or that and they'd just lie to me.

"We asked to see some mugshots of sex offenders in the area to see if [Amy] or my wife recognized anyone but we were told that wouldn't be any good.

"We asked them to send someone over to make a composite sketch of the suspect using my wife's eyewitness description but they refused.

"The Denver Police Department even offered to help them out with the case but they said they had it covered and they knew what they were doing.

 

OVERLOOKED SIMILARITIES

The Boulder Police Department declined to comment on Amy's dad's claims when approached by The U.S. Sun.

But at the center of Amy's dad's beliefs that his daughter's attack may be linked to the death of JonBenet is the fact that Amy, like the slain child beauty pageant queen, took frequent dance lessons at a local studio on Pearl Street called Dance West.

Amy's dad believes that both of the girls may have been stalked and targeted by their attacker - or attackers - at the dance studio.

"It was a fairly open place that you could just come and go from," Amy's dad said of Dance West, adding that there was an observation balcony where members of the public could just walk in and sit.

"If you were someone who wanted to sit and watch young girls dance, that would've been a good place to do it.

"It was very easy to come and go undetected," he added.

"I think someone could've drawn a bead on [Amy] there and put us under some kind of surveillance that we weren't aware of at the time.

"It's hard to say for certain but it seems to be a strong possibility."

A LUCKY ESCAPE

Apparently so dismayed with Boulder PD's handling of his daughter's case, Amy's dad hired private investigator Pete Peterson to conduct an investigation of his own.

During Peterson's probe, he discovered a collection of Camel Blue cigarette butts outside of the family's home. Interestingly, stubbings of the same cigarettes were found in an alleyway next to the Ramsey home in the wake of JonBenet's murder.

Peterson and Amy's father tried to get Boulder PD to test the cigarette butts for DNA but they reportedly refused.

More than 25 years later, Amy's dad still holds the belief that if BPD had taken his daughter's case more seriously, they likely could've solved the murder of JonBenet too.

"There are so many similarities between the two cases that I think there's a very good chance it was the same person," he said.

"In both cases, this is someone who was able to get past an alarm, past a dog and was probably hiding inside the home for some time before attacking.

"It looks like someone who hid in the house while people were out and then came out in the middle of the night after they came home and locked up.

"The only difference is my daughter survived," Amy's dad added.

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2 hours ago, BeenHereBefore said:

Inside job and most likely Burke her brother did it. This is like OJ still looking for the real killers after all these years.

Patsy Ramsey did it.

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16 minutes ago, Engorgeous George said:

Patsy Ramsey did it.

One of the family did for sure. Jon Benet was also being sexually abused for sometime by one of the family members.

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They found unknown male dna on JonBenet in two places. You idiots.

the police were inept and put out lies to the media to implicate the mom or dad.

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18 minutes ago, Gepetto said:

They found unknown male dna on JonBenet in two places. You idiots.

the police were inept and put out lies to the media to implicate the mom or dad.

Was touch DNA and could have been from anyone in a factory that handle her panties. The police were idiots too though letting all those people in the house when she was missing.

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7 hours ago, BeenHereBefore said:

Was touch DNA and could have been from anyone in a factory that handle her panties. The police were idiots too though letting all those people in the house when she was missing.

Not only was the DNA touch DNA, but the underwear and long johns she was found in were way too big and not her size. 

Which leads to another question, ONE of the Ramsey's stories is that JBR was in a deep sleep when they came home from the Xmas party, was carried upstairs and put to bed. So, in the middle of the night, waking from a deep sleep, JBR changed herself and put on clothes that didn't even fit her? About as believable as a Small Foreign Faction... 

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https://www.yourtango.com/crime/what-dna-evidence-jonbenet-ramsey-murder#:~:text=Unidentified DNA was found in,waistband of her long johns.&text=KDVR reported that as of,to the murder of JonBenet.

DNA evidence has been used to clear suspects in JonBenet’s murder.

ABC News reports that all members of the Ramsey family, as well as 200 other potential suspects, were excluded as the possible murderer in this case as a result of then-newly discovered touch DNA found on JonBenet's long johns

The touch DNA was traced to an unknown male, the male also responsible for DNA found in two spots of blood found in the 6-year-old’s underwear.

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11 hours ago, Gepetto said:

https://www.yourtango.com/crime/what-dna-evidence-jonbenet-ramsey-murder#:~:text=Unidentified DNA was found in,waistband of her long johns.&text=KDVR reported that as of,to the murder of JonBenet.

