Retired detective isn't giving up

And another thing ...

Does any of Susan Bennett's bankruptcy creditors know she's got money to give to a frivolous fund overseen by a delusional so-called detective who says he doesn't know what he's going to do with the money?

I bet a few of her creditors would like to see $100 from her to help pay off any one of her many debts. But no. They're supposed to go without payment so she can pull off publicity stunts for her worthless Internet forum full of crazies.

 

What a fiasco, Cherokee. It just keeps getting worse, doesn't it?

 

Just the fact that years after he was removed from the case, Smit is still working it, shows how much Patsy twisted that old buzzard around her dainty little finger. Check out the note on the flowers he sent.

 

I must be drinking the good stuff today, because I just don't see this article as a bad thing. In fact, it made me :floor:

Look, it doesn't matter how many times they tell the same old lies, they're still just the same old lies. And when they repeat them 10 YEARS LATER, guess what? The WORLD'S BEST DETECTIVE hasn't found ONE PIECE OF NEW EVIDENCE OR THE INTRUDER IN 10 YEARS?

That pretty much speaks for itself, doesn't it? He can wine and dine all the whack jobs jams and her little heads can invent, and he's still not going to get any closer to his imaginary intruder.

And y'all have found quite a few of the subtleties in this article. Like BobC said, Smit wrote his "FAREWELL LOVELOVELOVE" note to the beautiful Patsy, and THEN says in the article he isn't protecting the Ramseys? If he believes that, it's just another example of how incredibly blind he is to the evidence and his own bias. Can anyone with normal intelligence who reads this article not see that?

And there Smit is, pretty much letting the cat out of the bag: IF PEOPLE STILL WANT TO DOWNGRADE THE RAMSEYS--in spite of all his shilling for years on end--SO BE IT. But Lou...are you telling the public that NOT EVERYONE BELIEVES IN THEIR INNOCENCE/YOUR SPIN? Thanks! Couldn't have said it better myself!

OH, really, the article is a virtual plethora of RST spin coming back on them, pretty much showing how desperate they are to keep the spin going.

Barbara, you must have missed it, as Smit does mention the stun gun, in the last part listing the "INTRUDER EVIDENCE." And look at how pathetic that evidence STILL is. Who in this CSI/detective TV pop culture can't see that list as evidence of an intruder as silly. How Smit can be taking a cockwalk over his superior detecting skills with "the intruder OBVIOUSLY took that little roll of duct tape and cord with him" demonstrates without question how incompetent Smit has become, if he was once a good detective.

And speaking of Lou's detective skills, here's my favorite part:

:floor:

I'm sure the criminals of America are happy to hear that! Not to mention, all the thousands of excellent detectives who actually work for victims around the country and not for some self-sponsored celebrity murder suspects who can't find enough bad things to say about the very LE agency that they refused to help find their child's killer for 10 years.

hahaha I love this article! I could go on and on...and you know I can! But y'all have picked out some of the jewels within already. It's really priceless.

Look, I've been thinking about this and I've come to see exactly what Smit means when he says "...adding to their misery...." I think Patsy Ramsey hated it that EVERYONE KNOWS that she will always be suspected of being involved in the murder of JonBenet. She also knew that MANY, MANY people believe she WAS involved. We have plenty of eyewitness testimony that it bothered her. I submit it ate her up. Someone who was so invested in image? IMO, that's the very character flaw that brought this whole horrible murder into being. I think she worked that great, generous, Christian Idol image as hard as she did the American Dream image that blew up in her face. I suspect she believed she could work off the lies and crimes she hid for a decade by doing Christian works. And who knows? Maybe she did. I'm not god. Not my call.

But I think Patsy paid a high price for that night, knowing everywhere she showed her face, people were whispering, knowing everytime she put pen to paper, it might reveal her secrets, knowing every word she uttered had to be guarded. I believe she was more than willing to sacrifice anyone she could to keep up her secrets, but I think in the deep recesses of her soul, she knew what she was doing, and she risked it. Did she win the eternal bet? I don't know, and neither does anyone reading this.

But I don't think for one minute that Patsy got away with murder scott free. Maybe she didn't have to face a trial or prison. But she had her own hell to live. On top of everything else, she suffered horribly with cancer and chemo, as well. Like many have said, her cancer might have played a large part in the decisions she made that fateful night. She said herself on TV it wouldn't be long until she'd be with JonBenet. Unless she was contemplating suicide, and I don't think there's any evidence of that, she was referring to a return of her cancer, IMO. She knew the stakes of her disease, that even a five year survival was rare, and she hadn't reached that mark yet. She had no way to know she'd be around for another 10 years. So, as some of you have surmised lately about this, she probably figured she was sacrificing herself so her family could go on, with John fathering the remaining child from home, rather than from prison.

