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Chapter 1, Page 3 Journey Beyond Reason Let’s start at the beginning "It's kind of mind-boggling," said Lincoln County Sheriff Leroy Yowell, whose department had a role in one of the saga's more unusual sideshows. One prosecutor says many who touch the case, or are touched by it, come away tainted. Boulder County sheriff's Detective Steve Ainsworth, who worked on the case more than a year for Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter, has never seen anything like it. "Ordinarily, on a major case, a murder case like this, we're bringing in everybody and throwing everything we have at it for 72 hours," he said. "As a result, you solve all kinds of other stuff along the way. But usually it's old cases, things you've had outstanding. "In this case, all the arrests were made in new crimes driven by the case." Ainsworth traces it to the media attention surrounding the JonBenet's Christmas night 1996 slaying. "So many people get caught up in the publicity that they want to become part of it," he said. "They end up becoming too much a part of it and getting themselves arrested." End Quote This case has had it all. All that is except some legal resolution to the mystery. It's not due to lack of theories or expert opinions. The Boulder Police Department felt that they had solved the crime. However the Boulder DA at that time, Alex Hunter, was not a bold prosecutor. Eventually too much time elapsed for the police to effectively gain back control of the case. They had been effectively derailed by inner-office one-upmanship, public interference and inertia on the part of the prosecutors. Along the way they had been systematically stripped of this investigation. The Ramseys had moved out of the state within months of JonBenet's death. They had hired criminal defense attorneys to keep the police at a distance. Eventually their criminal defense attorneys were replaced by a Civil Attorney, L Lin Wood. In June of 2003, and through questionable circumstances, Chief Beckner declared that they had ended their investigation and turned their files over to the new DA Mary Keenan. Judge Julie Carnes, a federal judge, had presided over a civil suit against the Ramseys brought by Chris Wolf. The culmination of six and a half years of sidestepping and manipulation came to the seemingly big pay off for the Ramseys in that courtroom. Judge Carnes ruling gave the Ramseys the edge they needed to the takeover of the case.

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