Somehow related to the Ramsey investigation but I admit I don't know the names.

Tests on JonBenet were complete

By CLAY EVANS Camera Staff Writer

Friday, April 25, 1997
Boulder police investigators asked the Boulder County coroner's office if it could withhold the
body of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey from her family - even though forensic work was
complete - to pressure them into submitting to a police interview, Coroner John Meyer
confirmed Thursday.
Meyer, a physician who was legal custodian of the girl's body following her murder and an
autopsy, and the only official who could sanction release, refused the police request.
JonBenet's body was released to her family Dec. 29, then flown to Georgia for burial.
The request from investigators came through Tom Faure, chief medical examiner for the
coroner's office, on Dec. 28, Meyer said.
"My impression at the time was it was sort of a trial balloon, wondering if we could do that,"
Meyer said. "It was, could we do this ... not necessarily to force the family, but could we put a
hold on the body until they do come to an interview."
JonBenet Ramsey was found strangled in the basement of her family's home the afternoon of
Dec. 26 by her father, John Ramsey, and a family friend. About eight hours earlier, her mother,
Patsy Ramsey, found a ransom note demanding $118,000 and called police.
John and Patsy Ramsey still have not been formally inter viewed by police, but their attorneys
said Wednesday that police on Tuesday abruptly canceled separate interviews scheduled for
Wednesday.
After receiving the inquiry about holding the body, Meyer told Faure that "certainly I didn't think
that was a reason for me to put the body on further hold, that I couldn't use that as justification."
Meyer said the examination of the girl's body was complete, except for toxicology reports, which
take up to six weeks for results. He said, however, that his office routinely holds the bodies of
homicide victims from 24 to 72 hours after an autopsy is complete, "in case anything comes
up."
Police on Wednesday said they were "reluctant to release JonBenet's body because they were
not sure all the necessary forensic work had been completed, nor had they had an opportunity
to discuss the circumstances of JonBenet's death with the parents."
Boulder Police Chief Tom Koby did not immediately return telephone calls from the Daily
Camera on Thursday.
District Attorney Alex Hunter said Thursday there may have been other considerations that led
police to ask the body be withheld for additional time.
"For example, was there everything that the CBI (Colorado Bureau of Investigation) needed?
Had a pediatrician been involved? A child abuse expert involved?" Hunter said. He said that, all
told, the body underwent about 12 hours of examination.
In a telephone conversation the afternoon of Dec. 28, the district attorney's chief trial deputy,
Peter Hofstrom, asked Meyer if there was