Rita invites the reader to "Become an active participant as
judge and jury; rendering an opinion in the trial of the century."

Sadly, she doesn't inform the readers that she, like Michael Kane and Steve Thomas before her, has an agenda - - to push her own theory. Rita will be, as far as I can tell, a prosecutor writing the book - no defense allowed.

Hints of conspiracy!

Rita wrote - - and forgive the redactions, they are hers, not mine...

Although it hardly seems possible in this day and time that murderers can evade prosecution and detection; I assure you they can. Sometimes they even get help from those charged with carrying out the law. You are about to enter the mystifying world of JonBenét,
and her parents who stand publicly accused of killing her. It would
be hard to write a chilling thriller more sickening than the true
account of what happened to this precious little child. It would
be impossible to create a scenario of secret societies and an elite conspiracy willing to XXX from prosecution, even with the wildest of imaginations.

I already have a problem with the book. A federal judge and the DA have both publicly stated that the evidence points to an intruder. We all know the case is in the hands of a special investigator and the parents are NOT the focus of the investigation. We all know that great hope has been put in the DNA evidence that has been accepted in the CODIS databank.

But Rita puts the parents out there as "her parents who stand publicly accused of killing her" - - that seems wrong to me. I believe if that stands as is in the book, a jury will see it the same way I do - - misleading, defamatory and libel.

Yes, Rita and some other BORG still say the parents did it - but in the grand scheme of things - - they are misleading people by doing so because the evidence (as reported by LE and the courts) say the evidence is NOT enough to name the parents as killers - - the weight says they are innocent.

Rita wrote, "A victory is hollow unless it has meaning for the victim. Your verdict will bring about peace at last for a little girl who screamed out in the dead of night and whose screams were never heard."

I disagree. Jonbenét is at peace - her suffering has ended. period.

Victory here - finding her killer and bringing him to justice - will not give her peace but it could save another child from a similar end.

As for Jonbenét and her scream, it would appear one person DID hear her scream - and chose to ignore it. Melody Stanton.

Rita wrote, "one day, I had a stunning realization. Smit believed the Ramseys, John and Patsy were the real victims."

I have a one-word response to that - - BULLSHIT!

Lou carried photos of the victims in his pocket - - Jonbenét is there along with others - I have seen them, it is a heartbreaking collection.

John and Patsy are not there.

Lou believes John and Patsy are innocent - - but he is working for the victim - JonBenét.

I hope one day he writes HIS story. Some things that have (and have not) happened will stun you if he puts his story into words. Have no doubt that he works for Justice and JonBenét, no one else.

"It is not a fictionalization of the JonBenét murder case,
sadly it is all true. It is a work based on real information about real
interrogations, the autopsy report, police reports, real depositions,
the bizarre ransom note, and interviews conducted with hundreds of
individuals. It represents thousands of hours of interviews conducted over a four-year period of time. The extensive dialogue is reconstructed from the best memory of those involved and, where ever possible, was carefully cross-checked with documents, testimony, and other reliable
sources."

I think Lin Wood is gonna love cross-checking her "facts".

She is basing her book on her interpretation of someone else's memories... tricky business, a bit dangerous when it gets time for lawsuits. After all, Rita was not here in the beginning - - she was not in many situations where she herself saw anything...

More important, she does not have access to all the case documents. As I remember, part of the reason her book was not published in 2002 was the release of the AMI book. If I were to start releasing more documents, would the book be put off again? I think so. I think Rita and her publisher (if there really is one) know they are taking a great risk. Huge.

Bottom line, Rita knows there is a lot of information she has no access to - and I believe she is being negligent by writing a book without those sources. Her publisher - if one exists - has more to lose than Rita.

I really think this Introduction clearly shows there are problems.

"Considerable time was spent on the internet to determine the
effect of the World Wide Web in the dissemination and assimilation of vital information and propaganda."

