And why on earth would these seemingly loving parents render such assistance to someone whom they knew had cruelly abused, tortured, and executed their only daughter? ET on ABC. Lawrence Brandon McReynolds is an American professional stock car racing driver and the No. But, based on these observations, if this case were to be actively reopened, and the fairly extensive pool of formerly cleared suspects reconsidered, it would make sense in my view to revisit the possibility that either Bill or Janet McReynolds, or both in collaboration, could have conceivably been directly involved in JonBenet's abduction, torture, molestation, and murder that terrible Christmas night. Im not saying parents dont kill their kids parents do kill their children, Smit said in his tapes. The team referred to the database Smit had created to begin narrowing down suspects. Patricia Lee Lyon phone number is (707) 822-****. The three-page ransom note, for example, was written on Patsy Ramseys notepad with a pen that had come from the house. When Hunter called for a grand jury to assess the evidence in 1998, two years after JonBent was killed, they listened to Smits intruder theory. Marra said that before his death, while he was still in the hospital, he told her that he wanted someone to keep investigating the case. McReynolds' big heart made him a popular instructor, said Doug Cosper, who taught with him at CU. No suspects were ever found in the case, but both children were found. Doesnt hold up to Occams Razor. Multiple attempts to reach out to Janet McReynolds for comment on the play and CBS docu-series were unsuccessful. A local Santa Claus did it. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. 29 November 1970) was an English pure-blood wizard, the first child of Arthur and Molly Weasley (ne Prewett) and the eldest brother of Charlie, Percy, the late Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny. How could they think that? But then when you get to handwriting on the note, both parents' fibers on the body, the evidence of previous abuse, the families behavior, the random fact of the late night pineapple, the way she was redressed, the Barbie nightgown, all the weird little details, it all falls apart. The presence of pedophilic urges and fantasies could, of course, also have strongly motivated beautiful JonBenet's molestation and conceivably led to her sadistic torture and murder. What we do know is that both Bill and Janet themselves had presumably been traumatized by the abduction of their own daughter and her sexually tinged traumatization more than 20 years prior to JonBenet's abduction, molestation, and death. We also should have separated John and Patsy and gotten full statements from them that day. Just want to post this publicly on record in case the new DNA testing that's being done proves me right. He found JonBent in the basement, a part of the home that police had neglected to search. The first non-family suspect in the case was a friend, Bill McReynolds who was at the house two days before her death and liked to dress up as Santa Clause. McReynolds also stated that JonBent had given him a vial of gold glitter at both the 1995 and 1996 Christmas parties. JonBenet remembering that Santa is suppose to visit her wakes up sometime after midnight. View our online Press Pack. He loved that little girl. The Colorado detective who died from cancer in 2010 had investigated over 200 cases over the course of his career and every one of them had led to a conviction, according to his granddaughter Jessa van der Woerd. Apart from it, how come the killer left no traces behind? Who was this (unidentified) killer to whom John and Patsy Ramsey purportedly "rendered assistance?" I got a pen and paper and he gave me a name, and he said, Start with this name.. His wife had written a play about a child getting molested and then murdered in a basement. It seems there are only a few realistic possibilities, the most likely, some would say, being that the grand jurors could have been referring to Burke as being the killer, a controversial theory proposed by a recent CBS program about the case. This extraordinary statement begs the crucial question: Who then could have committed the heinous crime to which the Ramseys were mere "accessories" according to the grand jury? When Bill died in 2002, The Daily Camera emphasized that police sources never considered he or Janet "serious" suspects. He played Ramsey Santa 1994, 1995 and 1996. I had seen evidence of an intruder in the house that night., With his intruder theory regarding JonBents murder increasingly pushed by the wayside, Smit ultimately chose to resign from the case, writing in a letter to Boulder District Attorney Hunter: Even though I want to continue to participate in the official investigation and assist in finding the killer of JonBenet, I find that I cannot in good conscience be a part of the persecution of innocent people, said Smit, referring to JonBents parents. The idea that a parents first thought upon finding their child murdered is to start a coverup out of pure survival instinct is fantastical. PostedApril 10, 2017 The real Killer doesn't know the Ramsey's personally so he is never questioned or identified. It would be highly improper and unethical for me to stay when I so strongly believe this.. It was really important to him.. Can Good Relationship Experiences Change Attachment Styles? The blanket was wrapped around her. The child beauty queen had died sometime during the previous night but wasnt found