http://www.newsmakingnews.com/ The JonBenet Ramsey Case: Emerging Child Sex-Ring Allegations, Political Connections and a Suspect By Alex Constantine © 2000 Contents: Introduction: The Belinda Schultz File 1) Southwestern Child-Pornocrats A) The Huey Meaux Connection B) Jerry J. Moore, Houston Real Estate Developer. C) The Prime of Ms Tweet Kimball 2) Supporting Evidence of Child Sex Ring Involvement A) A Brotherhood B) The Belgium Syndrome C) Lawrence Schiller & the Designated Patsy (Ramsey) Introduction: The Belinda Schultz file On March 22, I received a call from Joe Calhoun, a reporter from the Denver area and a recipient of an Academy Award in 1990 for his investigative work on The Panama Deception. For the record, we had talked once before, also by telephone, about the JonBenet Ramsey case, exchanged observations, and that was the extent of my past relationship with him. At the time, I had an uncomfortable feeling that Boulder police spokesmen, the cable martinets and investigative "experts" on the case were misrepresenting the facts. Calhoun was in town, Los Angeles, and wanted to discuss the murder in detail. Shortly thereafter, Calhoun, with the bearded, wide-eyed demeanor of an academic on the brink of a discovery, dropped a folder on my desk. For this record, he read a prepared statement:: "I am a freelance journalist who has been covering the JonBenet Ramsey case since its beginnings. There are only a few news conferences in Boulder that I have not attended. At the last news conference, on October 13, 1999, the day after the announcement by Alex Hunter that there would be no charges filed in the Ramsey case following the adjournment of the Grand Jury, myself and a few individuals were given a file." I was, at this stage, stepping more or less blindly into a quagmire of details after three years of following the public debacle casually on the cable talk shows. Whatever Calhoun had, I was not in the mood for conspiratorial moonshine, but he had been down this road himself ‹ the file, containing 23 pages of interviews with a victim of organized child abuse in Colorado and Texas, "was of such a bizarre nature, I was extremely circumspect about regarding it as a collection of genuine documents and confidential memos. I jokingly referred to it to some of my colleagues as The Blair Witch Project of the JonBenet Ramsey case.¹ I didn¹t pursue any of the leads mentioned in the file until recently. Three weeks ago," Calhoun recalled, "a 37-year-old woman from San Luis Obispo, California came forward with information to Boulder Attorney Lee Hill. She alleged that she came from a family of inter-generational child abuse victims, and had been abused since the age of three by a powerful group of pedophiles, some of whom were associates of the Ramsey family. I dug up the file I had originally obtained in October and decided to give it a second look, since the information contained therein seemed to parallel the information the woman was providing Boulder D.A. Alex Hunter and the police. Upon rereading all of the information contained in it, and cross-referencing names, the entire file had more of a flow of information." Calhoun came to entertain the notion that the sex-ring allegations surfacing sporadically on the edge of the case might have some merit. "On March 21, I contacted the Pearline, Texas Police Department for verification of the Paul Schultz [child sexual abuse] case mentioned in the file. I was immediately transferred to Detective Bill Colson,. He was unaware of the recent developments in Boulder concerning the 37-year-old woman from San Luis Obispo, California. However, Detective Colson confirmed the following: The case number '951302,' on pages 7 and 14, is genuine, and the woman, Belinda Schultz, currently living in Cypress, Texas, in a notarized statement contained in the file, at the time would [have been] more likely to give information concerning the Ramsey case. And a Boulder detective was in Texas in December, 1997, seeking information regarding Paul Schultz [her estranged husband] and his involvement, if any, in the JonBenet Ramsey case." Calhoun placed the next call to a private investigator, Char Blaiser, wife of O.J. Simpson attorney Robert Blaiser, at her office in Sacramento, California. Ms Blasier, whose office had been contracted by Boulder police to obtain social security numbers of everyone close to the Ramsey case, reportedly states that the night after the JonBenet murder, a caller claiming to be a member of the Ramsey family told her, "I want to talk to you about Paul," but disconnected when put on hold. Blasier, Calhoun recalls, "was extremely surprised that I had information in my possession concerning Paul Schultz, and essentially confirmed the information regarding the JonBenet Ramsey case." "It is clear," Calhoun says, "from the statements of both Detective Colson and Char Blazer that the Boulder authorities were very interested in a connection between the death of Jonbenet Ramsey and what appears astonishingly to be organized pedophilia on a national level, perhaps with a criminal government license."1 Child sex and pornography rings with political ties have been known to exist. In 1995, for example, Linda Rozar, president of Concerned Citizens for Florida and chapter head of the American Family Association, a branch of presidential candidate Gary Bauer's ultra-conservative Federation, pled guilty to one count of child abuse and two counts of tampering with a witness. She received a remarkably light sentence, one year of probation, and was