Well, obviously the authorities disagreed cause she wasn't arressted for the crime of killing her daughter!
"Well, obviously the authorities disagreed cause she wasn't arrested for the crime of killing her daughter!"
The authorities didn't disagree. They couldn't, as evidence is evidence. The Ramseys are still under an umbrella of suspicion by the police and are considered prime suspects. As to why they weren't charged, it was politics and personalities that have prevented it from coming to court.
Again, from Crime Magazine, 2003:
Det. Thomas — who doesn't mention the possibility of filing cover-up charges in his book on the case — writes that prosecutors didn't feel up to the burden of prosecuting any case against the Ramseys, particularly not against the legal talent that would have been arrayed against them (the Ramseys had hired one of Colorado's foremost criminal defense firms). "Years of plea bargaining had made them paper tigers," Thomas charges, noting that under Hunter, Boulder prosecutors rarely took cases to trial because they favored plea bargains so strongly.
Filing cover-up charges would also have been an implicit admission that the investigation had failed to determine beyond a reasonable doubt how JonBenet died or who was responsible. There is no statute of limitations on murder, so perhaps Hunter felt the best prospect for justice was to wait until the evidence shows how JonBenet died and who was responsible. But short of a confession, the evidence will never establish that."