A long-awaited review of the JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation by the Colorado Cold Case Review team is set to take place before year’s end.  The Boulder police are cooperating.  The decision to submit the case to outside review coincided with the reassignment of a detective who long held primary responsibility in this case.  The PD said Thursday that the November 2022 reassignment of Commander Thomas Trujillo was not connected.  (Sure.) 
— Read on :  www.denverpost.com/2023/10/07/jonbenet-ramsey-murder-probe-soon-to-get-fresh-eyes/

JonBenet Ramsey case: Boulder police consulting cold case review team nearly 26 years after 6-year-old’s death | Fox News

Child murders should be investigated as federal crimes, not left up to local police.

Ok, Michigan. Time’s up. Even Boulder PD has been convinced to cooperate despite the primary investigator’s decades-long death grip on the narrative about this child’s murder.

When agencies don’t play well with others and betray murder victims, it takes decades to move them off the dime. I hope despite their “primary responsibility” in this investigation that there are answers and accountability.

Take note, Oakland County Sheriff and Michigan State Police. Your primary jurisdiction might not be a brick wall.

Yet another example of using 21st Century thought in decades-old cold cases, this time in the case of two 1983 murders in Toronto.

https://dnasolves.com/articles/tice-and-gilmour-toronto/

Here’s how it’s done:

The Toronto Police Homicide and Missing Persons Unit, Cold Case section, has been actively investigating the sexual assaults and murders of these two women since 1983. In 2007, DNA obtained at the crime scenes linked the cases and investigators determined the same man was responsible for both homicides.

Toronto Police made an appeal to the media and the public in November 2008, announcing a reward for information about the homicides, and in March 2016, investigators sent out a YouTube video appealing for any information leading to the identification of a suspect.

In 2019, investigators began an investigation that included the use of forensic genetic genealogy, with the assistance of Othram. The Toronto Police Service and Othram have collaborated on multiple cases, including the 1984 sexual assault and murder of Christine Jessop.

Othram used Forensic-Grade Genome Sequencing® to build a comprehensive DNA profile from the remaining trace DNA evidence in the crime. The profile was delivered to the Toronto Police Service and through the use of genetic genealogy, the TPS homicide team was able to identify a suspect in these murders, residing in Moosonee, Ontario. The investigation was led by TPS Detective Steve Smith.

On Friday November 25, 2022, Joseph George Sutherland, 61, of Moosonee, was arrested with the assistance of the O.P.P. He is charged with two counts of First Degree Murder.

DNASolves.com

Aside from logistical issues, like carting around Mark’s, Jill’s and Kristine’s clothing by MSP detectives and a crime lab scientist for show-and-tell, https://catherinebroad.blog/2023/10/03/interview-with-dr-richard-e-olson-after-the-mihelich-murder/, as well as credible allegations I have heard that the MSP used the evidence in the OCCK case in its POST (Peace Officer Standards and Training) program, the resistance to taking the steps outlined above is because the MSP, the Oakland County Sheriff’s office and the Oakland County Prosecutor’s office are all best-served by the initial game plan to make sure this case stays under the radar for all time.

Why would the Chris Busch “suicide” scene not immediately warrant asking members of all four victims’ families if they knew Christopher Busch, Greg Greene or Vince Gunnels? Over the decades, the police babysitter assigned to our family ran numerous names past my dad. But not Busch. Given the staged scene in Busch’s bedroom that screamed “child killer,” the way his autopsy was conducted and the immediate suicide ruling, so many questions are raised that have only a small range of disturbing answers. And here we are 16 years after Busch’s name was resurrected and there is no traction in this case. You know all the obvious questions. Was he involved? Who killed him? Why leave a “suicide” scene pointing to him as the OCCK? Why did he get probation in numerous CSC cases around the state? Why didn’t police investigate his open admission that he had gained victims through the Big Brother program?

At one point L. Brooks Patterson would have done anything to capitalize on the publicity attached to an arrest or a “solve” in this case. Why did he wash his hands of this case soon after Kristine’s body was found?

Patterson and Richard Thompson are the genesis of the “failure” to solve the OCCK case. Jessica Cooper thwarted any real inquiry 30-plus years later because she knew, as had her predecessors, that in a just world the county and the state police should be sued into oblivion for their actions in this case. The MSP and the state lab, for reasons that probably have more to do with safeguarding whatever reputation they have in Michigan, became unwitting accomplices in the county’s mission to deep-six this case. It is an ungodly formula for obfuscation and obstruction. It is by far the worst cover-up in a murder case in this country, ever.

Hey, no more kids died and we can’t bring back the dead. We answer to no one on this case. No sense in fucking up our careers or losing law licenses, let alone paying a judgment for some federal civil rights violation.

Even if people refuse to acknowledge the obvious about this case, it is long-past time to just extend a wishy-washy mea culpa for the way this case was handled back in the day. Hey it was another era, it was so intense, we had limited resources, [fill in the blank]. The lack of transparency, the failure to take any of the steps being taken by police agencies around the world in other cold cases, or the lack of an explanation about how and why the evidence in this case was so mishandled that advanced DNA testing is futile, says it all.

Thanks to a reader for the link to DNASolves.com.