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The guy who committed suicide in the Ramsey (Helgoth) case of course his prints should be on the gun.

Everyone please go check what Jams posted on the Facts and Docs forum. It's very a very interesting record, very long, full of civil suits going both ways, citations, etc. This is just what is publicly available. Usually what is available to someone who digs deeper is, based on my own research on other cases, as much as ten times worse. As Evening2 indicated, the public record is just the tips of icebergs. Everyone I know that has this many court actions is --- Trouble.

The key ones are the ones we have been discussing -- the illegal trespass (into Helgoth's home after the "suicide") and the child sex assault.

I don't know much about such "records", but I was surprised at WHAT was shown on this list (more than I would have expected when considering the traffic matters and the dismissed actions). Rather than the tip of the iceberg, then, I (naively??) thought there was more listed than necessary. The guy does not look good (on paper anyway). I don't like those who drive without proper vehicle registration and - most importantly - WITHOUT INSURANCE, but really, this list has a lot of fluff when considering "criminal" matters. The CORE charges seem (to me) to be the trespass and child sex assault.

Kenady was a small time criminal and he readily admits that.

Let's not shoot the messenger if his message is an honest one.

Look at some of the people we have seen discredited here - - they had no criminal histories, some had pretty impressive jobs and histories - - but they were lying sacks of scum.

I myself would take Kenady's stolen documents and passed on boots over Foster's "expert opinion" anytime.

Public records will sometimes show every court action taken for a case. So you may see multiple records that are actually for a single case. However, if you've ever known a career criminal and compared what you knew to their public record, you'll see that the public record is an absolute joke. If a person has only one record, then that may be it. If they have two, there probably should be 20. If they have four, there should probably be 400. That's what I've seen with people whose activities I was familiar with. Some of this is because they get away with a lot; some of it is due to the criminal justice system itself. For example, oftentimes a criminal will be charged for only one count of what was actually multiple offenses, and so on. I personally know of one case where between 100 and 200 offenses were reduced to ONE count, and the punishment was probation.

Inaccuracy is going to be especially prevalent in Boulder County where Alex Hunter was well-known for his "pre-charge negotiations." What this means, in case you aren't aware, is that the accused isn't even CHARGED with anything until everybody agrees what is going to happen. The public records are going to be even further off from the truth.

I suspect the BPD did NOT listen to him and did NOT extensively follow up his 'story' for the very reasons cited here, but as Jameson has noted, tips often come from sources (people) of Kenady's ilk. I have been hoping to hear from a someone who might have heard a jail-house confession, so what Kenady has to say does interest me.

I am not going to SHIFT all hopes of finding the killer to this 'basket', however, because I believe at least some, if not most, of the Helgoth-Kenady connection HAS been checked out. They are not new names in this investigation, but as they say cold cases are often solved through names/tips that were in the file from the earliest days following the crime. Following the dots may just lead to a break in the case.

If you remember, I believe the 1974 kidnapping of the McReynolds daughter and the 1996 murder of JonBenet may be related.

Kenady fits age wise and locality wise. Now I find out he has a prior for a similar type of offense.

Is it safe to assume that the survivors of the 1974 kidnapping have seen this guys picture?

In about 4 weeks we will know what the BBC show was - - that will open new discussions. Stay tuned.

Good. Stopping at Helgoth would be a big mistake.

I think it's because the Mills/Tracey project focuses on him. Reporters have a way of finding out these things.

Personally, I would very much like to discover who Helgoth knew and ran with, where he went. It might be very interesting, Mikie.

Alie Berrelez was five years old when she was abducted by a stranger on Tuesday, May 18th 1993. She was playing in the yard of her home in Englewood, Colorado. The local police did an extensive search to find Alie.

Alie was found murdered four days later. Her lifeless body was found on Saturday, stuffed in a duffel bag, by Deer Creek Canyon at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Aurora, Colorado police bloodhound Yogi, owned by Officer Jerry Nichols, led officers for 14 miles to where Alie was found. This case remains unsolved.

http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_2864164,00.html

When four days later, a bloodhound named Yogi helped lead searchers to Deer Creek Canyon where they found Alie's body in a sack, it was Berrelez who created a foundation that supplied tracking bloodhounds to police departments across the nation.

COULD THIS BE THE PURPOSE OF THE SACK THE ROPE WAS FOUND IN?

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http://63.147.65.175/news/jon103.htm

June 22 - While the public has been focused on the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, many other murders involving metro-area children remain unsolved.

From Steven Wicks and Ronald DeFond, two boys kidnapped on their way to buy ice cream and later found dead, to Tracy Marie Neef, who vanished on her way into her elementary school building, the murder cases continue to puzzle police departments and leave families shattered.

According to statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 65 percent of all homicide cases in 1995 were solved by arrest or otherwise resolved.

Here are summaries of some local unsolved murder mysteries involving children.

Marilee Burt: Burt was walking home from a friend's house when she was murdered on Feb. 27, 1970. The 15-year-old was found strangled under a bridge on Deer Creek Canyon Road, southwest of Littleton. An autopsy report showed that she had been sexually assaulted and struck on the head by a blunt instrument.
Marilee, a member of the prominent Burt automobile family, had attended a middle school basketball game with her best friend when she decided to walk home from her friend's house. The best clue investigators uncovered was 10 feet of rope that apparently was used to strangle her.