ordered to see a psychiatrist. In 1986, Linda's husband Jerry Rozar was convicted of child molestation. So there were precedents. And since the murder, the 1999 Parent of the Year Award, an honor conceived by Congress, was bestowed on a Longmont, Colorado man with connections to a cult that prostitutes young girls, so-called "hookers for Jesus," and has been charged repeatedly with child sexual abuse ‹ the annual honor was chosen by the National Parents Day Foundation, an organization that has ties to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, a creation of the Korean CIA and also very right-wing. It happens. Nevertheless, a healthy dose of skepticism was called for. Calhoun's conclusion about the background of the JonBenet case was based, again, on a file of police interviews passed to him at a Boulder press conference. Fortunately, its origin is no longer a mystery. Calhoun has, since obtaining the file, found out that the documents were supplied by a researcher at the University of Denver. The University, says Calhoun, threatened to fire the tenured faculty member if he continued with his investigation of the Ramsey case, and the file was passed along to reporters in Boulder. If the statements of Belinda Schultz and other abuse survivors are correct, Boulder has a serious problem. With Calhoun¹s file of leaked affidavits, all that remained was to flesh out a Who¹s Who register of predators tied to the alleged killer of JonBenet Ramsey in 1996. 1) Southwestern Child-Pornocrats Belinda Schultz, 43, was born to the Zander family, an established, aristocratic family in Louisiana, and grew up in Lafayette, near New Orleans. Her first marriage was to Lanny Slaydon, an oil industry marketer. She had four children before the marriage dissolved in the early 1980s. She moved on to Houston to live with family members, and met Paul Schultz. She describes her ex-husband as a "white supremacist" of the "Christian Identity" strain, and a "mafia hit-man" currently serving time for felony child molestation, sentenced in Brazoria County, Texas, the county seat of Angleton. Prior to their divorce, Paul and Belinda ran Custom Air Products on Hampstead Road in northwest Houston, a business formerly run by Paul¹s father, Carlton Schultz. She notes that the business had "Mafia" connections. The company largely served the petroleum industry along the Gulf Coast, but everyday management of the business fell to Belinda because her husband was often incapacitated by a weakness for cocaine and alcohol. They had a child, Nicholas, in 1990. In an affidavit filed with the Pearland, Texas PD, Nicholas recalls that his father used to receive "sugar" and "lots of money: when he pimped his son out to pedophiles frequenting the adult bookstores on Houston¹s south side. Belinda¹s second marriage crumbled when she began to suspect that he was bisexual and had a gay lover, Tenourio Luga, sometimes "Lucas," a reputed explosives expert and informant to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, who has provided his services to the Mexican Mafia and CIA. Luga is a suspected drug runner. He has been investigated in the past by the BATF for the stockpiling of firearms and explosives. A) The Huey Meaux Connection Paul Schultz, according to his ex-wife, was also a coeval of Huey Meaux, the famed record producer and a convicted child molester. On January 30, 1996, the Associated Press reported: "Huey Meaux, 66, was arrested and appeared in court Monday on charges of possession of child pornography and cocaine. He was released after posting bonds totaling $110,000. After police went public with the allegations Monday, two people came forward to say they were assaulted. Meaux then was charged additionally with two counts of sexually assaulting children. Police investigators seized hundreds of videotapes and more than 1,000 photographs last week from offices rented by Meaux at Houston¹s Sugar Hill Recording Studio. Meaux formerly owned the studio."2 Huey was charged with possession of drugs and child pornography and two counts of sexual assault on a child. Two weeks after the arrest, Shannon McDowell Brasher, 25, filed a sexual abuse lawsuit against Meaux, alleging that he had plied her with illegal drugs as a prelude to sexual assault, "exploitation and other perverted and unnatural sex acts." He also persuaded accomplices to assault her and videotaped the acts, according to Ms Brasher. State District Judge Mark Davidson issued a temporary restraining order sought by Brasher¹s attorneys, Dick DeGuerin and Wayne Isgitt. The order prohibited the record producer or others from destroying evidence or retaliating against Brasher.3 Belinda Schultz¹s contention that Meaux participated in a child sex ring is substantiated by Brasher and court transcripts. Belinda¹s son Nicholas, age six at the time of Meaux¹s arrest, identified the accused in a televised news report. Belinda called Bill Colson, a detective with the Pearland Police Department. Colson did not investigate the sex-ring allegation, though he told her that he would contact Houston police to search for a photo of Nicholas among Meaux¹s child pornography collection. Frustrated with Colson¹s false promises, she contacted Detective A.D. Wright, the officer in charge of the Meaux case. Wright confirmed a connection between Meaux and Paul Schultz. In addition, according to Calhoun¹s file, Officer P.C. Taylor of the CID section produced telephone records indicating that Schultz and Meaux had made "numerous" calls to one another. Houston police offered that