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JonBenet: Poems & Pornography /// Part 3 /// 725

December 20, 2023 / 53:11

This episode discusses a 1997 tip line call related to the John Benet Ramsey case, detailing allegations of incest and abuse involving a church member.

The call, made by a woman, reveals that her brother, a member of St John's Church, sexually abused her from ages 11 to 18. She believed this information could be relevant to the Ramsey investigation.

The hosts, Jim and Frank, analyze the implications of the call, including the response from Boulder Police and church officials. They highlight a contradiction in statements made by Reverend Hoverstock regarding his knowledge of the brother's past.

The episode also explores a timeline of events surrounding the church, including allegations of child pornography found in 1999 and subsequent cover-ups involving church leadership.

Throughout the discussion, the hosts emphasize the need for accountability within both the church and law enforcement, questioning why certain information was not made public and how it ties back to the Ramsey case.

TLDR

A 1997 tip reveals incest allegations linked to the John Benet Ramsey case and church cover-ups.

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that's s a n everyday.com [Music] [Music] n [Music] now Jim and Frank I'm absolutely
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fascinated by this tip line call that comes in in February of 19 1997 it's supposed to be a tip to try to
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help direct or give information regarding the investigation in the homicide of John B Ramsey what was the
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date of this call and what was the nature of this call okay so what we have now everybody has to
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understand that case File information in this case coming out into the public sphere it doesn't
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exist I mean you have the Ramsay interview uh John's interview you got uh two R py
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Ramsey interviews but case File information we don't have it except for this and this is from the
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this is a report from the Boulder Police Department we were emailed this from a third party saying that we should take a
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look at something and they sent us a file and it was this so I'm so we're looking at it and you have there's a
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date it's to one of the commanders at the Boulder Police Department and it's also to the district
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attorney's office it's written by a detective dated 22697 1430 hours and in this tip line
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call the detective is interviewing a woman who's calling to give information about a family member her
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brother and she's stating that after seeing the Ramsay murder she thought maybe she should
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call and let the police know and as the detective is interviewing her she's talking
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about how her brother is a part of St John's Church and how he had sex with his sister her
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from the age of 11 to the age of 18 and the woman is also states that her brother has mentioned that he knows the
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Ramsay family and she wants this information to be given to the police and think it may
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help and that they may want to look at her brother so that is in essence the tip line call it goes into you know I
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don't want to read the whole thing but it just goes into where she lives where the brother
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lives but the Crux of it is the information that she was sexually abused by her brother over a period of years so
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you talking about incest and because of her age it's and she mentions it it started off as uh kind of
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like nude modeling but then LED on into full intercourse so this wasn't just a case
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of slight molestation so that is in essence this tip line call to be clear here the this tip that's coming in is
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coming in for and I know that you've already said a lot of this but I want I want everybody
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to have a good understanding the tip that's coming in is saying Not only was I subjected to abuse or
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incest at the hands of my brother but this individual has uh direct ties to St John's Church and is in Boulder Colorado
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1996 December um and so this individual should be of great concern especially factoring in that the victim in that
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abuse case that she's calling in would have been a a younger victim yes she she was she was in her
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40s when she made this call back and so this happened many many years prior to the murder so the the uh she was aged 10
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or 11 when it started lasted up to she was around 18 her brother this is the person that's
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connected to St John's was around 16 when he started the abuse of his sister and for whatever
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reason when she when the John Benet Ramsey case broke it just reminded her of her
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brother and she was like I better call the tip line which she did and then what you have here is
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the detective interviewing her over the phone and she's giving him this information the other thing that came in
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was a narrative written by another detective and it pretty much goes over the phone call that the other
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detective had and it's just basically a summary and the detective actually writes after speaking with this woman
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I felt it was important to speak with her brother so they bring the brother in and they question him but before the
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brother they bring in Reverend hover stock who was the director or the head priest of St John's
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Church they tell him about the phone call they have received from this woman and they and they they
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mentioned that this person is that she's talking about is from St John's and hover stock says oh yeah I know him but
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he said I'm shocked to learn about any kind of sexual molestation about him I had no
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idea that is an important statement by Reverend hover stock because we have other
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information that contradicts that statement by him and that's going to lead us to what
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we what I want to call the uh the church timeline of events okay the church timeline is
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not a police document this is a document that I made based on interviews with the person from St
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John's that wrote The Man The Manchurian da and then later my brother and I got the name of another individual and
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we contacted this person and we called this person so this is a third person so you have the tip line woman you have the
