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From the book, "Author Unknown, On the Trail of Anonymous"
November 2, 2000
by Don Foster
from Pages 16 and 17

"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 denouments 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 intot he minefield of criminal investigation. In January 1997, when brought onboard by the Bulder 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."
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