until hours later. A little more than two decades earlier, in 1974, spookily or maybe synchronistically, on the exact same day JonBenet was found dead in her basement decades later, December 26, the day after Christmas, McReynolds' own 9-year-old daughter had evidently been abducted along with her friend and reportedly witnessed the sexual molestation of her fellow victim during the abduction. The Ramseys said, We dont trust the police. By 2008, new DNA testing technology had been developed, called touch DNA, which allowed forensic experts to test the dead skin cells left behind on objects at crime scenes. JonBenet Ramsey is pictured here in this undated photo. Another was Michael Helgoth, an electrician who worked at a nearby auto salvage yard. According to CNN, an original prosecutor on the Ramsey case claimed that Bill McReynolds had given JonBenet a greeting card, later found in the trash bin of the Ramsey home right after her death, with the cryptic message: "You will receive a special gift after Christmas." Unless Burke had a behavior disorder, why would they even think that anyone would consider him a suspect? Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. A NEW documentary aims to shed fresh light on the murder of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsay by investigating some long-forgotten suspects -- including the mysterious figure dubbed 'Santa Claus'.. Press J to jump to the feed. You are putting a lot of stock in what may be a throw away line by a 6 year old. Helgenberger received several award nominations for her portrayal of Catherine, including two Primetime Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Award nominations. But if it was and this is pure speculation both or one of the McReynolds to which the grand jury vaguely referred as the perpetrator(s) responsible for the "murder in the 1st degree" of JonBenet, why would John and Patsy go out of their way, risking arrest and criminal charges, making themselves the prime suspects, taking all the heat, in order to protect or render assistance to such person(s) "with intent to hinder, delay and prevent discovery, detection, apprehension, prosecution, conviction and punishment" of their own darling daughter's deranged killer(s)? It seemed as though the parents were probably involved, Smit said in video diaries that he began recording while investigating the case. The daughter of affluent parents, JonBent was only six years old when she was murdered in her Boulder, Colorado, residence on December 26 . Since they didn't, any DNA was mixed and contaminated. By subscribing to this BDG newsletter, you agree to our. Tom Haney, a detective with the Denver Police Department, interrogated Patsy Ramsey, while Smit interrogated John Ramsey. Dawn Miller is one of the daughters of Lou Smit, who investigated JonBenet Ramsey's case and whose dying wish was for his family and friends to find her killer. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Catherine Willows Eddie Willows CSI Wiki Katie Stevens Morgan Brody Warrick Brown Immortality Gil Grissom Gary Oliva was a known sex offender in Colorado when JonBent was murdered. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. I thought this was [going to] be a fairly easy case. He was recovering from heart surgery and needed his wife to help so he could even do the Santa gig. Smit also spoke about the DNA evidence that police had found underneath JonBents fingernails and in her underwear in the video diaries. "Of course, he would never get over what happened to him. The 6-year-old girl was found dead on the morning after Christmas 1996. It was later revealed that the note was written on stationery found in the familys home. The police quickly decide John and/or Patsy killed JonBenet. Specifically, he noted the similarities to the kidnap drama Ransom, which had been playing in Boulder at the time. He served as a Winston Cup crew chief from 1985 to 2000, amassing 23 Cup wins, 21 poles, 122 top-five and 209 top-ten finishes. I admittedly came to this preliminary conclusion despite a plethora of additional evidence strongly suggesting otherwise. He earned his doctorate in American Studies and was hired by CU's journalism department in 1968. A former Boulder, Colo., police detective who spent almost two years investigating the killing of JonBenet Ramsey . Larry McReynolds began his NASCAR career way back in 1975 and mustered his first crew chief job a decade later, in 1985. This seems absurd, and, therefore, ridiculous. Shortly after Ramsey was found dead, investigators pursued a number of suspects, including the 6-year-old's parents, Patricia and John Ramsey but the couple weren't the only suspects on the investigators' radar. He told the Denver Post that when he first met JonBent in 1995 he was struck by her smile, her "pensive, almost retiring" demeanor, and her angelic glow. We were a normal family.. This "theory" Is fucking stupid. Why would the killer care if Patsy found the note before the body. For someone to get through a small window like that and not disturb the cobwebs would be remarkable, he said. A minuscule amount of mixed DNA (from different locations and multiple foreign sources) doesn't prove much - unless someone cleaned up afterward, there should have been much more evidence from a single profile left. Instead, they very curiously recommended the parents be indicted as "accessories to a crime," and charged with felonious child abuse, i.e., unreasonably, knowingly, and recklessly placing 6-year-old