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This is kind of like a bedtime story.

Once upon a time there was a girl named JonBen�t.

She looked like a princess.

But she wasn't.

She was just a normal girl...

who wanted to play outside and ride her bike.

As I lay me down to sleep...

I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

If I should die before I wake...

I pray the Lord my soul to take.

That's the last thing I remember.

Saying those words.

Then I fell asleep.

I don't remember anything after that.

- 911, what's your emergency? - Police!

- What's going on, ma'am? - 755, 15th street.

- What's going on, ma'am? - We have a kidnapping! Hurry, please!

Explain to me what's going on, okay?

There's... We have a... there�s a note left and our daughter�s gone.�

- There's a note and your daughter's gone? - Yes!

- How old is your daughter? - Six years old. She's blond... 6 years old.

Okay, how long ago was this?

I don't know, I just got the note and my daughter's gone.

Does it say who took her?

- There's a ransom note here. - It's a ransom note?

It says S.B.T.C. Victory. Please!

And what's your name? Are you...

Patsy Ramsey. I'm the mother.

- I'm sending an officer over, okay? - Please!

Do you know how long she's been gone?

- No, I don't. Oh, please send someone! - I am, honey.

- Please! Hurry! Hurry! - I just need you to take a breath.

Patsy?

Patsy!

Patsy!

That's Steve Thomas. He's a detective.

Maybe he's the one who's going to solve this puzzle.

Pete.

My muffhead waving the butcher knives?

- Are you cutting him a deal? - I've got bigger fish to fry right now, Steve.

What are you giving him? A Community Service in Rehab again?

I have an idea. Why don't you throw in a dental plan?

Not a bad idea. He's terrible on the teeth.

Do you guys prosecute anybody?

Commander wants us in this meeting too.

It's about the Ramsey girl.

Isn't that homicide?

They want to take the body back to Atlanta for burial.

- We need it here for evidence. - The autopsy's been done.

The case isn't. We need to do some more testing.

Then we need to talk to them.

- Commander. - You can't ransom the body for an interview.

We aren't ransoming the body.

It's just way too premature to release it.

Do I need to remind you that the Ramsey's are important people?

We're not finished with her yet.

Have you read the autopsy report?

Why don't you go get us that interview?

You can't ransom the body.

What the hell was that?

Quinn briefed you?

Not really. We need to get up the speed.

I'll talk to Linda. She was there. I need this closed fast.

This city is gonna come apart if there's a maniac running around.

Yeah.

Are you ready for this?

- What do you mean? - Homicide isn't narcotics.

I've been an investigator for 13 years, John.

I've worked hundreds of cases. You're in good hands.

The scene wasn't preserved.

What? What do you mean the scene wasn't preserved?

It just wasn't, all right?

Linda.

What went on in that house?

There it was, right over here.

I moved it here.

That's Mommy and Daddy.

Mommy was Miss West Virginia once.

She put me in lots of pageants too.

She said I looked so pretty in a tiara.

- Are you in charge? - I am, I am. Just tell me what happened.

I went to her room at 5:45, to wake her for her mission trip...

...but she wasn't there.

I thought maybe she'd just got up early in the excitement...

and then I came downstairs and I found the note.

Oh, my God!

Mr. Ramsey, Listen carefully.

We are a group of individuals that represent a small foreign faction.

We respect your business but not the country that it serves.

At this time, we have your daughter in our possession.

She is safe and unharmed.

If you want her to see 1997,

you must follow our instructions to the letter.

What have we got?

The note says they're being watched.

talk to the cops or anyone, the girl is beheaded.

Commander got word. They're influential people.

Treat them accordingly.

I'll check further exit points.

We were at our friends' house, the Whites...

...for Christmas dinner. She fell asleep in the car.

I carried her up and put her in bed.

She's a bed wetter.

Don't touch anything, please.

Our son's in here.

Patsy!

- Oh, honey. - We called our friends.

The Fernies and the Whites.

John, what's happened? What's going on?

- JonBen�t's missing. - What?

- There was a ransom note. - What are you talking about?

- Patsy, what's happened? - My baby!

We just don't know...

What do you mean?

JonBen�t. JonBen�t.

JonBen�t, if you're down here, sweetie, this really isn't funny.

That's my dad's best friend, Fleet.

I came downstairs and I found the note.

And so I ran up to her room... and she was gone.

JonBen�t.

JonBen�t.

JonBen�t.

John's gonna wake Burke.

He doesn't want him seeing Patsy this way.

Let's take him back to our place.

He can sleep with Fleet junior.

Hey, Burke.

Burke, let's wake up.

