A quote from the book, "Death of Innocence" by John and Patsy Ramsey

March 18, 2000
DOI: Page 308

On Donald Foster contact with Jameson

"On May 22, 1997, Foster made his first contact with Jameson, applauding her for reminding the anonymous Internet "voices" that the Ramseys were innocent until proven guilty. He placated her with the idea that he wanted to write a book on people who were "anonymous hats," However, Foster asked Jameson nothing about her family or personal data. The next step for this guy was to contact the authorities in Boulder and clue them in on the "big secret", that John Andrew was on the internet posting as Jameson. He let them in on his "grand conclusion" that John Andrew had killed his sister. The final step was to alert his literary agent that he, Donald Foster the great, had notably solved the crime but was ready to publish a magazine article entitled "Paging JonBenet's Killer." Ah, such modesty. He had no idea that his fax to the literary agent in New York City would eventually read the hands of Jameson and the producers of television's 48 hours."

"Prior to all this, Foster had also written a full-page letter to Patsy proclaiming his belief in her innocence and stating that he would both stake his reputation and faith in humanity on the fact of her not being guilty. In addition to this magnanimous sweep of generosity, Foster had another motivation for writing. He wanted Patsy and me to use him to find the killer. When we didn't respond, he went to the Boulder police with a similar offer, only he must have left out the part about Patsy being innocent."