JonBenet in harm's way in a clearly dangerous situation which tragically resulted in her death. They went to a war: they kept lying, twisting facts, throwing friends into the fire, and obstructing justice for decades now. According to The Daily Camera, the McReynolds' middle daughter, 9-years-old at the time, was abducted on December 26, 1974, and witnessed the sexual molestation of her friend. McReynolds planned the murder in advance and he told JonBenet that Santa would visit her after Christmas to get her to go downstairs that night and wait for him. Which means you constructed this primarily with your own imagination. But another less obvious and commonly unconscious aspect of this abusive behavior toward others by trauma victims is related to repressed feelings of rage and resentment regarding what was unfairly done to them by others, and an unrelenting need for revenge or retaliation against the perpetrators specifically or perceived stand-ins for the original perpetrator, or against society in general, and, sometimes, against God for allowing this traumatic experience to have happened to them. 9 yo kids kill, but it doesn't happen often enough for the Ramseys to think that Burke would be blamed. So in this theory, did John lie about the chairs in the basement, or did the killer magically slip out among all the family and LE there? Whoever committed it, the crime appears to me to bear the signature of a sadistic pedophile. She wakes Burke up and the two go downstairs together where they eat pineapple. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. She is now tasked along with other members of Smits family with solving his last case as part of his dying wish -- that of 6-year-old JonBent Ramsey. McReynolds is questioned and ruled out, he didn't commit the actual killing so his DNA is not a match. He grew his long natural white beard when cast as a tavern owner in the play, "Les Miserables" for Unity of Boulder Church. Another, admittedly even more far-fetched explanation could be that either Bill or Janet McReynolds, if responsible, "had something" on the Ramseys, were in possession of some potentially damaging information about John and/or Patsy, and, in this sense, "blackmailed" them into silence. On the morning of Dec. 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey frantically called 911 after making a shocking discovery a ransom note was on the first floor of her home, and her 6-year-old daughter was nowhere. However, I believe that Bill McReynolds cooperated completely with everything asked of him by the police and was thoroughly investigated. William "Bill" McReynolds, 92 formerly of Dumas, passed away on Friday, August 14, 2020. I tried to untie the cord that was around her arms and I couldnt get the knot untied.. The Santa Claus figure in the JonBent Ramsey murder case died over the weekend from a heart attack. First of all, we didnt know whether the kidnapper was going to call that day because the note said, I will call you tomorrow. Following the success of shows recounting murder cases and trials like, The People v. O.J Simpson, and Making A Murderer, both CBS and Lifetime are bringing JonBent's story to TV this year. They search the house and find JonBenet murdered. In March 1997, Bill McReynolds told The Chicago Tribune, "In my heart, I know there's no connection. He was just so devastated by the mere idea anyone would suspect him of a crime," she said. JonBenet may personally have even given her favorite "Santa" a guided tour of her sprawling home in 1995, a year before being found dead in that same home. His NASCAR career began in 1975. So who is Bill McReynolds? This would explain why a neighbor thought they saw John Andrew approach the house the evening of the murder. The couple spent the next 30 years in Boulder, raising three children. The child had also suffered an 8-inch skull fracture, shocks from a stun gun and sexual abuse with a broken piece from the paintbrush used in the garrote, according to Brad Garrett, a former FBI agent and ABC News contributor who wasnt involved in JonBents case. (b1930-d:09-02-2002) (Rollinsville, Colorado) Retired CU Journalism Professor 1968-1992. But even as dozens of people visited him each day to pay their respects at the hospital, and later in hospice, he never stopped talking about JonBents case, according to his other daughter, Dawn Miller. The tragic incident changed everything. It was nearly 20 years ago when the mysterious JonBent Ramsey murder case shocked, and mortified people around the world. Burke denies any wrongdoing and they believe him, but they also realize the situation makes Burke look really guilty and he will be blamed and taken from them. But it wasn't just Santa that investigators were interested in. I kind of joked with her, saying that, If somebody did get in that house, it mustve been Santa Claus coming down the chimney.. Hired by Marilyn Haus to play Santa at the mall. Any information that we come up with a match will be turned over immediately to the Boulder [district attorney] and Boulder Police Department, and they will follow that.. McReynolds, a former University of Colorado journalism professor, portrayed Santa Claus at the Ramseys' home for the third consecutive year in 1996 two nights before the 6-year-old was found slain. Another eerie-sounding connection theory, is that Janet McReynolds had allegedly written a play about a young girl who had molested, tortured and killed in a basement in 1976. Police investigated a wide variety of individuals in relation to JonBenet Ramsey's murder, including Bill McReynolds, though McReynolds (who died in 2002) also maintained his innocence and was cleared of any involvement in her death. In the ensuing years, Smit continued to look at the information he had on the JonBent case and compiled it all into a database. With the case now in the publics view, police sought to question JonBents parents. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. I thought there was no dna found under her fingertips? McReynolds, who was said to have had a "special" emotional connection to JonBenet, had apparently been in the Ramsey home frequently before and interacted with JonBent during the holidays and just prior to her death. Why not just take some photos of her and be gone. The 26-year-old committed suicide two days after a 1997 press conference where the Boulder DA announced that they were looking at a new suspect. They didn't follow procedure with the nail clippers. Three months after JonBents death, he brought Smit into the fold. No one was ever arrested for the crime. The Boulder Police Department was hit with a lot of criticism due to their handling of the investigation. Police didnt believe it was possible to fit through the window, and then Smit showed them it was by going through it himself. When the couple moved to the small town on Cape Cod in 1998, McReynolds left his role of Santa Claus, his wife said. Instead, the grandfather of six filled his time helping the elderly at the local senior center. Or perhaps the Ramseys felt that, with poor JonBenet already dead, they did not want to see their friend, Bill, who was already in poor health, die in prison. Go retest. He said she told him it was impossible for them to have physical evidence linking her to the crime. Watch the full story on "20/20" Friday at 9 p.m. What happened that Christmas became one of the most notorious and unsolved cases of modern times. That's where the $118,000 demand comes from. JONBENET RAMSEY - BILL MCREYNOLDS: MOST DAMNING EVIDENCE (MINDSHOCK TRUE CRIME PODCAST CLIPS)What is the Most Damning Evidence against Santa Bill McReynolds?. There were other similarities about McReynolds' play and the Ramsey murder that spiked investigators' interest. We went through the people of interest and came up with our top 20. Romper attempted to reach out to original representatives for the McReynolds, but was unsuccessful. Now, out of that top 20, what our team has been doing is focusing on collecting DNA and testing DNA, Anderson said. William Arthur "Bill" Weasley (b. I knew instantly what I found. Clearly, whatever the perpetrator's identity, some combination of pedophilia and sexual sadism could be reasonably inferred from the grotesque state in which JonBenet's body was found, assuming that this was not purposely staged by Patsy and John to disguise what truly happened, as some still contend. According to a CNN report in 2006, Trip DeMuth, an original prosecutor on the case, said that McReynolds' alleged Christmas card to JonBent was particularly concerning: The McReynolds were reportedly cleared of charges after submitting DNA samples, CNN reported. Psychology Today 2023 Sussex Publishers, LLC, How to Handle People Who Are Eternally Evasive. Patsy Ramsey reportedly strongly suspected Mrs. McReynolds of being involved at some point. There are 7 members of the Ventura City Council. He was just so devastated by the mere idea anyone would suspect him of a crime," she said, according to Bill's obituary in The Daily Camera. My play was loosely based on, or suggested by, a He was very strange, in the way that when he went into heart surgery he brought a vile of glitter . The family moved to Florida when Robert was six years old. 2 | Headlines He just said, I want somebody to continue this case. Here is the exact wording of the recently released grand jury's recommended indictment of both John and Patsy Ramsey, which concluded that they each "unlawfully, knowingly, recklessly and feloniously permit[ted] a child to be unreasonably placed in a situation which posed a threat of injury to the child's life or health, resulting in her death." Her case remains unsolved. Stephen Diamond, Ph.D., is a clinical and forensic psychologist in Los Angeles, and the author of Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity. His wife, Janet McReynolds, was also reportedly present at the party. No suspects were ever found in the case, but both children were found. Letting them go was a big mistake, as they soon layered up and did not get to formally interview them again until May of 1997, five months after their daughter was murdered., The case was then passed to the DAs office in 2002 after the Ramseys said they had no confidence in the police.. Bill McReynolds. Two days prior to JonBent's murder, former University of Colorado professor. You read that right. Joe Denson McReynolds, 59, passed away after a courageous battle with cancer, on Wednesday, September 3, 2008, at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson.He is survived by his wife, Nancy Williamson McReynold It's certainly a mysterious, and heart-breaking case that has long raised many questions about the young girl's death. What did they know? However, physical evidence suggested that those details were part of a set-up. In other words, the jurors seem to have suggested that someone other than John or Patsy Ramsey intentionally abused and, with malice and forethought, murdered JonBenet. 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