DNA evidence has been used to clear suspects in JonBenet’s murder.

ABC News reports that all members of the Ramsey family, as well as 200 other potential suspects, were excluded as the possible murderer in this case as a result of then-newly discovered touch DNA found on JonBenet's long johns

The touch DNA was traced to an unknown male, the male also responsible for DNA found in two spots of blood found in the 6-year-old’s underwear.

How old wood she be today?

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Lets say you have a 6 year old daughter and you finish focking her mother and it's dark and you reach over to grab something to wipe your seed up and you happen to grab your daughters panties and she dies the next day. is that a crime? 

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2 hours ago, edjr said:

Lets say you have a 6 year old daughter and you finish focking her mother and it's dark and you reach over to grab something to wipe your seed up and you happen to grab your daughters panties and she dies the next day. is that a crime? 

This is an unlikely scenario.  Everyone knows you use your wife's hair or the nearest drapes to clean up.  We are not animals, Sir!

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43 minutes ago, Engorgeous George said:

This is an unlikely scenario.  Everyone knows you use your wife's hair or the mearest drapes to clean up.  We are not animals, Sir!

lets assume she is bald and we can't reach the curtains

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20 minutes ago, BeenHereBefore said:

So you are focking Sinead O'Connor in a jail cell ?

:lol::first: 

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Touch DNA and blood spots found in the underwear of JBR.......underwear that were clearly not hers - that DNA and blood could of came from anyone and anywhere connected to the actual owner of the underwear she was wearing. Also, nobody can tell how old or when that touch DNA and blood were put there.... More, we're to believe some Small Foreign Faction killer managed to leave his blood and DNA on JBR's clothing but not her body??? This killer took JBR from her bed, carried her all the way down the stairs, into the basement, molested her and then killed her all WITHOUT leaving any DNA on her ACTUAL body??? What bout the ransom note? That motha focker spent an hour writing, then re-writing the ransom note - biitch managed to not leave any touch DNA on the note, the notepad or pen???  Remarkable. 

But guess what did show up in the forensics? Fibers from Patsy Ramsey's sweater (from that night) showed up in the paint tray, on the duct tape, on the blanket and on the garrote! NO MENTION of the unidentified touch DNA and blood found on JBR's undies on the duct tape, wasn’t on the paint tray, not on the blanket and not on the garrot - just Patsy's. And we're not talking about regular random fibers from Patsy's clothing, not from some random sweatshirt or robe she'd casually be wearing around the house - from the fancy sweater she wore on the night of a Xmas party.... you do the math. 

Why am I posting in huge font? IDK, apparently it supposed to mean more... 

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I always thought the mother lost her temper when the child peed the bed repeatedly and shook her to death.  She had been proven to scream at the child at those perverted beauty pageants when the child didn't do as she was trained to do.

The fuching note was definitely the mother and the father took her side.  I'm not sure the child was actually his.  He didn't seem to care about her wellbeing and upbringing. 

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https://www.coldcasefoundation.org/mozelle-martin.html

MOZELLE MARTIN

Mozelle Martin is a 35-year Forensic Handwriting Expert and 25-year Mental Health Professional. During her 14 years of education, she acquired a Bachelor's in Forensic Psychology, a Master's in Criminology, a Certification in Crime Scene Investigation, and a Ph.D. in Applied Ethics. Although also trained in body language, handwriting analysis remained her passion. Since 1987, she has been an international training provider, interactive conference presenter, and a writer's consultant for the former Criminal Minds television show. She has also provided commentaries to various media outlets.

https://forensology.wixsite.com/mozellemartin

 

The person identified as Gary Oliva lived within a short walk of the Ramsey house at the time of the murder, and he's confessed to killing her more than once.

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2 hours ago, Gepetto said:

https://www.coldcasefoundation.org/mozelle-martin.html

MOZELLE MARTIN

Mozelle Martin is a 35-year Forensic Handwriting Expert and 25-year Mental Health Professional. During her 14 years of education, she acquired a Bachelor's in Forensic Psychology, a Master's in Criminology, a Certification in Crime Scene Investigation, and a Ph.D. in Applied Ethics. Although also trained in body language, handwriting analysis remained her passion. Since 1987, she has been an international training provider, interactive conference presenter, and a writer's consultant for the former Criminal Minds television show. She has also provided commentaries to various media outlets.

https://forensology.wixsite.com/mozellemartin

 

The person identified as Gary Oliva lived within a short walk of the Ramsey house at the time of the murder, and he's confessed to killing her more than once.

