JBR's Father Hid Evidence?
Martha Sprowles
>
> The National Enquirer this week ran an article saying that John Ramsey took his
> daughter's bedding on board his plane and told his pilot to leave it alone. I
> was not able to buy this issue because they were sold out but was wondering if
> this showed up in any regular newspapers or magazines, especially in Colorado
> where more on this case is roported.
Check http://www.joshua-7.com/jonbenet/09_15_98.htm
Mothra
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MaryHedman
story, John handed his pilot the box at the house. Apparently, the pilot
arrived early in the morning on the 26th, while the police were there.
According to the editor who wrote the piece, several people have seen the
sheets and child's toys in the box, but it is unclear whether the police have
this box. Interestingly, the pilot 'lawyered up' almost immediately and has
refused to speak to the media without his lawyer being present. Sound
familiar?
Mary
"You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you
take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear." Mark Twain
JBrown6000
<<The box of sheets story was the the Sept. 15th issue of the Globe. In this
story, John handed his pilot the box at the house. Apparently, the pilot
arrived early in the morning on the 26th, while the police were there.
According to the editor who wrote the piece, several people have seen the
sheets and child's toys in the box, but it is unclear whether the police have
this box. Interestingly, the pilot 'lawyered up' almost immediately and has
refused to speak to the media without his lawyer being present. Sound
familiar?
>>
**I would guess it would make sense for anybody to "lawyer up" if they're not
family, but they are in possession of a box of things belonging to JonBenet.
jb
MaryHedman
Why would the pilot, Mike Archuleta, take this box and not think anything of
having done so? Why did his wife, Pam, later open it up, and, apparently,
think nothing of finding soiled sheets? The husband/pilot has an attorney,
but I haven't heard that the wife does. Hmmm. Did she tell her friends about
it, realizing that it *was* important? Sure, the husband has an attorney now
because he's possibly facing serious charges as an accessory after the fact.
When the cops showed up at his door that night, they probably mentioned that
very thing to him.
I'm not totally convinced this story is true, but the editor was sure enough
about it that he went on Boyles' show to talk about it. Of course, he said he
hoped this would be the key to getting conviction(s).
JBrown6000
<<JONBENET: DAD CAUGHT HIDING KEY EVIDENCE
Ramsey hid deathbed sheets, girl's nightie and stuffed animals in box,
then gave it to pilot - says source.
Homicide detectives are investigating a spectacular tip that John Ramsey
sneaked critical evidence out of his home just hours before hid daughter
was found murdered in the basement.
The stunning new information came in a surprise phone call from a
well-placed insider to GLOBE. We immediately checked out the information
and turned it over to the Boulder authorities.
The tipster - whose information was corroborated by sources close to the
investigation - says that John Ramsey slipped a mysterious box to his
private pilot in the frantic hours when cops were still treating
JonBenet's disappearance as a kidnapping.
Ramsey asked pilot Mike Archuleta, 46, a trusted close friend, to store
the box in the hangar where the tycoon kept his plane, says the source.
Archuleta unwittingly spirited the box right out from under the noses of
cops prowling the mansion in the early hours of Dec. 26, 1996, says the
source.
Now GLOBE has learned the damning contents of the mystery box. Sources
say the items placed inside it included:
• The sheets and pillowcases that were on JonBenet's bed the night the
6-year-old was slaughtered and, say experts, molested.
• A nightgown she was wearing that fateful evening.
• Several stuffed animals which had been on the little innocent's bed
just before the gruesome attack.
All those items could contain hairs or other physical evidence that will
prove exactly who killed the child - and finally lead to justice for
JonBenet, say sources.
"This box's shocking contents may well be the key evidence which will
convict John and Patsy Ramsey," declares an insider.
In a letter to GLOBE, Archuleta said our information is "inaccurate."
But our sources stand by the details they gave us - and two detectives
recently spent one hour at the pilot's home.
The latest dramatic twists in the case began at 2:20 a.m. on the morning
of Saturday, Aug. 29, with a phone call from a confidential source to
GLOBE.
The caller was quickly contacted by GLOBE General Editor Craig Lewis,
who has been reporting the JonBenet case in Boulder, Colo., from the
outset. By 9 a.m. Lewis was on a plane to meet the caller at an
undisclosed location and spent the rest of the day carrying out
extensive interviews with the informant and other sources.
Early on Sunday, Aug. 30, GLOBE Editor Tony Frost and GLOBE legal
counsel Mike Kahane decided the information could be significant and
that the authorities in Boulder should be informed immediately.
At 7 p.m. Sunday night, Sgt. Tom Wickman and Det. Tom Trujillo went to
Mike Archuleta's modest, ranch-style house in rural Lafayette, Colo., to
interview the pilot. The home is 12 miles from Boulder.
This is the blockbuster information that our impeccable sources provided
to GLOBE.
Archuleta unwittingly got involved in the case early on the morning of
Dec. 26 when he drove to the Ramseys' posh $1.3 million mansion on 15th
Street in Boulder, say sources.
"That day the Ramseys were scheduled to fly to their vacation home in
Charlevoix, Mich.," the insider told GLOBE.
"So Archuleta left his own place well before dawn to make a final check
on John's private plane before going to pick up the family.
"When he arrived, he walked right in on a criminal investigation in
progress: JonBenet had disappeared, and several uniformed officers were
on the scene. At that point they were treating it as a kidnapping
because a ransom note was found in the home.
