#835 Fossett and Ramsey

The rumor mills they is a spinning. Grinding the truth down to fine little unrecognizable meaty nuggets. Rendering it into a great big gossip patty.
The story? Pilot and inventor Steve Fossett faked his own death.
This rumor, like all of them, has the ring of truth, so will most likely spread like a wilderness wildfire set off by an exploding plane.
Remember, all successful lies are believable because they tap into our darkest secrets, fears, and emotions.
Like the JonBenet Ramsey case. We all wanted to believe the parents must have known. The facts didn’t make sense. She was found in a basement. There were no footprints outside the window. It must have been an inside job.
We all wanted to believe it was the parents because none of us wanted to believe a stranger could come into an upscale neighborhood and carry out a vicious slaying.
Well, we’ll have to start being scared again. The Boulder County DA says DNA tests using a new technique have cleared the Ramsey Family from any involvement in JonBenet’s death.
The DNA found on the body didn’t come from any family members.
The District Attorney apologized to the family for possibly contributing “to the public perception that (they) might have been involved in this crime”.
Well isn’t that just peachy. Reputation lynched by a miscast rope of aspersions. So sorry. No hard feelings. You can move back to Boulder now. What, the mom died? Oops.
This story, which should have been blaring headlines in every tabloid in the nation, was strangely absent from most of the media.
Perhaps because they are starting to tool up for the great Fossett conspiracy. Flying a light plane across the Nevada desert, wealthy adventurer and top-notch pilot Steve Fosset disappears. Search after search turns up not a scrap.
Rumor has it he had money and marital troubles. Like, um, about 80% of the population. A Civil Air Patrol person says very few law enforcement people buy the idea he disappeared.
They still have the Civil Air Patrol?
I think the truth is even more scary. His plane went down kind of close to Area 51
America, ya gotta love it.