Uh... I gotta get you to the Whites.

Okay? I gotta get you dressed and to the Whites, okay?

Okay.

Thank you for coming. This is our pastor.

Will everyone please just stay over here in the living room.

These people work for the City.

They help when bad things happen to good people.

I wish they could help me remember what happened that night.

Mr. Ramsey, your son was the only other person here.

We'd like to ask him a few questions.

He was asleep. He doesn't know anything.

Mr. White, if you could bring that roll of film from dinner last night.

Sure.

You doing okay?

Yeah.

Got a new videogame?

Yeah.

When the kidnappers call,

it's imperative that you ask to speak with your daughter...

so that we know she's okay.

This lady is a detective too. Her name is Linda Arndt.

She seems really nice. Like she really cares.

How do we know that the note wasn't written after midnight...

...and they're calling between 8 and 10 a.m. tomorrow?

We don't. But let's assume it's today.

Ask for details on where they tell you to bring the money.

Details on everything.

But tell them you can't get it till 5 p.m.

Keep them on the phone as long as you can.

Is there any significance you can think of to that ransom amount?

$118.000?

No.

I'd pay anything.

What about these phrases, 'foreign faction'?

'Grow a brain', 'fat cat'?

Anyone you know who talks like that?

No.

Anyone you can think of who might want to do this to you?

Yes! Our housekeeper.

She recently asked for a loan. She has money problems.

I don't know, the handwriting might look a little...

She has a key.

My family did everything with the Whites.

Priscilla was like my second mom and Daphne White was my best friend.

Now, we'll just pray together, okay? All right?

- Our Father... - Our Father...

- ...who art in heaven... - ...who art in heaven...

hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come...

Mommy, look!

Once as a joke Daphne hid from her whole family.

But when I wasn't there that morning I wasn't hiding.

And I wasn't joking.

Mr. Ramsey, it's protocol that we get handwriting samples...

from you, your wife and both children.

Sure.

Could everyone please just stay in the living room...

...and the study only. You too, please.

- How could I not have heard my baby? - It's okay.

How could I not hear my baby?

So much for a call at 10 o'clock.

Maybe it is tomorrow.

He didn't say anything? Even notice the time passed?

Not a word.

All right, let's release anybody who doesn't need to be here.

Commander wants a strategy session at the station.

- All done for it? - Yeah.

All right.

If everyone could please just stay in one room or the other.

Patsy...

tell me more about the housekeeper.

We have a detective going over to talk to her.

You know, I don't know.

I...

I'm thinking... maybe it doesn't look so much...

- like her hand... - Excuse me.

Maybe we should throw JonBen�t's sheets in the wash.

No!

Don't touch anything, please. Just...

...keep everyone in the living room and the study.

Excuse me.

It's Arndt. I've paged a couple of times already...

and I need backup now.

I've got Buckingham Palace here...

...with nine kings and queens roaming around.

I'm looking for Patsy.

Uh... I think she's in the bathroom.

And John?

John?

Mr. Ramsey.

I got...

I thought there might be something from the kidnappers.

Have you ever seen him like this?

His daughter's missing.

I don't know if I'd be even that together.

Mr. Ramsey.

Why don't you take Fleet and just search the house?

Top to bottom, see if there's maybe something missing...

...anything that might help us.

John, was that always broken?

Huh?

Oh... uh, yeah.

Locked myself out last summer.

I had to break it to get in.

Been meaning to fix that.

Oh, my God!

Don't touch anything there!

Don't touch anything!

Put her down! Put her down.

Yes, now! I'm all alone here.

He didn't mean to kill her.

Why, he wrapped her with a blanket.

God!

John, no! Please, nobody touch her, please!

Please.

My little angel.

It's gotta be an inside job.

I didn't help her...

Oh... no!

No...

No, no, no, no, my baby!

No!

Jesus!

You raised Lazarus from the tomb!

Please, raise my baby!

I'm sorry.

I'm so very sorry.

It was a shit storm.

I was at the autopsy this morning.

And there's a six-year-old girl...

...with an 8-inch crack in her skull and a garrote around her neck.

And you know what they're trying to figure out?

- What? - Which one of those killed her.

And when, and what and for how long...

someone was shoving something inside of her.

- Signs of sexual abuse? - Do the parents have any ideas?

A few. But we can't talk to them since...

We thought it was a kidnapping.

These are influential people...

everyone was treating it with kid gloves.

Hugging the body, cleaning up a murder scene.

I moved the body, Steve. It's all contaminated.

I don't even know why I...

Thomas. Someone here to see you.

Yeah.

