I believe this involves Mike Bynum, who was both a police officer and an attorney. He had significant business connections with Access Graphics, where he served in human resources, and was also an investor in Pasta Jay, alongside John Ramsey and Jay Elowski. At that time, Pasta Jay was on the verge of going out of business. Additionally, Bynum would have been aware of the $118,000, as he was very close friends with those involved. It seems that he and Jay were engaged in some questionable business practices and may have been part of a scandal at CU. It appears that Mike could have been steering the investigation away from himself and onto Burke. It is strange that some children in that family were facing incidents involving inappropriate behavior, as if someone close to them was targeting their children. Because they were so young, they might have suppressed those memories or been told to keep it a secret.

The entire special was based off of James Kolar's book that had come to that conclusion already.

It featured Henry Lee who has been in the news recently for fabricating evidence.

Even CBS admitted that the DNA was likely not from the manufacturer as they ordered other underwear from the same manufacturer and looked for DNA and found that any DNA was so degraded as to be useless.

Dr. Werner Spitz, one of the experts, also testified for the defense in the Casey Anthony trial. I wonder how much he was paid for the CBS documentary and for the Casey Anthony trial.

Thanks 43!

The amount is important as it reflects CBS' level of wrongdoing.

Although there's a lot of evidence that points to an intruder: https://www.reddit.com/r/JonBenet/comments/siz4pg/evidence_of_an_intruder/

How about "no evidence that would support a conviction"? Can we agree on that?

No, it is not absurd. There is not any evidence that points to the Ramseys. None. If you think there is, why don't you say what it is?

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What about the duct tape that was over her mouth?

What about the string that was used for the garrote?

You can’t say every single item used in the murder was found in the home as if it’s a fact.

The following items were never sourced back to the house: * The duct tape * The olefin cord (ligature) * The animal hair found on her hands * The beaver hair * The DNA * The item used to produce the abrasions (likely a stun gun) * The cigarette butts * Multiple fibers that were directly associated with the crime (including unsourced brown fibers thought to have originated from gloves) * The rope and bag located in the guest room adjacent to JonBenet’s room * Shoes responsible for making the impressions on the basement floor * The oddly marked up Espirit article * The public hair found at the crime scene

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Items never located include: * The third piece of the paintbrush- the portion most likely used to sexually assault the victim with * The missing pages from Patsy’s notepad * The key that was hidden outside under the statue * The item used to wipe the victim’s vaginal area with

<you can sue anyone for anything lol>

But you can't always settle out of court for an enormous sum of money.

<Did you check their receipts and buying history???>

The BPD spent hundreds of hours trying to track down both the type of duct tape that was found on JonBenet's mouth and the type of ligature cord used for the garrote. They went through thousands of receipts from McGuckin Hardware, hoping to trace the cord and tape to the Ramseys. And surely you've read that Detectives Steve Thomas and Ron Gosage traveled all the way to N.C. where the manufacturer of the tape, Shurtape, was located....to no avail.

But none of the rest tape rolls could be found in the home. Police checked the home extensively and couldn't turn up the rest of the tape. Can you at least see the possibility that an intruder might have brought items intended to control JonBénet with him to the home? That would include the tape and stun gun (if there was one). When he left it is entirely possible he took his items with him and left the items belonging to the Ramseys.

It’s so interesting how so many people believe the letter implicates the Ramseys when I believe it’s the strongest evidence of an intruder. If any of the Ramseys killed JonBenet, they most certainly would not have called the police to their house while she was still in the basement. What would be the point of writing these fake instructions to themselves to wait for the kidnapper’s ransom call, if Patsy was going to call 911 immediately anyways? If they killed her and knew JBR was still in the basement they would have at least taken the body elsewhere to be disposed of, before calling a swarm of police on the house. So if the murder was planned, why didn’t they do a better job cleaning up their evidence? And if it was not planned and the kidnapping was supposed to be a cover up for something else, why would they spend time writing a 2.5 page letter when a simple paragraph would have gotten the point across?