I don't know if John was the abuser, I don't know what part he played, if any, in the murder. But I do know that as soon as the molestation was found by the medical examiner, John was the primary suspect. That's the obvious place to start. Bynum knew it, Hunter knew it, and Haddon knew it. John was the one being most protected at first. Maybe that's why Patsy was the one who wrote the note--she knew John would be suspected of the molestation--and therefore, the murder. If they both were charged, it would take years for a trial to take place, if they'd been arrested immediately. Patsy easily could have died before that happened--expected to die, if her words are any indication, as everyone else with her cancer succumbed fairly quickly. Then the case would fall apart, as Patsy would be the reasonable doubt John needed in a trial. The DA would drop the case, if it even came to that, and with Hunter, almost no one in Colorado law would have bet it would come to a trial, anyway.

You know, I look back and I see Hunter saying "we will show no mercy" to the killer. hahahaha Yeah. Right. It's funny, but when I heard him say those words, I remember thinking...he's bluffing, they're never going to solve this case.

So NOW Smit says "I WON'T FORGET JONBENET'S MURDER." Well, neither will we. But that doesn't sound like Smit still expects to find that old intruder, does it? Sounds to me like Smit has resigned himself to dining "witnesses" gleaned from confessions and accusations contributed by wingnutz.

I have one last thing to say to Smit: GET KEENAN TO SUBPOENA THE RAMSEY CREDIT AND PHONE RECORDS STORED IN EVIDENCE FROM THE EARLY PI SCAM. See if THOSE help you find that old intruder. Or see if you find something else you didn't expect to find. GET KEENAN TO TEST THE GLASS, SPOON, AND BOWL FOR DNA. See if that resolves the BUGABOO of the pineapple as far as those go.

Or...just keep taking money for nothing and spreading useless spin. At least that would be consistent.

 

It's not even that Lou (Shoes) Smit gets some ink, but it's insulting to the case, most importantly to JonBenet, to credit him with being an investigator when he has tunnel vision about this case.

He has more than backed himself against a wall with his refusal to even entertain the thought that it is, and was, physically possible for a Ramsey to be involved. To outright say they absolutely were not only discredits him further IMO. He is a zealot. There's nothing open minded there. I get the feeling when I read quotes from him that his head would explode if he's wrong. That's actually very sad.

Geesh, even his Sugar Mommas aren't that married to their theories.

Little

 

Yes, Elle, it does.

Reminds me of what Lily Tomlin once said ... "It always gets worse before it gets worse."

 

Thanks, but I prefer to sink my funds into BWA (on the NYSE).

That's Borg Warner for those of you who don't play.

Redneck usage of "Borg Warner" in a sentence:

"I wish we'd'a knowed sooner, so one'o'us could have called that little JonBenet rascal and tole her to stay the night at a friend's house-let some kinda psychic BORG WARNER."

 

Remember the Patsy heart quote: "That was a pretty good little heart, you know, I mean - pretty well drawn."

 

no--I don't remember that. When did he say that?

 

That quote is Patsy's own words from the 6/98 interviews

 

oh okay. I'm a little slow.

Patsy certainly had star quality--that certain something that made you want to remember her and watch her.

 

On the bright side - Charlie has let everyone know that there is a fundraiser for the homicide investigation occurring due to the lack of funding for the District Attorney's Office to do so.

Maybe they should toss the Ball backover to the Boulder Police Department. I mean, what could it hurt at this point?

RR

 

Good idea, RR, turn the case back over to the BPD where it should have stayed in the first place. That would make old Woody go ballistic, wouldn't it?

 

It would be an act of karma that would rival the plots of My Name Is Earl.

 

:rotfl:

Turning this case over to the NYPD or for that matter, any REAL police department would make him go ballistic (not that it takes much)

 

I get the feeling that the "Wood problem" will be solved shortly.

 

What? Is he running out of Viagra?

 

woody woodpecker

"running out of viagra" lol

 

BWAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Off to tap a keg now......

 

"What? Is he running out of Viagra?"

Nope! He could lose his license! Would you care to join me in taking a complaint to the ABA?