Mr. Ramsey, you can't walk away from an active crime scene.

They're getting my plane ready. I have important business in Atlanta.

Your daughter... We have unfinished business here.

You can't go to Atlanta or anywhere else.

- We can't stay here another moment. - We obviously have to talk to you...

...your wife and your son.

You'll stay with us.

Uh... I'll call you back.

Just uh...

give us a day.

Please.

We've just lost our daughter.

These are my stepsiblings, John Andrew and Miranda.

Their elder sister died in a car accident.

I know most stories only have one bad thing happen.

But this isn't a story. This is real life.

Lots of bad things happen in real life.

At least in mine.

This is a mistake.

We should be taking them downtown. Separating them.

It's the Commander's call.

Where are you going?

I woke up and my father said JonBen�t was missing.

You know about what time it was you woke up?

You didn't hear anything before that in the night?

- Uh-uh. - Nothing at all.

Just, when they went to bed, the water heater squeaks.

No scream, cries, yell?

No raised voices?

No arguing?

Anything like that?

What's the first thing you remember hearing?

My father woke me and said JonBen�t was missing...

...and they were going to find her.

Your father woke you?

Oh, I thought you said...

Do you know if we're still going to Michigan?

I don't know.

What do you do up in Michigan?

We get to skate on the lake and build really big fires.

Sounds fun.

Let's get back to you waking up.

Can I go play video games?

Patsy?

Patsy.

Patsy.

No, listen, there's more at the end. Like she didn't completely hang up.

Patsy.

Patsy.

Patsy?

Patsy.

Patsy.

It was clear on the call.

Like it was her voice, but not so hysterical,

talking with someone nearby.

- Who else knows about this? - No one.

Just keep it that way.

F.B.I.

Secret Service. They do this stuff.

It's the War and Peace of forensic notes.

Normally it's 'We have your kid,

get the money, we will call.'

I've never seen anything like this before.

Now, this guy for sure didn't write it.

Now her, there are a lot of similarities.

You definitely can't rule her out.

She's... wait.

It's practice.

The note was written on his pad.

That was John's lawyer. Their investigators want to talk to us.

They say the police always looked at the parents first...

...and they need to advise John and Patsy.

Fleet...

her bed didn't look slept in.

And she was wearing the same clothes as the night before.

I don't think Patsy went to bed that night.

- Good night. - Merry Christmas

- Thank you, you guys. - Merry Christmas.

Good night! Merry Christmas!

- Mrs. White? - Yes?

Detectives Thomas and Gosage with the BPD.

Do you mind if we ask you a couple of questions?

Uh... we already talked to your colleagues.

Why not? Everyone else has.

You just missed the last bunch.

Who was that?

Some private investigators from John's lawyers.

Yeah? What did they want?

Basically to know what we had already told you.

Or anyone else.

Are they concerned about something?

I guess you'd have to ask them.

Mr. White, Mrs. White...

I want you to know that in cases like this...

it's natural to look at the immediate family first, eliminating...

That's what John says lawyers are for.

Let's just focus to where it should be.

And where's that?

You're the police. You don't have any leads?

I want to remind you that under...

TRS 41.1. Non-testimonial evidence only.

No questions.

Excellent. Glad to see we're on the same patch.

We're here to help.

Will this help find who killed my daughter?

I hope so.

I didn't kill my baby.

No one said you did.

Daddy and I have something to tell you.

It's going to make you really sad inside.

But it's okay.

JonBen�t is gone.

What do you mean JonBen�t's gone?

To heaven, sweetie.

Is she coming back?

No.

What happened to her?

- She... - Nobody knows for sure, honey.

Today is Mommy's birthday.

That's sad.

And let us say Amen.

Amen.

Please, let the family pass and then join us afterwards for a reception.

That's the housekeeper,

whose handwriting looks nothing like the note.

No?

Detectives! Detectives! Just a couple of questions, please.

It's an active investigation. You know we can't comment.

The chief is going to call a press conference, all right?

Can I just have a moment of your time, please?

Is it true you're ransoming the body for an interview?

The body is going to Atlanta today for a funeral on Tuesday.

You can go ask the Ramseys.

I wonder who told her that.

Here come the Ramseys. John!

Patsy, it's a terrible day, I know,

but perhaps you can share what your plans are now.

Any comments.

Do you have any idea who might have killed your daughter?

They're in mourning.

- How are you feeling? - John, John, John...

Were you in Boulder at the time of the death, John Andrew?

Get the mike out of here.

The mind cannot accept...

...and the heart refuses to grasp...

...the death of one so young...

