1997 January 1 - CNN (Cabell)
Interview of John and Patsy Ramsey

Cabell: "John, you subsequently read the note. Was there anything in there that struck you in any sense?"

John Ramsey: "Well, no. I mean, I read it very fast. I was out of my mind. And it said "Don't call the police." You know, that type of thing. And I told Patsy, call the police immediately. And I think I ran through the house a bit."

Patsy Ramsey: "We went to check our son."

John Ramsey: "Checked our son's room. Sometimes she sleeps in there. And we just were"

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1997 January 1 - CNN (Cabell)
Interview of John and Patsy Ramsey

Cabell: "The police said a couple of days ago, to assure other residents of Boulder there is no killer on the loose here, you can be assured everything is under control. You believe it's someone outside your home."

Patsy Ramsey: "There is a killer on the loose."

John Ramsey: "Absolutely."

Patsy Ramsey: "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 your babies close to you, there's someone out there."

Cabell: "An FBI spokesman was quoted as saying at this point they don't regard it necessarily as a kidnapping. You think that's a wrong assumption?"

John Ramsey: "I don't know. I mean, there is a -- a note that said -- your daughter has been kidnapped. We have your daughter. We want money. You give us the money; she'll be safely returned."

Patsy Ramsey: "It seemed like kidnapping to me."

John Ramsey: "I guess that's what concerns me because if we don't have the full resources of all the law enforcement community on this case, I am going to be very upset."

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Excerpts from National Enquirer book, "JonBenet, The Police Files" by Don Gentile and David Wright

1997 April 30 - Taped Interrogation interview of Patsy Ramsey by Steve Thomas and Tom Trujillo in Colorado

NE Book Page 100:

Steve Thomas: "Well, let me give you that analogy. There is a number of people, a list if you will, that we certainly have to include or exclude off that list. I can only apreciate what your life's been like for the last four months, but what we're working towards is the resolution that we'll reach in this thing. If this is somebody you know Patsy, if this offender was somebody that you know, who would have had the best opportunity to have commited this crime by entering your home, writing the note inside your home, and I don't think it's far reach to say that the note was written inside the house given the circumstances with the pad and the character comparison and so forth."

Patsy Ramsey: "I don't know what the..."

Steve Thomas: "The note was written from a pad inside the home."

Patsy Ramsey: "It was?"

Steve Thomas: "Uh huh."

Patsy Ramsey: "Oh, I didn't know that."

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1997 September 25
Jim Marino on Geraldo Rivera Show

Jim Marino: "Yeah, John or Patsy knows how to spell business,' I guarantee you. There's two S's in business.' The--and I saw--said to John--I said, at the end of it, it says--points to SBTC, which apparently is Subic Bay Tr--Training Center. There's a..."

Geraldo Rivera: "Where John was stationed during the Navy."

Jim Marino: "Right. There's a plaque on his wall. If you sit at his desk, you can see the plaque. So someone sat at this desk and wrote this note, apparently. I asked John--I said, Why would you point to yourself?' And he just laughed, 'cause it's ridiculous. The--the er--all the evidence points to him, so whoever did this wanted the evidence to point to him."

Geraldo Rivera: "Tell the truth, Jim. Weren't you mad at John Ramsey when the police summoned you? Didn't you believe that he, in a desperate attempt to throw the finger of suspicion in another direction, fingered you?"

Jim Marino: "At first, yes. And in fact, I found out in April, when Patsy did her--her--her own briefing, which was several hours long, she named all of our--us as fra--as friends of the Ramseys as top suspects."

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Excerpts from National Enquirer book, "JonBenet, The Police Files" by Don Gentile and David Wright

1998 June 25, 26, 27 - Taped Interrogation interview of Patsy Ramsey by Tom Haney and Trip DeMuth in Colorado

NE Book Page 247-248:

(Notations in italics by Don Gentile and David Wright from 'The files of the National Enquirer: "Patsy was shown photos taken off a roll of film that John Ramsey turned over to the police in the hours before JonBenet's body was found. The roll was in the camera he used to take pictures that Christmas. To get the film to the end of the roll, John snapped off the lasts few shots. In doing so he inadvertently photographed the wet bar near the foot of the spiral staircase. The photo showed a black and red scarf left on the sink counter there. Patsy couldn't say whether it was John's scarf or one she had given out as gifts to the men who attended the Ramsey Christams party on the 23rd.")

