On pages 1 and 278, he drops the name simply as something he looked into - the ransom note is in
Then there are pages 16 and 17
where he devotes two paragraphs to the Ramsey case.
In Author Unknown I will not
discuss evidence or reveal undisclosed information about
pending cases, not even to correct
misinformation published in the press or on the Internet.
The JonBenét Ramsey homicide
investigation, a difficult and painful business for everyone
associated with it, produced
an early bump in my learning curve. In 1997, when moving
from tragic denouements to actual
homicides, and from Stratford-upon-Avon to Quantico, it
was perhaps inevitable that
I should make a mistake, and I did. In June 1997, seven months before I
was retained by the Boulder Police
Department, before any case
documents were available to me, I privately speculated with
other observers concerning the
Ramsey homicide, and actually took an uninvited and (as I
would learn) unwelcome initiative
to assist John and Patsy Ramsey, by private letter. At the time I
knew virtually nothing about "true crime forums" and "online
chatrooms," but was directed
by others to despicable activity on the Internet by "jameson,"
an individual whose months-long
obsession with the details of the killing of JonBenét -
ascribed by jameson to a Colorado
University friend of the older Ramsey boy - was too vile
in its voyeuristic description
to be a prank, too well informed to be madness, too full of
seeming relevance to be ignored.
Competent and dedicated detectives,
though much maligned in the press, were
investigating the slaying of
a child. As I later learned, the police had already investigated
and dismissed jameson as a "code
six wingnut," a phrase I had not heard before but one
that I would soon come to appreciate.
I regret the mistakes of intruding so quickly. That beginners mistake impressed
upon me a sense of limit when
venturing from the safe world of academic debate into the
minefield of criminal investigation.
In January 1997, (his error, he certainly meant 1998) when
brought onboard by the Boulder
police, I took the lesson to heart, started over, and did the
best I could, for justice and
JonBenét. Though I am bound by a
confidentiality agreement not
to discuss the investigation or court proceedings, I do stand
by the statements that I have
made for the record regarding that case and believe that the
truth will eventually prevail."