ed with consent). In addition to the body, the police wanted to search for fibers and any other evidence that might lead to solving the crime. Historically, when a murder occurs in the home – absent clear evidence of an intruder – the police focus on the family members. The police began to suspect that someone in the house was the author of the ransom note. That suspicion was quickly bolstered when police discovered a note pad in the Ramsey house that not only was the source of the ransom note, but contained a "practice note" similar to the one given police by Patsy Ramsey. JonBenet’s murder – particularly as the days went by and no arrests were forthcoming -- quickly became a national obsession, featured day after day on network news, television tabloid programs, talk radio, newspapers and magazines. Her image flitted across television screens innumerable times, often showing her in a glittering cowgirl outfit, singing "I want to be a cowboy sweetheart," or dancing across the stage in a Las Vegas showgirl outfit, complete with heavy makeup. Her unusual first name became so well known that like Cher, and Madonna, That she no longer had needed a last name. The public’s shock at the murder soon began to share equal time with its growing dismay at the Boulder police’s investigation, a dismay fed by a steady stream of leaks from the Boulder County prosecutor’s office about the inept police investigation being conducted. For one thing it became known that the police had badly botched the initial investigation by failing to seal off the crime scene. For another it appeared the police were treating the primary suspects – JonBenet’s parents – with kid gloves by not only acquiescing to their refusal to be interviewed at police headquarters, but also to being interviewed separately. Fueled with such information, the media, especially the tabloid television and talk radio shows were showi...
