It is October 13th, 1999.

A lovely fall Wednesday in Boulder, Colorado.

Thirteen months of testimony in the grand jury proceeding

looking into the murder of John Bonae Ramsey,

more than 30,000 pieces of evidence, dozens of witnesses,

all of which culminates in one man walking up to a bank of microphones.

District Attorney Alex Hunter steps up onto the outdoor platform.

Reporters are huddled and the cameras are already rolling.

Alex Hunter has a single page of paper in hand.

The grand jurors have done their work extraordinarily well, bringing to bear all of their

legal powers, life experiences, and shrewdness.

Yet I must report to you that I and my prosecution task force believe we do not have sufficient evidence to warrant

the filing of charges against anyone who has been investigated at this time.

Thank you very much.

And that's it. No charges, no indictment, no arrest. The reporters filed their stories

that night with a single headline. The grand jury found nothing. Except the grand jury did not

find nothing. What no one in that room knows is that those grand jurors voted to indict John and

Patsy Ramsey. They signed true bills. The formal charges a grand jury returns when it believes

there is enough evidence to proceed. Not for murder, but for child abuse resulting in death

and for accessory to first-degree murder for helping to hide

whoever killed John Bonae.

Alex Hunter declined to sign and file those true bills.

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