...who was suddenly taken from us by the cruelty and malice...

...of some unworthy person.

When a child is lost one feels a part of their future is gone.

The Ramseys, in Atlanta today for the funeral...

the city where they lived until 1991,

and where JonBen�t was born.

The service, relatively small,

was attended by only close friends of the family...

...and the Ramseys have continued to flap suspicion on themselves...

by not yet talking to Boulder Police.

Unconfirmed reports also speculate...

...that the Ramseys are in fact now planning to stay in Atlanta...

from this point forward.

There are children here.

Hiding behind lawyers, PIs and crisis management firms...

...is not the answer, John. You look like O.J. in the Bronco.

We're not confident on how the police are handling this.

I'm going to put up a $50.000 reward for information.

Like O.J.

What you do in the next 24 hours is going to define the rest of your life.

You need to come back to Boulder and talk to the police.

Patsy needs to talk to them, we do, we all do...

...to find out what happened to JonBen�t.

You're making it look like...

...you're involved.

And we're going to tell them we're not.

We've made arrangements to go on CNN.

- CNN? - And get this all cleared up.

Stop it from getting out of control.

You need to talk to the police, not CNN.

Please. As your friends.

For the both of you, for Burke.

Come back to Boulder.

When Mommy and Daddy went on TV...

...it was the first time most people saw them.

But on TV, Mommy doesn't even sound like herself.

And she looks so sad.

We're also assembling an investigating team...

...to assist.

- We have to find... - We have at work the best minds...

...this country has to offer.

There is a killer on the loose.

I don't know who it is, I don't know if it's a he or a she...

But if I were a resident of Boulder,

...I would tell my friends...

...to keep,...

keep their babies close to you.

There's someone out there.

Mr. Burroughs!

Is it true the Ramseys are back in Boulder...

but still aren't cooperating with the police?

Absolutely not.

The Ramseys are back in Boulder. They're in an undisclosed location.

They're cooperating extensively. They've answered all the questions...

the police had for them at this time.

Answering a page of yes or nos in legal speak is not cooperating.

Look at this: 'The best recollection.'

'Neither has a memory', 'It is believed.'

Look at this. This is straight out of Johnny Cochrane's playbook.

Their attorneys are cooperating with us, Steve. I don't know what more you want.

Don't you think you're spending too much time on this?

And what about John's disgruntled employee?

Well, yeah, we're looking at him but...

...the Ramseys' attorneys are running their own investigation, Pete,

and it's not to help us.

I'm late, Steve.

They want to cooperate? Tell them to bring in Burke.

Or social services is going to be at their doorstep taking him away.

Are you threatening him after everything they've been through?

Do you have children, Steve?

He's a minor whose sibling was murdered in his own house.

I'm not threatening, it's Colorado law.

Does yours have a massage?

No.

Does yours have glasses?

Uh... no.

Do you usually wake up when you hear something?

Yeah, like a fridge door.

But you didn't hear anything at all.

- Does yours have Reagan? - No.

How are things since she died?

Fine.

Do you feel safe after what happened?

Yeah.

- Does yours have leisure? - No.

Do you know what did happen?

Yeah, she was killed.

Do you know how?

Someone quietly took her down to the basement...

and took a knife out and hit her on the head.

And you're not afraid that they're going to come back for you or...

your family?

No.

Do you have secrets, Burke?

Probably, and if I did, I wouldn't be telling you...

because they wouldn't be secrets anymore.

Hey, that's mine!

- I'm sorry. - I can't drink that now.

How about I'll get you another one, and in the meantime...

would you like to draw me a picture of your family?

I'll be right back.

I thought this would be quicker. He's been up there almost an hour.

I can't tell you what a hole it's left in me.

John's back at work, Burke's going back to school.

And me...

JonBen�t was everything to me.

My little JonniBee.

I can't have any more children. I had cancer surgery.

I'm sorry.

If I lost Burke, I would have no reason to go on living.

They don't want to take him from you, Patsy,

they just want to ask him some questions.

The plane implies remoteness. Distance.

The small stature of Patsy, insignificance.

Powerlessness.

The fact that JonBen�t isn't in it at all...

...a week and a half after the murder...

Well, it's interesting, but it's psychobabble.

It's not evidence.

He told the Doc he was just getting on with his life.

He's nine.

We're getting umpteen calls a day from kids who are afraid...

...this is going to happen to them.

And this kid, who's just down the hall from where it did happen,

he's not scared at all?

It's the same thing I said about John.

There's no such thing such as normal behavior after a trauma like this.

It's odd but it's not evidence.

What I'd like you to do is listen to the end after Patsy thought she'd hung up.

