JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation by Steve Thomas

Author:Steve Thomas
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2011-03-31T21:00:00+00:00

A month and a half after moving into the War Room, we could take it no longer. I bought thirty heavy-duty four-inch-wide binders, picked up Detective Ron Gosage, and set off to the War Room on a Saturday night to “borrow” the case file for a few hours. Through a pager code, Detective Jane Harmer let us know the coast was clear. We were in and out of there just as fast as we could load the folders into my Mustang.

I had hatched a deal with the manager of Kinko’s copy shop so we could duplicate about twenty thousand pages late that night. We would put the copies in the police department and return the originals to the DA’s office. In very careful words, Sergeant Wickman had obliquely told me that we would need a copy of the case file in the police department if we ever pulled out of the War Room. So while okaying the project, he avoided knowing the details.

Working like fiends on high-speed machines, Gosage and I copied thousands and thousands of pages, tore open reams of paper, punched tens of thousands of holes, and slowly assembled a duplicate file, looking over our shoulders and wondering what our excuse could be if someone from the DA’s office walked in. “Screw ’em,” Gosage said. “This is our case.”

It was hard not to stop and read, for we kept finding material we had never seen before, such as potential “points of entry” for an intruder and diagrams suggesting “open” doors. I kept wondering why was this shit in the official files? Didn’t the DA’s investigators realize the potential damage? Don’t think, just copy, copy, copy.

After midnight Bob Keatley marched in and put the entire charge on his personal credit card. “Might look better this way,” he said. Keatley explained that we had the legal right to copy our own files, but I still felt as if I was involved with the likes of G. Gordon Liddy and Bob Haldeman. We finished at 2 A.M., and in the dark of night we returned the originals to the steel cabinet, then locked our new file up tight in the police department. Except for periodic briefings, I never went back to the War Room.

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