Patsy Ramsey: "...This (scarf) just looks strange to me...."

Tom Haney: "Well, this photo... was on your roll of film in your camera. And on the same roll is the next photo, a Christmas morning photo of the kids.

Patsy Ramsey: "...Oh God."

(Notations in italics by Don Gentile and David Wright from 'The files of the National Enquirer: "It was the first time Patsy had seen the photo. She broke down in tears down at this point. After she regained her composure, the questioning continued. The photo John Ramsey had taken of the wet bar area, also showed a table near it. On it were two white lined legal pads. One of them had been used to write the ransom note. It was the same pad that contained Patsy's doodles, other writings and the so-called practice ransom note."

Tom Haney: "Like I say, this was on your roll of film and it's not exactly the same photograph that was taken by the police."

Patsy Ramsey: "Uh huh"

Tom Haney: "And this legal pad that you --"

Patsy Ramsey: "Right."

Tom Haney: "--Identified--"

Patsy Ramsey: "Right"

Tom Haney: "-- do you know when that would have been in that position?

Patsy Ramsey: "No. So this, this was taken before...?"

Tom Haney: "Before the police photos... do you recognize that pad?"

Patsy Ramsey: "Yeah, but we had a lot of those around... I bought like those at Office Depot's of Office Max or whatever they are and I usually kept a bunch of them, you know, kept them over here, right about here in the kitchen."

Tom Haney: "By the telephone?"

Patsy Ramsey: "Yeah, but you know, they float all over."

Trip DeMuth: "So it wouldn't have been unusual to be where it is?"

Patsy Ramsey: "No. No. Gosh."

Tom Haney: "Just a second, okay?"

Patsy Ramsey: "Uh huh."

Tom Haney: "So would this particular note pad be, belong to somebody in particular or --"

Patsy Ramsey: "No, not necessarily."

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Excerpts from National Enquirer book, "JonBenet, The Police Files" by Don Gentile and David Wright

1998 June 25, 26, 27 - Taped Interrogation interview of John Ramsey by Lou Smit and Michael Kane in Colorado

NE Book Page 316-317:

Michael Kane: "There are these phrases in (the ransom note) here that seem to have some kind of Hollywood connection? What do you think about that?"

John Ramsey: "...There was a couple of phrases that came out later, 'You must grow a brain'....and, "other fat cats here,' or something like that.

Michael Kane: "You're not the only fat cat around."

John Ramsey: "...Well, 'Grow a brain, fat cats' We'd heard them before."

(Notations in italics by Don Gentile and David Wright from 'The files of the National Enquirer: "John recalled a reception given after JonBenet's funeral in Atlanta by his wealthy stockbroker and friend, Rod Westmoreland.")

John Ramsey: "My friends were around me, consoling me and trying to give me advice. And to be a part of that group - it's the Atlanta fat cats."

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Excerpts from National Enquirer book, "JonBenet, The Police Files" by Don Gentile and David Wright

1998 June 25, 26, 27 - Taped Interrogation interview of John Ramsey by Lou Smit and Michael Kane in Colorado

NE Book Page 327:

Michael Kane: "...Do you think or have you thought in the last year and a half that someone was trying to frame you for this?"

John Ramsey: "No. The thought crossed my mind, but I think that's the - I didn't give him credit for being that clever."

Michael Kane: "Why not?"

John Ramsey: "Because I think they have left too many clues. They left a ransom note...."

Michael Kane: "No, but I mean in the context of somebody trying to frame you?"

John Ramsey: "I think it's too much of a stretch. If I were going to do that, I wouldn't have handwritten the note, I would have typed it out...I would have done it on a word processor or on a - maybe I wouldn't have left a note at all."

