Worst piece of crime investigation in the history of the planet.
All those involved should be ashamed.
Chief Moose would have done a better job.
By coincidence, I was re-reading "JonBenet" by Steve Thomas and Don Davis when this news broke. Steve Thomas was one of the lead Boulder detectives on the case, and spent a year and a half of his life doing nothing else but working the case. His chronicle of the Ramseys, the Boulder DA's office, and the events that took place, from his perspective as an experienced street cop and detective, paint the most infuriating picture of a crime investigation that I've ever read. The frustration made Thomas give up police work after beating his head against the wall for almost two years.
The Ramseys' actions couldn't have been more suspicious if a Hollywood script writer had plotted the whole thing out for them. They did virtually nothing that normal crime victims do, and did virtually everything that the guilty do to evade and cover up. The DA's office was in bed with the Ramseys' defense team (which was formed within a few hours of discovery of the body), and thwarted virtually every attempt by the street cops to properly investigate the case. The cops faced nothing but evasion and lies, and more evasion and lies.
This is the single most infuriating book I've ever read, and the actions of the Ramseys and the DA left me utterly convinced that Patsy Ramsey did the deed and that John Ramsey immediately began an extremely evasive defense operation while the first responders were still on the scene.
I'm amazed at the current turn of events, and hope the DNA and confession stories are true. I hope to see the honest street cops vindicated, after everyone above them thwarted their best efforts for years. What the Ramseys faced in the way of public persecution was almost entirely of their own creation by being very slippery and evasive.
I think all the people who blamed the parents and the brother should be ashamed.
All those involved should be ashamed.
In the last 10 years how many victims have there been? That is the truly sad part here.
No, they should be fired and put on trial for being totally incompetent.
Unfortunately, we have way too many policeman and other LEO that are also not competent.
The reluctance to use DNA testing to free persons who claim to be innocent is just one aspect of a society that does not want to admit that its law enforcement and judicial system is tainted.