BOULDER—
For all the mystery surrounding Jon Benet Ramsey, one thing was clear 12 years into the case: "They were not making any progress on the case, the DA wasn't," Bill Wise, Boulder's former First Assistant DA, told us."The talent was there the problem is that the 30-40,000 pages produced by the Boulder Police Department didn't produce a finger pointed at anybody."
Giving the case back to Police puts it in the hands of an agency better suited for investigation, he says.
New DNA technology could break the case wide open.
But if it doesn't, the case will be hampered by the same, inconclusive facts, compiled by the same Boulder Police.
"They focused on the Ramsey family to the exclusion of the rest of the world," Wise says.
Former Adams County DA Bob Grant was on the so called "dream team" of outside prosecutors that looked at the case in 1997.
He says new evidence isn't as important as a fresh set of eyes.
"People who look at it as a homicide, that's cold, will see new things," he says.
And they'll give technology a chance to catch the killer.
"What's more important is growth of DNA databases to look for matches."
Former Boulder County DA mary Lacey spoke to Fox31 by phone today. She said she supoprts the move because, "So many of the people in the DA's office who worked the case have moved on, there is no institutional memory left."
