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Amanda Knox and John Ramsey - Megyn Kelly's "Double Feature" of Fascinating Interviews
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The Boulder PD Investigation: Incompetence and Tunnel Vision
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Ramsey walks through a cascade of investigative failures. Boulder PD had no homicide unit. Lead investigator Tom Trujillo had been an auto-theft detective. Denver Police offered two experienced homicide detectives at no cost; Boulder said no. The police chief publicly stated they hadn't treated the scene as a crime scene because 'it was a kidnapping.' Detective Linda Arndt, the only officer present for most of the morning, allowed friends to enter the house, failed to search it for seven hours, and then told John to go look around himself — which is how he found JonBenét's body in the basement wine cellar. Upon seeing John emerge screaming with his daughter, Arndt later claimed she saw in his eyes that he was the killer. The crime scene was cursorily examined; forensic experts spent about two hours before being ordered back in by the DA. Meanwhile, a neighbor's tip about a suspicious window entry went uninvestigated and an open window with a suitcase propped beneath it in the basement was noted but not fully pursued.
The 3-page ransom note demanded exactly $118,000 — John's precise annual bonus — threatened beheading, signed off 'SBTC Victory,' and was written on a legal pad found inside the Ramsey home. John Ramsey and Megyn Kelly dissect why it almost certainly came from someone who knew him personally.
Knox says her lowest point was not hearing 'guilty' in court but the moment in the interrogation room when she genuinely began to believe she might have amnesia and had witnessed the murder. Only when police stopped screaming did she recover enough composure to realize what had happened — and immediately recant.
The ransom note demanded exactly $118,000 — the precise amount of John Ramsey's annual bonus that year, paid in January 1996, suggesting the killer had inside knowledge.
Handwriting analysts rated Patsy Ramsey 4.5 on a 5-point scale where 5 means 'absolutely did not write it,' meaning she was essentially cleared of writing the ransom note too.
John Ramsey describes being sent by Detective Linda Arndt to search the house at 1 PM — 7 hours after the 911 call. He went to the basement first, opened the wine cellar door, and immediately found JonBenét. His first instinct was relief. Then he knew she wasn't all right.
