Her father reportedly tore duct tape from JonBenet's mouth and carried her body upstairs. Experts say police should have restricted family members' and friends' access to the home in the hours before the body was found and should have thoroughly searched the house. By not doing so, police might have allowed evidence to be tainted or destroyed, either accidentally or on purpose, experts say. In a textbook situation, they would have protected the crime scene,'' said Glen Sousa, a retired Los Angeles police detective. But textbook situations are one thing.
Reality is another.
Kidnapping is a very rare crime, and the Boulder police don't have a lot of experience with it. It wasn't incompetence. They may regret what they did, but remember, they were going on the premise that this was a kidnapping, not a homicide. Koby said Thursday that detectives do not consider the Ramseys' decision to hire defense attorneys an indication of guilt, as some critics have suggested. Experts believe the Ramseys are justified in doing so because family members are often strongly suspected in this kind of case.