Don't forget, Beckner wasn't the Chief when the case started. He can say he personally is not sure Patsy did it - - that doesn't change the fact that the BPD team was sure and it showed in the way they limited the investigation.

Yes, they did talk to Wolf and Santa, yes they did take McElroy's boots and stun gun.... but that doesn't mean they really worked honestly on those leads.

Wolf - - he can't be cleared by the handwriting. He has no alibi. His ex (the woman he was living with at the time) was sure he was involved. If he can not possibly be the donor of the DNA, why don't the authorities just say so?

A cop told CBS that Oliva was investigated and cleared -- and the day after the show, Beckner says that is NOT the case and he has never been cleared. So Oliva is still a reasonable suspect. I know there are similarities to his handwriting. He had a stun gun. He was in the area. He had an interest in Ramsey after the murder...... He molested a child before and tried to strangle his mother with a cord... if it was your child dead, or if you lived next door to Oliva and had a daughter of your own, wouldn't you want the cops to follow that lead?

Helgoth - - dead but not cleared. Why not? A big question mark - - he had a stun gun, Hi-Tec boots, a restraining order keeping him away from a little girl.... he was not mentally OK (evidence his suicide shortly after the murder). Why not follow that lead?

McElroy - - another reasonable suspect - - he has been in the papers, I am not outing anyone. He had the boots and a stun gun and a web site on bondage and hurting children. The cops spoke to him - - - but why not tell us if they compared his writing and DNA? If he can be cleared, I would think he would welcome it. But I think they can't clear him because they never investigated him as they should have.

They keep after the Ramseys, but under oath, they won't say they believe that Patsy did this and no one else. I think they know better than to go that far.