Authorities thought they had a break in the case in 1981, when they briefly detained a man with a history of sexual assaults on girls. Ronald Bloom gave police a sample of his hair on May 31, 1981, so police could compare it with hair found in the rope at the crime scene.

Bloom was never charged with the crime and police have not come close to an arrest since.

Steven Wicks and Ronald DeFond: A passer-by driving in rural Adams County found the bodies of Steven and Ronald, two young boys kidnapped and murdered as they walked to buy ice cream at a grocery store in central Denver the afternoon of March 8, 1980.
Steven, 10, and Ronald, 7, left Ronald's home around 2:30 p.m. to walk about a block for ice cream at a grocery story on East Colfax Avenue and Williams Street. The bodies of the two boys were found about 90 minutes later, dumped along Tower Road south of East 56th Avenue.

Each had been shot once in the head. Both boys later died at Denver Health Medical Center, formerly Denver General Hospital.

Sheriff's investigators say their prime suspect in the case died several years ago. However, the case has not been officially closed.

Tracy Neef: How did 7-year-old Tracy Marie Neef vanish from her elementary school and end up dead a quarter-mile west of Barker Dam near Nederland? It's a homicide that has puzzled investigators since the morning of March 16, 1984.
That's when Tracy's mother dropped her first-grader off at Bertha Heid Elementary School in Thornton. But school officials reported that Tracy never attended school that day. Her body was found around 5 p.m. about 30 feet from a road off Boulder County 119.

Next to Tracy's body were her school supplies. Her mother didn't realize her daughter hadn't made it into the school building until she went to pick up Tracy from school.

Authorities ruled that the girl died between 10 a.m. and noon. The official cause of death was asphyxiation.

Jakeob McKnight: His parents reported him missing July 21, 1991, after he failed to return from playing with his brother and two friends at a swimming hole near the family home. Two days later, police found the body of Jakeob near an uprooted tree in the tall grass of the Bear Creek Greenbelt in metro Denver, about a mile from his family's south Lakewood home.
Police investigators targeted John Ramsey "Felix" Chinn immediately after the murder. Chinn reportedly admitted that he spent time with Jakeob and other boys in the greenbelt area, including swimming with them for 45 minutes. Following intense scrutiny of Chinn's background, though, he was never charged with the murder.

The 10-year-old was stabbed more than a dozen times in the attack. Jakeob was going to enter the fifth grade at Bear Creek Elementary. He had a passion for fishing.

Alie Berrelez: Berrelez was playing with her baby brother in front of her family's Englewood apartment complex when she was kidnapped May 18, 1993. For four days, police combed the metro area before Yogi, a common-looking bloodhound, led police to the girl's body near the mouth of Deer Creek Canyon.
Alie's body was concealed in a duffel bag and dumped into a ravine. Police questioned Nicholas R. Stofer as a possible suspect, but Stofer eventually was cleared from suspicion.

Out of her death came the Alie Foundation, an advocacy group that buys bloodhounds for police departments.

May 22, 2003

The only person ever named as a suspect in the kidnapping and slaying of Alie Berrelez died last year in Arizona.

Nicholas Randolph Stofer, 42, died in the Phoenix area, said Englewood Detective Bobbie Garrett, who became the lead investigator on the case about four years ago.

Englewood police asked officers in Arizona to go through Stofer's belongings after his death.

"There was not anything that we saw that he had that referred to Alie in any way," Garrett said.

Officially, police called Stofer "a person of interest" in their investigation into the 5-year-old girl's death.

Stofer once lived in the apartment complex where Alie lived with her mother and two brothers.

Stofer was a welder, and police found metal shavings in the duffel bag in which Alie's body was found.

Early in the investigation, Englewood police extradited Stofer from San Diego in a drunken-driving case. But the warrant made no reference to the Berrelez case.

Police sought murder charges against Stofer, but prosecutors concluded that there wasn't enough evidence to proceed. Stofer's lawyer has steadfastly asserted his client's innocence.

There was recently an unidentified teenager found in a green canvas (duffel) bag in California.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/12/17/BAGN33OU9U1.DTL

Speculation BEGIN:

To pull this speculative scheme off, any schemer would have to be pretty confident in himself/herself. He/she would have to create something that makes the "patsy" look suspicious, but not overly so (such that the bungling authorities figure it out on their own), then come along and fill in the pieces and collect the reward. It's important that the "patsy" not be around to contradict anything, so of course the "patsy" has to be sacrificed.

Whereas for a non-Ramsey case perpetrator and con artist, this merely creates income (and fame leading to more income), for the perpetrator in the Ramsey case, this has two benefits: Blames someone else for the crime and creates income. Even better: The money comes from the Ramseys themselves. Now that had to be attractive, didn't it?

The perpetrator has a competitive advantage over other schemers because he/she can create the most credible fake story, being fully informed on the details of the Ramsey murder. If the perpetrator goes for the reward, the fake scenario is going to be pretty darn credible once the pieces of the puzzle are all filled in. He should supply some things that the public doesn't know about but that the authorities can verify. And talk about "perfect crimes." We've discussed definitions of the perfect crime. How about this one: To be paid by the victims in full view of the public for blaming one's own horrific, infamous crime on someone else. Gosh, he must have been tempted....

Speculation END.

I'll say it before somebody else does: Maybe I do know something about fiction after all. :-)