First, here is the press release the BORG likes to bring up

City of Boulder | Boulder Community Network

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 16, 1997
Contact: Leslie Aaholm, Media Relations, 441-3090

RAMSEY UPDATE APRIL 16 (#40)

In response to media inquiries and to clarify inaccurate statements, Boulder Police Chief Tom Koby has the following statement:

“Mr. and Mrs. Fleet White, Jr. are not suspects in the JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation. They are considered key witnesses. The Boulder Police Department appreciates the full cooperation they have received from the Whites since the beginning of their investigation. I feel this response is necessary due to the inaccurate portrayal of Mr. and Mrs. White in certain media publications.”

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Nowhere in that press release does it say they were investigated and cleared. What it says is that at that time the Boulder police were not investigating them as suspects, that they were considered witnesses.

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This has been discussed many, many times. Steve Thomas' deposition just supports what most of us have been able to figure out. Here is what Thomas said - - and it shows that LATER, the Whites were indeed suspects by some standards.

Remember, the press release was in April of 1997.

Lin Wood - When do you think Steve Ainsworth began to look at him (Chris Wolf)?

A. June of 1997.

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Q. Now, you do know that after the Boulder Police Department had investigated Mr. Wolf, that the district attorney's office was still actively investigating an intruder theory and that Fleet White, Bill
McReynolds and Chris Wolf were on the top of their suspect list. You do know that to be true, don't you, sir?

A. Yes.