Can't say I'm surprised.  For the mother to write a fake note would make sense, for her to write that note would be bat-###### insane.  

I hope they do the Maura Murray case next. ✌️

 

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I would love nothing more than to solve this case once and for all..................... But Gary Oliva? Meh, not buying it. 

* Gary was not the 1st to confess to the murder, his confession holds little shock value. 

* This Mozelle chick is something else. She's certainly quite fond of herself, goes out of her way to make sure all know how expert she is, how meticulously she worked on this. At the end of the day, she's one of several experts who reviewed the handwriting samples and formed an opinion - many that differ from hers. 

* Speaking of Mozelle - kind of hard to sell the "unbiased" schtick when John Ramsey is one of the ones who went to her.

 

The killer spent at least an hour, prolly more than an hour, inside that house committing the crime, writing the letter and doing what they did to her body in the basement. Mean to tell me this Gary kid never left a fingerprint, trace dna, fibers, anything behind? How do you spend over an hour in a house, touching all kinds of things, killing a kid - and not leave any trace behind? How is it Patsy's dna and fingerprints were the only ones found on the notepad and pen? Why are the fibers inside the duct tape on JB's mouth only from the Xmas sweater Patsy was wearing the night before, the same sweater she in fact was still wearing the morning JB was discovered? He was wearing gloves? 

 

 

 

 

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JonBenet's neck had fingernail marks and petechial hemorrhages indicating she was alive during the time the garrote was tightened around her neck. The paintbrush splinters found in her vagina as well as redness indicate she was alive during the sexual assault. 

The people espousing a Ramsey did this state the scene was staged. The previous evidence written above from the autopsy is not consistent with staging.

The gash on her head based on the damage to the skull seen at autopsy after the skin-cap was removed indicates extreme force was used to hit her on the head possibly more than once.

The parent(s) would have to have shown extreme pathology: mental and or drug/alcohol use and prior physical abuse. The Ramsey's didn't discipline either of their children physically. Their friends and others who knew them had nothing but good things to say about them as people.

 

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A sample of Gary Oliva's handwriting from 2001 

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1085729372399846&set=p.1085729372399846&type=3

The Ransom Note:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/JonBenet_Ramsey_ransom_note.jpg

 

I haven't reviewed these closely yet.

I don't just randomly believe or not believe Gary Oliva is the writer of the ransom note. We need to see the comparisons she made between Oliva's handwriting and the ransom note. She claims she is being asked not to share that information yet.

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12 hours ago, Cruzer said:

I would love nothing more than to solve this case once and for all..................... But Gary Oliva? Meh, not buying it. 

* Gary was not the 1st to confess to the murder, his confession holds little shock value. 

* This Mozelle chick is something else. She's certainly quite fond of herself, goes out of her way to make sure all know how expert she is, how meticulously she worked on this. At the end of the day, she's one of several experts who reviewed the handwriting samples and formed an opinion - many that differ from hers. 

* Speaking of Mozelle - kind of hard to sell the "unbiased" schtick when John Ramsey is one of the ones who went to her.

 

The killer spent at least an hour, prolly more than an hour, inside that house committing the crime, writing the letter and doing what they did to her body in the basement. Mean to tell me this Gary kid never left a fingerprint, trace dna, fibers, anything behind? How do you spend over an hour in a house, touching all kinds of things, killing a kid - and not leave any trace behind? How is it Patsy's dna and fingerprints were the only ones found on the notepad and pen? Why are the fibers inside the duct tape on JB's mouth only from the Xmas sweater Patsy was wearing the night before, the same sweater she in fact was still wearing the morning JB was discovered? He was wearing gloves? 

 

 

 

 

I'm with you on this and unless there Is the proof you mentioned I'm not buying it. Before I even read it I was like how much is Jon Ramsey paying this person.  Ramsey went to her is all I need to know. BS!

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I watched a decent doc on Patsy Ramsey recently on Hulu.

To my surprise, I walked away accepting the intruder theory.

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3 minutes ago, MLCKAA said:

I watched a decent doc on Patsy Ramsey recently on Hulu.

To my surprise, I walked away accepting the intruder theory.

She may not be the killer and I like the Burke the brother theory the best. Jon Bennett was sexually abused for a long while, months or even a year or more. Patsy is for sure involved in the cover up that night and mostly likely the letter writer. Inside job and one of the three killed Jon Bennett.

