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The ransom note and sign in the store window, investigators confiscated both his home and office computers. >> the preliminary search that was conducted by the state police and one of our other agents revealed exactly to me what it revealed to them. initially nothing. >> next, investigators wanted to know the approximate time of sallys death so they could question kopenheffer about his whereabouts. a forensic entomologist analyze the insect activity on sallys body. by analyzing the outside tempe...

Being rods that were used in filing cabinets, older filing cabinets that slid through the drawers of the filing cabinets from the front to the rear. >> but the sign wasnt easy to see, which is why harry missed it the night before. the second ransom note told harry to proceed to another location several miles from there where the fbi found a third note telling harry to proceed to an abandoned church three miles away. thats where the train stopped. >> you could observe harry traveling through the ...

In his store instead of going to the ransom drop site. and harry didnt see the next ransom note kopenheffer left for him at the railroad bridge. based on the forensic evidence, david kopenheffer was arrested and charged with kidnapping and first degree murder. >> one of the things that we did is get a writing sample from kopenheffer and had him spell "exactly." he misspelled it in the writing sample the same way it was misspelled in his computer. again thats to correlate the fact hes the one who...

Gauge shotgun. >> when harry arrived at the railroad bridge, no one was there. so he waited with the sharp shooter in the backseat. and with fbi agents hiding in the woods nearby. >> you just sit there very quietly. you dont move and you listen. and you listen for any kind of footstep, any kind of noise, hoping that he might contact us. but thinking that hes probably within 100 yards of us watching with a rifle. >> after waiting for several hours, the fbi agents told harry to go home and await f...

>> a note was left in your daugt ears gone? >> yes. >> when cops arrive, mom shows a bizarre ransom note in the house. police search and find no sign of jonbenet. >> we have not ruled anyone in or out as a suspect. >> the father, apparently discovers his daughters beaten, strangled body in a basement room. the child was tortured and sexually assaulted. police believe an intruder is to blame. because of where and how the child is found, suspicion shifts to the ramsey family itself. >> the amount ...

That. >> this is it. >> jon ramsey discovers the body. who who are they protecting? >> we are told the son burke was cleared by dna in the years after. dna was found around the underwear of jonbenet. >> dna cant testify and it lastses thousands, hundreds of years. weeks and days. you dont really know how the dna the gets to the victim or in the crime scene unless the it is completely, i guess, handled 100% properly. we see it in death row cases. dna needs supportive evidence. the supportive evid...

The last page of the draft indictments. so we dont even know what other charges might have been in those indictments. so potentially if the grand jury material would come out, wed know more. but what makes this case so compelling is so much evidence is out there. and its so -- it does seem incriminating there. were no signs of false entry. the paint brush that was patsys. that bizarre bizarre note that was -- that included information. >> right. the amount of money asked for in the thing was the...

Screamed. the kind of scream you scream in a dream when you -- youre trying to speak but you cant. its just a scream. >> the moment ill speak with jeff toobin and tom foreman about what exactly the newly released documents really mean. first randi kaye has a look back. >> reporter: the first clue jonbenet ramsey may be in danger? this ransom note patsy ramsey says she found on the back staircase of their boulder, colorado home. it is the day after christmas, 1996. chilling note is addressed to j...

Jury may be lost forever. the statute of limitations on the grand jury indictment ran out in 2002, megyn. the d.a. has not yet commented on his next move. jon ramsey has not commented on the release. >> thank you. joining me now, mark furman, former homicide detective with the lapd. what does this mean to you? >> when i look at this, the grand jury seems to agree in these two indictments that jon and patsy ramsey both knew the person that actually caused the death of jonbenet. they were the ones...

Present the entire case to a jury may be lost forever. the statute of limitations on the grand jury indictment ran out in 2002, megyn. the new d.a. has not yet commented on his next move. jon ramsey has not commented on the release. >> thank you. joining me now, mark furman, former homicide detective with the lapd. what does this mean to you? >> when i look at this, the grand jury seems to agree in these two indictments that jon and patsy ramsey both knew the person that actually caused the deat...