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Originally Posted by Army Wife'79
Everyone was suspicious of the family b/c they refused to be interviewed when at any other crime scene, the parents would be separated and interviewed to see if their stories match etc. They were treated with "kid gloves" b/c they were rich and if they had cooperated they maybe could have been ruled out ages ago. I never understood why they refused to be questioned by the Denver police. So many things didn't "jive" like the ransom note being written from paper in Patsy's drawer, like a burglar is going to wait till he gets to the house to write the note?
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I don't know. At the point I concluded that the police regarded me as a suspect, I think I might refuse to cooperate as well.
Many of us have such a positive view of the police that we assume that they are interested in investigating until they get to the "truth," but if you've read a few cases about the wrongfully convicted, this view may be faulty.
I agree that I was suspicious of the Ramsey's behavior, but looking back, it's hard to really see them as having benefited at the hands of the police.
And I think you're underestimating the level of their cooperation. They supplied DNA samples, were interviewed. etc. It was an entirely new method of DNA analysis that was able to definitively clear them, so it's hard to say that they could have been cleared earlier.
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