Michael Kane: "Do you feel like if there was no note, the finger would point more to you or less to you? When I say you, I mean your family"

John Ramsey: "Well...that was Patsy's reaction. She said 'Thank God they left a note,' I said, 'What do you mean by that?' She said, 'Well, they left some evidence'... So yeah, I mean I think if somebody was really trying to frame us, it could have been a lot more obvious... but the fact that, okay, maybe there is a few similarities in (Patsy's) writing, that's about it. I mean if somebody is trying to frame you, that's just too - that's too lucky."

Michael Kane: "....Were you surprised when there were similarities?"

John Ramsey: "Well, the way it was explained to us was that there were certain things that we all learned, when we learned how to write, that are kind of common and that's the kind of things that were there, apparently, in Patsy's samples that they just couldn't say totally exclude it."

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07-09-1998 A&E Documentary - 'Who Killed JonBenet’ - By Michael Tracy and David Mills

Man: "Did you ever consider each other?"

John Ramsey: "No"

Patsy Ramsey: "Absolutely not."

Man: "There was never a moment when you thought?"

John Ramsey: "Not a microsecond. {Patsy shaking her head no.}"

John Ramsey: "Patsy would have given her life for JonBenet to protect her. I would have given my life for JonBenet."

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1998 October 19 - Pam Paugh (Patsy's sister) on Larry King Live Show

Pam Paugh: "Well, I am not a handwriting expert and don't proclaim to be one. But I would guess that probably a group of ten or 12 of us could sit down, and I'll try to copy the same ad copy, if you will, and I might have a loop that looks like yours, Larry, or I might have a crossing of a T or dotting of an I that looks like Lisa's or Dr. Lee's. So I wouldn't say that just because Patsy has given five samples, and there are one or two items in there that look like they could be that that is factual evidence. When, in fact, I have known this woman now for 39 years, and that is not her writing. I can point out many things that do not look like her writing."

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1999 February 18 - Lawrence Schillers book "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town

Page 84:

"In the small storage closet where Fleet White and John Ramsey had looked just before JonBenet's body was found, the police found a plaque with the lettering 'SBTC' on it."

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1999 February 18 - Lawrence Schillers book "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town

Page 224:

"The CBI's Chet Ubowski reported to the Boulder PD that there were 'indications' that John Ramsey didn't write the note. Other 'indications' pointed to Patsy Ramsey as the author. The evaluations were based on the handwriting samples that the Ramseys had provided thus far."

"The police had voluntary samples from Patsy and prior 'historical' samples, which they had collected from JonBenet's physician and from a notebook found in the Ramsey's Boulder home. Ubowski concluded that 'there is evidence which indicates the ransom note may have been written by Patricia Ramsey.' To be more certain, however, Ubowski needed more samples produced before December 26, samples that wouldn't contain any elements of distortion, attempts to disquise handwriting, or nervousness.'

"When Detective Harmer had searched the Ramseys' Charlevoix home in January, she had noticed several handwritten items. Now, with Ubowski's report in hand, the court granted a second search warrant. On March 5, Harmer left for Michigan. It took her only an hour and fifteen minutes to collect thirteen recipe cards, an address book, two small legal pads, three notes from a kitchen corkboard, and a photo album with printing. The next day she returned to Boulder and placed the 'historical' writings into evidence."

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1999 February 18 - Lawrence Schillers book "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town

Page 224:

"At the end of March (1998), Donald Foster, the Vassar linguistics expert, delivered his written report to the Boulder police. It was almost a hundred pages long and concluded that Patsy Ramsey had written the ransom note. It was key evidence, Beckner told DeMuth. He went on to explain how Foster had come to his conclusion. DeMuth pointed out that it would not be admissible in Colorado court."

" 'My guys think you're an asshole,'Beckner said to him, 'but we're going to need an asshole to fight for us.' He asked DeMuth to persuade Hofstrom and Hunter to use Foster's report and conclusions as evidence before the grand jury. DeMuth remained neutral; he agreed only to discuss Foster's findings with his colleagues. Later that afternoon, Hunter, Hofstrom and DeMuth met. They decided to draft a letter to Beckner stating that the DA's office could not accept Foster's conclusions as evidence of Patsy Ramsey's culpability."

