Who Killed JonBenet? Page #6

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to trial or a Grand Jury.

No.

What're we doing?

What's this all about?

We're doing our jobs.

Just 'cause they're not

doing theirs

doesn't mean we don't do ours.

We're better than that.

They think we're stupid, Ron.

They're laughing at us.

The DA, the Ramseys,

Lou Smit.

Nobody's laughing at us.

They are.

So what do you want

to do about it?

Walk.

You'll just walk?

Yeah.

What else am I gonna do

after this?

Just go back to work

like normal?

Catch a bad guy and uh,

maybe they'll prosecute him?

Don't be naive.

There's always politics.

Everybody's looking out

for their own skin.

But nobody's looking out

for her.

Except for us.

This is the one that matters.

If I walk now, it'll actually

say something.

Wait, the detective

isn't suppose to quit.

He's supposed to solve

the puzzle.

Why is he doing this?

This isn't how the story

is supposed to go.

"I cannot continue to sanction

by my silence

"for what has occurred

in this case.

"Steve Thomas, Badge 638."

He writes well,

I'll give him that.

Maybe the Whites were right.

We should consider

a special prosecutor.

Take Hunter out of it

altogether.

Get him on the phone.

The Grand Jury is

a compromise.

So Hunter doesn't have

to be removed.

It is, but it's still a win.

And a big one.

We know what you've given up,

Steve.

Whatever I've given up, the

point is it's not lip service.

Alex Hunter is not going

to be running it.

They're bringing in Mike Kane

from Pennsylvania.

He is a stand up guy.

I do think this is our shot

for JonBent.

What's this?

I will not be part of the

persecution of innocents.

Mr. Smit told the Grand Jury

that an intruder killed me

and kept trying to prove it

until he died in 2010.

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.

If they don't indict,

a Grand Jury may issue

a report,

usually at the behest

of the DA.

Why the DA may not

have requested one

in this case remains

as shrouded in mystery

as the Grand Jury proceedings

themselves.

And that's the end of it.

Hunter and everyone else

just walks away squeaky clean.

No report.

No answers.

( reporter ) The public

continues to speculate

on who broke into the Ramseys'

house that night

and killed the innocent

six-year-old.

Andrea Kerry reporting-

Steve.

You did everything

that you could.

I gave up.

No. Steve.

I gave up.

Steve.

Steve!

What're you doing?

I made a promise.

I need to tell the truth.

( reporter ) Ramsey attorney

Lin Wood responded swiftly

to the publication of

Thomas's book with a lawsuit.

Uh, this is a man who has sat

back and watched Steve Thomas

put his daughter's name

and picture on a book,

illegally utilizing confidential

police file information

to write a book

so that he can profit.

He wants to profit off of

the death of this child.

( reporter ) As if in response

to Thomas's book,

John and Patsy Ramsey

released today their own account

of their daughter's death

which starkly contradicts

the former detective's account.

( phone ringing )

Hello?

Patsy?

It's Doctor Weiner.

Hi.

We got your scan results

back in.

Are you able to come

in this afternoon?

Sure.

Did they find something?

Come on in and we'll talk

about it then.

Patsy?

Yes.

I'll come in.

I had to take a job

trimming trees.

My boss is a kid named Carlos.

He's 19.

( laughs )

It's hard.

I read your book.

My legal bill?

Yeah? Bad?

It's all gone.

Everything.

I'm sorry.

I still think about

her sometimes.

Not a day goes by that

I don't think about her.

Yeah.

That was a lie.

I think about her

all the time.

I hear Patsy's cancer is back.

Oh, I didn't know that.

Well, I gotta get to work.

What're you doing now?

I started a small

carpentry business.

That fits.

That's good.

Yeah.

It's good to see you, Steve.

You too.

Patsy?

You once asked me to find

JonBent's killer.

I did.

And I told you that I would.

You did.

Patsy, there was just you,

John and Burke in that house.

Is there something you want

to tell me now?

( sawing )

( saw stops )

In a startling development

in the JonBent Ramsey case,

in response to a lawsuit

brought by

the Reporter's Committee

for Freedom of the Press,

the court released today

four pages

of an 18-page Grand Jury

indictment

secretly issued in 1999

against John and Patsy Ramsey

charging the couple

with two counts each

of child abuse resulting in

death an accessory to murder.

Andrea Kerry reporting live

in Boulder, Colorado.

This is where I am now.

I've been here for 20 years.

I've seen a lot of things

from here.

I've seen mommy die.

I've seen daddy

get married again.

Burke working with computers.

I've seen you, too.

All of you, looking at me.

What do you see

when you look at me?

What does Steve see?

I'm sorry.

I forgive you, Steve.

And I'm sorry, too.

Your life would have been

better without me.

All the bedtime stories

mommy and daddy read to me

had happy endings,

but my story doesn't have

an ending at all

because it's not a fairy tale.

It's real life.

And in the story of my life

the bad guys don't get caught

the nice people don't win.

I can't click my ruby slippers

and go back home.

I still don't know who

the bad guy in my story is.

I guess I never will.

Maybe that's ok with me now.

Maybe I can let go.

Can you?

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