also involved in the Richard Jewell case....this is one of the first articles about the Quantico "briefing."

FBI briefs D.A. on meeting
Hunter's office: arrest not imminent in Ramsey case
By ALLI KRUPSKI
Camera Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 10, 1997

Boulder police and district attorney representatives investigating the JonBenet Ramsey homicide emerged from a meeting with the FBI in Virginia on Tuesday saying there's still work to be done in the case.

"An arrest is not imminent," said Suzanne Laurion, spokeswoman for the Boulder County District Attorney's office.

Members of the Boulder Police Department and the district attorney's office reviewed the case over the past two days with agents from the FBI's Child Abduction and Serial Killer Unit in Quantico, Va. The approximately 4-hour meeting Tuesday involved 16 people, according to FBI spokesman Kurt Crawford. The gathering included chief trial deputy Peter Hofstrom, senior trial deputy Trip DeMuth, retired Colorado Springs homicide investigator Lou Smit, Boulder Police Sgt. Tom Wickman and police detectives Jane Harmer, Steve Thomas, Tom Trujillo and Ron Gosage.

The FBI has assisted investigators throughout the Ramsey case. Patsy Ramsey, the girl's mother, reported finding a ransom note demanding $118,000 on Dec. 26 and called police. About eight hours later, John Ramsey, the girl's father, and a friend discovered the 6-year-old strangled and gagged with duct tape in the basement of her home.

Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter did not attend the conference because the investigators discussed only "the physical evidence collected thus far."

But Bill Hagmaier, chief of the FBI's Child Abduction and Serial Killer Unit, briefed Hunter on the meetings.

"The FBI provided much valuable input in terms of investigative approaches and directions," Hunter said in a prepared statement.

Hagmaier praised the officials investigating the murder, Hunter said.

"... he was impressed by the uniformly high level of commitment, as well as the firm grasp on the issues that was exhibited by both police officers and attorneys working the case."

Meanwhile, Crawford said he couldn't reveal details of the meeting.

"I thought it went well, from what I could tell," Crawford said.

Crawford noted that law enforcement agencies often consult with the FBI.

"They (FBI agents) are basically information brokers," Crawford said. "They learn from other cases and pass it on."

(They learn from other cases? Didn't they learn from Richard Jewell? Or did they learn that putting tainted information out will affect public opinion? I can see a "mistake" once----but to repeat it in the Ramsey case?)