But less than a month later, Star retracted its explosive report after prosecutors said Burke, who has his own lawyer, was not considered a suspect. McReynolds planned the murder in advance and he told JonBenet that Santa would visit her after Christmas to get her to go downstairs that night and wait for him. The Ramseys retained criminal lawyers within 48 hours and swiftly hired a slick spokesman. 2. On the other hand, I know several people who seem like they have an axe to grind. Was their DNA tested? McReynolds gave an alibi to police forthe night of the murder, saying he was having dinner with his family several miles away. spoke with the mother of the murdered child beauty queen, Patsy has been. ._12xlue8dQ1odPw1J81FIGQ{display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle} from the 1998 interview: JOHN RAMSEY: . We have some letters from him. I dont know what youre watching/reading/listening to, but Ive heard him mentioned all over the place. He carried it to the hospital as a lucky charm during the surgery. Supposedly Bill was but Im a little more curious if Jesse ever was. The second best result is Bill McReynolds age 60s in Fall Creek, OR. On what grounds did Steve Thomas and the BPD dismiss them? He then ripped the duct tape off her mouth and carried her upstairs, contaminating the crime scene. Its less likely now than it was a couple of years ago, says Cohen. In 2018-19, her daughter Kim and son-in-law Dennis Gonzalez, also moved to Longmont. I am not accusing anyone in particular, just pointing out the multiple bizarre similarities and things that give me pause. Bill McReynolds was found dead in his Mashpee, Mass., home Monday by his wife, Janet, when she returned from a weekend trip. . His ashes will be scattered at one of McReynolds' favorite Colorado hiking trails. Patsy was loopy on drugs. "He really took the role as his life goal," Janet McReynolds said. BARB COOPER Boulder. )(Woodward), When his own daughter was ten years old, she and another girl were kidnapped, and the friend was molested before both girls were released. And apparently it starts out nice and then it gets up into this you left Santa Claus and, you know, went to all those fancy things and you came back to Santa Claus. He was elderly and was far away from Bolder that day. This story has been shared 107,268 times. The only play the public has been made aware of was Hey Rube which was based on the true story ofSylvia Likens, a young girl who was held captive in an Indiana basement in 1965. The Ramseys finally went on CNN or some news show with a small poster offering a $100,000 Reward if JonBenet's killer was caught. /*# sourceMappingURL=https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/chunkCSS/IdCard.ea0ac1df4e6491a16d39_.css.map*/._2JU2WQDzn5pAlpxqChbxr7{height:16px;margin-right:8px;width:16px}._3E45je-29yDjfFqFcLCXyH{margin-top:16px}._13YtS_rCnVZG1ns2xaCalg{font-family:Noto Sans,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;line-height:18px;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex}._1m5fPZN4q3vKVg9SgU43u2{margin-top:12px}._17A-IdW3j1_fI_pN-8tMV-{display:inline-block;margin-bottom:8px;margin-right:5px}._5MIPBF8A9vXwwXFumpGqY{border-radius:20px;font-size:12px;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:0;line-height:16px;padding:3px 10px;text-transform:none}._5MIPBF8A9vXwwXFumpGqY:focus{outline:unset} Was it an intruder? Both were released within hours. Bill and Janet McReynolds left Colorado in 1998 and settled on Cape Cod. For a few, the glare of the spotlight has been especially harsh. Radio is a personal medium. So he gathered a crack team of world-leading experts to analyse the evidence, and they have agreed upon the identity of the person they believe is the murderer. How do they know that wasnt the same cord he was using? Detectives probing the intruder theory have investigated sex offenders as far away as California and looked into the surreal world of kiddie pageants but a credible suspect has yet to emerge. I was in my final semester in college at the time and my professor the head of the criminal justice department was absolutely sure the Ramsey did it. They then staged the kidnapping and murder scene together to cover the whole thing up. He was born in Donna, Texas, in 1930, and received his degree in journalism from the University of Texas. In early 1990s the Ramseys spent $700,000 just to build the third story master suite onto their mansion! "And because I'd been told by cyber-crime specialists that JonBent was precisely the kind of child, because of her beauty pageant experience, who could be sucked into the world of child porn. He considered the Ramseys as friends, he loved children and didnt mean any harm to them, he may have been a little weird but he was already old in 1996 by the time JonBenet was killed, and in poor health. "I will never forget we were walking toward his house and he said, 'I wonder what it would be like to crack a human skull.' McReynolds was discovered Monday by his wife, Janet. Its important for her to be able to rest in peace., Mr Clemente, a co-producer on Criminal Minds, says this was a major error. According to PMPT "McReynolds and Barnhill's DNA could not be excluded" p182. 