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poem writer woman and now we found the uh person that we call the witness in the
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church and the witness describes to us a story that ties in the poem The Three Men poem and how those how certain
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stanzas were based on true events based on our witness in the church it's what our witness went through and witnessed
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so our witness at the church joins St John's Episcopal Church in 1992 our witness states that father
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hover stock is notified about an individual by the IND individual's sister that individual I'm referring to
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is the individual I just talked about in the tip line the brother the sister that made the tip
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line call in 1997 went to the church and told father htoo about her brother that
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transpired according to our witness between the years 1992 and 1994 this is a huge
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problem because as I had just read in the police documents hover stock said he was shocked to learn about this
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IND individual and about any kind of sexual molestation according to what my witness
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says he knew years prior so he knew exactly what this person was years before John Benet
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died and then lied to the cops about it that opens up a can of worms because he was there that
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morning he's a close friend of John Ramsay so big problems to continue with the church
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timeline uh hover stock is notified about the brother by the brother's sister concerning the brother's sexual
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abuse of her when she was younger mid90s father hsto oversees St John's 100th anniversary Capital Campaign which
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resulted in a major restoration and expansion on Church campus Millions ions of dollars are
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raised this is an extremely wealthy Church everybody needs to remember that okay January February
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1997 woman calls the ramsy murder tip line the woman tells the Boulder Police Department about her
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brother who is a member at St John's she tells the Boulder Police that her brother started having
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sex with her around the age of 11 through 8 18 years of age she states that her brother you know that they need
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to look at her brother when it comes to the murder of John Benet Ramsey February March 97 B the police
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interview father htoo Overstock talks about the brother HCK says he has no knowledge of the
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brother being a child molester Overstock says he is shocked to learn of this information and as I just stated my
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witness contradicts that claim uh February March 997 The Boulder Police Department interviewed the brother
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uh during that interview with the brother he pretty much has no alibi asleep at home with the with the
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wife that's not considered a good Alibi April 30th 1997 let me jump in here for a second yes
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sir where in proximity to the Ramsey Hall home is asleep at home with the wife very close minutes minutes driving
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minutes walking minutes walking walking minutes walking continue on I'm sorry 1998 our
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witness befriends the brother at St John's like I had mentioned earlier uh he was a very popular individual at
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the the church uh the brother starts to talk to my witness as they get closer and then all of a sudden starts
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telling her about incest fantasies that he's having starts showing her his writings
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about incest and tells our witness that he is watching and fantasizing about little
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girls who attend the who attend church at St John's uh my witness goes to Father hover stock and
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other vestri members who are when we say vestri that's elected Church officials and she tries to tell them
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about this individual's actions and behaviors about the incest fantasies and the fantasized about girls at the
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church she is either dismissed or not believe and as she told me in N I believe it was 98 when she went to htoo
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and told him what was going on with this individual Overstock told her to go light a
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candle and then walked away I mean in reality uh this brother is grooming or I believe trying to groom the witness
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yes she has a young child the witness got very upset during one of the phone calls and she started asking me why why
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did he pick me why did he pick me to tell me these things and to show me these things and I
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said you have a daughter right how old was she she was young I said he was most likely grooming you to get to your
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daughter to see where you were at that's why he picked you anyway to continue Good Friday
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1999 our witness finds child pornography and what is described to me as this individual's uh Studio inside the
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church my witness notifies the vest members they notifi the the police department let me jump in here again
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Frank so when we say finds child pornography are we talking about digital paper pictures what are we what
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are we talk do we have an idea did not go into specifics okay so it could have it could have been one picture it could
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have been a mountain of pictures we we don't we don't fully know it was it was uh as the only way she described it was
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child pornography and other stuff okay that's it that's the only description something that that prompted
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this individual to call the police it prompted her to notify vestri members Church leadership and they
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called the police okay good Friday continuing 1999 B the police are called to the
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church the Boulder Police uh have to break into the room cu it looks like this individual had locked
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the door and now I refer back to the thre men poem uh they did not know he changed the
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key when police would come to query so they broke and entered quietly though he would claim illicitly over a period of
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years all this stuff is starting to add up they find child pornography and other
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stuff there is one vest member uh who was present they give us the name I'm not going to mention the