they had a "thick file" on Schultz, linking him to several known pedophiles in Houston. B) Jerry J. Moore, Houston Real Estate Developer One of Paul Schultz¹s confederates in the sex ring, according to Nicholas Schultz, was a wealthy Republican, one Jerry J. Moore. Nicholas says that he once accompanied Moore by plane to Colorado. In January 1996, the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced that it sought a $250,000 civil penalty against Charles R. Vickery, former senior chairman of the First National Bank of Bellaire, Texas. The OCC charged that in 1991, Vickery directed the bank to make illicit loans to Houston real estate magnate Jerry J. Moore and corporations owned and controlled by him. Vickery also granted some $50,000 of title insurance premiums paid by Moore on the loans for his personal use. The loans violated federal lending limit law and triggered alarms at the OCC . The S&L was issued a cease and desist order.4 Jerry J. Moore is now one of the wealthiest men in Texas. His real estate company was recently bought out for $400 million. He is also active in Republican state politics. Nicholas Schultz maintains that he was taken to Moore¹s antebellum mansion, Nicholstone, not far from Dickerson, Texas, and describes the home as a distribution point for child pornography. Huey Meaux was a regular at Moore¹s mansion, according to the boy¹s statements. Moore's social connections to the Mafia are consistent with the "hit man" allegation raised by Belinda Schultz. Moore's social circle included: Leonard Capaldi, convicted by the district court in the southern district of Texas on charges of bank fraud and bribery, stemming from his involvement in the April 4, 1986 collapse of Mainland Savings Bank. This S&L lost $300 million. Capaldi was sentenced to the Federal Correctional Institute in Milan, Michigan.5 Leading lights of the Mainland Savings scandal: arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, James Bath (a business associate of George W. Bush, recruited to the CIA by George, Sr,), Martin Schimmer (for walking off with Teamster steelworker pension funds), Herman K. Beebe, a known Mafioso. Another gangland chum of Jerry J. Moore is Jack Tocco, a Detroit crime boss. Political ties have included late Texas Governor John Connally and Lloyd Bentson, former Secretary of the Treasury.6 C) The Prime of Ms Tweet Kimball Another connection to Paul Schultz was the late Mildred "Tweet" Kimball. Tweet lived in a castle on US 85, just south of Denver in a small town called Sedalia. Nicholas Schultz states that he was taken to the castle and molested there by adults. The castle was deeded to Kimball by Merritt Ruddock, a member of the U.S. diplomatic corps, an obscure CIA official and her first of four divorced husbands. Tweet Kimball divorced Ruddock in 1955, and as she explained to a local reporter in 1996: "When I divorced him, he said I'd probably go back to Tennessee and talk about him. He said "If you¹ll buy property west of the Mississippi, I'll help you." 7 And that¹s what I did. She bought a 24-room castle on a 4,000 acre estate, built on a promontory with a view of the Rockies.7 Ruddock had good reason to buy her silence. He was the immediate deputy of the CIA¹s Frank Wisner, the notorious overseer of Nazi recruitment by the agency immediately after WW II. Ruddock was hired by Wisner in 1949. Ray Cline, another notorious Agency stinkbug (the organizer of a support network for George Bush, Sr.'s 1980 campaign. composed almost entirely of former intelligence officers headed by Steven Halper, Cline¹s son-in-law), kept close to Ruddock throughout the war. Cline recalls Ruddock as a hard drinker and "a personal manipulator of ideas and people."8 (The Colorado Department of Tourism doesn¹t advertise the fact, but the state has a thriving intelligence establishment. Loring Wirbel, an environmental researcher in Monument, Colorado, found that worldwide "intelligence expansion by U.S. agencies has a very real impact on Colorado. Buckley [Air Force Base] is now the major employer in the Denver metro area, with the classified Aerospace Data Facility section of the base responsible for far more jobs than the public Tactical Air Command portion of the base. The Denver Business Journal estimated in April that classified intelligence spending by NSA and NRO in Colorado may exceed $3 billion annually. Support facilities for Buckley include Falcon Air Force Base east of Colorado Springs, which performs intelligence fusion missions; Lockheed-Martin¹s Waterton Canyon plant in southwest Denver, which builds spy satellites and Titan-4 rockets; Peterson Air Force Base, the headquarters of the Space Command; and the aging North American Aerospace Defense Command inside Cheyenne Mountain west of Colorado Springs. Another Air National Guard base outside Greeley, Colorado, is receiving many mobile satellite reconnaissance troops formerly housed at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, part of a mission to make the Colorado Front Range a center of excellence for technical intelligence."9 Merritt Ruddock was not the only member of the family with CIA and Nazi ties. Ms Kimball¹s father, according to a note found in the Belinda Schultz file, "Colonel Kimball of Chattanooga, Tennessee, had been a prime mover in the grown of the Post-WWI Ku Klux Klan." (The repetitious links to nazism in the testimony of Nicholas Schultz, a 7-year-old boy, recalls his mother's statement that Paul Schultz is a "white supremacist," and is obviously among friends.) She bonded with her