"In taking this hard line, it was likely that Hunter was buying time until his grand jury expert came onboard. Only then, and with the complete case file in hand, could the DA's office decide conclusively which pieces of the puzzle would be presented."

"Not long afterward, Hunter's staff reviewed Foster's report and the documents he had based his conclusions on. They discovered that many of the writing samples he had used had been taken from the family's computer. However, the document files from the computer had been obtained under a search warrant that didn't extend to their use for linguistic analysis. The search warrant granted the police the right to search the hard drive and floppy discs only for child pornography downloaded from the Internet - which at the time they believed was relevant to the case. They had not requested the right to search text files to use for a comparison to the ransom note."

"Hofstrom and some other deputies thought that under the circumstances, which pointed to in admissibility in court, the professor's report and conclusions should not be presented to the grand jury."

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1999 September 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 - NBC NEWS Today Show Interview with Detective Linda Arndt

Vargus: Did you give the Ramseys a Xerox copy of the ransom note?

Arndt: On January 5th I gave a Xerox copy to Patsy Ramsey's attorney.

Vargus: Why?

Arndt: The attorneys for the Ramseys, respective attorneys, had asked for copies of the ransom note. And that request I had bumped up to the supervisor making the decisions.

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2000 March 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
NBC News Today Show (Couric)
Interview with John and Patsy Ramsey

COURIC: "Why a three-page note, written on a pad found in your house, with a pen..."

Ms. RAMSEY: "Why not?"

COURIC: "...found in your house?"

Ms. RAMSEY: "If the fellow was in there from the time we left in the late afternoon to go to the White's, and returned, he was probably there for several hours."

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2000 March 20 - ABCNEWS.com - In Their Own Words - John and Patsy Ramsey Chat

ABCNEWS.com's Buck Wolf: "Guest-SydneySkye429 says: "The ransom note stated that they would contact you by a certain time. It has been said that as that time frame passed, neither of you commented on or questioned why there was no contact. If that is true, then why did neither of you react to the fact there was no phone call?

John Ramsey: "The ransom note said: "I will call you tomorrow by 10 a.m." We did not know whether tomorrow was the 27th , which in fact was tomorrow by the time we were reading the note. I was afraid that I would have to wait until the 27th to hear from the kidnapper. The note also said "Your journey will be long, so get plenty of rest." So there was never any conclusive indication that we should expect a call by 10 a.m. on the 26th, and in fact we didn't expect that call for sure by then."

ABCNEWS.com's Buck Wolf: "Guest-tall-p says: "My question is for Patsy Ramsey. Why did she fail to pick up the ransom note? Why didn't she carry the note to the telephone and read the pertinent parts over the phone to the police? That only seems natural. The note is the only REAL link to her missing daughter. Thank you."

Patsy Ramsey: "I don't know why I did anything the way I did that morning. When you realize that one of your children is missing, you are in a state of panic and distress that is unimaginable. John was down on the floor reading the note, I was standing next to him by the wall, I grabbed the phone. Screaming into the phone and trying to explain to the operator on the other end what our trouble was and for her to send help immediately."

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2000 March 27 - Larry King Live Interview with John and Patsy Ramsey

John Ramsey: "They -- a uniformed police officer arrived relatively quickly, and I said -- I handed him the note. I said, "My daughter's been taken." He said, "Gee, you don't think she just ran away?" And I said: "For heaven's sake, she's 6 years old. No, she didn't just run away."

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2000 March 28 - Larry King Live Interview with John and Patsy Ramsey

Larry King: "What do you make of "SBTC," those letters?"

John Ramsey: "I don't know. I have struggled with that. I have tried to understand. Only the killer knows."

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2000 March 28 - Larry King Live Interview with John and Patsy Ramsey

Larry King: "Any thoughts as to why. I think you mentioned last night $118,000 -- that's the bonus you got for the year?"

John Ramsey: "Well, it happened to be very close to my annual bonus that I'd received in February I think it was of '96. I don't know if that's significant or not or, if that's a clue. It means something to the killer, 118, $118,000 means something to the killer."

