CHAPTER 19
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BS - On page 176, Thomas wrote that Hunter, Koby, Beckner, Wickman, Thomas and Eller all felt there was probable cause to
indict Patsy -- - if that is so, why was there no indictment?  Thomas twist.... aarghhh!

On page 177, Thomas said that the prosecutors said they couldn't prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt.  If Hunter agreed
with the cops, I think there would have been an indictment - and I would point out that when the standards were LOWERED - the
case went to the grand jury - there was STILL no indictment.

Thomas has his POV, and a right to express it - but he is twisting things here, combining misinformation and information, fact and
theory, in a very devious way to make people believe his theory is the truth.   It is not - it is only his theory and the evidence does
NOT support it!

page 178
Thomas noted that when the Ramseys appeared on TV on May 1st,  Patsy was wearing the same clothes she had the day before - and he concludes that she did it to support her claim that she often wore clothes two days in a row  and hence to purposely cover up the real reason why she was wearing the same clothes on December 25th and 26th - Thomas thinks she never went to bed.  The man does jump to some conclusions in his book - just have to remember, he is making the evidence fit his theory - yet to come up with one BIT of evidence that Patsy or John was involved in the death of their daughter.

Not in this part of the book but more Thomas twist and jumping to conclusions.  The cord and tape COULD have been bought at McGuckin's hardware store.  Patsy shopped there, therefore Patsy bought the tape and killed her kid.

page 181 - 182  Thomas found that Lou Smit and Steve Ainsworth had the NERVE to actually log information that was not BORG!  He was furious!

He wrote, "Once logged, it was part of the case file..... "  On page 183, he called those intruder reports "insane".

Thomas was angry that anything pointing to an intruder was going to officially be part of the case files.  Thomas' position is evident in the book.

On page 185, Thomas tried to bully Lou Smit - telling him to stop hurting "the case" by writing the reports on intruder.  Smit stood up to him and said, "There is nothing to indicate their involvement, and I'll wrote my reports that way."  Thomas responded, "It's outright sabotage."

Thomas clearly states that he was going after no one but the Ramseys - didn't want to hear anything that didn't fit the theory he held - that John and Patsy did this murder.

CHAPTER 20

page 191
A BIG LIE
Thomas describes going down the spiral stairs - and he says it would have been "extremely hard to miss any of those steps".  I have to say that I have been in that house and I have walked down those stairs many times - and I tried to "skip a step" more than once.  It is NOT difficult at all.  Thomas is simply lying.

page 192 - THOMAS' EVIDENCE
OK, here it is - this is what Thomas says is evidence - at least to him...
"...police found the porcelain bowl containing fresh pineapple and bearing the fingerprints of Patsy and Burke.  To me, that connected Patsy to pineapple, and pineapple was found in JonBenét's stomach, and one plus one equals two. I came to believe Patsy had given JonBenét pineapple that night."

WOW - well, let me comment...

Patsy emptied the dishwasher - her prints would be on many of the dishes.  Patsy said she doesn't know about the bowl on the table and did not feed JBR any pineapple that day - just knows nothing about it at all.
Burke could have gotten the treat for himself, his prints were also on the bowl.
There was NO pineapple found in the stomach - there was something in the intestines, and that MAY have been pineapple. It also could have been eaten in the afternoon, certainly was NOT eaten just before the murder.
Thomas jumped to conclusions again - but he can't prove any of them are correct.

page 192 - Thomas: "Our experts studied the pineapple in the stomach and reported that it was fresh-cut pineapple, consistent down to the rind with what had been found in the bowl."

The coroner couldn't identify if the substance was vegetable or fruit - and he did not note any of that being sent tot he lab for further testing - I don't know if Thomas is lying about this or not.  But stomach juices really do a number on food - I would like to see the name and report of any "expert" who claims that they have matched the pineapple exactly to that in the bowl - including the rind.  (Note - I am not saying it could not have matched - but i question the authenticity of Thomas's "expert" testimony here. He lied elsewhere in the book and I think may have here as well.

Page 193 - Thomas said he could hear a shout from the basement when he was in the master bedroom.  If the person was screaming right up the stairs and the door was open at the top of the stairs, maybe.  But I doubt it.  I was in the house and we did all kinds of experiments - I think he is lying.

Page 193 - Thomas wrote. "Detective Gosage wrote in his official report that he could hear movement and noise, even when people were trying to be quiet, no matter where he stood in the house."
My questions:
Would that be the original report or a revised one?
Does Gosage admit that he wrote that? (Thomas put words in Chet Ubowsky's mouth and then admitted he never checked to see if that info was right.)
If that is what Gosage says, I want to know why Gosage would tell a lie like that.  No way sound carried so well in that house - and that is a FACT.
 

page 194-196 - Thomas tries to make Smit look a fool - but he fails. Smit has photographs that show attempted entry at the bathroom window.  he has evidence of a disturbance and ENTRY through the broken window - but Thomas called the evidence 'ridiculous" - said, "They made the pictures and the facts show anything they imagined."
WHAT???    The photographs weren't doctored, facts are facts, and if they supported the intruder theory, THOMAS IS WRONG!

page 196-197 - Thomas gives an incomplete accounting of the spider web evidence and fails to say that it was PROVEN  - a man could get in that grate without breaking those webs.  Half-truths - that's what Hunter said was in the book - and this is a good example of that.

page 197 - Thomas said that the body couldn't be seen because of the "blind corner" - he is exaggerating the situation - there truly is NO "blind corner".  I have been there and know.

Maybe Fleet White couldn't see because his girth blocked the light, but it wasn't because of any "blind corner"

To end the chapter, Thomas wrote, "...I felt we had all betrayed JonBenét by being unable to resolve out differences."  He really needs to read that again - for HE was standing firm and admits being unwilling to consider other options, for "rudely countering" Smit and Ainsworth and their theories.  Thomas wanted things HIS way, was unwilling to compromise, and he felt bad because no one gave in to his bullying.  That's how I see it.
 

CHAPTER 21

Page 198 - Thomas lies and lies by omission again.  He says that the stun gun  idea is "demonstrably wrong".  But there is clear evidence that shows the stun gun idea is a GOOD theory - the evidence is there.  Thomas says Dr. Werner Spitz doesn't agree with Smit, but he doesn't name the people who DO agree with Smit - and there ARE some.  No, Thomas leaves a false impression, and he LIES.

p. 199 Thomas: "Unmentioned was that police had taken from John Ramsey's desk a sales videotape from an I Spy store in Florida that contained information about stun guns.  I believe that if Smit really wanted to pursue the
stun gun issue, he would have to cross-examine Ramsey hard on that point since the videotape indicated a logical source.  They couldn't ignore the possibility that their favored assault weapon might belong to someone other than an intruder.  Many months would pass before Ramsey was questioned about the tape, and he would say he never watched it.