castle and its environs, re-christened Cherokee Ranch, and lived like a European monarch. A tour guide told an AP reporter, "the house has a number of Portuguese tile murals and many examples of parquetry (an artistic inlaid wood design done on furniture). As she describes the lavish contents of several china cabinets, words like Dresden, Spode, Meissen and Waterford slip into the conversations. That bed was built for Charles II, and he actually slept in it. This inlaid cabinet came from the court of Spain, and the pictures represent Aesop¹s fables. The libraries are full of first editions, some quite old and valuable. Well, with names like Dickens and Thackeray on the bindings, one would think so."10 Tweet Kimball died in 1999. She had been an active Republican. Kimball served on the Douglas County Planning Commission and the commissioners¹ Water Advisory Board, as well as the board of the Douglas County Educational Foundation. She also spent 14 years on the board of the Denver Art Museum as accessions chairman. She was the local matriarch of local Republican party politics and frequently played hostess to the Douglas County Republican caucus.11 "Kimball's castle and ranchland provided an extravagant vehicle for her varied pursuits," the local County News-Press noted in her obituary last January, "wildlife conservation, a vast, eclectic art collection, politics, innovative ranching, royal relationships and storied social events."12 2) Supporting Evidence of Child Sex Ring Involvement As Calhoun mentioned, in March of this year, Boulder detectives flew to San Luis Obispo, California, to interview Mary Bienkowski, a licensed family therapist. Bienkowski claimed to have information pertaining to the JonBenét Ramsey murder investigation. The woman said that her mother's godfather is Fleet White, a friend of John Ramsey. The therapist had urged police in Boulder to interview her client: Regarding Bienkowski: CLIENT GAVE BOULDER POLICE NAMES OF PEOPLE WHO ARE WITNESSES IN JONBENET'S DEATH © 2000 Daily Camera A private therapist said Friday she stands behind her client who claims to have crucial information that could help investigators in the death of JonBenét Ramsey. Mary Bienkowski, a licensed marriage, family and child counselor, said her client gave Boulder police specific names of individuals who are witnesses in the killing of JonBenét as well as ongoing sexual and physical abuse of other children. "If they do their job and investigate what needs to be investigated, the rest of the pieces will fall into place, and nobody is going to like what they find out," she said. "This person wouldn't be coming forward and risking everything if it were not because she wanted the abuse to stop and wanted to protect other children." Bienkowski said she has treated her client for the past 10 years for trauma endured as a repeated victim of sexual assault. Because her client had information that a widespread sex ring could have been behind the Dec. 26, 1996, strangulation and beating death of 6-year-old JonBenét, she encouraged the woman to take the information to authorities. JonBenét was found in the basement of her family's Boulder home. Her parents, John and Patsy, are the focus of a police investigation, although the couple have denied involvement in their daughter's death. After 13 months of investigating the case, a Boulder grand jury disbanded in October without charges being filed. During an interview Friday with the Daily Camera at a downtown San Luis Obispo coffee shop, Bienkowski blasted the Boulder Police Department for not actively investigating the list of people she said her client believes may have knowledge of who killed JonBenét. She would not divulge the names of those thought to be involved, saying that information should first be given to law enforcement officials. The Whites have not returned phone calls from the Daily Camera. John Ramsey's attorney has declined to comment on the new information. Boulder police questioned Bienkowski's client in Colorado for five hours. The FBI interviewed her as well. Detectives also contacted her family and interviewed some of them in California. And then the whole matter was dropped. Bienkowski lost faith in the police and refused to cooperate any further.13 Who left warnings on her answering machine? The Daily Times-Call in Longmont, Colorado reported in March that a reliable witness "identified the voices as [those] of two women [among others] accused of victimizing the now-37-year-old [informant]. The woman remains in hiding." The anonymous callers told Bienkowski: 1. "Hello Mary. This is a very interested party in regards to [your client's] welfare. [Her] past and her future are of no, of no concern to you. She made an error in judgment when she came to see you and you have caused her nothing but pain and suffering. Her main concern now is her new husband and her family. She has started a life and is going to be moving as far away from you as possible. She belongs with her family and nobody else. She is off limits to you." 2. [Caller Two]: "Hello. Leave [your client] alone. We take care of our own. Everything. And nothing is any of your business." 3. [Caller Two] "Hello. It's high time that you caught on that [the informant] doesn't have time for your foolishness. Thank you." 4. ]Caller Two] "[She] is going on an extended vacation with her family and while there will seek medical care for her problems. [The woman] has forgotten more than you will ever know." 5. [Caller Two] "Hello. