By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
A few observations on the news that prosecutors in Boulder, Colo., have finally and definitively cleared the parents and brother of Jon Benet Ramsey in the 1996 murder of the 6-year-old girl.
(1)Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy showed strong character in her public apology to the Ramsey family. It was her predecessor, Alex Hunter, who said the family was under "a cloud of suspicion." Prosecutors should keep their lips zipped until they can file charges.
(2)John Ramsey, the father, has displayed a great deal of dignity throughout this bizarre 12-year ordeal that has consumed his family.
(3)If life was fair, Patsy Ramsey, the mother, would accept her vindication. She died of cancer a few years ago at age 49.
(4)Emerging DNA technology is incredible. The Ramseys were cleared by "touch DNA" left by skin cells on the child's garments.
(5)Jon Benet's family came in for a lot of criticism because of her participation in beauty pageants. Why do we presume to judge people based on a sliver of information, not even close to their complete profile?
(6)Will the right person ever be brought to justice? DNA evidence is the only hope. The traces left on the victim may yet find a match in the crime computer. After all these years, it's still maddening to remember how badly the Boulder police botched the crime scene.
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How to act like proper grievers
A. NORMAL From brave face on and able to make a plea for assistance to find murderer, to falling down in the street screaming and crying hysterically is normal.
B. NOT NORMAL Getting dressed and carefully applying make-up and all those other odd things they did that I can’t recall at this moment isn’t.
People who reacted in the A column probably suffered through being falsely accused all those years and knowing the attention was being diverted from the case. I don’t have a clue if people in category B would feel the same way.
So strange. Profiling is a good tool for crime solving. People who are bad react is similar ways under certain situations. When they cry, tears don't always fall. They give too much information or remember more than a person should in a crisis situation. The country didn't believe them because we are all experts after watching crime shows.
Perspective, please
However, let's not forget that the Ramseys suffered from Gary Condit Syndrome. They were apparently completely innocent of the murder, yet did everything they could to act guilty as charged. It was extremely difficult for an Ordinarily Prudent Person to read accounts of the crime and imagine themselves acting the way the Ramseys had they discovered their beloved daughter brutally murdered.
Moreover, the Ramseys were involved in a practice that many people were unaware of and totally unsympathetic to: the exhibition of their daughter in full makeup and provocative clothing in "talent" competitions, and this in a time when the country was just waking up to the extent of kiddie porn and kiddie "modeling" sites on the Internet.
So: innocent, deserving of an apology, but let's keep a little perspective on why they were looked at with such suspicion.
Murdered Child Reaction Training
I've haven't taken that course yet so I can't say how I would react to finding my child dead in my home. Nor should I be judged by law enforcement, DA offices, the media or the public by how they 'think' I should act.
Nice to know we have so many caveats to the old saying 'innocent until proven guilty'.
Nor should I be judged by
"Nor should I be judged by law enforcement, DA offices, the media or the public by how they 'think' I should act."
Really? How do you think that law enforcement agencies should proceed in an awful world where no one has a placard around their neck saying, "ARREST ME" ?
Of COURSE they judge people by how they 'think' you should act. That's what the police do. The alternative is to take everyone at their word and investigate only those who say, clearly and distinctly, "I understand my rights. Please take me away before I kill again," or those who leave big bloody handprints at the scene of the crime.
Silly me.
I certainly don't think they ought to proceed on the emotional and judgemental public opinion of the masses, do you?
I think there are police procedures, training and education, and heaven forbid, laws that might actually dictate the way law enforcement and prosecutors work. But that might just be that bleeding heart liberal in me.
Which of course they didn't.
Which of course they didn't. They kept the Ramseys under close watch because of their behavior at the time of the crime.
You're in a hole; best to stop digging.
Oh dear.
You're in a hole; best to stop digging.
I'm am so told off. ***chuckle*** **snort** **chuckle** Amateur.
And thank you for your
And thank you for your incisive, witty, and, above all, adult rejoinder.
Back at you, sweetie.
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Well, I do get $35 an hour
Well, I do get $35 an hour for tutoring.
Please.
C'mon, can't you do better than that?
I'll give you another chance. Here:
Got anything else? I'm here til 4:30.
OK. Ma gavte la nata.
OK.
Ma gavte la nata.
Getting better.
Juvenile, but hey, getting better.
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Now, go get your shoeshine box.
amen
Amen. Too bad Mrs. Tamsey was alive to hear this. AS usual, the government put these decent people through h-ll.