Thomas Twist - He doesn't mention that Smit asked the Ramseys about the stun gun in July of 1997 - he doesn't tell us when Smit KNEW about the tape.  Interesting that Ramsey said he eventually went to look at the tape and it was in Spanish - does that mean the BPD didn't take it in as evidence?  The tape story smells pretty bad.

page 200 - Thomas readily writes that 6 handwriting examiners couldn't say that Patsy wrote the note.  But they did not say it was impossible either.  Later we know Hunter admitted that on a scale of 1-5, with 1 being a match and 5 being NO WAY, she was about a 4.5.  So the actual reports of at least 5 of the examiners was that she probably did NOT write the note.

But a the top of page 201, Thomas expresses his desire - - "I wanted someone willing to stand in a court of law and decisively declare who wrote the note. I had no idea where to find such a person."   This is important - he KNEW that the handwriting results were "probably not" but he was pushing for the puzzle to come together HIS way and would find that 'someone special".

page 202 - an AMAZING quote - Thomas incorrectly portrays information that Pam Griffin gave to Frank Coffman.  Then he complained that THAT lead didn't get a lot of attention and others were wasting time on intruder leads.  Then the amazing quote (considering the source) "Burying leads from fellow investigators is one of the worst things a detective can do because it destroys trust."

page 202 - Thomas and Dan Caplis were the team that got the private pro-bono lawyers for the BPD - interesting.  But not as interesting as the quote on the next page - "...they pledged to represent only the Boulder Police Department and our interests."
WOW!  Not Truth or justice, but the BPD.  The BORG BPD had a dream team in the works.

page 204 - Police Chief Koby guaranteed the investigation would remain BORG, according to Thomas.  Gave Ainsworth back to the sheriff's department, told Wickman to keep Smit busy with paperwork, and to tell DeMuth that the investigation was going to be BORG - like it or not.  Thomas said that Wickman was told to "Get rid of them if necessary."  The investigation was on a one way track, and making great time.

Page 205 - DeMuth shared information with the Ramsey lawyers about a man approaching children in the area - and he ws "scolded".  Apparently NO ONE was to indicate any possibility of any other suspect.

CHAPTER 22

Page 207 - Looks like Thomas found his clone in GA - a GBI agent who also liked strong-arm tactics - GBI agent John Lang.  Lang asked, "Why isn't there any pressure being applied to these suspects?"

This chapter describes "covert vigils" and cemetery lookouts, plans to bug the Ramsey home and an effort to strong arm authorities into issuing warrants when they simply had to ASK the Ramseys to sign a release.  It shows an egomaniacal team in action, IMO.

On page 211, there was a suggestion that the Ramsey neighborhood in Boulder be canvassed - that the people near the scene of the crime be asked about their alibis, about owning tape, cord, stun guns.  Thomas was not eager to have the stun guns mentioned again.  Why?  I think because that was just one more piece of the puzzle that didn't fit HIS theory.

STILL WAITING FOR EVIDENCE AGAINST PATSY - NONE YET, STEVE!
 
 

CHAPTER 23
 

Thomas, the AVENGER by now, (and this was a role he promoted himself in private quarters) decided to meet Ann Bardach to "set the record straight".  And he justified this because "If the DA could talk to her.... why couldn't I?"

How did Thomas see the resulting article?  This is interesting considering the misinformation that we know was in it - he wrote, "...delighted to see the truth finally come to light..."

page 215 - the cops gave the DA a presentation of the case to prepare for their trip to Quantico - to see the FBI.  Thomas admits not giving them all the information - "withheld the 911 tape and grave-site surveillance".  And he was upset when Hunter wouldn't participate in the trip to Quantico because they case was OBVIOUSLY not there.

page 216 - the FBI agents were painfully aware that there were two "camps" in Boulder - this according to Thomas.
 again, Spitz is mentioned as one who discounted the stun gun evidence, but Thomas doesn't say what was presented to PROVE the opposite.

Smit had photos of the stun gun marks - in March of 2000 they were discussed on 20/20 - and there were experts other than Spitz who had OTHER opinions.  Thomas conveniently doesn't mention any of that.

page 216-219 - VERY interesting part of the book that I don't want to get too far into just now - this is where Thomas says the FBI is BORG - interesting in light of later polygraph issues.  On page 219 the words "under the hammer" were used.  Doesn't sound like anyone I would want putting ME on a polygraph!

The end of the book was ego and ego and ego talking - not just Thomas' but Hunter's, Shapiro's and others.  Just shows that people were taking this personal - they were frustrated and under pressure and the result was claws and nasty words, hurt feelings and more words.  Egos and more egos.
 
 

PART 4
CHAPTER 24

page 227 - Thomas said that a "panel of pediatric experts "agreed unanimously that JonBenét had injuries "consistent with prior trauma and sexual abuse".
Unnamed "experts" and undocumented findings..... hmmmmm

I would ask - " Did he have a couple of his hand-picked "experts" go to lunch for this "panel discussion and conclusion"?"

There is NO evidence that she had been sexually assaulted before the night of the murder - only that she had some vaginal irritation which is NOT uncommon for a child - and JBR had a more than one documented case of such irritation - once from bubble bath, once from a bout of diarrhea and again it needs to be noted that little girls sometimes don't "wipe right".

Thomas didn't speak about those experts who publicly disputed those findings, but on page 228, he admitted that the information they had was NOT "known in the legal world as 'conclusive'".

page 228 -
The splinter in JBR's vagina was from the paintbrush. The paintbrush belonged to Patsy - so Thomas concludes that the splinter had to get there by Patsy's hand.  Sorry,  another case of jumping to conclusions.  The killer was in the basement with the child and the paintbrush - it could have been anyone who broke the brush and carried the splinter to the child's private area - it could have been the parents - and IT COULD HAVE BEEN AN INTRUDER.

page 228 = Werner Spitz theory puts the pineapple in the stomach and puts forth the theory that JBR was strangled with the neck of the shirt she was wearing.  Not supported by the autopsy or the physical condition of the shirt.  But Thomas LIKES Spitz' theory so it is in the book.

page 229 - interesting - Thomas states that he never really liked Beckner because he didn't party with the boys - - just a bit of personal insight into Thomas that I am surprised he revealed.

top of page 230 - Thomas wrote that the BORG team needed their legal advisor Bob Keatly and the dream team of pro-bono lawyers to promote their position, but they "were soon to be brushed aside and their input ignored".

