In a rare public statement, the Boulder Police Department defended its investigation of the JonBenét Ramsey case after being publicly criticized this week by a former deputy district attorney.
The recent arrest of 41-year-old John Mark Karr, who now has been cleared as a suspect in the murder, brought the spotlight back on the way the investigation was handled in 1996.
Trip DeMuth, former deputy district attorney, made statements to the Rocky Mountain News that the Boulder police prevented him from pursuing leads.
“Mr. DeMuth’s assertion that the Boulder Police Department refused to pursue a variety of theories is … ludicrous,” the statement said.
Boulder police say they investigated more than 160 potential suspects.
“A few people have accused the department of focusing too narrowly in its investigation of this homicide when that was not the case,” Chief Mark Beckner said in the statement. “I cannot allow the misperceptions to go unanswered any longer.”
