“There was not one instance of physical or sexual abuse,” detective Lou Smit, who was played by Kris Kristofferson in Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, told the Denver Post before he died in August 2010.
Lou Smit is an crime investigator the city of Boulder hired to investigate the case of the Ramsey’s murdered daughter JonBenet. After a while he quit for the way the Ramsey’s were being treated by the D.A.’s office and the other investigating detectives in Boulder.
“You just don’t turn into something overnight. Usually you have some inkling. John would call his kids when he was on the road. His ex-wife said he was a good father.” (Ramsey had two adult children from his previous marriage to Lucinda Pasch. Their eldest daughter, Elizabeth, died in a car crash in 1992.)
Smith stated that detectives had failed to perform certain tests that could have either further implicated or exonerated the Ramseys, and cited a number of procedural issues that occurred in the earliest days of the investigation.
“You only have one shot to do that right,” he said.
“The house should have been totally shut. The crime scene was screwed up.” Smit theorized that the killer got into the Ramsey house on the evening of Christmas day and, after killing JonBenét, probably intended to remove her body from the house in a suitcase that was found near a broken basement window. Unlike some, he thought there were signs of forced entry by that window. (John Ramsey had said he broke the window beforehand a while back.)
Smit told the Post that the killer’s name was probably in the case file somewhere thanks to one of the thousands of tips police received, and that likely the guy was in prison for something else.
“But if you’re stuck on one thought of who did it you’re not going to solve it,” he said, rejecting the theory that the murder was staged as it was expressly to make it look like something it wasn’t (such as the work of a sexual sadist instead of the result of domestic abuse).
Footage by Lou Smit. Ramsey’s private investigator. made June 5th, 2000
Orientation: East is front of house/front door and yard, West is towards garage/back of home, North is towards right side of home towards butler pantry/butler door, South is to left of home towards dining room.
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