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will never hurt us. So leave [her] alone. It's against the law to disturb the peace. Don't forget it."14 The statement of the informant that JonBenet was killed in a sadistic sex game was upheld independently by forensic specialist Dr. Cyril Wecht, who studied the autopsy file and concluded that JonBenet's abuse occurred over a period of time. Wecht: "This evidence of abuse, tied literally and figuratively to the cords around her neck and wrist, was enough to draw the conclusion that a sick sex game had gone awry." But the medical evidence "so far suggested that the vaginal penetration had been a carefully controlled, limited situation ‹ not a savage sexual assaults. While the attacker was applying the perverted use of the garrote that pinched the vagus nerve in her neck and eventually shut down her heart and lungs, the young prey had suddenly turned lifeless without explanation, perhaps literally in her abuser's arms. Wasn't it likely that the shocked and panicking molester had shaken JonBenet in a futile attempt to return her to consciousness? A few anxiety-driven shakes and a 'wake up! Wake up!' had failed to restore her to life, but had inflicted the bruises to the temporal lobes of the brain."15 A panel of pediatric experts assembled from all parts of the country states unanimously that JonBenet had injuries "consistent with prior trauma and sexual abuse." The medical affidavits referred to "past violation of the vagina," "chronic abuse," "evidence of both acute injury and chronic sexual abuse."16 Author Stephen Singular, a Boulder native, believed so strongly that organized pedophilia and child porn lurked behind the murder of the child that he published a book exploring the sex ring angle, Presumed Guilty. According to Singular's publisher, "some highlights of the book suggest that one or both of the Ramsey parents unknowingly exposed their daughter to danger that fateful Christmas night," and reminds, significantly, "human DNA found on her clothing matched nothing found in the Ramsey home"17 Evan Ravitz and Bob MacFarland, Boulder political activists who shared Singular's perspective on the case, gave eight of the grand jurors hearing testimony regarding the death of JonBenet Ramsey excerpts of Singular's book, theorizing that that the girl may have been killed by someone involved in a child pornography ring. Ravitz and MacFarland were cited with contempt of court. Ravitz, wearing a crumpled purple T-shirt, explained to District Judge Roxanne Bailin that the leakers planned on petitioning the D.A.'s office to allow them to testify before the grand jury, and present evidence of corruption in the city, including drug dealing and child pornography possibly "related to the slaying and handling of the Ramsey case." Child porn is "an important line of investigation that we hear Hunter has stayed away from," Ravitz told Judge Bailin.18 But homicide detectives considered this angle a "side theory," yet have acknowledge that the killer "may have been involved in a child pornography ring that operated in or around Boulder and had earmarked JonBenet as a likely subject." The connection to child pornography with child sex murders is by no means original. In 1997, Jeremy Strohmeyer, 18, stalked a seven-year-old girl in a Las Vegas casino before murdering her in a restroom. Strohmeyer was an admitted collector of child pornography. "If the pornography connection is true," the Internet Crime Library observes, "then the murder may have been committed by more than one person as part of a conspiracy."19 The market in Colorado for child prostitution and pornography is a relatively large silent minority. In 1995, the Colorado Department of Human Services filed 5,085 cases of sexual abuse of the 7,931 referred to the agency. Of these,1,160 victims were abused in the state. But the department may investigate a tiny fraction of the actual cases. One-half of one percent of children report sexual abuse, according to Dr. Richard D. Krugman, dean of the University of Colorado Medical School and director of the C. Henry Kemp Center for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.20 A) A Brotherhood In 1997, the Boulder PD contacted Dale Yeager and Denise Knoke at Seraph, Inc. in Berwyn, Pennsylvania ‹ a security consulting firm summarized in sales brochures as "an international company [with] extensive sources throughout Europe, South America, the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Russia and Africa. Our associates are investigative professionals and former intelligence officers" ‹ and asked them to submit an analysis of the ransom note. Yeager and Knoke claimed without hesitation that Patsy Ramsey was the author, joining the chorus of police and tabloid reporters who kept at the parents, and reported that Psalm 118:27b, interpreted as the source of the $118,000 ransom demand ‹ "Decorate the festival with leafy boughs and bind the sacrifices to be offered with thick cords to the horns of the altar" is commonly cited by "white supremacists," who "use the redemption and sacrifice ideas to form a justification for killings." Despite the neo-nazi nuance, Yeager and Knoke were positively certain that JonBenet's mother forged the kidnap letter. "Our conclusion," Yeager offered, "is that you are investigating a child's murder with ritualistic overtones. Strangulation and sexual assault are most commonly seen in sadomasochism between heterosexual and homosexual adults. "21 On February 27, 2000, Yeager explained to a CBS 2 News reporter, "What we believe was happening in Patsy's mind