S18 Ep34: Lou and Jon Benet: Searching For The Real Killer w/John Wesley Anderson
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🗓️ 21 March 2023
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Summary
On Christmas Night 1996, six-year-old JonBenet 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 garrote and her skull was fractured.
The media sensationalized the tragic death of the “child beauty queen” and public speculation and rumors ran rampant.
Boulder police fixated on JonBenet’s parents as suspects. Needing investigative help, the Boulder DA brought in legendary homicide detective Lou Smit. However, he was soon disenchanted with law enforcement’s obsession with the Ramsey family as the primary suspects, excluding other possibilities.
Smit resigned but continued to work on his own time, and at his own expense, determined to find justice for JonBenet. He determined the Ramsey family was not involved in her death but died in 2010 before he could identify the killer.
The detective’s lifelong friend and colleague, John Anderson, along with a handful of retired detectives, and Smit’s family continue to pursue justice based on Smit’s work. John Anderson joins the show today to talk bout the case, Smit's work, the new developments, and what can be done to find the real killer!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome man to the best in True Crime Podcasting. |
| 0:25.0 | This is True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm your host Tim Dennis. |
| 0:29.2 | Today's program is an interesting one. |
| 0:31.1 | I'll tell you, you know, this crime happened... |
| 0:34.7 | Gosh. |
| 0:35.7 | A little less than 30 years ago, I'll say 27 years ago just for argument's sake. |
| 0:41.2 | And with this crime, it was a tragic crime, a famous crime. |
| 0:44.6 | That when we all look back at it, we may be standing on the wrong end of history. |
| 0:48.9 | And the reason we're standing on the wrong end of history is we all assume that it was |
| 0:53.4 | the parents who did it. |
| 0:54.8 | I'm talking of course about John Binay Ramsey. |
| 0:57.4 | We all assume it was the Ramzis. |
| 0:58.8 | I think most of us assume it was the Ramzis that had some bit of guilt in this crime. |
| 1:03.9 | Now, if I told you you're absolutely wrong on this, I'm sure a few of you would want to |
| 1:08.1 | stand up and want to argue with me. |
| 1:09.8 | You might want to fight with me on this deal. |
| 1:12.0 | But the fact of the matter is, when you go back and you review the evidence, the evidence |
| 1:15.5 | says otherwise. |
| 1:17.3 | Now there's a detective out there who unfortunately has passed away by the name of Lou Smith, |
| 1:21.5 | a brilliant detective who broke this case wide open right away. |
| 1:27.4 | And had it right from the beginning. |
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