A three-part series about the 1996 murder of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey started streaming on Netflix yesterday. Before you think “Not another one,” (and many of them, as well as most of the podcasts on the subject, are lame and shitty), I found this documentary worthwhile for a number of reasons and especially because it addresses what happens when law enforcement (police and/or prosecutors) desperately must control the narrative and stick to the script beyond all semblance of logic, fairness and basics.
After you watch it (it is #1 on Netflix as of today), ask yourself if you still 100% believe a member of JonBenet’s family killed her. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34169767/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_cold%20case%20who%20kil
The one thing Boulder PD has been great at in this case is manipulating the media to savage the Ramsey family. The mayor of Boulder in 1996 did her level best to imitate Mayor Vaugn of Amity in the movie Jaws and added a helping of “the Ramseys are guilty.” If you don’t think these people purposely poisoned the well against the Ramsey family, get a load of the movie Casting JonBenet, also on Netflix. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6333052/ .
Law enforcement knew two weeks after JonBenet’s autopsy that unknown male DNA was found on her long underwear, underwear and under her fingernails. You never heard much about that back in the day, did you? And it is still being slow-walked.
And if Boulder was so safe, why was there a home invasion assault of a 14-year-old girl nine months after the slaying of JonBenet? The girl, who attended the same dance studio as JonBenet, lived just two miles away and was assaulted in her bed by an intruder while her mother slept nearby.
Sometimes it’s the police that control/have a stranglehold on the narrative. “The family is responsible for the murder of JonBenet and for covering it all up.” “JoAnn Matouk Romain committed suicide by walking into a lake, a la Virginia Woolf.” Other times, it’s at the direction, or largely orchestrated by a prosecutor. “The killer of children in Oakland County drove a blue Gremlin with a white stripe, acted alone and left nary a piece of evidence.”
It’s a twisted Universe when your child is murdered and a cop like Linda Arndt is the responding officer, and your child’s case is assigned to a narcotics detective with no homicide experience like Steve Thomas. A living hell.
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