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name and having knowledge of these events my witness says there was several vest members present but there was one
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name she remembered in particular the child pornography is taken out of the church and the
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individual is removed from the church but is not arrested by the Boulder Police Department
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for whatever reason it the bould of police cover up the search at St John's it's never made public there's no
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paperwork on it that I ever that we ever found the public is has never been made
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aware that a search at the church has ever taken place never mind that pornography was
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found April May 1999 now this is where the poem writer information comes in because she was interviewed poem
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writer states that vestri members meet to discuss what to do with this individual the poem writer states that
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this individual is asked to leave the church this individual refuses this individual blackmails the
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church the witness states that this individual Ed the phrase if I go down we all go
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down this individual is paid off the amount paid poem writer states is $300,000 yeah read the line from the
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poem Frank oh and then you go back to the poem and so avoiding Calum a grand sum he was paid to
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flee now you got to understand we got the poem in 2003 and we're getting this information in like
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2018 so everything is is connecting uh so this individual was paid uh around $300,000 my uh there's also payments to
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other individuals and as my witness States rumors swirled among the church congregation that money
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from the capital campaign was used to pay off this individual so it's not like people didn't have an idea you know
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Church gossip gets around my brother and I talked to other people at the church they didn't want to
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talk about this incident nobody denied it but they use phrases like uh that situation was taken care of
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another person said uh we don't focus on that anymore we moved past that nobody denied it another line used
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was we already took care of that with the Boulder Police believe it or not now so he's
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paid to go away give him some walking around money some walking away money what year was
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that stated it's by my witness uh by the poem writer is April May 1999 okay so $300,000 in 1999 today that
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would be $550,000 approximately in today's money to to give everybody a good idea of how
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much this guy was given away given to walk away to to vanish get the hell out of here and then we need to Clue the
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listeners in too because the church a church is only as successful or wealthy or powerful as its congregation right
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and in this situation St John's is in a very affluent part of of Colorado Boulder is
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very affluent compared to many parts of Colorado but also the na this neighborhood in
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particular is kind of the creme Dela Creme of of Boulder correct well just to give you an idea this is Supreme Court
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gor's Church yeah these are the kind of people that go there this is how this kind of money is raised for a capital
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campaign where oh we're looking to do an expansion and people in the congregation
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give money and you you raise a few million not to mention not to mention the church
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gave this person in today's money half a million dollars this is the same person
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who was alleged by his sister raped and abused her fantasized about incest and about abusing other girls at the church
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had child pornography at the church and you're going to give this person money to go
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someplace else well well I mean that's that's how it all it all adds up in totality now you have to understand the
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witness is not aware you know when I told her about poems she had no idea she she didn't know anything about poems and
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when I was talking with her my the witness even said you know I started talking about the Ramsay case and she
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started getting nervous she the witness is like you're not telling me that he could be part of this it's
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like they didn't even they they don't know about the tipl line call because nobody knows about the tip line call the
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witness didn't know apparently the poem writer may have had an idea when when it's written in the poem his sister told
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them it could be so to finish the timeline after this individual is paid off and leaves the
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church one of this individual 's close friends who was known as a bad seed a bad guy that's the information that we
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received on this individual my witness states that this close friend of the individual who just got paid off
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starts to stalk her children and threatens her to the point where she has to get a
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restraining order against this individual and that's the end of the church timeline
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so and I'm sure and I apologize to the listeners I know this is like a lot of information and it seems like we jump
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all over the place but what you have here is a problem with this case especially when it comes to hover
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stock because it's apparent I have no doubts about my witness the first phone call I had with her she was
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nervous and I said we'll continue it at another time once I mentioned poems and she started panicking at the Ramsay K
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that just somehow connected she panicked she calls me two days later and pretty much says what are you doing I said I'm
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laying in bed watching college football what are you doing she's like I'm having
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a picnic with my family here's how it happened happened and that's when she told me everything
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in order and that's how the church timeline came into existence M so it appears hover stock light
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according to this witness you have child pornography removed by the Boulder Police Department in a search the person
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whose child pornography who has the child pornography is not arrested that's a problem because this
