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Grave Bugging!
A new book, JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder
Investigation, by lead detective Steve Thomas discloses that police
actually bugged the little girl's Atlanta grave hoping to score a
confession. On the eve of what would have been her seventh birthday,
August 6, 1997, the investigators broke into St. James Episcopal Cemetery with
the help of a Georgia state cop who picked the lock on the gate. The
Boulder detectives then planted a hidden microphone and camera a few feet from
JonBenet's final resting place. For three days, they mounted
round-the-clock surveillance from the window of a nearby high school, hoping to
overhear a graveside confession from one of the many mourners who stopped
by. But this effort, as well as a repeated stakeout on Christmas Eve, was
unsuccessful. (source: Time, April 17, 2000)
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