I have to wonder if Thomas hasn't considered for a moment that he is WRONG!

page 231
INTERESTING - Commander Beckner had replaced Eller and he ordered the BORG squad "...to be more objective in ...reports and not skew them to theories that a Ramsey was involved..."  Thomas complains, "It was an insult."

IMPORTANT, however, this admission that the Commander felt the reports were clearly BORG.

Thomas went on and said, "...it irked us that the DA's office seemed to be trying to solve the case without us."

DAMN - if THIS doesn't explain the ego problems NOTHING WILL!

The DA's office was trying to solve the crime - but Thomas wanted them to solve it so the end announcement would be "THE RAMSEYS ARE THE KILLAS".  That was not going to happen, and they were "irked".  AARGHHH!

page 232 - Thomas said Beckner claimed he knew the Ramseys were involved but the case might never be filed.  He doesn't accept this as truth from the Commander, but says, "That was language straight out of the DA's office....."

page 232-3    The BPD requested that the Ramseys voluntarily hand over their cellular phone records for December 1-27, 1996 and that was done.  There were no calls.  Unusual - but true - and Thomas saw conspiracy.

page 233-234   Thomas said that he had found the cord early on in the investigation (didn't name the tipsters but they were Coffman and Shapiro) but the cord had not been tested - he blamed Trujillo for not sending it in for testing.  It seemed to me that some important tests were not done - and the blame lies solely with the BPD.

235-236 - Outlines the demise of Police Chief Koby.  It seemed to me that Beckner watched the men go for the throat - at least according to Thomas - and Beckner would always have to know that his men would turn on him in a NY Minute if the right situation played out.  Little loyalty in Boulder.  Just the way it was, and would be.  That's how I see it.

PAGE 236-240 - weak points in the case according to Thomas

Said there were 50 points supporting probable cause - but doesn't list them -

Here are the "weak points", the "problems"

* Hi-tec boot print - Thomas says it was possibly a cop or FBI agent
* palm prints on the door to the cellar door - Thomas said there were three prints on the door - two belonged to Patsy - then he said  2,000-3,000 people had passed through the house suggesting it would be impossible to trace that print
* pubic hair on the white blanket that was with the body
* flashlight - unclaimed by the Ramseys or anyone else - Thomas just didn't feel it was an intruder's - after all, IF an intruder left carrying the tape and cord, why would he leave the flashlight?

page 238 - THREE footprints in the windowless room that couldn't be traced back - interesting

page 239 - As of September 1998, Larry Mason had not filed a written report of his activities on December 26th, 1996 (as supervisor)

page 240-241 - - Mason and Arndt had been hurt by the BPD and were not cooperating with the BPD - claimed "amnesia".  There must be more to this story - wonder what.

CHAPTER 25

page 242 - Gung-ho cop Thomas had prepared an arrest warrant - carried it with him everywhere - but Hunter said, "...it's not really a warrant."

page 243-244   The Ramseys offered to meet with Mark Beckner, but the police warned him "to be wary"  Beckner refused the meeting.  The BPD found out that the Ramseys were talking to Lou Smit (DA's office) and they were upset.  Personally, I think they sounded like the kid who gets REAL mad when he finds out he isn't the only kid in the neighborhood with a baseball.

page 244-245 - The cops broke in the ramsey house and got caught on a security tape.  The break-in through the basement window was NOT admitted in Thomas' book - another lie by presenting half of the truth.  The police confiscated the security system - returned it but NOT the tape.  This is true and NOT part of the Thomas book.

pages 245-247 - another grave site surveillance - for the 1st anniversary - no confession. One "wing nut" showed up and Thomas says he was investigated and cleared - but he doesn't say how.

Page 247-9  Thomas notes that the case, his work, was taking a toll on his marriage.  He was depressed and lonely.  He ended the chapter with words from Chuck Green - BORG words - and why not?  the whole book was BORG.

CHAPTER 26

Thomas was hot to bug the Ramsey Atlanta home - Beckner balked.  John Lang and Ralph Stone of the GBI seemed to be macho clones of Steve Thomas in this.

page 252 - Thomas, totally frustrated by the case, sounded like he was unraveling, to me anyway.  Angry that the Boulder authorities wouldn't Ok the Atlanta plan, he wrote, "...our fearless leaders chickened out."  Larry Schiller had an article published in the new Yorker - a story that indicated DNA testing may help solve the crime, and that Hunter was even considering an exhumation to check for the stun gun marks.  Thomas wrote that he shouted, "It wasn't a fucking stun gun!"
.
His book did nothing to explain the photographic evidence that Smit held, shared in March of 2000.

253 - the authorities received the clothes the Ramseys wore on December 26th, 1996 - Thomas was angry it took so long but was pleased later.... (the red fibers were "consistent with", though not a match to, those of Patsy's blazer - a BORG victory - BUT - if the blazer was red and black, some ask why there were no black fibers on the tape - and why the red ones were not a MATCH)

Page 253-254  - Thomas wrote something that goes against the Schiller book and my own phone call to Shuford Mills.  He said that the black tape was "possibly" from the Shuford Mills - but Schiller reported it WAS from there and a man at the factory (just miles from my home) told me the same.

Thomas also said it was "determined that it was sold at McGuckin's Hardware store."  That is a LIE!  Shuford Mills talked to me in detail about how the tape is distributed - there is NO WAY to know where that tape was put on a store shelf.  It could have been bought anywhere.

Thomas was honest when he said it matched nothing in the house - the tape could not be linked to the Ramsey house before the murder.

page 254-255 - Thomas said that the Ramseys had brokered a deal before handing over the clothes - the BPD would have to announce that there was no evidence of prior vaginal abuse and turn over exculpatory evidence.  Thomas said they got some photos - but he did not elaborate.

page 256 - The ramseys again offered to meet with Boulder investigators - NOT to be interrogated but to answer basic questions - what lights were on, etc.  The BPD wanted to push an interrogation and so the negotiations failed and no meeting took place.  Thomas felt that the BPD wrongly took the blame for that failure.

page 257 - John Ramsey wrote a letter to Lou Smit and spoke about suspects - Thomas was angry that he was adding to the suspect list - seems like he felt any other suspect was a bother.

Interesting - Thomas says that the Santas were cleared - but he didn't say how or why.

257-259 - Fleet and Priscilla were favorably described by Thomas - IMO, that relationship needed to be investigated.  I think Thomas influenced he Whites above and beyond the norm...

page 260 - Thomas wrote that the group was hoping for a special prosecutor.

