LAST EDITED ON Feb-04-04 AT 11:22 PM (EST)
 
that was my first clue----I knew the general area the house was in, and knew enough about Boulder to know it attracted all sorts of people, including transients, and there was a fair amount of drugs that passed through the area.....and it was a city of those that have and those that don't.

Second was the picture of the house and the Christmas decorations---you could tell the family loved Christmas.

Then the news reports that John Ramsey was a wealthy computer guru, and his wife a former Miss West Virginia.....and lastly, that JBR was a former little Miss Colorado. I never once thought the family was involved, because like Don says, an intact functional family doesn't simply kill their little girl on Christmas Day. I did think perhaps JBR was targeted because of her high visibility in the pagaents.....and it was a kidnapping gone bad by someone high on drugs. As more details about the family came out, if there was a link to someone, it seemed more likely to be JAR, because of his age and attendance at the University---initially I thought he was being set up......or he came across someone at some point in time, that knew enough about the family to target them.