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18 minutes ago, BeenHereBefore said:

 Jon Bennett was sexually abused for a long while, months or even a year or more. 

That is not true. That's an incorrect interpretation by non-Medical-Doctors. 

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4 hours ago, BeenHereBefore said:

She may not be the killer and I like the Burke the brother theory the best. Jon Bennett was sexually abused for a long while, months or even a year or more. Patsy is for sure involved in the cover up that night and mostly likely the letter writer. Inside job and one of the three killed Jon Bennett.

This is just filthy rumor.  No documentaries have ever established anything close to evidence of a history of sexual abuse.  There’s no evidence of that at all.

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On 12/16/2022 at 11:52 AM, edjr said:

Lets say you have a 6 year old daughter and you finish focking her mother and it's dark and you reach over to grab something to wipe your seed up and you happen to grab your daughters panties and she dies the next day. is that a crime? 

I actually saw a very similar fact-set in a true crime doc once.

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19 hours ago, Cruzer said:

I would love nothing more than to solve this case once and for all..................... But Gary Oliva? Meh, not buying it. 

* Gary was not the 1st to confess to the murder, his confession holds little shock value. 

* This Mozelle chick is something else. She's certainly quite fond of herself, goes out of her way to make sure all know how expert she is, how meticulously she worked on this. At the end of the day, she's one of several experts who reviewed the handwriting samples and formed an opinion - many that differ from hers. 

* Speaking of Mozelle - kind of hard to sell the "unbiased" schtick when John Ramsey is one of the ones who went to her.

 

The killer spent at least an hour, prolly more than an hour, inside that house committing the crime, writing the letter and doing what they did to her body in the basement. Mean to tell me this Gary kid never left a fingerprint, trace dna, fibers, anything behind? How do you spend over an hour in a house, touching all kinds of things, killing a kid - and not leave any trace behind? How is it Patsy's dna and fingerprints were the only ones found on the notepad and pen? Why are the fibers inside the duct tape on JB's mouth only from the Xmas sweater Patsy was wearing the night before, the same sweater she in fact was still wearing the morning JB was discovered? He was wearing gloves? 

 

 

 

 

Me thinks you doth know too much. Has the FBI interviewed you yet?

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You're gonna have to bring me more than a "handwriting expert's" opinion on a dude to close this case. 

There's no way anyone (other than Casper the Ghost maybe) spent over an hour in that house, casually drafting the 2nd coming of the Magna Carta, constructing a garrote, molesting and strangling a kid, then leaving the house thru an elevated small windown w/out leaving trace evidence of some kind. 

And I keep going back to the sweater fibers found inside the duct tape on JB's mouth. Those fibers came from Paty's Xmas sweater - the same sweater she wore the night before at the Xmas party.. There's only 1 way they got there, and it wasn't from just casually lounging around the house. And speaking of that sweater - Patsy wears it out the night before, then puts it back on as her outfit to wear the next day catching a flight? C'mon man, give me a break........ That woman was up all night, never changed and never went to bed. 

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31 minutes ago, Cruzer said:

You're gonna have to bring me more than a "handwriting expert's" opinion on a dude to close this case. 

There's no way anyone (other than Casper the Ghost maybe) spent over an hour in that house, casually drafting the 2nd coming of the Magna Carta, constructing a garrote, molesting and strangling a kid, then leaving the house thru an elevated small windown w/out leaving trace evidence of some kind. 

And I keep going back to the sweater fibers found inside the duct tape on JB's mouth. Those fibers came from Paty's Xmas sweater - the same sweater she wore the night before at the Xmas party.. There's only 1 way they got there, and it wasn't from just casually lounging around the house. And speaking of that sweater - Patsy wears it out the night before, then puts it back on as her outfit to wear the next day catching a flight? C'mon man, give me a break........ That woman was up all night, never changed and never went to bed. 

You don't know she was up all night. She could have neatly put the clothes she wore over a chair or in a closet and went to sleep. Wake up, put on a robe, walk down the spiral staircase find the note, look for JonBenet, hollar at John, look for Burke, call the police, call her friends to come over, get dressed back in the same clothes that were right there handy. 

If she's some great mastermind that avoided arrest, she would have thought to change clothes, if that was important at all. 

This Oliva guy was close to the Ramsey home, was a child pornographer, pedophile, burglar, and called his friend the next day to tell him he hurt a young girl. The friend says this was before the news got out that a girl was murdered. He called or went to the police immediately and they ignored him, he tried again a month or so later and the police ignored him. He's still going to the media telling what he knows.

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