CHAPTER 27

Page 261 - FOSTER ENTERS STAGE LEFT
January 1998, Donald Foster told Thomas that he would "conclude the ransom note was the work of a single individual: Patsy Ramsey."  Thomas called them "magic words".

Reading this book, noting the lack of the case put forth but his relentless desire to make a case against Patsy Ramsey, I imagine it did seem like magic - perhaps orgasmic.

When the DA's office tried to get Foster to examine more avenues, Foster balked, and Thomas advised him to ignore the DA - the prosecutor.  Thomas said, "You work for the Boulder Police department."    Foster expressed his fear that Hunter might not "...pursue this in the direction that I'm seeing."

I think Foster sold Thomas the "expert opinion" Thomas wanted so badly - and Foster was scared when he realized it would not be taken as definitive evidence without question.

page 263 - photos of reading material found in the Ramsey bedroom was sent to Foster...  a photo showed an open dictionary - open to a page with the word "incest" on it!  Thomas remarked, "circumstantial evidence grew".  I read it and wanted to vomit - what a bogus, lame case - and to think someone could lose their freedom on such "work".

Thomas had not explained a motive, shown that the Ramseys had any predisposition to such an act, had not linked them to the act, had ignored exculpatory evidence - - but Foster spoke "magic".  It made me sick.

pages 263-264  The Whites played a large part in the push for a special prosecutor - and Thomas was in there pushing as well.   Beckner wasn't in agreement - and according to Thomas, he said the Whites were close to an obstruction of justice charge.  Interesting.

page 265 - Thomas talks about other suspects being checked out - a waste of time - and when Beckner asked if anyone there thought they had a case that could be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, they said they didn't feel they would ever be able to make that case (against Patsy) while they were being forced to look at other suspects.

It must take a LOT to manufacture a case against someone when the evidence isn't there.

page 266 - Thomas reports that beckner, "abandoned us, and, in my pinion, he never came back."

Hmmmm - does that mean  Beckner is not BORG???  Interesting.

CHAPTER 28

DNA issues

In an effort to undermine the DNA evidence, Thomas reported that "...the DNA might not be related to the murder at all."

One time I was asked to report on a meeting - and I refused saying if they wanted a report, they should ask the people I met with for a report.  I finally relented when I was told it wasn't what was SAID, but what I HEARD that was important.

Thomas heard the experts say the DNA could be ignored.  The DA's office heard that John was NOT a match and the DNA might one day help crack this case.

Thomas would ignore the DNA evidence - but the DNA and fiber evidence was the focus of meetings in Boulder in May of 2000.

Thomas said that Henry Lee was asked his opinion - and he "scolded' that "adequate and complete (DNA) testing should have been done long ago."

Reading the book closely, it seems Thomas was losing a lot of support for his BORG theory and mindset.  The people above him were not willing to ignore the evidence.

page 269-270 - Thomas admits he was tired, discouraged, and still hot to meet John's old lover from 18 years before.  I read this and thought thomas needed to go on vacation and get a grip on reality.  What did he really expect to gain from a former mistress after 18 years?

page 271 - Thomas claims that Beckner had lost control of the detectives who "challenged him openly now".  Thomas didn't like the leader who wasn't following the BORG agenda.

page 272 - WOLF  in Thomas' book

Page 273-274 - Thomas and his GBI friend John Lang were ready to exhume the body of JonBenét.  Beckner was about to agree, but it never happened because, "the negatives were greater than the possibility of finding conclusive evidence."

Huh?  If they thought there was more evidence to be gained, why not go for it?  I think they didn't because they were only interested in getting BORG evidence and they knew it wasn't there.

page 274 - Interesting - John Lang took on a personal mission in the case - started going to the MoonBean Restaurant hoping to "overhear' something from Patsy.  Sounds like Thomas and his friend were obsessed - not a flattering picture.

CHAPTER 29

Starting the grand jury - Thomas and Gosage were upset that the DA would have to get the case - OH, they hated that.

They had to tell the DA about the enhanced 911 tape - but they didn't share it.  page 281 - Donald Foster - the "expert" (excuse me while I puke) made his case against Patsy Ramsey.  Thomas says Foster, "...built a wall of linguistic evidence.... brick by brick."

After telling me a multitude of times that he would need a large sample of text to do a proper analysis, Foster was willing to look at 31 sentences and swear that no one but Patsy Ramsey wrote that ransom note.  Why?  I think the media whore was selling his soul for a bit of publicity and the opportunity to include the Ramsey case in his future résumé.

His explanations for details like $118,000, SBTC and "and hence" were theories that supported the BORG story - and Thomas loved it.  Most ironic, however, was his "a" evidence - handwriting, a science he had repeatedly criticized in his letters to me.

On page 283, Thomas seemed confused that Foster had made his case but the DA was not jumping up and down, calling for the arrest warrant and handcuffs.

What I don't understand is how Thomas can say he had NO IDEA that Foster could be discredited by his earlier involvement in the case.  Obviously Thomas and others had truly refused to pay attention to what was right in front of their faces.  I have a hard time believing Thomas is not simply lying about what he knew at that point.  I have asked Thomas to speak to me - he will not.  So I am left with my gut feeling that he is being insincere, to me, to the readers, and maybe to himself - but most unfortunate is that he has been insincere about his search for truth in the investigation that should have exposed the killer.

page 284 -
Thomas described me as an "internet junkie".  Unflattering, perhaps, but true to a degree - I am addicted to this case.  And I spend a lot of time on the net.

Thomas twists the truth, though, when he said, "...Foster once guessed incorrectly that the anonymous Jameson was really John Andrew Ramsey..."

That was FAR from the truth - and if Thomas looked at the package he described in his book, a package I sent to Boulder in July of 1997, he knows he is lying by omission, misleading the readers.  There should be a law - he should have to rewrite his book and tell the TRUTH.  Foster not only "guessed jameson was John Andrew Ramsey", he also said he had solved the crime and knew that jameson/John Andrew had murdered JonBenét Ramsey.  He said JAR was NOT in Atlanta at the time of the murder, that he knew that, and he said more.

Foster learned that he was wrong about jameson being John Andrew (a whole other story) - and he changed his "expert opinion" - he decided that Patsy was the one.

Thomas made a strange statement in his book - he said, "... he changed his conclusion 180 degrees.  To me, that only strengthened his position, not weakened it, for it showed he had no anti Ramsey bias."

WHAT??  He fingered one Ramsey, finds out he was wrong and points to another... and THAT proves he is an unbiased credible "expert"?    I feel like a stranger in a strange land where the rules of reason are distorted beyond comprehension.

