Perfect Murder, Perfect Town - Lawrence Schiller [75]
Hanks said that she had receipts for those amounts but on a different American Express account. Patsy’s name was on the card that was used, Hanks said, and it had a different account number. Hanks asked Ramsey to fax her a signed request for the receipts so that she could release them. After Ramsey hung up, the police traced the call to 303–573–5294, which was listed to Touch Tone, Inc., in Denver. Detective Thomas called the number immediately, but it was busy.
A few minutes later, Ramsey called Hanks to ask if she’d received his fax. She said that she had and agreed to fax the receipts to the telephone number he provided.
“Is there an itemized invoice available?” he asked.
“I do have the itemized [receipts],” Hanks replied. “I will get those off to you right now.”
When the police used *57 on Ramsey’s second call, the trace was unsuccessful. They called the U.S. West telephone company to trace the fax number Ramsey had given. It turned out to be an MCI 800 number, and it was traced to Georgia and back to Denver, Colorado, and then to Touch Tone, Inc. Eventually the police found out that Touch Tone was a “skip tracing” firm—a company that locates deadbeat debtors. The phone technology it uses is designed to hide a caller’s location and identity.
The police were suspicious. Why would John Ramsey want to conceal where he was calling from? Or if the caller wasn’t Ramsey, where did he learn about Ramsey’s American Express bills? Thomas and Gosage decided to investigate Touch Tone. The police would also request from the Ramseys their credit card statements and purchase receipts.
Meanwhile, the detectives had made some progress. Thomas discovered that the store’s computerized sales slips did not list the name or item number of what was purchased next to the price, only the section of the store the item came from. The items listed on Patsy’s receipts included one for $2.29, which came from an area of the store that displayed rope. There was also an unspecified item that cost $1.99, which came from the department where duct tape was sold. But there was no way of proving from the store’s purchase records that Patsy had bought the tape or cord on December 2 or 9.
The next step for the detectives was to see if McGuckin’s in-store antishoplifting security cameras had recorded Patsy looking at or picking up duct tape or rope or placing the items on the checkout counter on either December 2 or December 9. When Thomas screened the videotapes, he discovered that McGuckin recycled the tapes after thirty days. The tape of December 2 had been recorded over on January 2, and the tape from December 9 had been reused on January 9. Unless she provided the police with the information, there was no way to find out what Patsy had purchased.
The detectives’ list of questions for the Ramseys was growing daily.
BEAUTY QUEEN’S NIGHTMARE LIFE OF SEX ABUSE
LIE DETECTOR PROVES DAD HIDING TRUTH FROM COPS
Little beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was brutally assaulted and abused the night of her horrifying murder—but it wasn’t the first time she’d been sexually attacked!
And her killer savagely bludgeoned her with a golf club before she died. These shocking details, kept secret in the hush-hush investigation by police in Boulder, Colo., were uncovered by an ENQUIRER team probing the mysterious Christmas murder of the tragic 6-year-old.
John and Patsy Ramsey did NOT disclose everything they knew or suspected about the murder of their beauty queen daughter.
That’s the shocking conclusion of a top lie detector expert after analyzing the parents’ comments on CNN-TV.
Verimetrics—a super-sophisticated lie detector—is a computerized version of the Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE) which is used by law enforcement officials and courts of law in California, Florida, Louisiana and several foreign countries including Israel and Canada.
Mr. Ramsey is deceptive when he claims he told ALL he knows to the cops. “When he says, ‘We shared all of our thoughts with the police,’ Mr. Ramsey is being less than truthful,