They also hired two private investigators from Lakewood, Armistead Ellis and David Williams, to look into JonBenet's death. They also hired a Washington, D.C., publicist to return calls to news media representatives. Pat Kortin, a veteran broadcast journalist who now does consulting and a weekly program on small-business issues at Radio America in Washington, said the Ramseys were referred to him by a mutual acquaintance. Aaholm re-emphasized that city officials have not named any suspects in the case and still have no legal right to restrict the movement of anybody associated with the case. Durgin continued to assure city residents that they have no cause for concern following the bizarre murder.
Boulder is a safe community.
It's always been a safe community. National media descended on Boulder to sniff out details of the case as official sources clammed up tighter and tighter. Some reporters expressed frustration at the lack of information released so far. No coroner's report, incident report, or chronology of the murder have been publicly released. Several questions at the news conference were thinly veiled jabs at the Police Department and its handling of the case, including questions about why the Ramseys were allowed to search their own home after reporting JonBenet missing.