Thomas apparently doesn't see things as I do - he was upset that Foster was dismissed. Hofstrom said, "The defense would eat him alive."

Thomas said, "...Foster was consigned to the DA's junk pile.  Losing him was a devastating blow.

But Thomas was NOT about to "lose" Foster - he held him up as a "true professional" in his book and put his evidence forward as reasonable and honest.  Foster was a large part of his case against patsy - but when a text analyst can read HUNDREDS of pages of writing by jameson and determine they were written by a 20 year old male educated in GA (a murderer, no less) when in fact they were written by a 45 year old mother of three educated in MA......   how can that man's testimony be "credible"?

CHAPTER 30
PART 1 - THOMAS'  THEORY

Thomas said he felt Patsy was under stress:
a. approaching 40
b. tired from the busy holiday season
c. exhausted after Christmas day
d. frazzled because JonBenét argued with her over the shirt she wore to the Whites'
 

Thomas ignored the testimony of John and Burke (that JBR was carried sleeping to her bed) and theorized that Patsy fed pineapple to JBR when they got home that night.

Thomas wrote that John read to JBR, a claim John disputes - he said he put Burke to bed and went to his own bed to read to himself.

John and Patsy say she went to bed before John - but Thomas reversed that in his theory - he has patsy staying up to prepare for a trip to Michigan - and notes that she was not anxious to go on that particular trip.  (I would like to see that documented but that's just me.)

Thomas claimed that JonBenét wet the bed and pointed to this as evidence
- the plastic sheets on the bed (present, OK)
- the urine stains  (there were urine stains on her long johns but NOT on the sheets - Thomas is being deceitful, hoping to make the reader believe there is proof she wet the bed that night - there is NO proof of that.  The pattern of the stains in the long johns indicates her legs were dangling down, not that she was lying down, the urine would pool.  She wet herself, she did NOT wet the bed.)
- there was a package of pull-ups in the hall cabinet  (yep, sure was.  So what?  I have diapers in my house that were left over from when my son was a baby, I also have some left here by friends.  Owning pull-ups doesn't mean much - certainly doesn't prove JBR wet the bed that night. Thomas says they were in a package falling out of a cabinet, still means nothing - the house was not the neatest....)
- "the balled-up turtleneck found in the bathroom  (again misleading - she didn't wear red to the Whites and the shirt was not urine stained so what does that have to do with the supposition that JBR wet the bed that night?)

Citing that parents sometimes fly into a rage over toileting issues, Thomas decided this was the motive - and the assault was in rage, not premeditated.  He says the sexual assault, the vaginal injury, was the result of "violent wiping".  And he said he believes JBR was slammed against something in her bathroom - the head wound knocked her unconscious and patsy believed she was dead.

(BUT THE EVIDENCE DOESN'T SUPPORT THIS - THE MINIMAL BLEEDING IN THE SKULL INDICATES THE FLOW OF BLOOD WAS RESTRICTED IF NOT CUT OFF WHEN SHE WAS STRUCK.)

Thomas said up until this point, Patsy was innocent of any crime - it was an accident - and he said, "She could have called for help but chose not to."

He believes Patsy carried JBR to the little room in the basement and went about staging a kidnapping.

(If she carried her wet body to the basement, wouldn't she have gotten urine on her own clothes?  Would she really not change out of them before calling 911?)

At this point Thomas has Patsy writing a handwritten ransom note - (using the pad and pen that could have been available to ANYONE in that house, parent OR intruder)  He says she tore out pages, doesn't explain why or where they went to - (I think it makes more sense to say that the pad had missing pages from - - earlier times.  Hardly a rare thing - to have a pad with missing pages.)

He doesn't seem to think she would worry about leaving her handwriting on the note, that she would be too upset to compose such a "sensible" note, and apparently the lack of her prints or tears on it just requires no explanation.

Thomas feels Patsy decided she couldn't take the body out of the house and would leave it in the basement - (as if that made any sense when "staging" a kidnapping).

He then theorizes that Patsy went back to the basement, realized JonBenét was not dead, and made the garrote to finish her off.  "This accident, in my opinion, had just become a murder."

On TV, Thomas agreed it was hard to picture Patsy doing that - making a garrote and killing her baby, but he stuck by his theory.

Then, he said, she tied her hands - but he doesn't account for the fact that the cord matched nothing in the house, or the odd way her hands were bound - they were not just tied together, but the knots and loops were similar to those found on bandage sites - and there was NO evidence the Ramseys were into that.

Thomas said that JonBenét was carefully wrapped in the blanket, an act of love, according to him.  But my sources say she was lying on the moldy cement floor, not carefully wrapped, her feet were sticking out - and her arms were flung over her head, she was NOT in a "peaceful pose" as the FBI says parents tend to leave their children if they murder them. Again, I think Thomas was misleading his readers.

Thomas had Patsy up all night - returning the tablet and pen, finding tape and putting some on JBR's mouth - but he doesn't explain that the tape, like the cord, matches NOTHING found in the house, used previously, and couldn't be linked to the Ramseys.  He DOES theorize that she may have gone out in the night and dropped the left over tape and such in a garbage pail or sewer, though nothing was found in later searches.

Thomas said that Patsy had never been to bed - never gotten out of the clothes, had not put them back on...  that she spent the night staging the crime and then screamed for John to come see the note....

But John has made statements that Patsy was in bed before him and was still there when he got up.  So for Thomas' theory to be true, John has to be lying.

Thomas felt that John was innocent to start but soon realized that Patsy had killed JonBenét and decided to cover for her.

On TV, John scoffed at that, said that the love for a spouse is "conditional".  "If you kill my child, I don't like you anymore."

PART TWO OF CHAPTER 30
 

page 289-290

Thomas outlined Smit's intrude theory - and said he thought it unlikely for an intruder to sneak in a house and do the things he willing attributed to a parent with no history of deviant behavior.  He did say he believed Smit was sincere in his beliefs, but that he viewed Smit as "a major problem", a possible defense witness in the future, and went to Beckner with his concerns.  Apparently there was talk about removing Smit then, but Beckner asked Thomas if he realized how bad that would look.

page 291 - Thomas reveals that in January 1998, tests were still being done on the earliest evidence.  Startling information considering the high profile standing of the case.

page 291-292  Thomas reveals he was diagnosed with a disease, his thyroid gland was failing, he was really quite ill and stress wasn't helping his situation.  There was no arrest in the plans according to his superiors and he was discouraged.  He didn't think he wanted to stay with the Boulder team.