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2000 March 18 - John and Patsy Ramsey book, "Death of Innocence"

DOI (HB) Page 101:

"On the morning of December 26, I had given Detective Arndt handwriting samples. She told me this was just routine. In addition, I provided her with a pad of 8 x 10 paper that also contained samples of Patsy's handwriting. Pads of paper like this one were always lying around the house for the children to use for everything from making airplanes to their latest art projects. It was reported that during their investigation, the police had discovered part of a "practice" ransom note on one of the pads I had given them. (It reportedly only said "Mr. And Mrs. Ramsey.") The police immediately saw this evidence as supporting the theory of our guilt. Yet, why would I have given them the note pad if either of us had actually written the note?"

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2000 March 18 - John and Patsy Ramsey book, "Death of Innocence"

DOI (HB) Page 109:

"Simultaneously, John Douglas was also looking more deeply into the facts. He was convinced that JonBenet's murdered was someone we knew; perhaps a person who had been in our house and had a personal grudge against me or was jealous of me."

"Patsy and I racked our brains, trying to think of who the attacker might be. In order to help us in our scrutiny of possibilities, Douglas encouraged us to publish the ransom note in its original form. He said that by showing what the lettering and the script looked like, as well as the content, someone might recognize something familiar about the note and come forward. When our attorneys broached the subject with the district attorney's office, they received an absolute no."

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2000 March 18 - John and Patsy Ramsey book, "Death of Innocence"

DOI (HB) Page 120:

"Patsy knew nothing about the amount of the bonus because I took care of the finances and we rarely talked about money. The 118,117.50 dollars I earned that year was deferred compensation, so there was no point discussing the matter with her.

Actually, a number of people had access to this figure. Since I was awarded the bonus in January 1996, the amount was printed on every pay stub I had received during 1996. Someone nosing through our house could have found a pay stub. Numerous workers at Access Graphics could have accessed the information as well. And I might have discussed the figure with anyone working with our taxes or investments."

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2000 March 18 - John and Patsy Ramsey book, "Death of Innocence"

DOI (HB) Page 120:

"Another strange component in the crime was the signature of S.B.T.C at the end of the ransom note. What could this strange series of letters actually mean? Speculation grew as the note and the signature spread across the country. We had leads on suspects with SBTC baseball caps and SBTC T-shirts that could fit into some arrangement of these letters.

The police saw a hand-carved, Philippine mahogany plaque in my closet, which had been given to me by my employees at the U.S. Naval Subic Bay Public Works Center when I was stationed there in the '60s. They theorized that the initials on the ransom note stood for Subic Bay Training Center, and again saw the evidence as pointing to me. But there is no Subic Bay Training Center at Subic Bay, and the plaque did not contain those words."

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2000 March 18 - John and Patsy Ramsey book, "Death of Innocence"

DOI (HB) Page 140:

"Our attorneys hired two of the top handwriting experts in the country to analyze the note as well. The experts we retained had worked with the examiners used by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to analyze our handwriting samples. Our experts had impeccable law enforcement reputations. They went through the same materials the police did. In the end, they totally eliminated me as a potential writer of the ransom note, and Patsy came out with a low similarity score, indicating little likelihood of having written it"

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04-10-2000 Good Morning America (Elizabeth Vargas) Interview with former Detective Steve Thomas

Vargas: (VO) "Thomas says investigators interviewed 590 people, investigated and cleared more than 100 suspects and collected 1,058 pieces of evidence. But the trail always led back to one place. That epic ransom note. The note asked for $118,000 and claimed to be from a small foreign faction and was signed by the mysterious S.B.T.C. Three pages of crucial clues. Thomas says they checked handwriting samples from 73 potential suspects, but only one person could not be ruled out as the author."

Thomas: "And that one person happens to be Patsy Ramsey."

Vargas: (VO) "Thomas says there are several reasons why. Among them is handwriting."

Thomas: "And in Patsy's pre-homicide writings, she consistently used what we called the lower-case manuscript a. In the ransom note, almost exclusively, the lower-case manuscript a was used, I think, 98 percent of the time in the ransom note. That — so what, you might say, but what was telling was that after the Ramsey's were given a copy of the ransom note after the killing, Patsy Ramsey stopped using her pre-homicide habit of this lower-case manuscript a, and began a lower-case cursive a."

