LAST EDITED ON Nov-04-03 AT 02:59 PM (EST)
 
It appears the Atlanta Group had no intention of looking into anything new or different from what they were looking at back in 1997, 1998, 1999, and the first 8 months of 2000. For anyone to deny this Group had a very specific agenda that did not include sharing or brainstorming "who" might have committed this crime means you should probably read the transcript again, IMO. Their purpose in having John and Patsy sit before them did not include an honest examination of leads and tips or picking the brains of the Ramseys to see if they could tie any of it together.

If they wanted one or both of the Ramseys to break down and confess, the "Fiber Report" (if it existed) or some (actual) incriminating evidence SHOULD have been presented as the Ace Of Trump and proof that they were justified in continuing to focus on one or both of them.

Let's look at this realistically. What do you think the report (if it existed) would have said? Does anyone seriously believe it would say the fibers from John's shirt were a MATCH? The best we can assume such a report would say is CONSISTENT WITH and even that could have been used as their trump card in pushing the meeting in the direction they dearly hoped it would go.

This transcript of the Atlanta Meeting looks to me like they arrived without doing their homework. It looks like they just pulled out old notes from old information and continued to re-work it. Reading between the lines, it does not look to me like they did much investigating between 1998 and 2000 and were very disinterested in what the Ramsey investigators were bringing to the table. No wonder Lin Wood pushed the envelope to have the case taken out of their hands and placed into the hands of a new team of investigators. As it was, the case was completely stalled and the brain pool was stuck in a rut.

By the sounds of the size of the documents Lin Wood speaks of (ie the Fleet White linguistic and/or handwriting analysis) and John Ramsey speaks of (the 50 page one he was trying to give them do discuss) just to name two, I can well imagine the new team in the DA's office has a tremendously enormous task before them sifting through it all and trying to tie things together.

I am glad the Ramseys are meeting with them (in 2003) and would hope THEIR sessions will be more productive than what we are reading here.