was that her daughter was losing control, becoming a wild rebel. She felt (her daughter) was becoming evil."22 Patsy Ramsey did not exactly fit the white supremacist profile, and she certainly wasn't known to participate in "ritual murder." Paul Schultz, not incidentally, rings the bell on both counts. He is a member, according to the interviewers of Belinda Schultz, of a "heterodox Christian" cult with Nazi leanings that found its way into the intelligence establishment via the German presence at Tweet Kimball's castle in Sedalia. The occult Brotherhood of the White Temple, as this sect was known, survives and has reportedly evolved into an underground terrorist cell. The same "faction" that warned Mary Bienkowski to back off? Police investigating the Ramsey case also received warnings. Blood was splashed on Detective Linda Arndt's front door. The mutilated carcass of a cat was left on Steve Thomas's front lawn (if his statements have any credibility, given the flagrant distortions in his book on the case, clearly contrived to widen the umbrella of suspicion that has hung over the parents since the smears began). Sergeant Bob Wilson was at home when four high-powered rounds were fired through his bedroom window and nearly hit him. After these events, "there was no follow-up by the police department" Steve Thomas complains, "which apparently regarded bullets, blood and dead cats as minor" 23 Belinda Schultz has tied her ex-husband to a cultic, "white-supremacist" terrorist underground with domestic intelligence connections and the murder of JonBenet Ramsey but despite his resemblance to the killer's profile, Paul Schultz has not been asked for a sample of his hand-writing. B) The Belgium Syndrome The behavior of law enforcement officials and the media has been odd since the 911 call. John Ramsey was the CEO of a key military-industrial subsidiary, Lockheed, and his daughter had been murdered by a group that claimed to "represent a small foreign faction" (Brotherhood of the White Temple?) Ordinarily, the "Lindbergh Law" requires a "rebuttable presumption" in a high-profile kidnap, particularly one pulled off by terrorists fronting for a "foreign faction," a widely overlooked point raised by journalist Donald Freed, author of Killing Time, a forensic study of the O.J. Simpson case. Notification of the FBI in a murder case involving terrorists is mandatory, and officers in Boulder did contact Washington. But the Bureau did not respond.24 Freed reports that someone in a lofty position assured the FBI and Lockheed Martin Security "prior to the 911 call that any report coming from Boulder "would not affect 'national security,'" and directed to "let the police handle it."25 Freed coined the phrase "Belgium Syndrome" after the recent refusal of Belgian officials and the justice system to respond to a series of child murders, "not because they were involved in the murders, but because they were involved in their own way in pornography, child sexuality and related elements, some of which are not even illegal but all of which would be death sentences for their careers." Fleet White, in his letter "to the people of Colorado," maintained: "It is our firm belief that the District Attorney and others intend to use the Grand Jury and its secrecy in an attempt to protect their careers and also serve the conflicting interests of powerful, influential and threatening people who have something to hide or protect."26 "Conflicting interest" may explain the inertia of detectives in Boulder when the photo of the young beauty contestant turned up in the home of a child pornographer in Columbus, Ohio suspected of involvement in the abduction of another Colorado girl. James Partin, 35, was arrested in December, 1997 for selling child pornography on the Net. Police searched Partin's home and found a newspaper clipping about the 1983 kidnap of Beth Miller,14, and a map of Idaho Springs marked with several X's. The girl vanished after a jog near her Idaho Springs home, and Partin lived in the area at the same time. Boulder police announced that they would contact the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to learn more about the Ramsey photo in Partin's collection, but a local newspaper reported that they "do not believe that Partin had any involvement" in the slaying. "It's not a high priority," police spokeswoman Leslie Aaholm assured reporters.27 Did the DA's reluctance to question Partin about the JonBenet picture suggest an unwillingness to solve the case? Pornographic photos of JonBenet were posted on the Internet.28 In his August 6, 1998 resignation letter, Boulder Detective Steve Thomas openly accused then police chief Tom Koby and other officials of sabotaging the case: "During the investigation detectives would discover, collect, and bring evidence to the district attorney's office, only to have it summarily dismissed or rationalized as insignificant. The most elementary of investigative efforts, such as obtaining telephone and credit card records, were met without support, search warrants denied. The significant opinions of national experts were casually dismissed or ignored by the district attorney's office, even the experienced FBI were waved aside." Thomas was ordered not to question certain witnesses, "and all but dissuaded from pursuing particular investigative efforts. Polygraphs were acceptable for some subjects, but others seemed immune from such requests. Innocent people were not "cleared", publicly or otherwise, even when it was unmistakably the right thing to do, as