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JonBenet: The Master Detective /// Part 2 /// 719

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4.7 • 34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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JonBenet: The Master Detective /// Part 2 /// 719 Part 2 of 2 www.TrueCrimeGarage.com This week as we enter the Christmas season we find ourselves once again intrigued by the still unsolved homicide case of JonBenet Ramsey. Legendary homicide investigator Lou Smit was hired by the Boulder County, Colorado District Attorney’s office three months after the murder of six year old JonBenet. However, Smit resigned from the position less than two years later. This week we are joined in the Garage by one of the people who knew Lou best, John Wesley Anderson. Mr. Anderson worked with Lou and he himself had a legendary law enforcement career. Mr. Anderson is a former homicide detective and El Paso County Sheriff. This week we feature John Wesley Anderson’s book - LOU AND JONBENET: A Legendary Lawman’s Quest to Solve a Child Beauty Queen’s Murder. We are going to take a few weeks to examine the JonBenet Ramsey case from a few different and very interesting perspectives. This will be the first of several episodes, each with a different focus and perspective on the case that continues to fascinate True Crime buffs all around the world. Follow True Crime Garage on X (twitter) and on Instagram @TrueCrimeGarage / Follow Nic on X @TCGNIC / Follow The Captain on X @TCGCaptain Listen to True Crime Garage "Off The Record” where TCG breaks all of the rules and sometimes gets down right NASTY!!! Available on Apple Podcast Subscriptions and Patreon.

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0:00.0

The Oh, Oh, And the Okay, so your mentor, I can call Lou, one of your mentors, right? He is, yes.

1:02.8

And so he's brought on this, I mean, it's

1:07.5

one of the most high profile cases ever.

1:11.2

Right.

1:12.1

And he is going into it with the idea, like you said, well, this should be pretty simple.

1:18.0

But he's also going into it with the idea that they want to know the truth, at some point he's hit, like with a brick wall.

1:28.4

Right. Do you remember having any conversations with him about his frustration and

1:36.0

and what he felt that he needed to do?

1:40.0

We had many discussions and you know I don't know if it was a brick wall immediately

1:47.2

but he definitely came across evidence that didn't support the Ramses did it and the more he got into it the more

1:58.0

evidence supported the intruder theory as he developed it and then I think after it was more than a couple of weeks. It might

2:05.8

have been a month or two. I think that's when he realized that there was a brick wall, that he was

2:11.0

being stonewalled. And when he would bring up information to the

2:17.3

Boulder police it would be dismissed or they would try to exclude the evidence through some

2:27.1

rationale. For example, when Lou pointed out in the crime scene photos taken that morning of the basement with that

2:34.7

window standing wide open in the suitcase standing up right below it.

2:39.3

And there's also what Lou thought was to be a black scuff mark on the wall.

2:43.1

So when he's pointing to the crime scene photos that Boulder Police crime scene

2:49.2

technicians had taken and he's showing the detectives that that is evidence of forced entry.

2:55.1

One of the first things the Boulder police said is all no no nobody could

2:58.7

gotten in that window.

3:00.1

Well Lou is frustrated because he's trying to explain, well, that's how John Benet's dad got into the home when he left his keys in the house.

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