And just write down what you hear.

I've done the same, so has my staff, all independently.

Take your time.

This is the part of the story...

...where the hero finally figures out how to save the princess.

Right, first a woman.

Patsy.

'Help me, Jesus.' 'Help me, Jesus.'

And then a more distant voice,

'Please, what do I do?'

And then a man, John, 'We're not talking to you.'

And then the other voice again.

'Well, what did you find?'

The other voice, how would you describe it?

A young boy?

It's 2 a.m.

Yeah.

I know.

I'm sorry. I'll be uh... I'll be right up.

What a terrible thing to look at right before you go to sleep.

I don't think I could do it.

Do what?

Have kids.

Not anymore, not after this.

I uh...

I mean, if anything happened to them, I would...

Shh... what's that?

You're worrying me.

You never turn off.

Something has to change.

And I'm not saying this because of us, this is about you.

You are losing yourself in this case.

We left for dinner at the Whites at approximately 4:30 p.m.

The last thing she ate was cracked crab...

...at the Whites.

She fell asleep in the car, I carried her up and put her in bed.

No, I did not check the doors or the windows that night.

I don't know if Patsy slept on the covers or under them.

I did not write that note.

Where was Burke when you found the note and called 911?

Asleep.

Every puzzle can be solved,

except sometimes you lose the pieces...

...or forget where you put them,

or put the pieces from one puzzle in the box for a different puzzle.

But if you find all the right pieces, you can solve the puzzle for sure.

He didn't ask anything. About the investigation,

the autopsy, how his daughter was killed...

Nothing.

His daughter was just murdered. And that's the second daughter he's lost.

He's numb. Traumatized.

What's happening with the 911 call?

We're reaching out to some private firms for some more cutting edge.

We've got the mark where they wrote the note.

It's an exclusive match from a pot of pens...

...not far from the pad in the kitchen.

They staged it.

It was an accident and they staged it to look like a blown kidnapping.

Don't jump to any conclusions. I don't see a motive there.

And if it was an accident, then how?

And why?

To avoid bad press?

A kidnapping isn't any better.

We're just looking at the evidence we have in front of us.

Then why such a horrific staging?

Okay. What else are we pursuing?

Are we tracking the pedophiles who may have attended her pageants?

Yeah... it's a lot to process.

Well, what's going on with the housekeeper?

We're doing a handwriting analysis.

Okay, well, don't get locked into only one theory.

- Keep pushing on all fronts. - We need to talk to them.

To the Ramseys, separately and unprepared.

Which isn't going to happen at this time.

The DA's words, not mine.

And according to the Ramseys' new lawyers,

they'll take written questions,

but they want to review everything in our case file before they talk to the police.

What?

Get some questions written up.

Damn it!

The DA's suspended any trace testing at CBI.

On what grounds? No one's charged.

- We can test anything we want. - John's lawyer asked them to.

There's male DNA found in her panties that still has not been identified.

It could be direct evidence of the perpetrator.

This is absurd. Whose side is the DA on?

I'll take care of it.

Linda.

We're taking a lot of heat for the way this all went down.

Well, maybe if the DA would...

No.

One month into this thing...

- ...I just can't keep this much manpower. - No!

I need to do this.

Commander, please.

I made mistakes. I want to make good on them.

I'm building a relationship with Patsy, I can be invaluable to this.

I'm sorry about that.

Mommy always said lots of people would see me.

What's going on?

I'm not staying on a damn desk job I'd rather quit!

Promise me.

Promise me you'll see it through.

I'll see it through.

What happened after the funeral with John, Fleet?

Nothing. I told him to come back here.

No fight, altercation?

Well, I was agitated, I...

I had a disagreement with John's brother and...

...one of his team asked me to stay out of things.

He's one of our best friends and...

...Priscilla and I just went in and spoke our minds.

There was no fight.

Did someone say there was?

I just need you to confirm a couple of things we went over.

Sure.

Did anyone other than Priscilla corroborate your story that...

you didn't leave her house that night? Anyone at all?

Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second!

I want a public statement that neither Priscilla nor I are suspects.

- Mr. White, I can't comment... - Look, we've given you handwriting,

hair, blood, fingerprints, DNA.

We'd give you a pound of flesh for that little girl.

Just tell me one thing.

Did John and Patsy suggest we had anything to do with this?

I can't comment on an ongoing investigation.

Make the statement.

It is the opinion of the FBI Child Abduction and Serial Killer Unit...

...that the Ramseys' conditions were inconsistent...

...with sound investigative practices...

...and would not likely lead to a productive investigative interview.