Michael Tracey said something about a book on that same subject. Somehow I don't think they will be anything alike. *grin*

"Additionally, I was able to build ongoing relationships with insiders from police, to psychiatrists, linguists, former friends, suspects, victims and forensic experts as well. They gave their time and expertise to assist in bringing about justice for a little girl that none of us really knew. None of us except XXX who had a hard time reconciling the JonnieB she knew from the alluring little sex goddess created by XXX."

Interesting - this lawsuit should allow Lin to depose police, psychiatrists, linguists, (please let that be Don Foster!) former friends, (note the FORMER") suspects, victims and forensic experts. I can hardly wait.

In the last sentence, I think I can fill in the blanks:

None of us except Judith Phillips who had a hard time reconciling the JonnieB she knew from the alluring little sex goddess created by John and Patsy."

We all know about judith. She was not a close friend - was not at the party on the 23rd, didn't go to the funeral in Atlanta, was not called to aid the ramseys after the murder... she sold photos to the tabs and was considered a traiter by the Ramseys...

What is interesting is that the first public statements she made were in support of the Ramseys but after the Ramseys distanced themselves from her - after the tabloid people befriended her - she jumped the fence and later was sure Patsy was involved - they were horrid people, didn't have the right values, didn't recycle properly... (The interview she did with Mame actually included that bit of flotsam.)

" More than six years have passed and still nobody seems to have the
answer to what happened to little JonnieB. John and Patsy Ramsey, her
parents, remain to this very day under an umbrella of suspicion. They
stand alone and vilified, living a life of quiet desperation. They too are now the victims. Victims of a self-imposed prison from which they
cannot escape. You will help them too. Without full disclosure, the
Ramseys will never be free people, even though they remain free from arrest."

Yes, some BORG insist the parents are guilty, but the Ramseys don't live with that guilt and they have said many times that people do NOT go up to them and call them murderers - - people tend to be kind and supportive.

Yes, John has not had a real job since the murder - and that has to be hard - - but they are not destitute, they aren't going hungry or giving up on their hobbies. Patsy, for instance, still enjoys renovating houses - and I am not talking about a can of Sherwin-Williams paint.

The Ramseys lead full lives. They have family - family gatherings, births, deaths, parties, achievements to celebrate... They have friends - they are always on the run meeting someone for breakfast or lunch, going to someone's house to see renovations, helping at times. Burke is growing and active and the Ramseys are active in his life, in the communtiy. They have hobbies and John does have work.

The Ramseys do not live as hermits, they are not desperate people who walk around in misery.

As much as the BORG would like to think the Ramseys are absolutely miserable, they are not.

Life does go on after a tragedy - - that's a fact.

I really think this Introduction clearly shows there are problems.

Yep, there are problems. She can't write. Rita wouldn't make the first cut if there were an American Idol in Writing. She can't write and she can't get the 'lyrics' right.

I foresee more problems here than poor old Steve Thomas had. Perhaps Rita's publisher should contact his publisher to check out a ballpark figure as to how much this is going to cost them.

Rita won't tell anyone who her publisher is - not even her good friend Rose.

If her publisher is paying any attention at all to what is going on in the ramsey case, that publisher will shut the door tight and block Rita's phone calls.

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Rita wrote, "I decided to write this book just after I finished reading Who Will Speak For JonBenét by forensic psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Hodges. His book along with all the others had a profound effect on me."

If anyone reads his books and accept his theories as worthy of respect - - PLEASE get help or consider moving to Siberia where others won't have to deal with you.

Hodges is a very sorry character - I believe that. Sorry, sad, pathetic.

An autobiography by him would be, I think, best left unread.

later she says "After many conversations with Dr. Hodges, I decided to speak on JonBenét's behalf."

With a cheerleading team made up of people like Hodges and Foster, what do you REALLY think the book will be like?

Rita wrote,"The parents, their attorney, and what has become known as Team Ramsey seemed willing to go to any lengths in an attempt to exonerate themselves and clear their names."

Personally, I thought the Ramseys were overly retiring. I knew of several situations where the Ramseys remained silent- and I couldn't understand why they were NOT making calls, meeting people, bringing the information to the public.

And I will say the term "Team Ramsey" is really misleading - - there never was a "team' that met and planned strategy or shared information. There was always a bunch of supporters who simply did their own thing. Some publicly, others quietly, some silently.