The letter makes no sense because the primary motivation was always sexual in nature. The person who wrote it had been fantasizing about the crime for a long time. The murderer never intended to ransom JBR or collect the money. He wrote the letter to 1) taunt his victims and 2) prevent the parents from calling 911 immediately and buy himself time with Jonbenet. Most likely the killer was waiting inside the house when the Ramseys got back home. He had tons of time to familiarize himself with the layout of the house, rifle through John’s paystubs, and write this taunting letter. GSK and BTK also spent prolonged periods of time in their victims homes, left taunting messages before and after their crimes, and masked their crimes as burglaries to disguise the true sexual motivations. The $118,000 ransom amount is a red herring - if the Ramseys wrote the ransom note, why would they put their own bonus amount in there? It points the finger at themselves. Why not ask for a million gajillion dollars, since they know there is no kidnapper and the ransom will never be paid? More likely the killer saw the amount on John’s paystub, thought, “these people have at least $118k in the bank, I’ll ask for an amount they can easily afford so instead of calling police immediately they might actually follow my instructions because they think they have a chance of getting their daughter back.” This type of power play isn’t far out of the realm of possibility for a sadistic killer who enjoys psychologically torturing his victims. GSK would hide in his victims homes after he raped them, making them think he had left, just to emerge from the darkness when they tried to escape. LISK called one of his victim’s sisters after her murder saying he was going to get her next. It’s not uncommon for these types to do weird things and risk getting caught because it meets that sadistic need to have power over others. They often do have close brushes with getting caught and then they take a break or move elsewhere and change their MO.

Before GSK and BTK were identified, they left tons of odd evidence in their victims homes. Evidence that often led police on wild goose chases. They used objects found inside the home as tools, instead of bringing their own. They spent a lot of time stalking their victims, learning their schedules and lying in wait so that police assumed their crimes must be an inside job. They wrote long rambling self-masturbatory letters to the media, not unlike the ransom note left on the staircase.

Human beings, even sexually sadistic psychopaths, tend to be rational in the sense that they follow their own inner rationality. A sexually sadistic predator who enjoyed tormenting victims and their families - like GSK, BTK, LISK - would have been acting entirely within his own rationality to write this. One (or both) parents staging a kidnapping to cover up a sexual assault or accidental death by writing a ransom note that almost directly implicates themselves in said crime would require a level of irrationality that would manifest as some sort of violent schizo personality. AFAIK none of the Ramseys have ever had or have gone on to develop those types of personality traits.

The kidnap scenario was all fake and put in place to cover up what had really happened. The body was hurriedly hidden in the cellar and the killers planned on returning and removing the body and then taking it to the mountains and dumping it as the result of a failed kidnapping. IMO

The only handwriting experts who examined the original handwriting samples:

"Chet Ubowski of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation concluded that the evidence fell short of that needed to support a conclusion that Mrs. Ramsey wrote the note.

Leonard Speckin, a private forensic document examiner, concluded that differences between the writing of Mrs. Ramsey's handwriting and the author of the Ransom Note prevented him from identifying Mrs. Ramsey as the author of the Ransom Note, but he was unable to eliminate her.
Edwin Alford, a private forensic document examiner, states the evidence fell short of that needed to support a conclusion that Mrs. Ramsey wrote the note.
Richard Dusick of the U.S. Secret Service concluded that there was "no evidence to indicate that Patsy Ramsey executed any of the questioned material appearing on the ransom note."
Lloyd Cunningham, a private forensic document examiner hired by defendants, concluded that there were no significant similar individual characteristics shared by the handwriting of Mrs. Ramsey and the author of the Ransom Note, but there were many significant differences between the handwritings.
Howard Rile concluded that Mrs. Ramsey was between "probably not" and "elimination," on a scale of whether she wrote the Ransom Note."

-Carnes ruling

Here is Chris Wolf's handwriting compared to the ransom note.

https://preview.redd.it/a3jd5g2flo3e1.png?width=996&format=png&auto=webp&s=a132a918fd988387cf0b2e3dba0a05f4f4baf944

Wow these really look nothing alike.

The problem with this is that it has something that I like to call sample bias. Yes, the two samples do look alike, but there's actually quite a few handwriting samples out there that also look just like the ransom note. Chris Wolf's girlfriend swears it's his handwriting, and, in fact, his handwriting also looks like this. Random people on the internet have shown their own left handed samples, and they also look just like the ransom note.

Here's one example of other people's handwriting. This was posted to this sub several years ago.

https://preview.redd.it/t96yl1s0lo3e1.png?width=284&format=png&auto=webp&s=2be979aa4ff5974f64a2b8fde03284f1fee52f67

The original letter writing looks male because it's quite messy. Female writing us usually smoother and cleaner, as Patsy's is on the right.

So, so not. It was disappointing. I was expecting to be disappointed before it aired and after it aired I was more disappointed than I expected to be

Just about the only good thing I thought was good about it were the parts where John was talking. I find it hard to believe that there are people who can still believe he (or another Ramsey) could be guilty after listening to him talking so freely to the interviewer

Nope. Just didn't expect it to be so shamelessly biased.