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is the this is the the group that's supposed to be that's supposed to solve the ramsy cave and you're covering up
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for pedophile so it appears the church and the police were kind of working hand inand
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to make sure that this never came to light but what happened somebody got cute and wrote a
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poem back in 2201 never guessing that it anybody could ever figure it out Lou knew what's
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important me and my brother knew what's important we kept digging and now we are
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at where we are at and we don't know how I don't think we can take it any farther we achieved
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every goal that we set out in 97 to achieve we said there'd be a witness that would
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make claims of child sexual abuse against JN or somebody close to those accusations were made the witness
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came forward from California we said that if we kept digging in the town eventually we would
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come across another case or another Scandal that roped in Ramsey case players that is what happened in the
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church church Scandal the Ramsey Church the one John Benet went to an individual and then you have
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payoffs and a coverup break this Scandal open get answers on why the police did what they did and the district attorney
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they're just as culpable too because they had to have known about the surch they knew about the tip line
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call so they knew about this individual from Jump Street District Attorney's office and the police department and
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how the hell they get that tipline call in 97 and nothing happens until somebody calls in 99 Frank
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what's F what's fascinating is is that you know you never hear anything really discussed about St John's Church you
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always hear different you know theories and what's going on in in the house and what happened here what happened there
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but no one ever discussed St John's Church and what did Ali what did Ali gray say about St John
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Ali gray told us Ali gray was pushing us towards the church to to investigate the
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church and two disturbing things he he said he said one concerning uh when when we were
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talking about the individual who got caught with the child pornography at St John's Ali's words to
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me were it wasn't just him right Ali said that there were multiple people in the church doing what
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he was doing when I pressed Ali for names he did not give them to me he said and this this is how Ali dealt with
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you know with us sometimes he'd be cryptic because you know he was he was dealing with his own non-disclosure
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agreement well and detectives are always kind of very secretive right and they they they want to they want to keep it
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close to the vest not disclose anything until they can susset the whole thing out themselves first they want to get
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from you as much as they can exactly that's how they do it Ali was very much like that but what did he say Frank so
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he no he said he goes there were other people besides this individual and I'm like involved I'm like involved doing
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stuff to kids or child pornography he's like yeah and and my the first thing that came to my head I said not
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Overstock right and he's like no he goes he's more trying to keep a lid on it he
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goes I'm like well who and he's like look he goes look at the people who pay the bills and I didn't understand when
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he told me back then what that meant he was talking the people who pay the bills
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at St John's are the vest members the elected officials they literally pay the bills so Ali is saying that
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maybe three to four of them why do you think the blackmail was effective if I go down we all go down and that's why
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they paid him off because maybe he was threatening to out others so you got a huge problem within this church and like
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my brother was saying oh yeah they threw out a lot of names in this case you know
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they recycle them every year like clockwork almost Gary Aliva right that every year we'll get a Gary L story uh
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what's another good one uh Michael Michael hellgoth oh yeah yeah maybe he did it oh yeah sure uh and then
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people you know over the years oh maybe it was somebody from John's job because they were jealous give me a
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what we're trying to do here guys is look at this case from several different people's perspectives with different
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possible theories and so we we want to kind of as you guys did with your investigation you you really
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investigated Boulder what the hell's going on in this city at this time with with the players all involved what is
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going on and so we wanted to do something somewhat similar and talk about things that we didn't get to in
00:38:03
those first six parts so um yeah yeah we we will be you know we're doing this interview here tonight but yeah you'll
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hear next week and so don't don't get upset with me and send some rough email my way but
00:38:19
uh no no no it's it's I'm not I'm not mad at people you know the public or people who filed the case discussing it
00:38:30
it's I'm mad at the I'm just mad at the cops I'm mad at the District Attorney's Office it's like it's like they're
00:38:38
running a shell game on the public you know what I mean it's like it's like they almost like they know the truth but
00:38:44
they don't want it to come out in a way that's that's always been the vibe that I've gotten almost from the beginning of
00:38:50
this case it reminds me of the you know the Kennedy assassination in a way right
00:38:55
the mafia did it the Cubans did it you know they keep everybody guessing but don't look at the facts you know and I
00:39:05
know some people think Lee Harvey Oswell did it but some people I'm one of them think that maybe our government was
00:39:11
involved the intelligence agencies because so they keep you looking at everything else but the stuff and the
00:39:18
connections that you can make they don't want you looking at or they hide it the Ramsay K they hid this from the
00:39:27
American public they hid the search if this ha now Nick I don't how old are you Nick just checking you're going to make
00:39:34
me say this on uh on Mike I'm sorry I would have to I'm sorry putot Frank I'm 44 years old 44 years old 44 years
00:39:46
Youngy you're younger than us okay so so you have an understanding a lot of people are younger and they don't
