Hey everybody, welcome back to Cold Case Murder Mysteries.

In the last episode, we performed an in-depth analysis of the kidnappers' ransom note

left at the base of the Ramsey's spiral staircase located outside the home's kitchen, one that demanded

a sum of $118,000 in exchange for the safe return of six-year-old Jean-Munay.

Patsy Ramsey, the little girl's mother, reportedly discovered the document after waking

that morning in her third floor master bedroom and taking

the trek downstairs to make coffee, at which point she alerted her husband and called 911.

At that point, an officer from the Boulder Police Department, Rick French, was dispatched

to the scene, where he spoke with John and Patsy Ramsey, read the ransom note,

and performed an initial inspection of the sprawling home in search of points of entry and exit

for the perpetrator or perpetrators. Officer French later filed a report that documented

no signs of forced entry or the presence of a struggle. However,

since his search of the home was cursory in nature, he neglected to comment on whether the balcony

door to Jean-Bene's room was locked or unlocked, and also seemingly managed to remain unaware

of a large broken window in the family's basement.

Unfortunately, he also decided against opening the wine cellar door in the basement,

with the reasoning behind that choice being related to the fact that the room had no windows or exterior doors,

and therefore could not have been utilized as a point of entry or exit from the house.

Sadly, the failure to search that room resulted in a great deal of controversy, as it would lead

to events unfolding in the context of a crime that was in process outside of the home, in the

form of a kidnapping, rather than a murder that had

already transpired within its confines. Due to this egregious error, what followed was that

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