Dr.
Robert McFarland's and my experience with
the
JonBenet Ramsey murder case
and District Attorney Alex Hunter's "grand
secrecy"
by Evan Ravitz , evan@vote.org
- The Boulder Daily Camera
will publish my editorial about the case this Saturday 4/29/00, which
will be document 16 below. Note the year 2000 developments below. We
tried to tell the Grand Jury about these things!
- October
15, 1999: My letter to Colorado
Attorney General Ken Salazar, with time line summary of events.
- September
7, 1999:
Dr. McFarland's request to testify to the grand jury
- September
20, 1999: My request to testify to the
grand jury, to prosecuting attorney Michael Kane.
- September
20, 1999: Mr. Kane and Alex Hunter's
denial of my request.
- September
27, 1999: My appeal of the denial to
Judge Roxanne Bailin
- September
27, 1999: My motion to vacate Judge
Daniel Hale's no-contact (with the grand jury) order, with the support
of the Colorado ACLU
- October
7, 1999:
Judge
Bailin's denial of my appeal.
- Spring,
1999: Chapters 10 &
20 of
Stephen Singular's book Presumed
Guilty: An Investigation into the Jon Benet Ramsey Case, the Media, and
the Culture of Pornography
These were the chapters that we sent to the grand jurors at their homes
after the grand jury foreman told us he never received the book we sent
him in care of the District Attorney. For this we were threatened with
contempt of court, in spite of Colorado
law. We were the main sources
for the chapters.
- February
2, 1999: Transcript of Dr.
McFarland's radio interview with Donald Freed, author of Killing
Time, (about the OJ Simpson case) and screenwriter for the
movie "Executive Action" about the JFK assassination.
- Spring,
1994:
Dr. McFarland's article on The Children of God cult, published in The
Journal of Psychohistory. A former trainer for the cult recently
returned his "Parent
of the Year" award when his association
was disclosed.
- The case of Lauriane, "the JonBenet of France"
- FEBRUARY 25, 2000: Boulder Daily Camera: "DA
pursues new Ramsey lead: Hunter asks police to investigate
woman’s story of sex abuse"
- FEBRUARY 26, 2000:
Boulder Daily Camera: "Therapist backs sex-ring claim; Bienkowski:
Client gave Boulder police names of people who are witnesses in
JonBenet’s death."
- MARCH 5, 2000:
Boulder Daily Camera: "Ramsey Detectives off to California" (to
interview the therapist of the woman claiming knowledge of the Ramsey
case due to her family’s closeness with Ramsey ex-friend
Fleet
White)
- MARCH 9, 2000: Boulder Daily Camera
"Boulder police interview therapist"
- April 29, 2000:
Boulder Daily Camera guest editorial by Evan Ravitz: "'Nothing what it
seems' in Ramsey case." Here's the paragraph the Camera DIDN'T publish
(it was to be 3rd to last):
"Det.
Tom Wickman made another
curious comment to Dr. McFarland and I, and independently to Stephen
Singular, author of "Presumed Guilty: An Investigation into the
JonBenet Ramsey Case, the Media, and the Culture of Pornography" (on
page 217). Tom said that once he was "getting close" to arresting a
Boulder City Council member, but had been told to "back off." Since Tom
was legally prohibited from giving us any clues about the Ramsey
investigation, I feel he was repeatedly drawing an analogy, by way of
saying that he'd heard the pedophile-coverup story before and had been
told to back off from investigating that."
We
suggest letters to US Attorney
General Janet Reno. Ask her to investigate why the FBI never took
charge of the Ramsey case -an apparent kidnapping case- as required by
the "Lindbergh law." Ask her to review this web site (vote.org) Her
address:
Attorney
General Janet Reno, U.S. Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington DC 20530-0001
email: web@usdoj.gov You can call her at
202-616-2777 or fax: 202-514-5331
You
can also email Colorado Governor Owens, Attorney
General Salazar, and their advisors.
Grand
Juries in Colorado, both
State and Federal, are being manipulated in various ways. The Ramsey
Grand Jury was kept in the dark about many people’s evidence.
Read the leaked 1993 Rocky Flats Grand Jury
Uncensored Report.
Rocky Flats, between Denver and Boulder, made the A-bomb "triggers" for
US H-bombs from 1954 till closed by the FBI in 1989. The Grand Jurors
wanted to indict Department of Energy officials and private contractors
for continuing crimes, but the prosecutor struck a deal, and silenced
the jurors.
For
an alternative to such secrecy and impunity in government, please see the National Initiative for Democracy..