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With your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufansky.

Good. Good evening. On Christmas night, 1996, six-year-old John Bonae Ramsey was murdered in her family's home in Boulder, Colorado. A ransom note was found in the home, but it was hours before her father, John, found her body in the basement.

She had been strangled with a garot, and her skull was fractured.

The media sensationalized the tragic death of the Child Beauty Queen, and public speculation and rumors ran rampant.

What followed was one of the most notorious, unsolved murder investigations in American history.

Boulder police fixated on John Bonnet's parents as suspects.

Needing investigative help, the Boulder DA brought in legendary homicide detective Lou Smith. However, he was soon disenchanted with law enforcement's obsession with the Ramsey family as the primary suspects, excluding other possibilities.

Smith resigned but continued to work on his own time and at his own expense, determined to find justice for John Bonnet.

He determined the Ramsey family was not involved in her death, but died in 2010 before he could identify the killer.

Thousands of people attended his funeral service, including John Ramsey, and the detective's

lifelong friend and colleague John Anderson. Along with a handful of retired detectives,

Anderson and Smith family continued to pursue justice based on Smith's work.

Now, for the first time in Lou and John Bonnet, Anderson tells the story of Smith's investigation

and why the Smith family team now believes that the killer can be identified.

The book that we're featuring this evening is Lou and John Bonae, a legendary Islaman's

quest to solve a beauty clean's murder with my special guest author, John Wesley Anderson. Welcome to

the program and thank you so much for this interview, John Wesley Anderson. Thank you, Dan. It's a

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