00:39:54
understand what this case was like in the beginning how big it really was if this information
00:40:02
surfaced at the start of the case that church would have been destroyed instantly
00:40:09
instantly this and I for I just can't get away from the fact that they they bent over to protect this church and
00:40:21
protected a pedophile from being arrested for child pornography I mean who was in charge of the the the church
00:40:30
aspect of the investigation are you telling me they don't know this that me and my brother
00:40:39
like they have to know what they did the search right we we just figured it out we just got people to talk anyway uh
00:40:48
yeah it's it's just been a it's been a frustrating you know almost 27 years that's all sorry Nick no and and I'll
00:40:56
tell you what Frank that's a great segue into my next topic and and a good way for us to wrap up our this discussion
00:41:07
was incredible um we could we could talk for for days and nights and and enjoy every moment of it but so Jim I'll
00:41:16
Circle to you because this is how you got my attention Jim you had told me that to to not focus on who we need to
00:41:27
stop focusing right now on who killed John Benet we need to focus more in on the what and the why and as I recall it
00:41:36
you were saying what was going on in in Boulder what was going on with these people in in direct relation to this
00:41:45
case at the time and then the why is why don't they want to solve this case do I
00:41:52
have that correct yes you you do and it's you know it all goes back full circle you know to the to the to the boulder
00:42:00
syndrome and the how how to solve this case was not necessarily who did it but why it happened and what was going on in
00:42:11
the town and John Benet and and the horrible crime that was committed against her she
00:42:19
was a microcosm of what was happening in Boulder and what we were looking at and the
00:42:29
cases that we uncovered and mind you we're not even touching on certain things and certain cases that
00:42:38
involved City officials that were compromised that we've come across other attorneys attorneys
00:42:47
well-known attorneys in the Boulder area sex parties I mean you can go on and on
00:42:55
what was happening in this area and and when you have that type of of culture taking place you're gonna wind
00:43:08
up with a girl a dead little girl like John Benet but you got to know why it happened and what was going on you got
00:43:15
to know the background first that's why my brothers stated we had to start from the outside and work the case from out
00:43:23
inward to to get a bigger picture and like said we're hoping that this case will one day that you know will go
00:43:30
forward and maybe pressure will be put on the Boulder Police Department to give an
00:43:35
answer why certain documents were were were not released why certain things like the search wasn't made public the
00:43:44
American people need should know about that you know heck most people aren't even aware of the poems in the case you
00:43:52
know and these are these are big things um but yeah it's it goes back to the boulder syndrome that what was going on
00:44:00
in in in the town and you know uh Stephen singular said it best that when a town is trying to protect itself the
00:44:09
truth becomes obscured and I thought he put that very well and I would just like
00:44:14
to add you know when pedophilia runs a muck in a community someone dies it's always the
00:44:24
case when invad when pedophilia invades institutions Church uh city government power
00:44:37
structure and they think they can get away with it and just do what they want somebody's gonna get carried away
00:44:46
and that's what that is what I is what we think happened in the John Benet case back then there was a
00:44:54
culture you know as an old saying if you if you subsidize a problem you get more
00:45:01
of it when you ple bargain like that you create a culture pedophiles communicate with each
00:45:10
other imagine you know it's it's it's like uh Slusher we talked about him in the
00:45:18
beginning for what he did that he was an absolute monster monster at 24 when you
00:45:26
give a pedophile like that a slap on the wrist you know what he did when he got out of jail he became a child
00:45:33
pornographer y that's what happens you want to give outl sentences pedophiles are going to think
00:45:40
this the Greatest Town known to know the man hey we can do what we want here and if we do get
00:45:49
caught nothing's going to happen maybe we get you know a small jail sentence heck maybe we don't get any
00:46:00
jail like Jerry Barry or maybe we don't get prosecuted at all Bruce dbor and other cases that we
00:46:12
didn't go into on this show it's it that's the what what was going on the question for 26 years people have been
00:46:20
asking who who who who where's it got you it's got you nowhere ask the other questions well and the one of the poems
00:46:32
references recidivism and you know as somebody who studies crime and crime statistics I can
00:46:40
tell you this that a level three child sex offender has the highest recidivism rates out of any other type of
00:46:50
criminal and here and here they're giving them a slap on the wrist and in some cases nothing and in and in and in other
00:47:02
cases according to people I mean there was no prosecution at all look at the individual of the
00:47:09
church if what everybody said was true now everything's an allegation you know what my Witnesses alleging happened at
00:47:18
the church what the tip line caller alleges it's all allegations and if they're all true you and both
00:47:26
golden you gave this individual the church gave this individual $300,000 nothing happened to him he
00:47:35
walks you know what a pedophile can do with a boatload of cash damage and then the police no arrest and
00:47:44
he just gets to skate off to another Community doing who knows what did they even think that they were
00:47:53
unleashing somebody I mean it's I don't even I tend that really drives me up a wall
00:48:02
that person left the church with a whole lot of money he's been doing this stuff to young kids
00:48:11
allegedly since he was 16 started with his sister and you just let him skate to another community no heads up for them
00:48:20
that this that wherever he landed that this community has a monster coming their way
00:48:27
I don't even want to think if anybody else was harmed because if that's the case cops need to lose their jobs their
00:48:36
pensions anybody involved with what happened at that church if it's true if the allegations are correct they need to
00:48:44
be fired or have their pensions taken away examples must be made people in the church if they're still there that are
00:48:52
in leadership need to be removed sued whatever it's ah I I think this is a good time to
00:49:03
stop before I get too worked up this has been an incredible month here in the garage I'm so excited that
00:49:21
we were able to bring all of this information to you I know it's a lot and it's coming at you from a lot of
00:49:27
different directions but when we covered this case a few years back with our six-part series John Benet we realized
00:49:35
that there was so much more to this case and there were different important perspectives about this case and aspects
00:49:43
that we never even touched on and it was through the success of those episodes and the show's popularity that we were
00:49:52
able to speak with some of the individuals that you heard this month in the garage we spoke with John Wesley
00:49:58
Anderson who worked with Lou SMI who was one of the key players in this case in John B the master detective Parts one
00:50:06
and two we did a further Deep dive on Gary Aliva and some of the other suspects and persons who had claimed to
00:50:13
have been there when John Benet passed or may even have been responsible for her murder in John Benet I killed her
00:50:21
Parts one and two and we recently spoke with Steven and Joyce sing for our interview that we titled John
00:50:28
Benet presumed guilty we recommend that you check out John Wesley Anderson's book Lou and John Benet and the
00:50:37
singulars book presumed guilty we want to thank everybody for joining us this month here in the garage and all year
00:50:44
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Episode Highlights

