If it weren't for the fact that complete sentences that seem to loosely correspond to the crisis at hand were deciphered on the enhanced tape, I'd pass it off as garbage. A child's voice, identified as Burke's, as well as voices identified as John's and Patsy's, were heard on the enhanced tape. The repeated, "Help me Jesus!" just sounds like something Patsy would really say. If you attribute what was said to "ghosting" from other recordings, then we have a mighty coincidence that a child, a man, and a woman (crying, "Help me Jesus!") can be heard on the enhanced tape after the Ramseys thought they hung up the phone.

Because of the disagreements about what EXACTLY is on that tape, I'm sure the tape cannot ever be used as evidence should the case ever go to trial. It's hard to know whether Linn Wood's bravado in dismissing the tape is because he knows there is really nothing there, or because he knows the tape could never be used regardless of what might actually be on it. We mustn't forget that Wood is by definition biased towards his clients. For these reasons, the tape remains an unanswered question in my mind.

http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/extra/ramsey/0821jonn1.html