John Ramsey recently prayed at the bedside of Lou Smit at a Colorado Springs hospice. It reminded Smit of a prayer he shared with John and Patsy Ramsey years earlier on the eve of a grand jury ...

Carpet fibers on a baseball bat and leaves and packing peanuts found near JonBenét Ramsey’s body helped convince veteran detective Lou Smit that an intruder killed the little girl. Smit said ...

Smit resigned within two years of taking up the position, firmly convinced of the Ramseys’ innocence and frustrated at what he perceived as failings within the Boulder investigative teams.

When Detective Lou Smit quit the JonBenét Ramsey investigation in 1998, he kept documents, computer files and videos that built the preliminary foundation of the murder case. He also had inside ...