When the DA still forces us to show our entire hand...

...the 911 tape stays with us.

Okay?

They're bringing in an outside investigator.

A guy named Lou Smit.

Lou Smit? Yeah, he's a legend.

- Heather Dawn Church case. - And 149 others.

The DA won't call a grand jury yet.

But they're bringing on Smit to advise and organize their case.

Yeah...

Couldn't sleep.

Think you're going to relax when you read the police statement?

I'm not looking at the statement.

Last summer, months before this happened,

Barb Fernie pointed out that damaged door to Patsy.

We thought someone had tried to break in.

She said it had been John, travelling, always forgetting his keys.

Possible point of entry?

She knows! She knows what that is.

People may not like the pageants, or the sexy outfits,

or everything that Patsy was putting JonBen�t into.

But an innocent six-year-old girl is dead.

We fed her last meal.

Who is going to start standing up for the truth around here?

We are.

Detective Smit?

Lou.

Steve...

Thomas.

It's an honor.

Is that JonBen�t?

Yeah.

I've told her that we're gonna solve this.

Let me show you something.

These...

...are all cases I've been privileged to help solve.

We're gonna get her in there too.

Yes, we are.

Can I show you around?

Lou!

We're about ready to pull out.

You done?

I don't think I've ever seen a more compromised...

...crime scene in my entire career.

Yeah.

There were mistakes made.

These were your people.

Contaminated doesn't even describe it.

How do you account for that?

They thought they were showing up to a kidnapping.

Just a kidnapping.

Basic police work.

Fundamentals.

No wonder the Ramseys feel exposed.

I would too.

I made a drawing once at school.

My teacher thought it was a horse.

My friend thought it was a fish.

It was a picture of me. But nobody saw that.

I wish someone would have seen that.

Beautiful day, Steve. Why the cloud?

Did you hear the Ramseys are moving to Atlanta?

Yeah?

Had to give them our entire case file.

They're gonna be prepared for anything we ask.

- No surprises. - But, Steve...

I don't think the Ramseys had anything to do with it.

Here's how I see it.

He spotted her at one of her pageants...

or the recent Christmas Parade.

He waited till they were gone and then entered the house.

While they were out he familiarized himself with the complicated layout...

and then, knowing he had time,

sat down, wrote the note and waited.

Around midnight, he crept upstairs,

and immobilized her with a Taser.

Lou, a Taser is seriously loud.

Not if it's applied directly to the skin.

He taped her mouth, wrapped her in her blanket and carried her downstairs.

When she began to stir he restrained her and then...

did what he wanted.

When she awoke and managed to rip the tape off and scream...

...he struck her with the flashlight.

and then panicked,

hid her in the cellar and fled back out the way he came in.

forgetting his ransom note on the stairs.

Lou, there are thousands of pages of material.

Hundreds of hours of videos, stacks of photos,

and you came to your conclusion in 72 hours.

Uh-huh. And now I've had time to confirm and reconfirm it.

In my experience murders usually are what they seem.

Rarely are they perfectly planned.

Nobody's saying this was planned, Lou.

This was an awful accident, an outburst.

Something that was covered up...

and staged to look like something else.

Lou, the Heather Dawn Church case was great.

Everyone thought it was the family, you said it wasn't...

...and that was true.

But that's not the blueprint for every case.

The blueprint for every case is evidence determining theory.

Not theory determining evidence.

Steve,

this is your first homicide, but remember I've done a lot of these.

You won't find too many people in this department agreeing with you, Lou.

Or the FBI or any other agency who's taken a look at this.

It's not the first time.

Gentlemen.

I want to say something to the person or persons that committed this crime.

I mentioned the list of suspects narrows.

Soon there will be no one on the list but you.

Hm, this is nice. A university professor...

...saw me on television and says...

... he would stake his reputation that I'm innocent.

John.

I feel like...

...the people that are supposed to be protecting JonBen�t aren't.

That includes the DA.

It's insane to suggest that we need legal counsel...

...to deal with our own district attorney but...

...that's just it. We don't trust him anymore.

Neither do we.

He's been accused in a national magazine of being incompetent.

It's been almost a year and he's done nothing for JonBen�t.

The lawyers that I've been speaking with in Denver...

have made a suggestion that could just help us...

get a fair hearing with a grand jury.

But I can't do it by myself.

How can we help?

We want you to appoint a special prosecutor.

To take the case completely away from Hunter.

And politics and ego, Governor.

Everyone seems to have forgotten...

that this is about a murdered six-year-old girl.

Yes, I think they have.

Let me consider it.

Thank you, Governor.