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His full snow-white beard and genuine love of the holiday made him a perennial holiday favorite with young and old alike. It's a relief to know the Ramsey's were not found to be their daughter's killer, but there were still many other suspects on the list. Any additional thoughts or insight would be appreciated. Though they have never been publicly cleared, they do have an alibi. The new Discovery Channel programme'JonBenet: An American Murder Mystery' examines the evidence that suggests bearded Bill may have been behind her death. (BPD Reports #1-1874, #26-144, #1-41, #1-162, #1-204, #1-304, #1-2622, #5-297, #5-371, #5-2202) Could that Secret Santa have been the killer and someone JonBent knew? (Thomas), DeMuth was on the trail of Bill McReynolds, even using undercover cops to tail him. According to Ollie Gray, a private investigator hired by the Ramseys, "Helgothand his accomplices committed the crime. Someone is out there!". The woman said that on Christmas Eve day in 1996, JonBent said Santa had told her he was going to make a secret visit to her after Christmas. (Thomas), Jesse McReynolds, now thirty-eight, had botched a $ 113 gas station robbery in Arizona during which he forced the clerk to move from Point A to Point B. But what about motive? The McReynolds girl, 9 at the time, was not. It just seems really unlikely to me that he could have managed all that activity, going up and downstairs, and not making enough noise to disturb anyone. "Her murder was harder on me than my operation. One who is interested in Janet's work? When did that happen? I was amazed. Beyond the physical evidence, the couples behavior in the early hours and days of the investigation was disturbing to some observers. Particularly older people who were around in the mid nineties. The second girl was molested. A torch was found on the kitchen side at the family home during the initial investigation. This story has been shared 137,743 times. Jones said McReynolds told him when he retired that he was finished with teaching - but a year later, McReynolds called one day "out of the blue" to see if he could come back to teach a few classes on a part-time basis. English Longmont Police Department records on the December 26, 1974 kidnapping of Jill McReynolds (daughter of JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect "Santa" Bill McReynolds) and her friend by an unidentified pedophile Addeddate 2020-07-08 01:31:47 Identifier JillMcReynolds_LongmontPD Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t25b91m9k Ocr When a six-year-old innocent girl is killed and never got justice, that case is going to bother you. The murder of JonBent Ramsey remains one of the most peculiar and heartbreaking unsolved mysteries of modern times and the flurry of TV projects and documentaries coming out this month speaks to the world's enduring fascination with what happened the night of Dec. 26, 2006. Services: Memorial service, 2 p.m. Dec. 29, Wayside Chapel Evangelical Free Church, 1705 NW Loop 410. Former Kidnapping charge was a botched $113 gas station robbery in Arizona, where he forced clerk to move from Point A to Point B, thus the kidnapping charge (ST Pg 114, DOI pg167), He had come home from the Christmas party at his parents home, had a drink of scotch, swallowed some powerful prescription drugs he took for depression, and gone to bed alone, not awakening until late the next morning. .FIYolDqalszTnjjNfThfT{max-width:256px;white-space:normal;text-align:center} Others, like 12-year-old Burke Ramsey and family friends Bill and Janet McReynolds, have been the targets of fevered public speculation. It shows clips of JonBenet's father John Ramsay telling police that he suspected McReynolds might have been involved. An ex-con knows whats going on in an interrogation room with two detectives, and Jesse McReynolds knew he looked good to Gosage and me as a suspect in the Ramsey case. Bill McReynolds AKA "Santa Bill". His DNA didnt match UM1. In a chilling twist, they also discovered that the couple's daughter had been abducted on Dec. 26, 1974 along with a young friend . Here are just a few of the stranger ones. McReynolds' death was sudden, his wife said, although he had undergone a bypass operation and replacement of aorta valve in 