PART 5

CHAPTER 31

Thomas' attitude, his unwillingness to listen to any evidence not BORG, comes through in the beginning of Chapter 31.  He said all the evidence led them "in one direction" - the direction was Ramsey.  He said they "endured" the two hour presentation Trip DeMuth gave on the intruder theory.  DeMuth may have packaged the presentation as a way to show what a defense might do, but Thomas was upset that the DA wasn't saying they had a case - that the exculpatory evidence could be ignored or pooh-poohed away.

Interesting, on page 298, Thomas says DeMuth criticized them for "shopping for experts" until they found one willing to say what they wanted to hear.  Interesting not because he denies it - but because he says the other side was willing to do the same thing!

Lord help us all when the 'truth" is so easily altered by a signed check.

page 299 - The Ramseys were in touch with DA Alex Hunter - and an interview was set up with Lou Smit - Thomas was clearly upset by that.

After reading about three hundred pages of Thomas, I feel I know him - he wanted to action, and he wanted it to be confrontational, and I think he would browbeat them to a breakdown and confession if given the opportunity.  I think Thomas was burnt out - and I am glad his days as a cop were numbered.

Thomas learned he would not be the police representative assisting any grand jury - and I think his self image plummeted.  He had worked so hard to put the Ramseys behind bars, worked more overtime than any cop, risked his marriage and health for Ramsey and they didn't appreciate him.  He was about to turn his back on it all - that's how I see it.

page 301 - The case needed to go to DA Alex Hunter so he could decide if a grand jury would be called.  Thomas was angry at the work involved, putting together a presentation and handing the case to the people he practically hated.  But there was  help - the "dream team" of pro-bono lawyers was helping - Thomas felt good.

Especially since there was a new face - that of Michael Kane.  Thomas said that Kane was only #3, under Hunter and Hofstrom - but I think Thomas knew in his heart that this was the special prosecutor he longed for.

CHAPTER 32

"SHOW TIME" - that's what Thomas called it - and it was indeed.  The cops were flashing their colors to the DA, the CBI, the FBI, Henry Lee, Barry Scheck.... they had a show to put on.

page 304 - Thomas seems smug when he described the photo he left up on the screen during his opening remarks - it was a photo where Patsy had a tight grip on JBR's arm.  I guess subliminal suggesting is part of police work too.

The presentation was BORG - clearly, that was the intention and the fact.

PINEAPPLE _

According to Thomas, there was no pineapple served at the Whites on Christmas day.  That leaves two options - she ate it before leaving her house that afternoon - or she ate it after returning home.

 Thomas accepts and writes that either was possible - that they times were reasonable and simply were the shortest and longest times possible between eating the pineapple and having it end up in the intestines at death. (page 304)

Thomas said in his book that she had not eaten much at the Whites' - she was too excited, perhaps.  So the theory that she may have taken a chunk of pineapple out of a bowl on the table before leaving the house that afternoon is reasonable - it could be close to the last thing she ate.

If it was fed to her when she got home, it would mean some time passed before she was murdered - it had passed THROUGH her stomach.

Since there is no logical reason for the Ramseys - all three of them, and the Stines, to lie about JonBenét being asleep when they got home, I have to say I think this is the less reasonable option.  Why LIE about that?  Anyway, I just don't see why the family would lie about it and i don't believe the killer fed her and kept her alive for any length of time so her food could get to the intestines.
 

VAGINAL INJURY
Presented as a repeat injury - the fact that this was in dispute was not indicated in Thomas' book.

DNA
Lee and Scheck talked about it - the fact that every fingernail wasn't cut by a sterile new clipper meant that the samples could have been contaminated - the fact that the samples didn't match anyone meant that the DNA hadn't answered any questions but raised new ones.

Thomas could ignore the DNA - no problem.

page 306 - Four red acrylic fibers on the tape were "consistent" with fibers from Patsy's blazer.  Thomas never explained that "consistent" did not mean "match" and that there was a problem - why were there only red fibers, the blazer was not just red - wouldn't other fibers have been on the tape as well if they were from the blazer/

Thomas said he liked the questions posed by Mike Kane - he seemed a team player, I would guess.

INTERESTING - on page 306, Patsy is identified as the author of the ransom note - but the wording is, I believe, part of a Thomas Twist.

"The CBI examiner explained that of the 73 persons whose writing had been investigated, there was only one whose writing showed evidence that suggested authorship and had been in the house the night of the killing and could not be eliminated by no less than 6 document examiners - Patsy Ramsey."

Thomas did NOT say that the document examiners who couldn't totally eliminate her said she was probably NOT the author - the Ramseys said in their book that on a scale of 1 to 5 - with 1 being a perfect match and 5 being "no way", John was a perfect 5 and Patsy a 4.5.   DA Alex Hunter, on national TV, agreed that that figure was about right.

Looking at the three standards set by Thomas, the only real suspects in the pool were John, Patsy and Burke - they were the only ones admitting they were in the house.  That was hardly the true suspect pool, but Thomas didn't seem to mind spinning BORG a bit.

Despite what was said on page 284 about Foster being lost as a witness, Thomas included Foster in the presentation - said the Vassar professor had identified Patsy as the author of the note.

On page 307, Thomas wrote,  "The state attorney general's office and our Dream Team were lobbying for Don Foster to be used as a witness in court."

A list of suspects is there - including Chris Wolf and Santa - - interesting, Thomas claimed Fleet White was cleared - but he didn't say why and the fact is that there was no official statement clearing him.

Page 307-308 - - Thomas outlines the case against Patsy:  his words (mine)

prior vaginal trauma (disputed, prior irritation explained in medical records)
pen and pad were from the house (anyone with access to the child had access to the pad and pen)
handwriting (I would use the same evidence - just I would use the numbers, not just say she couldn't be eliminated)
practice notes (unproved)
textual analysis and Don Foster's conclusion (Oh PUKE, the man is a fraud!)
911 enhancement (the FBI, CBI and US Secret service couldn't enhance it - and that it finally WAS enhanced is questioned)
John saying he didn't read to JBR when the police reported that he had said otherwise on the 26th (human error, not evidence of murder)
Patsy's paintbrush being part of the garrote (again, the intruder had access to anything in the house)
Thomas felt the house was a maze- (I have been there - it is not that confusing, not at all)
Patsy's fingerprints were on the bowl of pineapple on her table  (she emptied the dishwasher, her prints were on many surfaces in the house, including the dishes)
The date on the headstone (give me a break!)
The scream heard by the neighbor but not on the third floor (experiments proved that sound is heard better outside than on that third floor - and the neighbor slept with her window open.)
Patsy having make-up on and wearing the same clothes the next day  (not evidence she was up all night or a killer - John saw her in bed when he went to bed, when he got up, and she wasn't falling down exhausted the next day - Thomas is just theorizing but the evidence isn't there to support his theory)

Thomas said the parents had the opportunity - (I agree, they had opportunity - every night - but where is the proof they took advantage of it?)
He also said that "... no other suspects had" that opportunity.  I don't see how he can say that when there is evidence of an intruder in the house.  Thomas is doing the Twist.