"Archuleta was sympathetic to the parents' plight when they told him
their little girl was missing.
"While the police officers were busy in another part of the house, John
Ramsey took his pilot aside and gave him a box.
"He explained to Archuleta that the box contained some personal items
belonging to JonBenet and he didn't want them to get ruined during the
investigation. He asked Archuleta to store the box in the airport
hangar. The unsuspecting pilot did as Ramsey asked. He was certain John
and Patsy were victims, not criminals."
Archuleta had been a close friend of the family for years and often
joined them on vacations and weekend getaways. In May of 1997, five
months after the murder, Archuleta flew Ramsey to Seattle to play golf.
A month later they took a boating vacation together in Michigan.
"Soon afterward the Ramseys moved from Boulder to Atlanta. They sent
Archuleta several more boxes of stuff - including Christmas decorations
- to store for them," says the insider.
"Later, Mike's wife Pam looked in all the boxes. In the first box given
to her husband she saw the sheets and stuffed animals."
The box remained in the hangar throughout the critical early months of
the murder probe, says the source. The Archuletas apparently never
thought to mention the box to the cops, say sources.
The hangar had never been searched by investigators when GLOBE uncovered
the strange facts behind the box's odyssey and its sensational contents.
Now sources who've closely followed the high-profile murder case say the
box could hold the answers to a multitude of nagging questions -
including not only the identity of the killer, but the motive for the
crime.
Case insiders are wondering what evidence might be hidden on or within
the nightgown worn by JonBenet that awful night.
The bed sheets could contain evidence that she wet the bed, causing her
mother Patsy to fly into a rage. Or there could be semen left by a male
molester.
Investigators found fresh sheets on JonBenet's bed right after her dad
carried her broken body up from the basement.
Detectives found it odd that the sheets on the tragic tyke's bed weren't
wrinkled - because Patsy had claimed she'd tucked her daughter into bed
around 10 p.m. Cops wondered whether the murderer had replaced
clue-laden sheets before they arrived on the scene.
Patsy also had said JonBenet was in nightclothes when put to bed.
But as GLOBE reported Aug. 4, her favorite pink Barbie night-dress was
placed close to her body in the basement - and police say the body was
clad in long thermal underpants and a crew-neck top.
Sources suspect the stuffed animals might contain hair, fibers, semen,
blood, saliva or other physical evidence that could identify the killer,
says the insider.
"If the Ramseys are guilty, they would've been desperate to remove
evidence before the police discovered the truth - that this wasn't a
kidnapping but a hideous murder.
"These latest revelations represent the most startling direct evidence
that John and Patsy could be guilty of their daughter's murder. Why else
would they be so anxious to have their pilot friend take away the
potential evidence?"
As GLOBE went to press, investigators were keeping mum on whether
they've found the mystery box.
But our sources say that Pam Archuleta told friends she recalled the box
still being in the hangar last August. Mike Archuleta could end up
testifying before the grand jury called by D.A. Hunter to probe
JonBenet's murder, say sources.
GLOBE also has learned exclusively, from a source, that Mike overheard
John Ramsey's former friend, oilman Fleet White, accuse the dad of
involvement in the murder.
White was with Ramsey when the tot's body was found in a basement room
shortly after 1 p.m. on Dec.26, 1996.
"Mike later told a pal he heard Fleet say to John: 'You didn't want me
going in that room. You did everything you could to keep me from looking
in there. Now I see why.
"'I know you're involved in this. I'm sure this must have been some kind
of accident that you're trying to cover up. But you need to come
clean.'"
Mike told his pal that Ramsey didn't respond to White's comments, claims
our source.
In a later confrontation, White flatly accused Ramsey of murder and the
two got into a heated argument, says the source.
Sources close to the murder probe believe GLOBE's new discoveries could
point the finger of guilt straight at the parents.
"If the Ramseys hid the sheets from JonBenet's bed then they were
desperate and running scared early on December 26," noted a case
insider.
"This could prove that John and Patsy were involved in the violent death
of their beautiful little daughter."
**If such a box exists, and it was in possession of the pilot, and only came to
light when his wife found it hidden in the hanger, then I've got to think that
there's a good reason this guy needs a lawyer.
jb
MaryHedman
socialite. Wonder who all she told about the box? (Women just can't keep
secrets.) Isn't it possible that Craig flew somewhere to meet somebody who's
from Colorado? Neat cover story, 'eh?
JBrown6000
<<Pam Archuleta is the head of the Boulder United Way, which makes her quite a
socialite. Wonder who all she told about the box? (Women just can't keep
secrets.) Isn't it possible that Craig flew somewhere to meet somebody who's
from Colorado? Neat cover story, 'eh?
**Who's Craig?
MaryHedman
on Boyles' show.
Mary
JBrown6000
**Oh. I've never seen/heard (?) Boyle's show (I'm not sure anybody has
outside of Colorado). I still don't understand what you're saying in your
posts.
jb
Omega 95
jbrow...@aol.com (JBrown6000) writes:
>
>**Oh. I've never seen/heard (?) Boyle's show (I'm not sure anybody has
>outside of Colorado). I still don't understand what you're saying in your
>posts.
>
>jb
Peter's (Boyle) show is VERY soon to be available on the web. If I get the
specifics, I'll post them.
Most likely Mary will have the info posted before I do, (if she stays around)
and he covers the case a lot.
Omega95
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