JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation by Steve Thomas & Donald A. Davis

Author:Steve Thomas & Donald A. Davis [Thomas, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2011-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

I drove to the nearby War Room for a scheduled briefing. Lou Smit was the only one there, and he confronted me with a tone I had never heard from him before. “Do you got a problem with me?”

I stood up, and we were nose to nose and arguing hard. I insisted he was damaging the case with so many unproved theories about what might have happened.

“There is nothing to indicate their involvement, and I’ll write my reports that way,” he stormed.

“It’s outright sabotage,” I responded.

He said the DA’s office was lining up experts to counter our experts and prove that a stun gun was used. Talk about a united front. “So, you got a problem?” he shouted.

“Yeah,” I shouted back. “You!” I blasted him for polluting the file. “If we had the same evidence against anyone else that we have against Patsy Ramsey right now, their ass would be in jail.”

For the only time in our months together, I felt that if Lou were twenty years younger, we would have come to blows. I was closer to this man than to anyone in the DA’s unit, but we were miles apart philosophically. As tempers quieted, Lou returned to his desk but couldn’t resist one last punch, whispering over his shoulder, “Wickman’s on our side.”

Despite our differences, I still respected Smit. On many nights we sat alone in the War Room debating our conflicting theories. We argued without letup, but neither of us wavered. He did not care for the picture of convicted child-slayer Susan Smith that a detective had tacked on a wall, and detested the screen-saver on one computer that continuously scrolled the brightly lettered sentence THE RAMSEYS ARE THE KILLAS … THE RAMSEYS ARE THE KILLAS …

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