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"Lou Smit and Steve Ainsworth's list of people who had to be re-interviewed grew ever longer. By now Smit was all but certain that someone other than the Ramseys had murdered JonBenét. Nobody had been able to find any motive for them to kill their daughter. Nor had the police uncovered any indications of previous cruelty or perversity in either parent. Smit had to admit that the writing pad -- and possibly the ransom note -- was damaging evidence. But it was mitigated by the evidence that he thought pointed to an intruder."

"In mid-July, on the same day that Smit asked the Ramseys about the stun gun and the Hi-Tec shoes, he spoke on the telephone to Sue Bennett, more widely known as Jameson. Under that name, she maintained a Web site that provided a detailed timeline of events connected with JonBenet's death, culled from various unofficial sources and public documents. She had contacted Smit at the suggestion of a journalist and provided him with information she thought he might not know."

"Since February the police had been interested in Jameson, who lived in Hickory, North Carolina. They wanted to know how she got some of the information posted on her Web page -- some information that had never been released to the public, including some that even the police were originally unaware of. When the police learned jameson's real name -- Bennett -- they became even more suspicious of her."

"I used to go on-line to chat about home schooling. That's how I teach my kids. After the murder of JonBenét, I spent more time on-line. I followed the case. I was curious. My first instinct was that the parents were going to be blamed for this, and I didn't think they were guilty. It didn't sound like something a parent would do. Then I read that JonBenét had an older half-brother. I went into one of the chat rooms to see if people were talking about him. After I chatted a short time, someone called me a name. I was attacked. At the time, I was talking about what happened to JonBenét physically -- in a blunt way. And of course that was why I was harassed. Someone even called me a pervert. Then someone said that I was John Andrew -- and that I was also the killer. I received one letter from a college professor suggesting I confess. I was even turned in to the police. I thought, "This is ridiculous, I'm a middle-aged housewife with a bunch of kids." Later I learned I was actually considered a suspect. I knew the authorities had to look at everyone. But it shocked me when I discovered the police were even reading conversations on the Internet." -- jameson."

"Jameson told Lou Smit her theory of the murder: While the Ramseys were at the Whites' house on Christmas night, an intruder had entered their house and hid in the basement. The intruder was young and a friend of John Andrew's and might have had a history of pedophilia. Jameson said that after the intruder entered the house, he fantasized about kidnapping JonBenet for sex. While waiting for the family to get home, he wrote the ransom note. When they returned and JonBenet was put to bed, the intruder took her from room and inadvertently killed her."

"For his part, Lou Smit listened to Jameson and tried to reconcile what she said with what he knew. He encouraged her to deal directly with the Boulder police and gave her no investigative details about the case, but he couldn't dismiss her out of hand."