reputations and lives were destroyed. Some in the district attorney's office, to this day, pursue weak, defenseless, and innocent people in shameless tactics that one couldn't believe more bizarre if it were made up." C) Lawrence Schiller & the Designated Patsy (Ramsey) Denver reporter Joe Calhoun takes aim at Lawrence Schiller, the made-for-TV "expert" who denounces all sex-ring allegations in shrill terms. "Schiller, along with talk show hosts and the more 'responsible press,' appear to be preparing the public for an indictment of Patsy Ramsey for the murder of her child," Calhoun says. The patsy would be Patsy. "According to a source in Boulder, the script reads that the much physically and mentally traumatized Patsy Ramsey went to her daughter's room that night and found that she had wet the bed and in a fit of exasperation and rage struck the child and accidentally killed her and then was assisted by her husband to try to cover up the crime. " The bed-wetting scenario, repeated in best-selling books on the case and many a talk show, is insupportable upon a moment's reflection: it entails a belief, Calhoun points out, that Patsy Ramsey "stuck her child in the head, killing her, and then tied a garrote around her neck and sexually violated her daughter's corpse to cover up the crime."29 Was it the Belgium Syndrome that inspired Boulder DA Alex Hunter to leak information to the tabloids to destroy his own investigators? "The former lead investigator on the JonBenét Ramsey case," the Denver Post reported on February 16, 1999, "confirmed allegations that Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter enlisted the help of a tabloid reporter to discredit him. Former Boulder police Commander John Eller, who now lives in Florida, said he knew that Hunter had encouraged Globe reporter Jeff Shapiro to dig up dirt on him." In response, Hunter had no comment. "We're not going to get drawn into it," he said. "I simply do not want to get into any kind of discussion that could jeopardize the integrity of what we're doing."30 Another critic of Lawrence Schiller is John Judge, a JFK assassination archivist in Washington, D.C. Judge is convinced that the celebrated author is an intelligence asset: "It was clear to me in interviews when [Norman] Mailer was asked why he chose to do this book on Oswald, he based it on the fact that Lawrence Schiller had gotten private access to the Minsk KGB files on Oswald and was willing to share those with Mailer [for Oswald's Tale]. It's hard for me to imagine that Schiller was able to get those kind of documents based on his access to the KGB there or some sort of salesman- ship. I would think that in order to crack that nut, you would have to have some links to current KGB and US intelligence interconnections. Schiller goes back at least as far as 1967 as the source to the very first character assassination attack on the critical community in a book called Scavengers and Critics of the Warren Commission, by Warren Lewis. The subtitle of that book is `Based on an Investigation by Lawrence Schiller.'"31 Did the Belgium Syndrome infect key evidence, cause it to disappear from a paranormal Boulder evidence room? In 1998, the AP reported, "Cops Lost Ramsey Evidence." Seems "authorities reportedly have lost evidence in the murder investigation of JonBenet Ramsey, forcing them to retrace their steps. Detectives have told friends of the Ramseys they no longer have evidence from some nine interviews and palm prints that the friends had given earlier. In one case, evidence from two interviews conducted the day after the 6-year-old's body was found was missing just two weeks later." Naturally, "earlier reports of lost evidence were refuted by police."32 And the so-called "mainstream" press has been manipulated as badly as the tabloids. Chuck Green, an award-winning, 32-year veteran of the Denver Post, believes "the evidence points to the Ramseys' being involved in their daughter's death." So he says, but University of Colorado journalism professor Michael Tracey co-produced a documentary highly critical of the media coverage. Tracy: "Boulder law enforcement put a ring in Chuck Green's nose and led him around on a leash. Law enforcement used the media to build a case that law enforcement knew it couldn't construct in court."33 Hal Haddon, retained by the Ramseys, complained that unknown police sources leaked false, damning information to the media ‹ information "exculpatory" to the Ramseys was not leaked.34 The Boulder Police Department maintains a tight lid on the case. A very tight lid. Officials instructed detectives to keep the investigation to themselves from the start. Detectives are not permitted to take laptops home. One detective, Sgt. Larry Mason, was removed from the case after speaking to reporters. The police refused to release the offense report, the first paperwork filed by officers responding to a call. They suppressed the report legally by filing the report among the detectives' investigative notes. The BPD has also declined to let go of a transcript of Patsy Ramsey's 911 call to report her daughter missing. The tape was also kept from public scrutiny by placing it among the investigative files. A all search warrants, affidavits and inventories involving searches of the Ramseys' Boulder home have been sealed by court order. Even JonBenet's autopsy report was sealed tight. James J. Brodell, a Metropolitan State College of Denver journalism professor and an expert on Colorado's public records, finds the extreme secrecy "excessive." Without full disclosure, he believes, "the public can't judge how well police are doing their jobs."35 But search warrant documents released by court order state the county coroner concluded during the autopsy that the girl had been "sexually molested." Detective Linda Arndt attended the autopsy, and reported that Boulder County Coroner John Meyer told her that JonBenet "had received an injury consistent with digital penetration of her vagina." 