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Interesting speculation. Did the Ramsey's post a reward for finding the killer? If they did, sooner or later one of the "fellow sickos" would have been inclined to collect, IMO.
BTW, what's LEO?

Law Enforcement Officer.

I don't if there was a reward offered by the family or any other party. All I recall is the parents being unusually uncooperative.

Given that the investigators were almost as incompetent as the parents were uncooperative, and the amount of time that's gone by, I also doubt that the evidence in investigators' possession has been utterly secure all this time. Probably a lot of police dept. clerks had access to the evidence along the way, and nowadays it's so easy to snap a picture of something with an itty bitty camera on a cell phone. And the investigators themselves may have babbled along the way, to people who were close friends or spouses at the time, and have since drifted away and become close to other people, and re-babbled to them. I suspect if authorities offered a $100,000 reward to anyone who could provide a detailed description of the body within the next hour, with a guarantee of not being investigated for how they came to know it, there would be at least a couple of dozen winners who had nothing whatsoever to do with perpetrating or covering up the crime.