The book stood alone in speculating that there were more than the two ironclad scenarios the media and the police had laid out for the child’s death from the very beginning: either the Ramseys did it and were totally guilty or an intruder had come into their home and killed the girl, leaving the Ramseys completely innocent. Presumed Guilty suggested that there were powerful reasons for this silence and the effort to bury the murder, rather than solve it. Looking back, they write: “The most potent aspect of the Ramsey phenomenon was the stillness around it - from the family and its legal team, from Boulder cops and the D.A.’s office, from parts of the media, and in the very uneasy quiet that clung to the crime, even as the authorities tried to put it behind them. In the years following the murder, the Singulars write, their questions ran head-long into either “pervasive fear” or “absolute silence.” Or perhaps it did, a long time ago, but we’ve never fully understood what this means.” Somehow, some way, there is logic behind that, but Boulder’s legal system was never able to explain what it was. The murder of JonBenet is the only example in the annals of American homicide where a body and a ransom note were found in the same location. As the Singulars write, “the case remains a world-class conundrum. The police work and prosecutorial efforts that followed were worse. It’s very hard to read this book and not come to the same general conclusion-that the answer to this case lies in the troubling sublayers and dark underground of child beauty pageants and sick underground tunnels to child pornographers. Second, they widen the lens and look at the bigger picture. First, they look closely at the human behaviors of those immediately involved. But the Singulars do two things simultaneously-and they do them well. And as they make painfully clear in this updated version of their 1999 book, there are still questions to be asked-still work that could be done. As Stephen and Joyce Singular put it in "Presumed Guilty," some murders just won’t leave you alone. Without a concrete answer to the death of JonBenet Ramsey, obviously, questions remain. Keep asking questions-and keep asking questions.
PresumedGuilty is his account of this journey into one of the darkest corners of modern American life.moreįollow the facts. His discovery - of a subculture that sexually exploits young children and that surreptitiously is working its way into mainstream America - motivated him to share his findings with the district attorney and the police. Singular's search led him into the often seamy worlds of tabloid journalism, local politics, beauty, pageants, child pornography, and the business of sex on the Internet.
Not content to pass judgment on the Ramseys without conclusive evidence - and convinced there was a reason for the legal system's wariness in prosecuting the case - Denver-based journalist Stephen Singular followed a trail from the local bars to the county, jail to answer the question: Who, or what, killed JonBenet Ramsey? Despite pressure from the police to arrest the Ramseys, the district attorney's office attempted to establish new leads and identify other suspects, but without the support of law-enforcement authorities, the D.A.'s efforts were stymied.As the investigation came to a standstill, one man looked deeper. Concurring with the opinions expressed on television and radio talk show programs, Boulder's police department focused its attention on two suspects: John and Patsy Ramsey, JonBenet's parents. As throngs of reporters and media crews swarmed into Boulder, local and national networks flashed images of JonBenet, dressed provocatively in pageant regalia, across the country and overseas. The events surrounding the death of the 6-year-old beauty queen horrified the city's residents and immediately captured the nation's interest. As throngs of reporters and media crews swarmed into Boulder, local and national netwo On the morning of December 26, 1996, JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered in the basement of her parent's million-dollar home in Boulder, Colorado.
On the morning of December 26, 1996, JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered in the basement of her parent's million-dollar home in Boulder, Colorado.
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