Lou Smit arrived in Boulder, Colorado to begin his investigation into the killing of JonBenét 3 months after her death.

LOU SMIT - Every morning at 7 o'clock I'd always come down to this particular spot. I would just say a little prayer, drink a cup
of coffee and ah, just more or less get myself ready to go for the day.

NARRATOR - Even months after the murder, for Smit, the crime scene remained the most important part of his investigation.
He was certain the killer would have left clues. It was just a matter of finding them.

LOU SMIT - When you're not on a crime scene, you do miss out on quite a bit of the feelings that you get during the initial
investigation. That's where photographs really do come in. Boulder Police Department did take great photographs. I did spend a
great deal of time inspecting each and every one of those photographs and they did tell me a story.

NARRATOR - Much of the house had been disturbed by friends who had gone to help the Ramseys. This made one police
photograph particularly significant.

LOU SMIT - JonBenét's body was right behind that door when this photograph was taken. If that door would have been opened at
that time, this case would have taken an entirely different turn. Everyone in the house would have been cleared out - nothing
would have been disturbed.

NARRATOR - Smit found other early photographs that also worried him.

LOU SMIT - This photograph does show a lot of snow around the house and if you seen this, your first perception would be that a
person who entered that house would have to leave some footprints in the snow.
Now take a look at this photograph - the sidewalks are completely clear of snow.

Another rather significant photograph taken from the alley. A person approaching this house from the alley would leave no
footprints around the house.

NARRATOR - Smit was surprised at the lack of snow, but the fact that someone could have reached the house did not mean
anyone had. But it meant that he had to looking for evidence of an intruder which might have been missed. Because the family
had been out visiting friends late on the murder, there was plenty of opportunity for such a break-in.

LOU SMIT - If an intruder had spent any time at all checking out the house he would have noticed that on various doors and
windows there was a sticker indicating that the house was alarmed. On a lot of these older houses, the windows leading into the
basement are not alarmed and that drew my attention to this window on the north side of the house. It's a small window leading
into the basement. When we inspected the photographs we did see something very interesting.

NARRATOR - Smit found the dust on the window frame had been disturbed. He also found what he thought were finger marks.
He concluded that someone may have tried to open this window. Yet an interior photograph showed it remained locked and
undisturbed - if there was an attempt, it had failed.

However, another photograph, taken in the basement, suggested a second attempt could have succeeded.

LOU SMIT - Now this is a photograph that really caught my eye because the window was wide open. But what also caught my
attention was a mark on the wall leading right directly from the window down the wall going down to the floor. When I first seen
that photograph I thought, "Uh oh, looks like somebody could have got in here."

NARRATOR - That open basement window was at the side of the house, underneath an unlocked metal grill. According to Smit,
if an intruder had got in this way, there would be evidence here on the outside, as well as on the inside.

LOU SMIT - And that's exactly what the photographs show me. There was a great deal of foliage which was on the front of the
grate and it had actually been pinched under the leading edge of that grate. Even when you pick the grate up, you can see very
clearly that there was green foliage right on the plate the grate rested on.

Also, in looking into the window well, the window in the center, that had been opened, had a great deal of disturbance in that
particular area of the window. You can also see was appears to be finger marks on the window frame itself.

NARRATOR - All this convinced Smit an intruder could easily have got in this way.

Lou SMIT - You know its been said that only a midget can get down into that window well, well I'm no midget and I'll show you
how easy that can be done.
(Smit goes in the window)
It really wasn't that difficult coming in that window. And often a burglar or an intruder - if they find a safe way in they also figure
it'll be a safe way out. And if you remember, there was a suitcase that was right underneath this window. And if he figures that
he has to go out this window he may think it would be much easier if he has something to stand on. On top of this suitcase was a
very small tiny pea sized piece of glass which may have been picked up by a person's shoe. And a faint impression of possibly a
footprint on the suitcase. And that suggests very strongly to me that perhaps someone did stand on that suitcase at one point,
perhaps to go out the window or perhaps just to test to see if he could go out that window.
Now I can't say for sure if an intruder went through that window, but also we cannot just disregard it and say that he did not come
through that window.

NARRATOR - Smit knew that the local police had said they'd found no evidence of an intruder. Although his evidence so far was
inconclusive, he felt it should, at least, be kept in mind.

The Boulder police rejected his advice. Lead detective Steve Thomas, later publicly described the idea of an intruder as "far
fetched" and "ridiculous".

Ignoring Smit's advice, police set out to intensify media pressure on the Ramseys. Lacking evidence to justify their arrest, they
hoped this might break the couple, forcing a confession.

The fact that Patsy Ramsey, a former beauty queen, had entered JonBenét in children's pageants, fueled accusations of sexual
abuse. Now it was leaked that police had warrants to search the Ramsey home for pornography. It led to a media frenzy.

JOHN RAMSEY 5/1/97 Press conference - "I did not kill my daughter JonBenét. There have also been innuendoes that she has
been or was sexually molested, I can tell you that those were the most hurtful innuendoes.... "

NARRATOR - No link with pornography or sex abuse was ever found. But when the Ramseys talked to journalists in an attempt
to plead their innocence, no one believed them. Yet by the time of that press conference, Smit had found more compelling
evidence of an intruder.

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