The fibers on the tape (consistent, not a match - and why just red if the blazer was not just red?  And what about the beaver hair?)

page 310 - Interesting,  the FBI again blocked an interview with the Ramseys...
and
Thomas quotes Pete Hofstom defending the Ramseys and saying they had given "unlimited and unconditional cooperation".

page 311-312 - the FBI was pulling out and Thomas said that was a criticism of the DA - their unwillingness to go along with the BORG agenda was costing them all the FBI and the dream team of pro-bono lawyers.  One FBI agent was quoted - "What's going on in that DA's office is a disgrace."

Wow!

CHAPTER 33

The case had been turned over to the DA's office - and Thomas was not happy that they decided to interview the Ramseys before going forward with the grand jury.  He was upset that the BPD was out of it and more so that Lou Smit would have an opportunity to be involved in the interviews... "... but at least he would be paired with Mike Kane..."  Thomas was glad that Tom Haney would be involved, but questiond if it was wise to involve Trip DeMuth.  Thomas obviously wanted a complete BORG approach to the situation.

page 314 - Thomas wrote, "Smit would later tell me that Hofstrom was negotiating about whether the Ramseys could even be asked the "polygraph question."  They weren't."

page 314-315  Thomas wrote, "I telephoned an FBI friend who was familiar with the case....   The FBI was watching the Ramsey case, he said, and some had even discussed the possibility of investigating the DA's office for obstruction of justice!  I volunteered to be the first witness.

This is interesting in light of the polygraph questions that would come up following the release of Thomas' book.  The Ramseys volunteered to take polygraphs - if they were given by an independent, unbiased polygrapher and the results were made public no matter what.  The BPD would ONLY agree to tests done by the FBI.  Hmmmmm

page 315-316 - Thomas says he decided to take a  leave from the BPD and cite his health problems as the cause.

page 316 - Thomas was obviously furious that Burke was not "grilled" during his interviews with Schuller - he remarked, "The arrangement it seemed designed more to make the boy comfortable than to elicit information."

Thomas was still interested in being heavy handed, the frustration is easily seen by the reader.

page 317 - Thomas described the Burke interview - but I believe he was less than truthful about what was said.  He made Burke out to be a very confused child telling conflicting stones.  He did not tell the whole truth  -  when a transcript of that interview is made public, if it ever is, the Thomas Twist will be obvious.

But there is one thing that he said that WAS true - Burke woke up when his parents were searching the house, and says he did not leave his bed, but feigned sleep. (He was NOT on the 911 tape)

page 317-318 - Once again Thomas included me in his book, labeling me, once again, an "internet junkie".  But he does not tell the whole story and he DOES tell some flat out lies.

Yes, I had damaged the credibility of Donald Foster - but it really wasn't me but Foster himself who showed that he was not credible, I just alerted the authorities to his real "expertise".

Thomas said I was posting "confidential information" on the net.  Maybe so - but I posted "confidential information" in February of 1997 - before I had ONE connection to anyone in the case.  I sometimes know things intuitively and feel strong enough about those things that I am willing to state them.  If I was posting information, Thomas has no idea where it came from.  He carefully worded that "...it looked to us as if she had an inside source."  Well, by then, I had several "sources" - Thomas never spoke to me about any of that, he just decided to use ME to smear Lou Smit - and it was not justified, fair, or correct.

Thomas correctly reported that Lou Smit and I spoke on a regular basis - and there is nothing wrong in what we were doing.  I was in touch with many people and was passing tips to Boulder - to Hunter, Smit and the BPD.  I don't deny that. I know at least some of our conversations were recorded - and Lou told me he was writing reports on what I brought to him.

But Thomas incorrectly identified what Lou and I spoke about.  When I got the book, I called Lou and asked him if we ever had the conversation Thomas described.  Lou said no.  I hadn't thought so.  Obviously Thomas wrote a fictional account describing what HE THOUGHT Lou and I spoke of - and the readers would have no idea that Thomas was simply making it up - more Thomas Twist.

He wrote part of a story that was based in fact.  Thomas wrote that I had passed on a tip about  "...a web site for child pornography... one of the children shown in an explicit sexual pose looked like the daughter of Ramsey housekeeper Linda Hoffman-Pugh.  The DA's office began an investigation."

Thomas then said, and I am not making this up, "I wondered why they were chasing such things."

GOOD GRIEF!  The photos turned in were of a child being forced to engage in sexual activities. Would Thomas NOT want to help THAT victim be saved from HER Hell?   The images (more than one) looked enough like the child in question that there WAS a 7-8 week investigation.  Thomas didn't indicate that, or that there was a warrant drawn up in that situation.  No - he did a bit of dancing on the outskirts - I really wish he would open that can of worms so the truth of THAT investigation (mishandled as far as I can see) could be made public.  *sigh*

Thomas LIED when he wrote that Smit had been attempting to NOT document our conversations.  Lou Smit made it clear to me from the start that he was discussing me with others - and that reports were going in the files.  Thomas Twist.

Thomas said that Lou Smit "pledged to stop any 'direct contact' with her."  That is another out and out lie.  Never happened.

page 319 - Thomas knew he was leaving the investigation but wanted to stay around for the interviews.   He said it was obvious the DA had won over Beckner and that the Ramseys were dealing with friends.  Thomas was told he could monitor the interviews but was ordered not to write a report on it - Thomas was understandably upset.  But I think the situation shows  that Thomas was BORG through and through - unwilling to be fair in any way, willing to do anything to make the pieces fit HIS puzzle - and the people around him knew it.

CHAPTER 34

The Ramseys went in for a THREE DAY INTERROGATION - not an interview "within a negotiated comfort zone" as Thomas described.

I have to say, having followed this case closely and knowing many of the people involved, I find it difficult not to hate Thomas for his attempt to misinform people about what happened in the Ramsey investigation.  I see so many lies, twists.... it makes me sick.  Thomas would have made a very good "investigator" for the Gestapo. I am glad he is not a cop any longer.

Thomas's description of the interrogations is clearly BORG - Ramsey didn't tell his story but "his team's theory".

Thomas points out inconsistancies in the stories - patsy didn't remember picking up the note - said she didn't think she had - but John said he went downstairs, met Patsy on the steps and she handed the note to him.  Rather than view this as evidence that they had NOT "studied script" over the past year and a half, Thomas pointed to the inconsistancies as damning.

