I don't know what's with you folks. Or, frankly, the folks over on the other fora as well. EVERYONE wants to jump to conclusions right away. Hardly anyone is doing much hard thinking about ANY of the alleged evidence, it would seem. People are hearing what they want to hear, for sure. And also perfectly happy when they DON'T hear what they don't want to hear -- even if that makes no sense.

The NBC version of the 911 tape is a joke. Katie Couric, as I suspected (Jameson did too, by the way, if you read her first post again), chimed right in with her pointless comment JUST at the crucial moment we were all waiting for. She just obliterated it -- clearly she is totally clueless as to what that tape is all about.

So WHY all this crowing on and on about how this somehow proves something about the investigation? As in some sort of conspiracy on the part of the BPD (also apparently the CBI, FBI, Secret Service, who else?). The important part of the tape wasn't heard at all on the Couric show. NO conclusions should have been drawn at that point. Everyone should just have been scratching their heads.

NOW, finally, thanks to the repeat performance for Larry King, who, thank God, DID wait long enough before chiming in with HIS two cents, we have a recording that DOES make sense. I.e., it does reveal a portion of "dead time" at the end of the tape where there might possibly have been some sort of conversation of the sort that was reported by Steve Thomas. And thanks, Dave, for your intelligent and reasonable comments on the technical aspects. I too doubt very much that we can hear anyone at the Ramsey household on that tape. And even if we could, I feel sure that what was actually said and by whom would be virtually impossible to detect with any degree of consensus.

Nevertheless, we must remember that Thomas himself claimed that enhancements made by the FBI and Secret Service (???) yielded no useful result. It was only the Aerospace enhancement that was (allegedly) intelligible at all. And THAT has never been made public. So WHAT point has been made, exactly, by Lin Wood, in releasing this recording?

I doubt any enhancement of the tape will ever be conclusive enough to serve as evidence. But that certainly does NOT mean the police, Steve Thomas, or anyone else was engaged in some sort of conspiracy -- that's ridiculous. If they thought they heard something at the end of that tape they had a duty to work as hard as they could to enhance it as well as humanly possible. They did that. And then they heard something they thought was meaningful. How is that a conspiracy against the RAmseys? Because they heard what they wanted to hear? Hey YOU folks heard what YOU wanted to hear in a playback of that tape which made no sense at all (thanks to Katie). Loosen up, folks, there was no conspiracy. Lots of mistakes were made for sure. And for sure lots of people are seeing and hearing ONLY what they want to see and hear. Just about everyone commenting on this case, sadly. What a shame.