Vargas: "So you're saying that in the ransom note this style of the letter a was used, and that in all Patsy's writing samples prior to the murder, she used an a like this most of the time when writing?"

Thomas: "Right."

Vargas: "But after the murder she changed her writing style to use this kind of a, so that her writing samples after the murder wouldn't match the ransom note."

Vargas: (VO) "That analysis is from a leading expert used by the FBI."

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04-10-2000 Good Morning America (Elizabeth Vargas) Interview with former Detective Steve Thomas

Vargas: (VO) "Thomas says there are still more similarities between Patsy Ramsey's personal letters and the ransom note."

Thomas: "The indentation, for example, on the sign-off. "It's up to you now John, " exclamation point. Indented, "Victory"! Indented, "S.B.T.C." We were able to find in prior writings of Patsy, for example, how she would almost consistently sign off with the exclamation point, and then a double indented closure, to the point you could almost overlay the ransom note onto some of Patsy's previous writings, and the indentation I found remarkable."

Vargas: (VO) "And in Patsy Ramsey's previous writings there was something more. Thomas notes her penchant for acronyms, like B.V.F.M.F.A., that's Barbara V. Furney, Master of Fine Arts, which she called her friend on her Christmas card. She signed the card P.P.R.B.S.J. Patsy Paul Ramsey, Bachelor of Science and Journalism. Patsy Ramsey denies she wrote the ransom note, which was signed with the mysterious initials S.B.T.C."

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04-10-2000 Good Morning America (Elizabeth Vargas) Interview with former Detective Steve Thomas

Vargas: "Were John and Patsy Ramsey's fingerprint on the ransom note?"

Thomas: "No."

Vargas: "No?"

Thomas: "No."

Vargas: (VO) "But if they found the note and picked it up, Thomas asks why their fingerprints were not on it. Did they say whether or not they had picked it up to read it?"

Thomas: "I tried to pin Patsy Ramsey down at the time of our first interview with them. Did you grab the note? Did you pick up the note? Did you clutch it in your hand and read it and run upstairs with it? Who moved it to the hardwood floor? And I couldn't get an answer to that. She didn't recall."

Vargas: "Is it possible that the parents could have handled the note and not left their fingerprints? Or that the paper for some reason didn't retain that kind of print?"

Thomas: "Certainly. But then I think the argument can be made, then when the sergeant touched the same pad, he left a fingerprint on it. When the CBI examiner touched the same pad, he left a fingerprint on it. Patsy had left previous fingerprints on that pad, five that we identified. So that remains one of the mysteries in this case. How come there's no identifiable fingerprints on this thing if one or both parents handled and grasped it that morning?"

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04-13-2000 Good Morning America
(Elizabeth Vargas) Live Chat
with former Detective Steve Thomas

Moderator at 12:07pm ET:
Dana T writes: "Do you have any theories behind what S.B.T.C. signifies?"

Steve Thomas at 12:08pm ET:
"You know, we searched high and low, far and wide, and heard everything from "Saved By The Cross" to Ramsey's own suggestion of "Star Base Technical Command," but were never definitively able to attach a source to that acronym. However, an open Bible on Ramsey's desk in the house, NIV version, Psalms 35-36, verses 1-4, contains the acrostic SBTC, backwards."

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04-18-2000 Steve Thomas, "JonBenet, Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation,"

Page 20:

"Another tech saw the ransom note on the bottom step of the spiral staircase and photographed it there. But the photograph lied. The note had traveled from the stairs, possibly into Patsy's hands, then had been spread out on the hallway floor where John Ramsey and the police had read it, and French had put it back on the stairs. The photograph, which was suppose to show exactly where evidence had been discovered, was inaccurate."

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04-18-2000 Steve Thomas, "JonBenet, Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation,"

Page 25:

"Detective Arndt asked Ramsey, White, and Fernie for their opinions of the ranson note. White and Fernie commented that it seemed to reveal a familiarity with John Ramsey. The use of such words as hence and attache indicated the writer was educated. John Ramsey had little to say about it and was unusually quiet. None had any idea what SBTC meant."