He's not gonna do a thing.

So, and then what?

We'll take it to his boss. The people who've elected him.

We must be mindful, however, of the first cause of the investigation's failure -

the refusal of John and Patsy Ramsey to cooperate fully and genuinely.

I thought Fleet and Priscilla were our friends.

Why would they do this?

That's exactly what everyone's going to think when they read it.

So, the DA is trying to make a deal for new interviews with the Ramseys.

Hallelujah!

Looks like the White sleighter might have actually had some impact.

What?

Chief sent the 911 tape.

To whom?

DA or team Ramsey?

Doesn't matter.

- 'I scream at you.' - What the hell is 'I scream at you'?

It's the voice on the 911 tape that you never told us about.

I gave it to my brother-in-law, at the lab in Los Olmos,

It's not John, Patsy, or Burke. It's someone...

...maybe Larry, Curley or Moe on a television somewhere, 'I scream at you.'

Now look, it's there, Pete... A young boy 'What did you find?'

I heard it with my own ears.

And he heard, 'I scream at you? And Japanese guy's gonna hear 'domo arigato'...

and a Frenchman will hear, 'Parlez-vous fran�ais?'

And you know what John's lawyers are gonna say?

- What? - I laugh at you.

You should have given me the tape, Steve.

- An entomologist? - Uh-huh, about these webs.

Uh, Lou, an intruder would have destroyed them...

and wiped all the dust off the windows.

Not so fast...

Oh, I'm sorry, you're saying the spider spun them back for a photo op?

That's why we need to talk to an entomologist.

For God's sake. Lou. Is there an outside chance for that?

- I guess... - There is!

Is there an outside chance that the person killed her in the basement...

...and then ran the flashlight upstairs to the kitchen?

There is.

But forgot the ransom note on the stairs.

- There is. - No. There isn't!

Because an outside chance of this and an outside chance of that...

...and a hundred other this and thats...

...add up to an outside chance of the whole thing.

And there you go again, detective. You're letting the cart lead the horse.

You know what I want to see, Lou?

Yes, you want to see John Ramsey hanging by his neck.

No. Where was the John Ramsey that lost his first daughter in a car accident?

He was inconsolable, devastated, bedridden for weeks over a car accident.

Where was that John Ramsey?

I can't say. I've never lost two daughters before.

Let me ask you this.

Where does the garrote fit into your cart?

Why bother with something so sadistic, so cruel?

And what about the unknown male DNA in her underwear?

- That is a wild goose chase... - Steve, Steve!

I've seen this before, Steve.

You're out to prove something. It's got nothing to do with this case.

Have you guys finished in here?

Hunter just got a letter from Ramsey...

saying a grand jury won't be necessary for them to talk.

What a surprise.

Go in front of a grand jury or do an interview.

Tough choice.

JonBen�t fell asleep in the car.

She walked in slowly and went up the spiral stairs to bed...

...with my mom behind her.

She was sound asleep. I carried her in and I put her in her bed.

Let's say that the intruder was someone JonBen�t knew...

...and they fed her pineapple.

Priscilla has a jacket just like that one I was wearing.

She's the type that might have some guy.

My parents thought I was asleep, but I wasn't.

I was just pretending.

You're a Christian?

Will you swear to God...

you didn't do this?

I swear to God.

Did your mother and father prepare you for this conversation?

No.

What if I told you we had trace evidence...

...that appears to link you to the death of your daughter?

I did not kill my child.

I didn't have a thing to do with it.

Anyone else? Your wife? Swear to God?

I don't give a flying flip about scientific evidence.

I swear to God.

What if there was an accident? Somethng he didn't mean.

You're going down the wrong path, buddy.

- What about Burke? - Burke Ramsey did not do this, okay?

He did not do it.

Get off it!

You got anything you'd like to ask me?

Is that a Rolex?

Are you aware of any prior vaginal intrusion on JonBen�t?

What?

No, I am not.

Prior to the night she was killed?

I... I am...

I want to know what you're talking about.

I am... I am shocked!

This was not done by a family member.

Didn't happen. Period. End of statement.

They're not gonna take this to trial or a grand jury.

No.

What are we doing?

What's this all about?

We're doing our jobs.

Just because they're not doing theirs doesn't mean we don't do ours.

- We're better than that. - They think we're stupid, Ron.

They're laughing at us.

The DA, the Ramseys, Lou Smit.

Nobody's laughing at us.

They are.

So, what do you want to do about it?

Walk.

- You'll just walk. - Yeah.

What else am I gonna do after this?

Just go back to work like normal?