1996. And while living in Nederland, near Boulder, he had some other scrapes with the law. Almost 20 years after the 6-year-old child beauty queen was found brutally murdered in the basement of her family's home, it seems like almost everyone has a theory as to who did it or what happened. He joined the staff of News Radio 1200 WOAI in 1947 and, by the time he retired in 1997 after 50 years of broadcasting, generations of farmers came to depend on McReynolds Farm and Ranch program and an hour-long agricultural program at noon. ._1aTW4bdYQHgSZJe7BF2-XV{display:-ms-grid;display:grid;-ms-grid-columns:auto auto 42px;grid-template-columns:auto auto 42px;column-gap:12px}._3b9utyKN3e_kzVZ5ngPqAu,._21RLQh5PvUhC6vOKoFeHUP{font-size:16px;font-weight:500;line-height:20px}._21RLQh5PvUhC6vOKoFeHUP:before{content:"";margin-right:4px;color:#46d160}._22W-auD0n8kTKDVe0vWuyK,._244EzVTQLL3kMNnB03VmxK{display:inline-block;word-break:break-word}._22W-auD0n8kTKDVe0vWuyK{font-weight:500}._22W-auD0n8kTKDVe0vWuyK,._244EzVTQLL3kMNnB03VmxK{font-size:12px;line-height:16px}._244EzVTQLL3kMNnB03VmxK{font-weight:400;color:var(--newCommunityTheme-metaText)}._2xkErp6B3LSS13jtzdNJzO{-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;margin-top:13px;margin-bottom:2px}._2xkErp6B3LSS13jtzdNJzO ._22W-auD0n8kTKDVe0vWuyK{font-size:12px;font-weight:400;line-height:16px;margin-right:4px;margin-left:4px;color:var(--newCommunityTheme-actionIcon)}._2xkErp6B3LSS13jtzdNJzO .je4sRPuSI6UPjZt_xGz8y{border-radius:4px;box-sizing:border-box;height:21px;width:21px}._2xkErp6B3LSS13jtzdNJzO .je4sRPuSI6UPjZt_xGz8y:nth-child(2),._2xkErp6B3LSS13jtzdNJzO .je4sRPuSI6UPjZt_xGz8y:nth-child(3){margin-left:-9px} Other evidence also has links to Patsy: the paintbrush handle used in the garrote that killed JonBenet came from her art kit, and fibers found on the duct tape over the little girls mouth could be from her clothing. Another mother also stated to BPD investigators that JonBent had told a playmate about a Secret Santa. A former student of Bill McReynolds is still a logical suspect..it would explain the "raw" coicidences.part of the "brilliance" of the crime on the part of the perp. To me it feels as though there's at least a lot of information about his relationship with Jonbenet that would be worthwhile including in documentaries etc. I was in my early twenties when this all unfolded. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Two years later, Janet McReynolds wrote a book that became a play in which a girl is sexually assaulted and tortured in a basement. However, amongother things, the book largely relies on the belief that JonBent's cause of death was head trauma, but in reality, the autopsy revealed that it was asphyxiation. He was investigated by BPD. An Associated Press report from March 1997 stated that McReynolds and his wife, Janet, were initially questioned less than six weeks after the murder. We know of one person that would tie a lot of the loose ends and coincidences together. Police initially investigated the case as a kidnapping, after pageant mum Patsy called 911 on Boxing Day morning 1996 to say she had found a ransom note demanding $157,000 and that her daughter was missing from their home in Boulder, Colorado. There are an unusual amount of coincidences surrounding the McReynolds family that I find difficult to turn a blind eye to. Lezette McReynolds died in 2010. He played Santa at the Ramseys in 94, 95 and 96. How can it be used to clear suspects if you don't think the killer left the DNA to begin with? Other suspects included neighbor Bill McReynolds, a local Santa Claus who visited the Ramseys a few days before the girl's death. Like you won't find any evidence, because I didn't do it.. You feel like its just you and me talking. Gave Prints Gave Blood Gave Hair Handwriting Got DNA Investigated by Alibi CLICK HERE: Flight 755 15th Street Main Directory 1998 to 2007 ACandyRose Last updated: 12/02/2008 04:19:38 Bill McReynolds, a retired journalism professor, had been at the Ramsey home two nights before the murder, playing Santa Claus at a Christmas party. "This was her speculation based on what she claimed she went through as a child. He loved his job. The Santa Claus figure in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case died over the weekend from a heart attack. He was beloved by many people here," said Janet McReynolds. He didnt remember, it was so long ago, about twenty-five years. (Steve Thomas in reference to Bill), Jessie McReynolds (the son): He had done two and a half years in an Arizona prison for conspiracy, aggravated robbery and kidnapping and had no corroborated alibi for Christmas night 1996. @keyframes _1tIZttmhLdrIGrB-6VvZcT{0%{opacity:0}to{opacity:1}}._3uK2I0hi3JFTKnMUFHD2Pd,.HQ2VJViRjokXpRbJzPvvc{--infoTextTooltip-overflow-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:500;line-height:16px;padding:3px 9px;position:absolute;border-radius:4px;margin-top:-6px;background:#000;color:#fff;animation:_1tIZttmhLdrIGrB-6VvZcT .5s step-end;z-index:100;white-space:pre-wrap}._3uK2I0hi3JFTKnMUFHD2Pd:after,.HQ2VJViRjokXpRbJzPvvc:after{content:"";position:absolute;top:100%;left:calc(50% - 4px - var(--infoTextTooltip-overflow-left));width:0;height:0;border-top:3px solid #000;border-left:4px solid transparent;border-right:4px solid transparent}._3uK2I0hi3JFTKnMUFHD2Pd{margin-top:6px}._3uK2I0hi3JFTKnMUFHD2Pd:after{border-bottom:3px solid #000;border-top:none;bottom:100%;top:auto} Again, he is an individual who was involved with her, had an interest in her, was seen with her, shortly before the murder," original prosecutor Trip DeMuth told CNN. It's sad for his family. I don't recall ever seeing a poster or billboard about catching JonBenet's killer that was put up anywhere. The Ramseys, however, called McReynolds a suspect in their book "Death of Innocence: The Untold Story of JonBenet's Murder and How its Exploitation Compromised the Pursuit of Truth. That doesnt mean they are guilty, but the world was misled.. He was totally broken-hearted. "I remember him as a great colleague, a very polite and very fun-loving kind of individual. When you do though, the intruder theory makes the most sense and has the better scientific evidence. Hired by Marilyn Haus to play Santa at the mall. They have also lived in La Crescenta, CA and Grants Pass, OR. In a book by Mrs Pugh about the case shepointed the finger at JonBenet's mother Patsy. When the Ramseys went on TV and held up the small poster it was a bizarre performance. One thing that has struck me as odd is that I've only ever heard the theory about Bill McReynolds' involvement (potentially as Santa Claus) on one podcast. ", Another, this time Mrs Ramsey, replies: "What did you do? By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Joe Barnhill claimed he saw John Andrew Ramsey outside the home. That afternoon, JonBenets father John found his childs small, strangled body bound and gagged in the family basement, by which time friends and family had trampled through the house, destroying forensic evidence forever. Excellent interview and all of the oddities associated with Bill McReynolds get explained/squashed by his daughter on the episode. I'm sure there are some exceptions, but from what I've seen most IDI people actually started out RDI. The McReynolds supposedly refused a search of their house and the police never pursued a search warrant. A native of Donna, Texas, McReynolds received a journalism degree in 1953 from the University of Texas and, after serving in the Army from 1953 to 1956, taught at his alma mater for five years and earned a master's degree in journalism there in 1962. Bill is related to Mariah E McReynolds and William David McReynolds as well as 3 additional people. Then in 2004, Phyllis and Bill moved to Longmont, Colorado to be near their daughter, Karen. believes she knows who killed her daughter, JonBenet. Instead, the analysts looked at interviews and behaviour over a far longer time period, which told them a tremendous amount more, to be revealed in the program. . very weird. They parked at a gas station down the road and sent my old partner, Detective Ron Gosage, up to talk because he was the only one with whom McReynolds would speak. I'm Gina, the night editor here at Cosmopolitan.com! (Carnes 2003:37). ", The daughter: On December 26, 1974, twenty-two years before JonBent was reported kidnapped on December 26, 1996, the nine-year-old daughter of Janet McReynolds, the wife of Bill McReynolds, was kidnapped. Bill McReynolds, 67, said he had nothing to do with the killing and said his wife "could never be a suspect." He said his daughter's abduction and his wife's play are just coincidences. 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Her case remains unsolved. And another creepy coincidence that raised investigators'. the experts claim. The same former coworker also claimed that someone close to Helgoth had a tape recording of him confessing to the murder, but policenever investigated it. In his book Presumed Guilty: An Investigation Into the JonBent Ramsey Case, the Media, and the Culture of Pornography, journalist Stephen Singular argues that the police were so focused on pinning the murder to the Ramseysthat they neglected to consider the possibility that JonBent was abducted for child pornography. Join Facebook to connect with Bill McReynolds and others you may know. Heres how the case stacks up against some of the would-be suspects: JOHN AND PATSY RAMSEYMUCH of the mountain of evidence collected in the JonBenet Ramsey case leads nowhere but several key pieces point toward the millionaire entrepreneur and the former Miss West Virginia. She caught his attention and he just had to have her. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. A service in Boulder will take place later this month, and his ashes will be scattered in one of his favorite Colorado mountain getaways, his wife said. Access Graphics had passed $1 Billion Sales mark. "I know I had absolutely nothing to do with it.". It just seems too much of a coincidence. McReynolds had heart surgery in August 1996. Because they were bombarded by a RDI media circus and it made them biased against the parents innocence before they even knew the basic facts of the case. Supporters of this theory pointed out that Burke, then 9, was the only person other than his parents in the home the night his sister was killed, and his prized Swiss Army knife was found in the basement. Why would the other parent help cover up the crime? OK. Whatever we wanted, he gave, and Jesses handwriting eliminated him as the author of the ransom note. A couple of years later the Ramseys cancelled the Reward for catching JonBenet's killer! He was a friend of Bill . In 1976, Janet McReynolds had written an award-winning play about the sexual assault, torture and murder of a girl whose body was found in a basement. Each morning Bill McReynolds awoke at 4 a.m. to make it to the radio station in time to start his show at 5 a.m. . It was a very sad thing in his life because he genuinely loved children, and it was the happiest part of his life.". He was 72. In addition to Janet McReynolds, he is survived by three children, four grandsons, two granddaughters and one great-granddaughter. (Bill McReynolds), He visited adult book stores and admitted to having a long-withstanding admiration for porn. The Santa Claus figure in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case died over the weekend from a heart attack. And he did they were married for 66 years, their son, Michael McReynolds, said. A police report also claimed Mrs Ramsey had changed her story about whether she discovered the note or JonBenets absence first. The day after they buried their daughter, they went on CNN to proclaim their innocence, but it was four months before they sat down for a formal interview with police. McReynolds joined the University of Colorado journalism department in 1968, where he taught reporting and mass communications history until retiring in 1992. Gosage took it back down the hill to the gas station and handed it to the technician from the CBI. "In late November, Helgoth had told me that he and a partner were going to make a great deal and they each will bring in around $50,000 or $60,000," he told theDaily Mail. Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner said Thursday that McReynolds is no longer the focus of any suspicion in the Ramsey case. I actually tend to believe its the other way around. JonBent was born on August 6, 1990, in Atlanta, Georgia. She looked at it for about three seconds and agreed that it was not the same cord. They thought his standing up to DeMuth proved that the elderly man was not weak and frail after all, just as John Ramsey had said. Maybe reporters and podcasters avoid the topic because its so unlikely and it harms the memory of an innocent man and upsets his family. Bill McReynolds is on Facebook. The case is officially unsolved, and has become one of the most mysterious and controversial in America's history. "He has not been on our radar screen for a while," Beckner said. Bill McReynolds was found dead in his Mashpee, Mass., home Monday by his wife, Janet, when she returned from a weekend trip. But currently, he's not a suspect.". New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. We are a true crime community dedicated to exploring case facts, evidence and theories surrounding the death of JonBent Ramsey. jameson's Former CU professor Bill McReynolds died of a heart attack. Nonetheless, BillMcReynolds was still one of the favored suspects for the Ramsey family, and they even specifically called him out in their book, Death of Innocence: The Untold Story of JonBent's Murder and How its Exploitation Compromised the Pursuit of Truth. "He has not been on our radar screen for a while," Beckner said. Claus at the Ramseys' home for the third consecutive year in 1996 two nights. Gosage took the good news back to the house, but Janet McReynolds told him, Stay out of our lives. The embarrassed cops got into their cars, and the official convoy slunk back down the mountain. On Dec. 26, 1974 22 years to the day before JonBenet was murdered the couples 9-year-old daughter had been abducted by a sex predator. 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