"In the sunroom, Patsy Ramsey examined a second-generation photocopy of the ransom note, a smeary version that showed little more than the dark printed words. Rather than commenting on the words and content, she told one of the her friends that the note was written on the same kind of paper she had in her kitchen. Police would wonder how she could tell, since they so no similarities."

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04-18-2000 Steve Thomas, "JonBenet, Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation,"

Page 54:

"We were then brought up to date on a new discovery. Crime scene techs at the house had recoverd three Sharpie felt-tip pens from on orange metal container on the kitchen counter beneath the telephone from which Patsy had made her 911 call, not far from where the ransom note tablet was found."

"U.S. Secret Service eventually determined that one of those pens, a pre-November 1992 water-based ink Sharpie, was used to write both the practice and actual ransom notes. The Secret Service, which maintains a hugh database on inks because of its federally mandated assignment ot chase forgers, told us, "the ink 'on the note' is unique in the collection of approximately 7,000 standards from the Ink Library."

"That meant that whoever wrote the notes used the exact pen from that cup. They not only left the pad behind but, when they finished, neatly put the felt-tip pen in its container."

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04-18-2000 Steve Thomas, "JonBenet, Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation,"

Page 65:

"From another basement storage closet, a crime scene tech pulled a plaque denoting that John Ramsey had served in the navy at Subic Bay in the philippines. The media erroneously added the words Training Center to Subic Bay and obtained an explanation for SBTC acronym, although Subic Bay was a massive naval installation, not a training base. Everybody had a theory."

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04-18-2000 Steve Thomas, "JonBenet, Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation,"

Page 73:

"Chet Ubowski at the CBI had pulled startling information from the tablet belonging to patsy Ramsey. By comparing tear patterns, Ubowski had determined that the first twelve pages were missing and the next four - pages 13 through 16 - contained doodles and lists and some miscellaneous writing."

"But the next group of pages, 17 through 25, were also missing from the tablet. The following page, 26, was the practice ransom note (Mr. and Mrs. I), and that page showed evidence of ink bleedthrough from the missing page 25."

Comparisons of the ragged tops of the ronsom note pages with the remnants left in the tablet proved that it had come from pages 27, 28, and 29."

To me, being able to prove that the ransom note came from her table was an incredible piece of evidence.

"Furthermore, the ink bleedthrough discovered on page 26 indicated that perhaps still another practice note could have been written on page 25 and been discarded. Two possible practice notes and one real one covering three pages led me to believe that the killer had spend more time in the house composing the ransom note than we originally thought."

"But even more significant, it seemed clear that whoever wrote it was unafraid of being caught in the house. We never found the missing pages."

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04-18-2000 Steve Thomas, "JonBenet, Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation,"

Page 74:

"What the CBI examiner told them, very privately, was astonding. Twenty-four of the alphabet's twenty-six letters looked as if they had been written by Patsy. When taken together, the tablet, the Sharpie pen, and the writing formed a powerful base of evidence. And that evidence pointed directly to Patsy Ramsey."

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October 4, 2002 8pm DST CBS 48 Hours Investigates - Searching for a Killer

Erin Moriarty: (Voice Over) "But why would an intruder kill JonBenet and leave the bazaar two and half page ransom note with paper and pen that belonged to Patsy? Boulder Police believe that Patsy used it to make it look like an intruder killed JonBenet."

Erin Moriarty: "But if someone had been targeting JonBenet Ramsey wouldn't he at least bring the paper and pencil to write this ransom note, I mean....?"

Lou Smit: "They probably wouldn't bring it in. Why bring something in that can be traced back to your house where you have actual the pen and the ink and you have the paper right there that it was written on."

Erin Moriarty: "But you can't count on finding that in the house"

Lou Smit: "Can't count on it. Most houses have that."

Erin Moriarty: "No expert could eliminate Patsy Ramsey as the ransom note writer. That's damning isn't it?"

Lou Smit: "No not at all. You're always going to have similarities in handwriting. To sit down and write a note like that, with all of those details in there after brutally killing your daughter, you never done that before, come on, give me a break."

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