Catch a bad guy and maybe they'll prosecute him?

Now don't be naive.

There's always politics.

Everybody's looking out for their own skin.

But nobody's looking out for her.

Except for us.

This is the one that matters.

If I walk now, it'll actually say something.

Oh, God.

Wait, The detective isn't supposed to quit.

He's supposed to solve the puzzle.

Why is he doing this?

This isn't how the story is supposed to go.

I cannot continue to sanction by my silence...

what has occurred in this case. Steve Thomas, Badge 368.

He writes well, I'll give him that.

Maybe the Whites were right. We should consider a special prosecutor.

Take Hunter out of it altogether.

Get him on the phone.

The grand jury is a compromise...

...so Hunter doesn't have to be removed.

It is, but it's still a win, and a big one.

We know what you've given up, Steve.

Whatever I've given up, the point is...

it's not lip service.

Alex Hunter is not going to be running...

...after bringing in Mike Kane from Pennsylvania. He is a stand up guy.

I do think this is our shot for JonBen�t.

Oh, what's this?

I will not be part of the persecution of innocents.

Mr. Smit told the grand jury that an intruder killed me...

...and kept trying to prove it until he died in 2010.

The grand jurors have done their work extraordinarily well...

...bringing to bear all of their legal powers,

life experiences and sureness.

Yet, I must report to you...

that I and my prosecution task force...

...believe we do not have sufficient evidence...

...to warrant the filing of charges against anyone...

...who has been investigated at this time.

If they don't indict,

a grand jury may issue report, usually at the behest of the DA.

Why the DA may not have requested one in this case...

remains as shrouded a mystery as the grand jury proceedings themselves.

And that's the end of it.

Hunter and everyone else just walks away squeaky clean.

No report, no answers.

The public continues to speculate...

...on who broke into the Ramseys' house that night...

...and killed the innocent six-year-old.

Steve...

you did everything that you could.

I gave up.

No.

Steve...

I gave up.

You...

Steve.

Steve.

What are you doing?

I made a promise.

I need to tell the truth.

Ramsey attorney Lin Wood...

...responded swiftly to the publication of Thomas's book for lawsuit.

This is a man who has sat back and watched...

... Steve Thomas print his daughter's name and picture on a book...

...illegally utilizing confidential police file information...

...to write a book so he can profit.

He wants to profit off of the death of this child.

As if in response to Thomas's book,

John and Patsy Ramsey released today...

...their own account of their daughter's death.

which staunchly contradicts the former detective's account.

- Hello? - Patsy.

It's Dr. Winer.

- Hi. - We got your scan results back and...

Are you able to come in this afternoon?

Sure.

Did they... find something?

Come on in and we'll talk about it then.

Patsy.

Yes.

I'll come in.

I had to take a job trimming trees.

My bosses are kicking in Carlos, he's 19.

It's hard.

I read your book.

My legal bill?

Yeah? Bad?

It's all gone.

Everything.

I'm sorry.

I still think about her sometimes.

Not a day goes by that I don't think about her.

Yeah.

That was a lie.

I think about her all the time.

I hear Patsy's cancer is back.

- I didn't know that. - Yeah.

Well... I gotta get to work.

What are you doing now?

I started a small carpentry business.

- That fits. That's good. - Yeah.

- Good to see you, Steve. - You too.

Patsy.

You once asked me to find JonBen�t's killer.

I did.

And I told you that I would.

You did.

Patsy.

There was just you, John and Burke in that house.

Is there something you want to tell me now?

In a startling development in the JonBen�t Ramsey case,

in response to a lawsuit brought by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press...

...the court released today 4 pages of an 18-page grand jury indictment,

secretly issued in 1999 against John and Patsy Ramsey,

charging the couple with two counts each...

...of child abuse resulting in death and accessory to murder.

Andrea Kerry reporting live in Boulder, Colorado.

This is where I am now.

I've been here for 20 years.

I've seen a lot of things from here.

I've seen Mommy die, I've seen Daddy get married again,

Burke working with computers.

And I've seen you too. All of you...

...looking at me.

What do you see when you look at me?

What does Steve see?

I'm sorry.

I forgive you, Steve. And I'm sorry too.

But your life would have been better without me.

All the bedtime stories Mommy and Daddy read to me...

...had happy endings. But my story doesn't have an ending at all.

Because it's not a fairy tale, it's real life.

And in the story of my life, the bad guys don't get caught.

The nice people don't win.

And I can't click my ruby slippers and go back home.

I still don't know who the bad guy in my story is.

I guess I never will.

Maybe that's okay with me now.

Maybe I can let go.

Can you?

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