Detective Thomas was severely admonished by U.S. District Judge Julie E. Carnes during a law suit brought by the Ramsey's where the Boulder DA admitted the case is now focused not on the Ramsey's but on an intruder.
Det. Thomas had no prior experience in homicides and based his opinions on speculation not on facts. From the law suit and Judge Carnes...
"Carnes reserved special criticism for Thomas, the former Boulder detective upon whose theories the Wolf complaint was based. "Whereas Detective Smit's summary testimony concerning the investigation is based on evidence, Detective Thomas' theories appear to lack substantial evidentiary support," she wrote.
"Indeed, while Detective Smit is an experienced and respected homicide detective, Detective Thomas had no investigative experience concerning homicide cases prior to this case.
In short, the plaintiff's evidence that the [Ramseys] killed their daughter and covered up their crime is based on little more than the fact that defendants were present in the house during the murder," Carnes wrote."
This same lawsuit lays out evidence of an intruder that was previously ignored by the Boulder PD and is not the focus of the investigation.
Carnes' order also lists a series of largely uncontested facts that suggest an intruder entered the Ramsey home and murdered JonBenét. Among them:
• At least seven windows and a door in the Ramsey home were found open or unlocked after JonBenét disappeared. The alarm was off and windows were accessible from the ground level, including three that opened into the basement.
• Evidence suggested that an intruder climbed through a basement window and walked through the room where JonBenét was found.
• JonBenét's body was bound with complicated rope slipknots and a garrote that the order described as "sophisticated bondage devices" by someone "with an expertise in bondage." No evidence suggests the Ramseys knew how to tie such knots.
• Black duct tape found on JonBenét's mouth was never found in the Ramsey home, although evidence suggested "it came from a roll of tape that had been used before."
• Nothing in the Ramsey home matched dark animal hairs found on the duct tape and JonBenét's hands.
• Newly made, unidentified shoeprints, including one with a HI-TEC brand mark, were found on the basement floor. None of the Ramseys' shoes matched those prints.
• A palm print on the wine-cellar door where JonBenét's body was found does not match the Ramseys' palm prints and has never been identified.
• A baseball bat found outside the house with fibers consistent with fibers found on the carpet in the basement where JonBenét's body was found did not belong to the Ramseys.
• Brown cotton fibers found on JonBenét's body, the paintbrush used as a garrote, the duct tape and the ligature around her neck did not match anything in the Ramsey home.
• Male DNA found under JonBenét's fingernails and in her underwear does not match that of any Ramsey and has not been identified yet.
• A pubic hair found on the blanket covering JonBenét's body did not match that of any Ramsey.
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