John Mello
speaker
129 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
John Mello’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Legendary guy. And he said, I follow the evidence. I have got to follow the evidence. Doesn't matter what my opinion is, what I might think. I follow the evidence. And he did. And that takes a lot of discipline.
Smit had a history of closing cases.
Denver police called and offered two experienced homicide detectives to come work at Boulder under their direction, full time. They turned it down.
Oh yeah, I have no doubt. I've been told by experienced homicide detectives over the years, this is not a hard case to solve, but they needed to be on it immediately.
Detective Lou Smith was like, whoa, while you're pouring water all over the intruder theory, you're not revealing that you have unidentified DNA, and it doesn't match anybody in the Ramsey family.
The Ramseys finally sit down with the police for three days of videotaped interrogations in June 1998, a year and a half after JonBenet's murder.
We were there for as long as they wanted, would have stayed for two weeks had they wanted. The myth that we didn't cooperate is nonsense.
The interrogation tapes are intriguing to watch as there's a lot of raw emotion shown by both John and Patsy Ramsey. But the bottom line is both John and Patsy deny that anyone in their family killed JonBenet. And there was nothing revealed that allowed for charges to be brought against them.
There was enormous pressure on District Attorney Alex Hunter to call for a grand jury and it took him almost two years to actually call one. I think it was the media pressure and pressure from the police that forced him to make that call.
What did you think of your parents at that point?
Webb told us that the grand jury spent most of their time focused on two main issues. First, who wrote that ransom note?
A grand jury doesn't decide guilt or innocence the way a regular jury does. The grand jury is only there to decide whether or not there's probable cause to charge the suspects with a crime.
In 2008, the then district attorney for Boulder, Mary Lacey, decided to do a new round of DNA testing on JonBenet's pajama leggings.
That's a pretty big development. You've got DNA now in three places that doesn't match anybody in the Ramsey family. That's a pretty clear indication that somebody else was there, and nobody knows whose DNA it is.
We're certainly grateful for an acknowledgement that we are innocent, that this was an intruder, which of course we've always maintained.
Somebody told me in the police world, they said the most dangerous thing is a police department that's made up their mind. And that's really what happened in our case.
I'm John Ramsey. I had the opportunity to visit Lou a week before he died. Remarkably, during that time together, Lou talked a lot about the case. He hadn't given up. He never, never, never gave up.
Boulder police said that while the two cases had some similarities, they found no definitive connection.
And then Alex Hunter, the Boulder County District Attorney, speaks directly to the killer.
Investigators finally felt they had a real break in the case with John Mark Carr. He famously claimed he was with JonBenet when she died.
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