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"chat night"


november 6th-8th

WHAT A NITE, FRIDAY! I answered questions on what surely must have been the first LIVE CHAT FORUM from jail on the NET. Someday, some CASE might get solved that way or an execution stayed.

IT FELT like an IMPORTANT nite Afterwards. Various interested inmates and I discussed the mechanics and possibilities under the stairs below my room. Drinking coffee instead of cocktails, but it felt like an Occasion.

There wasn't much TIME on the phone, so not MUCH was discussed in this FIRST chat session but it's QUITE CLEAR that one day SOMEONE is going to have a PENDING CASE for which they will post their legal papers and their VERSION of "WHAT HAPPENED," and I DO mean FAR and AWAY from the RAMSEY case.

Those logged on tor Friday's chat SAW a GLIMPSE of the future. The feeling of a HOLE breaking in the wall was palpable here. Public defenders: start tearing out your remaining hair!

The SKEPTICS I'm collecting can go to hell. What I'm speaking of HERE right NOW is on the level of "A TEST PATTERN SCREEN WAS BROADCAST." That is SOMETHING. (Patsy Ramsey's impending indictment is something ELSE).

It's unfortunate that I have made the decision to stash, hack, and mangle all those that were logged on......(couldn't resist).

BACK TO CASE:

1) Patsy did it AND therefore I dance on HER legal CASE and NOT on any particular little grave.

2) When Gosage and Thomas brought me to Boulder from Denver, I EXPECTED it was about how my roommate had snitched me off on morgue log theft. But that was GLOSSED OVER and we went right into MURDER. They asked me if I had any sort of "relationship" with a B. Ramsey. It was month FOUR and I was not AWARE yet of the name BURKE. Then they called me FIXATED when after giving samples, etc. I discover that Burke (I'd mistakenly thought they said BRENT) is a 10 year old BOY.

I had assumed they were talking about John Ramsey's adult son. So in the weeks after QUESTIONING there I am doing manpower lousy jobs, not keeping head above water, got legal cases EVERYWHERE and I start to learn that they were asking if I know this LITTLE BOY, and of course JBR etc.

Resentment. And how many people have been through this EXPERIENCE. and were all supposed to just ROLL OVER and take it when the Ramseys wont even give the police the names of companies that had employees trooping right straight to the BOILER ROOM of their house a MONTH before the murder. (or the police neglected to look into it until late Oct '98) There's lots to resent.

In other news: HARLEY MARTIN IS THE INMATE WHO MET TWO HOMELESS MEN AT PENNY LANE CAFE who claimed SUZ. CHASE often chased homeless from alley with a bat. He knows all the Homeless. Harvey lives down the tier from me in GPOP cell number 8.

And in grain of salt news, can I add that on Friday in the kitchen I do solemnly swear that I GAVE THE ROUTINE wherein I DEAD PANNEDLY did relate how it was within EASY possibility many times in my life to make a cheesecake with human ears around the edges and human EYES, NOSES, AND LIPS smushed into the middle.

Oh all the severed limbs, decomps, corpsey lorpsey on terlets, etc. these are my EXPERIENCE and my LICENSE to a cark crackling black sense of humor, not unlike the same sense of humor found in COPS & CORONERS when they are not ACTING like pillars of the community. Pillars of the community kell their children on Christmas. I just drink a lot, and can's hold a job. That makes me WORSE than THEM the way it's organized. I'll express my CONTEMPT 'til my corpse is a'cracklin in the retort.

J.T.Colfax
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