But it will be interesting to see what Rita THINKS was happening.

And it will be more interesting to see her explain why when Lin deposes her.

I think Rits is saying this is her job - - " Someone had to be willing to provide all the facts, rumors, plots and innuendoes in one place, so the truth would be revealed."

Rita doesn't have access to all thos things - while the BORG seems willing to talk to her - and she is clearly buying into their myths - she sure isn't getting input from the other side.

Rita is NOT highly respected by people I have spoken to - - and that will ultimately guarantee that any book she writes will NOT be a true and complete picture.

I was with Rita the day she met John Ramsey. From what both Rita and Patsy told me that day, that was the ONLY time Rita met John.

This was YEARS after the murder - the Ramseys were living in Atlanta and things had been going well for them. The GJ was over, the story was dwindling in the media.

Rita wrote "Torn between giving up and keeping up the fight is a daily struggle."

Nah - not so. Untrue. The worst had passed. The Ramseys carried the pain but they weren't on the brink of 'giving up" - Rita is misleading and painting a picture using false colors.

Ya gotta love it!

Rita wrote -
"The Boulder DA, Mary Keenan, has gone on the record stating that she is
focusing the current investigation on finding the infamous intruder."

Considering the FACT that Rita included that in the Introduction she sent Rose and allowed Rose to publish, I think it will be difficult for her to defend her book if it is published and accuses Patsy and John of being implicated in the crime.

I don't think it will be difficult to prove Rita carefully decided what information she would accept as real in HER book - - and I think when EVERYTHING comes out (yes, Rita isn't sharing everything - not by along shot) Lin will even have a jury convinced Rita was acting with malice when she wrote her book.

Rita claims she almost died in December of 1996 - she lived and the reason, in her mind, is linked to this case.

Personally I doubt it but - - what the hell, we all get to have an opinion.

According to Rita, the key piece of evidence is the ransom note - just "...waiting for someone with the expertise and knowledge to properly interpret it."

She continues with this - "Someone has come forward, but because of the refusal and/or inability to authorities to solve the case, his expertise was not welcomed."

I wonder if she means Hodges or Foster or both - - but no matter in the long run, both have had their say and been deemed - - - useless to this investigation.

Rita wrote, "All the Ramsey money cannot change the unquestionable fact of the ransom note, or the seemingly guilty verdict from the court of public opinion."

I say "All the BORG lies cannot change the fact that the handwriting evidence says the parents did not write the ransom note, that the family did not own the stun gun, cord and tape that were used to torture and kill JonBenét, that the DNA found on the body did not belong to the family - - and the fact that the "seemingly guilty verdict from the court of public opinion" is no longer as solid as it was a year ago. The fact is, the DA has made it clear thatthe weight of the evidence points away from the parents - directly toward an intruder."

Semantics at work..."As time progressed, I followed every twist and turn of the case. I met JonBenét's parents and painted with her mother, and often visited her tiny grave."

Rita met Patsy in a store, phoned her a few times and saw her on one other occasion. They were not "friends" by any means. Rita was there intending to hurt the Ramseys. That was the reason for the contact and her intention and everything she did was tainted by that motive.

Rita has visited the grave often - and written about those visits. She finds fault at how it looks, how it is maintained. She watches it on occasion just to see who might show up. She has her own motives - and i think they are not honorable.

Rita wrote, "I became strangely connected to those who seemed to be
protecting the Ramseys and observed strange goings on that began to haunt me."

Connected? She's strange, but hardly "connected" to any of the RST.

"More so ironic was that this book was delayed and delayed until after
Judge Carnes momentous decision, without which the whole truth could not
be understood. Thankfully, I didn't fight the inevitable. Had I done
so, this book would have been finished just prior to the interrogation
tapes being released, and Mary Keenan announcing that she was siding
with Carnes in favor of a mysterious intruder as the XXX for
JonBenét's murder."

Rita, hate to burst your delusion bubble, but the whole truth is still not out there - you understand NOTHING.