36 Alex Hunter's former shell of "integrity" cracked when it slipped that he had tried to exclude a key witness from testifying before the Grand Jury, one who would side with the Ramseys. Last March, the Rocky Mountain News learned that Hunter's prosecutors attempted to block Lou Smit, the homicide detective hired by the Ramseys, from appearing in court: "Hunter's attempt last year to bar a witness from testifying appears to be unprecedented among metro-area prosecutors." No D.A. in Colorado, to their recollection, had ever gone so far as to obtain a court order to exclude a witness: "I've never heard of it before," said Jefferson County DA Dave Thomas. Prosecutors may advise a Grand Jury, "but they do not have total control." Bob Grant, the DA in Adams County, snorted, "folks" only prevent a witness of Smit's stature from taking the stand when they have ":a particular axe to grind but don't have evidence and just want to spread uncorroborated personal opinion."37 And so the first casualty danced another last waltz. Notes: 1. Joe Calhoun interview, March 22, 2000. 2. AP release, " Police Accuse Record Producer of Sexual Abuse," January 30, 1996. Huey Meaux was sentenced to fifteen years in prison, but became eligible for parole two years later. Meaux, who once worked with B.J, Thomas, Mickey Gilley, Ronnie Milsap Hank Williams and Freddie Fender, was moved from Houston to the prison¹s pre-release unit in Lockhart in March, 1998. Some local officials were shocked by this development. District Judge Mike McSpadden commented, "Two or three years is not a substantial amount of time." 3. George Glynn, "Woman sues producer, alleging years of abuse," Houston Chronicle, February 1, 1996. 4. US Treasury release NR 96-10, "OCC Fines Banker and Seeks Prohibition from Banking: Hearing in March," January 29, 1996. 5. See Leonard Louis Capaldi appeal, writ of habeas corpus, Sixth Circuit file. Also, Daniel Brandt's NameBase, "social associates chart," file:///Macintosh%20HD/Desktop%20Folder/Documents/Ramsey %20Case/Jerry%20J.%20Moore%20&%20Associates/Moore% 20Links%20Chart. 6. Susan Casey, "The lady of the castle," Douglas County News-Press, May 8, 1996. Brandt. Also, Pete Brewton, The Mafia, CIA and George Bush, SPI Books, 1992, for background on James Bath and well-heeled Houston Republicans. Brewton: "Jack Trotter, is listed as a reference on Bath¹s resume. A source close to Bath said that Trotter was one of the Houstonians most responsible for introducing Bath around Houston and getting him wired into the right business circles. Bath and Lan Bentsen brokered a number of multi-thousand-acre tracts to syndications formed by Trotter, who was trustee for Senator Lloyd Bentsen¹s blind trust." 7. Ralph McGehee¹s CIABase Web site, http://webcom.com/~pinknoiz/covert/ ciabasesearch.html 8. Burton Hersh, The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA, New York: Charles Scribner¹s, 1992, p. 242. 9. Linda DuVal, "Splendor in the Rockies," Colorado Springs Gazette tour guide, 1999.. 10. Loring Wirbel, "Confronting the New Intelligence Establishment: Lessons from the Colorado Experience," The Textbook (an environmental quarterly), Southwest Research and Information Center, Fall 1996. 11. Casey. 12. Mike Colias, "County Says Goodbye to Tweet Kimbit.," obituary, Douglas County News-Press, January 20, 1999. 13. Christopher Anderson, "Ramsey Detectives off the California," Boulder Daily Camera, March 5, 2000. 14. B.J. Blasket, Daily Times Call, March 6, 2000. 15. Cyril Wecht, M.D., J.D., and Charles Bosworth, Jr., Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey? Onyx, 1998. 16. Steve Thomas, JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation, New York: St. Martin's, 2000, p. 27. 17. Wendy Walker, New Millennium press release, Beverly Hills, CA, 1999. 18. Anonymous, "Duo cited for mailing Ramsey Chapters," Boulder Daily Camera, July 10, 1999, and Julie Poppen, "Judge gives stern warning to two who contacted jurors," Boulder Daily Camera, August 6, 1999. 19. Anonymous, "Main Event ‹ The Murder of JonBenet Ramsey," The Crime Library, http://www.dark-horse.com/ramsey/Ramsey5.htm. 20. Elliot Zaret, "Atler Pursues Answers to Incest, Boulder Daily Camera, February 27, 1997, concerning police interviews with Marilyn Van Derbur Atler, a Boulder resident and former Miss America (1958) who recovered repressed memories of sexual abuse in 1991. 21. Dale Yeager, "Profile Report," Seraph, Inc., July 29, 2997. 22. Drew Griffin, interviewer, "A Perfect Murder? Part 1," CBS 2 News report, February 27, 2000. 23. Thomas, p. 180. 24. Joe Calhoun, "The Book and the JonBenet Ramsey Case: The Sins of 'Perfect Omission,'" Montelibre Monthly, March, 1999. 25. Calhoun, p. 13. 26. Ibid. 27. Anonymous, "JonBenet photo found in home of suspected Ohio pornographer, Boulder Daily Camera, January 8, 1998. 28. Jameson's TimeLine Web site, http://jameson245.com/oddsandends.htm. 29. Calhoun article. 30. Karen Auge, "Detective accuses DA Hunter," Denver Post, February 16, 1999. 31. See Kenn Thomas, interviewer, Steamshovel Press, no. 14, 32. 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