Thomas also revealed that the Ramseys said there was a hang-up call on the morning of the 26th.  Thomas didn't say what time that would have been, but noted that the cops were monitoringht elines and didn't get that - might it have been done before the lines were set up?  Thomas didn't want to suggest that, clearly.

Thomas said John "stuck to his original story"....  and then LIED - he quoted John as saying JonBenét had been left "like an Indian papoose, like someone put her there comfortably with her mouth taped."   That simply was untrue.

Thomas needed an editor for the next part of his book - but after reading carefully, he said that John felt she could have eaten the pineapple at their home before going to the Whites, or at the Whites - but he had no doubt she was asleep when carried into the house and did not eat it then.

Then Thomas said John denied recognizing the bowl that held the fruit on the table - I would love to see that transcript - I think he said he didn't remember there being a bowl of fruit on the table...  and reviewing Thomas' ability and willingness to lie about other subjects, I wonder....

page 323 - Despite Thomas' earlier statements that the McReynold's had been cleared (apparently unofficially), he admitted that the DA didn't share the position - that they were still investigating the Santas.

page 323-324  - Thomas commented on the fact that John discussed other suspects - and Thomas clearly was offended that John wasn't simply accepting the BORGism that Patsy killed his daughter.

page 324 - Thomas described the Smit/John interview as if the two of them had worked on the script - clearly BORG.  Thomas clearly wanted to be in there grilling John - it didn't happen, but his book would help rectify the damage - I think that is what Thomas felt when he wrote this book.

page 325 - Thomas described Patsy as strong, "...went one-on-one with Haney without hesitation".  After three days of a rough ride with Haney - a show Thomas approved of, to say the least, Patsy was angry and challenged Haney to bring on the evidence he was saying he had, to "Cut to the chase," to "...spoil my ride."  What I saw as a woman tired of being beaten down, unwilling to confess to something she didn't do, Thomas saw as a breakthrough - Patsy had "lifted her mask" and he saw "cold rage".

page 327- 328  - Kane and others agree, there is reasonable doubt - no convincing case to bring to a jury.  Santa alone "might pose reasonable doubt."  Keenan and Schuller said that the body language didn't indicate guilt - and Thomas was upset - said "the inmates had taken over the asylum."

Reading the book, I was reminded of those stories that document someone's mental breakdown - Thomas was clearly BORG, holding fast to his position and fearing the whole world was going crazy.  As I read I go from hating Thomas to pitying him.

Thomas decided to quit.
 

CHAPTER 35

page 330-331 - Thomas was upset that the Santas were being investigated as suspects.  He was upset that the Whites were not happy, were being "thrown to the wolves".  And he was VERY upset when Donald Foster was fired from the case.

Once again, I accuse Steve thomas of manipulating facts and fiction to misrepresent the FACTS - I think he should have to answer for his lies one day - lies of omission are still lies.

Thomas called Foster the "Vassar linguist' and said he had a "sterling reputation".  Well, that is clearly a lie - he had been discredited in June of 1997 when he wrongly attributed the posts of a 45 year old housewife educated in MA to a 20 year old boy educated in GA.  He was discredited when he determined the author of those posts was a killer. The author of those posts was innocent of any wrong doing.  He was discredited when he wrote a letter to Patsy swearing he knew she was innocent and would be vindicated - only to flip-flop months later and accuse Patsy of writing the ransom note. The man is a charlatan and a media whore - and Thomas had access to the records that proved it - - but he wanted the BORG witness - honest people wouldn't testify and say what Thomas wanted to hear - but Foster would, so in Thomas' eyes, Foster was "a true professional".

According to Thomas, the final straw came, for him, when Bill McReynolds was questioned by police and asked to turn over some cord.  Santa was upset, Thomas felt an innocent person was being wrongly persecuted, and he responded by writing a letter of resignation.

Thomas quit - if the investigation was not going to be handled his way, he wanted nothing more to do with it.  He would leave and become a carpenter - and write a book that many would feel was full of lies, that many would feel hurt the chance of any future prosecution in the Ramsey case.

Thomas quit - and cashed in on his situation.

I don't think Thomas cares about truth or justice, just needs to be right, feed his ego.
 
 

CHAPTER 36

page 342-345 -  Thomas believes Bill Wise shared his resignation letter with the media - notably Globe reporter Craig Lewis.     And he says he would like to believe that his letter prompted the Governor to insist on a grand jury being put in place.  But he notes that the governor never called him.  Thomas Twist?  Who knows?
 

page 345 - Thomas pats himself on the back - he didn't sell his story to the tabloids - but he clearly is not saying how much he made when he signed the book deal.

page 346 - Thomas was off the case but his BORG self was watching - DeMuth and Hofstrom were off the case - Kane had new assistants (presumably BORG) and the grand jury was going to be seated.  Thomas clearly hoped they would focus on the Ramseys.

pages 346-348  Thomas, already considered mentally unstable by his own accounts, was the victim of attempted extortion by the GLOBE.  He was the subject of gossip, rumors, personal attacks.  So he decided to write a book.

page 349 - Thomas wrote that Donald Foster was NOT called in as a witness to the grand jury.  The Ramseys were not called.  Steve Thomas was not called.

But Lou Smit was - and I think that galled Thomas.

Thomas described Smit's continuing role - he quit the DA's office, believes the Ramseys are innocent and continues to investigate the case on his own.  But Thomas claimed Smit had "gone over to Team Ramsey, taking all his valuable insider knowledge with him."  He made it sound like Smit had gone to work for the Ramseys or pledged loyalty to them - and I know, for a fact, that neither of those scenarios were true.  Smit works only for JonBenét.
 
 

Thomas feels there will be no justice for JonBenét.  I think he helped make sure that was the case.

Thomas said, "...there are several people in Boulder who are going to have to beg their way into Heaven after this one."  I think he is one of those people.  I don't know how he can face himself in the mirror.  Not only did he add to the misery of the victim's family, not only did he continuously persecute innocent people, not only did he wear blinders and refuse to be party to a full and honest investigation, but he QUIT looking for truth and sold a book of half-truths, misrepresentations and lies.  Thomas said tabloid reporters are "utterly beyond redemption" - I believe his tabloid in hard cover places him in the same place.
 
 

So ends my commentary on Thomas' book.  It was done in haste - trying to get it up before he is a guest in a live chat on-line.  But I think I told the truth here - and I hope that people reading the book use this as a companion piece and feel free to send comments to me here. 
 

jameson
May 7th, 2000