The JonBenét Conspiracies: Presumed Guilty — Ep. 3 | MK Confidential
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How did Geraldo Rivera stage a mock trial that shaped public opinion in November 1997?
It's November 1997, a makeshift television studio in Boulder, Colorado, dressed up as a courtroom, a bench, a witness stand, a jury box, and a studio audience. But it is not a courthouse. It is a daytime talk show hosted by Geraldo Rivera. And over several days, he puts the parents of a murdered six-year-old little girl on trial, live on national television. No one has been arrested. No one's been charged. There is no real defense, no judge, no law. The defendants, John and Patsy Ramsey, are not even in the room. And at the end of it, Geraldo's jury returns a verdict.
We, the jury, find John Bennett Ramsey liable for the wrongful death of JonBenet Ramsey.
And as to Patsy?
We, the jury, find Patsy Ramsey liable for the wrongful death of JonBenet Ramsey.
To the best of our knowledge, there is no real evidence in this case that points in any direction other than straight into the faces of John and for Patsy Ramsey.
liable for the wrongful death of their own baby girl. The verdict is not handed down by a court, but by a TV audience, an audience made up of staff from Boulder TV stations, guests at the local hotel, and other quote, invite only attendees. This in a case where no one has been charged with anything. Geraldo and his squadron of producers, with no due process to the family, give us a final verdict. This is where the JonBenet Ramsey case is really being decided, not in a court of law, but on TV, in the so-called news, in the court of public opinion. And by the time this spectacle airs, that court has all but made up its mind. The question is not how the Ramseys became suspects. The question is how millions of people became dead certain they were guilty.
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This started out as a simple but tragic murder of a child beauty queen. But then questions arose, curiosity arose, and suddenly the media descended on Boulder. We are told now that as many as 300 media representatives may be here right now following this story.
To understand how it comes to a mock trial on daytime TV, we must look at the exact moment this story lands. It is the dead stretch between Christmas and New Year's in 1996. The news is quiet as a church mouse. The cable channels are young and hungry, the 24-hour cycle still figuring out how to fill a week when nothing is happening. And into that massive silence drops a story that has everything. Cops and kidnappers, a beautiful little girl, a bizarre ransom note, a black body bag wheeled out in front of Christmas lights, and to top it all off, millionaire parents who love child beauty pageants. It is Christmas all over again for lovers of murder mystery, beach reads and ratings. JonBenet's murder arrives barely a year after the O.J.
Simpson trial into an America that just spent months litigating that murder from its couch and is ready to do it all over again. the shadow of oj falls on the investigators too boulder pd detective steve thomas followed the oj simpson trial and remembered how simpson's attorneys ripped apart the lapd's case by attacking their work he watched the simpson case collapse under its own mistakes and feared the same thing might happen in the ramsey case he wanted to be careful not to be the next office burned on live television
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