Another unknown DNA was found on the garrote and yet another on the hand bindings. So along with the three profiles from under the nails and one from the underwear, a total of six DNA profiles were found associated with the body. I believe only one--found on the underwear and leggings--has enough markings to be…

Sure. I should warn you that it’s the strongly “Burke did it,” but for strictly factual stuff like this, the book is still useful, since he had access to the entire crime file.

I don’t know if the primary sources (lab reports) for the DNA findings are out there, available to the public. I got the fingernail information from the book Foreign Faction, written by James Kolar, the Boulder District Attorney’s former lead investigator for the murder. So I’m sure his synopsis of the findings is…

Yeah, and the fact that parental DNA did not show up on the clothes is interesting to me. Not as an indication of guilt or innocence, but simply as a way to illustrate that lack of trace DNA evidence does not necessarily mean a person of interest wasn’t at the scene.

Coroners disagree with one another all the time. Two of the recent Jonbenet documentaries, even though they arrived at opposite conclusions (CBS: “Burke did it”; A&E: “an intruder did it”), both had pathologists who had studied the autopsy report and did not believe that the finding showed sexual abuse. There was…

It’s complicated in this case by the fact that no one had ever observed the Ramseys being violent or abusive or even indifferent to their kids. They’d always been described as loving and devoted. A violent murder was so uncharacteristic of them that it takes a complicated scenario to make it begin to be credible.

there was DNA under her fingernails that they got a partial profile from.

Its one piece that to me points to an intruder and an act of anger.

The underwear was brand new (had never been laundered).

That’s true, the clothes DNA matches. I have heard investigators say that with trace (“touch”) DNA findings, it’s easier to have transfer/contamination, such as from the underwear to the long johns. I’m not saying that definitely happened, only that it could have; the two pieces of clothing were in contact on her…

The DNA under her fingernails is so minuscule that there aren’t enough markers in it to enter the results in a state or federal DNA crime database. And it can’t be linked to the DNA on her clothes.

Dr. Phil and Nancy Grace, dressed up as the Ramseys in an attempt to frame them.

Almost as offensive as the assertion that Burke did it: All the “experts” making comments like “Why did he do [this] and not [that]?” “That’s not appropriate behavior,” “You would think a child in that situation would [do something other than what Burke did],” etc., etc. As if children are not allowed to have…

I’m with you. Veep is well-written but sort of dull somehow, in the relentless sameness of it all. I like Silicon Valley’s eccentricities better.

Even if the goal was to “finish her off” because she was still breathing after the head blow (apologies for crass language), couldn’t they have just put a pillow over her face? She was unconscious at that point so would not have resisted.

The fingernail-material DNA can’t be linked definitively to the clothes DNA; there isn’t enough information to make a conclusive match. Also, five different DNA profiles--one a female--were found under the nails.

My understanding is that the DNA from under her nails was very low-signal: only four or five markers could be identified, and a conclusive match requires at least 10 of 13 markers. There were also I believe 5 different DNA profiles captured from the fingernail material, one of which was female (it was too low-signal…

Interesting. That has the weirdness of truth to it.

John Ramsey’s lawyer, Lin Wood, threatens to sue CBS and one of the pathologists on the show:

One thing that was botched on the CBS show was the sexual assault. The two pathologists dismissed that possibility; they said it didn’t happen. When asked about the blood spots on JB’s underwear, one pathologist said “Transfer contamination.” But JB’s head never bled. Where else would the blood have come from?