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A little boy who was a special friend had been murdered several years previously (Thomas). Joe Barnhill claimed he saw John Andrew Ramsey outside the home. McReynolds was named by the Ramseys as one of five people worthy of further investigation. But that wasnt what piqued police interest. There's been people who have said that's not even physically possible for a nine-year-old to do that. even if he wasn't necessarily responsible, and I find it unusual that he is never brought up at all. Bill McReynolds played Santa at several Ramsey holiday parties and knew the family well. I think a lot of us that lived through it were once upon a time RDI. So he was a white male with dark hair around 20-25 years old. In his book Presumed Guilty: An Investigation Into the JonBent Ramsey Case, the Media, and the Culture of Pornography, journalist Stephen Singular argues that the police were so focused on pinning the murder to the Ramseysthat they neglected to consider the possibility that JonBent was abducted for child pornography. The outlet reported that on Dec. 26, 1974,. Once police were happyhis story checked out, they acknowledged his frail health and ruled him out of the case. Parents do horrible things to their children, but to understand this case you have to take the notion out of your head that they set out to kill this 6-year-old girl, Wecht said last year. We all came to one complete theory that explains everything that happened, Mr Clemente told news.com.au. "He made a new start. The same former coworker also claimed that someone close to Helgoth had a tape recording of him confessing to the murder, but policenever investigated it. He said: "My hypothesis was that I think the Ramseys came home at around 9.30, 10 o'clock. In a chilling twist, they also discovered that the couple's daughter had been abducted on Dec. 26, 1974 along with a young friend . He then moved on to the University of Minnesota, where he earned a doctorate in American Studies. To me it feels as though there's at least a lot of information about his relationship with Jonbenet that would be worthwhile including in documentaries etc. It shows clips of JonBenet's father John Ramsay telling police that he suspected McReynolds might have been involved. He wrote me a letter saying that he carved JonBenet's name in a harp, it had the name of three other little girls that died early. Healso revealed that Burkehad scarred his sibling just one year earlier after whacking her with a golf club. Elementary teacher John Karr, 41, falsely confessed to the murder in August 2006 while being held on child porn charge. Its ridiculous. He was a friend of Bill . Other suspects included neighbor Bill McReynolds, a local Santa Claus who visited the Ramseys a few days before the girl's death. Officers could not find any sign of a break-in and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said there were indications Patsy had written the ransom note, although they reached no definitive conclusion. We have a tape from him . . it was a tribute to JonBenet or something like that. A native of Donna, Texas, McReynolds received a journalism degree in 1953 from the University of Texas and, after serving in the Army from 1953 to 1956, taught at his alma mater for five years and earned a master's degree in journalism there in 1962. One-time person of interest Gary Oliva, 52, was held on child pornography charges this June. I felt very close to that little girl. It will only get solved if some new piece of evidence emerges.. 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