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"THE UMBRELLA OF SUSPICION: HOW AMERICA CONVICTED THE RAMSEYS - PART 2"

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For 14 years, a secret was kept: the grand jury had voted to indict John and Patsy Ramsey for their daughter's death.
This episode examines the deeply divisive investigation into the 1996 murder of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey. It details the police's firm belief in the parents' guilt, the compelling intruder theory championed by detective Lou Smit, and the revelation that a grand jury secretly voted to indict John and Patsy Ramsey—an indictment the district attorney refused to sign, leaving the case officially unsolved nearly three decades later.

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A family-focused police theory runs into DNA, entry evidence, and a grand jury decision that never became a trial.

The second installment stays with the Ramsey investigation after the murder, tracking how Boulder police fixed on John and Patsy Ramsey while Lou Smit moved toward an intruder theory.

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You get the Ramsey investigation where a ransom note meets unknown male DNA, and Lou Smit walks in expecting parents and starts seeing an intruder.

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