Why do you say that? You seem very certain.
I use to assume it was them, just from their behaviour afterwards and negative media reports about them.
I know you've studied it and I've heard about the book Det. Steve Thomas wrote, who clearly saw everything through that prism of belief, and of interpretation of the evidence. I have read no books on the subject nor have I majored in it. I have seen tv stuff with Lou Smit, and I've considered bits and pieces of the situation and just thought a lot about it.
I now see the case as much broader than the narrow way I used to view it. The items and questions that point possibly to the Ramseys have not been honed in the crucible of a court proceeding. They have been worked on, yes, but they haven't received their trial by fire, so to speak.
I think there's also much there to suggest an outsider did the crime.
The ransom note has been misused because some experts said Patsy could have written it. But when you look at the content, the content makes no sense whatsover for Patsy to have concocted that bizarre mess. Makes much more sense that a wacked out intruder as weird and as much a sicko as Karr concocted it. If not him, then somebody else.
I don't see the Ramseys as these machiavellian people, not any more. They were wealthy and prominent and put their daughter into the pageant system which I totally disagree with. So they probably weren't, on the surface, too much like me. But I don't see them now as anything other than parents who would not have done such a thing, and in no way do I think Burke did the crime from a to z as someone suggested was possible.
I credit some of Smit's work just on the possibility of an intruder. And let's face that the Boulder police were in no way equipped to handle a case of this nature. They have botched and botched and botched it again and again. I'm glad Lou Smit looked for things that they did not appear to consider, and he found a bunch of them, all pointing to a possible intruder. Possible.
When I think about John Mark Karr, or a John Mark Karr type, and then I think about the Ramseys, and throw in the Boulder police investigating this crime, put me down on the side that this was done by an intruder and not the Ramseys.
I'm also very interested in S.B.T.C. I was before, when I first heard about it. I and others have been ridiculed for that but it's quite a coincidence that Karr makes a big splash with words starting with those letters, sort of predicting the future in a yearbook signing, then later confessess to a crime in which the ransom note had actually been signed with S.B.T.C. But the true clincher would be if he signed other things with that back before the murder.
If I were the prosecutor, I would not now be looking at the Ramseys. Did Karr do it? Not sure. There's enough there to make me take a long, hard look at Karr.
Then, if it isn't him, I'd be looking for the real intruder.