  • Eggland's Best Eggs
    Eggland's Best eggs are nutritionally superior, containing six times more vitamin D.
    “Eggland's Best eggs taste better too!”
    @ 00m 18s
    December 20, 2023
  • Saffran Everyday
    Elevate your home with sustainable, minimalist HomeGoods from Saffran Everyday.
    “Ditch the plastic and elevate the mundane!”
    @ 00m 40s
    December 20, 2023
  • Church Scandal Unveiled
    A witness reveals a troubling history of abuse linked to a church member.
    “This is a huge problem!”
    @ 10m 48s
    December 20, 2023
  • Threatening Statement
    An individual involved in the church scandal makes a chilling threat.
    “If I go down, we all go down!”
    @ 19m 37s
    December 20, 2023
  • The Dark Secrets of St John's Church
    Ali Gray hinted at multiple individuals involved in child abuse within the church.
    “There were other people besides this individual.”
    @ 30m 17s
    December 20, 2023
  • A Frustrating 27 Years
    Reflecting on the long and frustrating investigation into the John Benet case.
    “It's just been a frustrating, you know, almost 27 years.”
    @ 40m 51s
    December 20, 2023
  • The Boulder Syndrome
    Exploring the culture of secrecy and protection surrounding the John Benet case.
    “When a town is trying to protect itself, the truth becomes obscured.”
    @ 44m 06s
    December 20, 2023

Episode Quotes

  • Ditch the plastic and elevate the mundane!
    JonBenet: Poems & Pornography /// Part 3 /// 725
  • This is a huge problem!
    JonBenet: Poems & Pornography /// Part 3 /// 725
  • If I go down, we all go down!
    JonBenet: Poems & Pornography /// Part 3 /// 725
  • It's like they're running a shell game on the public.
    JonBenet: Poems & Pornography /// Part 3 /// 725
  • If this information surfaced at the start, that church would have been destroyed instantly.
    JonBenet: Poems & Pornography /// Part 3 /// 725
  • When pedophilia invades institutions, someone dies.
    JonBenet: Poems & Pornography /// Part 3 /// 725

Key Moments

  • Nutritional Benefits00:09
  • Sustainable Living00:40
  • Abuse Allegations10:48
  • Cover-Up19:37
  • Church Investigation29:07
  • Secrets and Lies29:55
  • Frustration and Anger40:51
  • Holiday Reflections51:28

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