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13 Q. (By Mr. Kane) Why did you write
14 the book?
15 A. Needed the money. First of all,
16 we wanted to tell our story. We had been
17 lied about in the press for three years. We
18 wanted to address every one of the media
19 myths that were out there. We wanted one
20 place that the truth was encapsulated. And
21 we wanted to find the killer of our
22 daughter.
23 Q. So by publicizing information, you
24 thought it would generate --
25 A. Yeah.

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1 Q. Okay. Why did you decline to put
2 in anything about your own investigation?
3 A. One of the problems we had with
4 the book is it got way too big. I know
5 that. And we had to cut a lot.
6 Q. Why did you decide to cut that?
7 A. I don't know that we cut that at
8 all. I don't remember if it was in there
9 to start with.
10 Q. Well, you made a statement about
11 it.
12 MR. WOOD: What page?
13 THE WITNESS: What's the point?
14 MR. KANE: On page, it's 373.
15 Q. (By Mr. Kane) You say to avoid an
16 accusation of grand standing from the media,
17 not much will be said outside of a close
18 circle about our own efforts to find the
19 killer.
20 A. And not much has been said about
21 it.
22 MR. WOOD: Doesn't that answer
23 your question then?
24 Q. (By Mr. Kane) Well, was that, I
25 mean, was that the reason --

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1 A. Yes.
2 Q. -- because you didn't want to be
3 accused of grand standing?
4 A. We have been in a position, and
5 we have been for the past three and a half
6 years, where we are damned if we do, damned
7 if we don't. And that was our position.

I was around when the book was written. The Ramseys wrote a lot - and the editors did their thing and a lot was cut there. Then the lawyers took out what they thought needed to be removed - - I am not just talking about Ramsey lawyers dealing with the investigation, protecting the investigation, but also lawyers working for the publishers who had different criteria when they were editing. They certainly were concerned about lawsuits.