Replies

The police should arrest this media whore...

Professor Michael Tracey came to CU in 1988 from England, where he was head of the Broadcasting Research Unit in London, Britain's leading think tank dealing with media issues.

He is currently researching and writing two books dealing with aspects of what he terms "the injustice of the American justice system."

******

Tracey, 58, produced a controversial documentary in 1998 that challenged the presumption of the parents' guilt and took the media to task for coverage of the case.

First broadcast in Great Britain, the documentary later was seen in the United States. An interview with the Ramseys was the centerpiece of a CBS 48 Hours broadcast focusing on JonBenet's murder.

"That little girl kind of took over my life, certainly professionally," Tracey said.

He still works, as he has since 1988, as director of the University of Colorado's Center for Mass Media Research.

But the murder case preoccupies his time as a subject in his journalism classes, as a book he is beginning to write, and as another documentary that was broadcast in the United Kingdom last summer. Plans to broadcast an expanded form of that second documentary in the United States were put on hold after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Tracey's career took a different path after he wrote a commentary, for the Boulder Daily Camera, critical of the media's handling of the case.

"I've written eight or nine books, but that little op-ed piece that took 45 minutes did more to shift my life than anything else," he said. "It's kind of weird, really. It's been the most interesting professional experience in my life by a factor of 10."

Ramsey lawyer Bryan Morgan contacted him about the piece and said Patsy Ramsey might be willing to speak to one of his classes. She never did, but their discussions led to the interview with John and Patsy Ramsey contained in the first documentary.

"It took off from there," Tracey said. "To be honest, who thought they'd say yes to an interview with two people they don't know. They were suspects in a murder and facing the death penalty for all anyone knew at the time."

The case became the focus of his career and remains so.

******

New Documentary On Ramsey Case Produced By CU-Boulder Professor Michael Tracey To Air On National TV
Dec. 7, 2004

New evidence in the 1996 JonBenet Ramsey murder case is examined in "Who Killed the Pageant Queen? Suspects" a documentary by Professor Michael Tracey of the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

The documentary will air on the CBS show "48 Hours Mystery" on Dec. 18 and on Court Television in January.

According to Tracey, a new team of investigators has uncovered dramatic new evidence about the murder, resulting in the identification of a key suspect.

"This compelling evidence points to a new way of thinking about who it was that actually killed JonBenet," Tracey said. "Previously, media leaks about the evidence and absurd theories as to how JonBenet died helped to convince the public that the parents did it. A whole new theory of who should have been investigated - but was not - is at the forefront of the investigation reported in the documentary."

http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2004/385.html

******

Carol McKinley: Many forensic document examiners have given their opinions as to who wrote the note. But the only one to testify before a grand jury in the case was Chet Ubowski, forensic document examiner for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Out of 100 people he analyzed for the Boulder Police Department, he found ONLY ONE person whom he thought may have authored the document, Patsy Ramsey. Investigative sources tell Fox News that the disguised letters and bleeding ink from the felt tipped pen used to write the note kept him from 100 percent ID of Mrs. Ramsey

******

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 26, 2004
CONTACT: Tricia Griffith

tgrif@xmission.com
www.forumsforjustice.org/forums

Colorado University Journalism Professor Michael Tracey’s Latest Ramsey Documentary Exposed by
Forums for Justice.org

An innocent man, a man who was never a suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey case according to the Boulder District Attorney’s office, was fingered as the “Prime Suspect” by C.U. Journalism Professor Michael Tracey in his latest Ramsey documentary.

On June 16, 2004, Michael Tracey's latest JonBenet Ramsey documentary entitled "Who Killed the Pageant Queen?" aired in Great Britain. Not only is this documentary filled with errors, it also falsely implicates a man who wasn't even in the state of Colorado at the time of the JonBenet Ramsey murder.

Thanks to Michael Tracey’s showing of John Steven Gigax’s police record, with his case number clearly in view, the people who saw the show might actually think Mr. Gigax had something to do with the murder of JonBenet Ramsey.

However, there are serious problems with Tracey’s documentary. Mr. Gigax wasn’t even living in the state of Colorado at the time of the murder. On December 25/26, 1996, Mr. Gigax was with a large number of family and friends in a state far away from Colorado. Tom Bennett of the Boulder D.A’s office told Mr. Gigax he was never a suspect and the Boulder D.A was never looking for him to question him. A call by a Forums for Justice.org representative confirmed, through Tom Bennett, the same information.

http://www.forumsforjustice.org/forums/showthread.php?t=5292

Forums for Justice.org will be posting information concerning Michael Tracey's attempt, along with Ramsey private detective Ollie Grey, to once again accuse an innocent man of murdering JonBenet Ramsey.

This time, Tracey and Grey were caught red handed lying to the people of Great Britain.

Forums for Justice.org has all the facts and will be presenting them to you soon. Please check back often for updates.