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Instead, we’ve spent a long time analyzing the lengthy ransom note, which is interesting speculation, but still just speculation.Ĭlemente and Richards are out on the road doing some investigation, but there’s a strong beggars-can’t-be-choosers vibe around the people they’re talking to and the research they’re able to do and a heavy ignoring of actual investigative merit. You want to witness great minds bouncing theories off each other. Things have been more active in the War Room, but other than a brief tiff between Lee and Spitz about skull-fracture evidence that has already been part of the established case record, nothing happened there to justify everybody sitting around. I’m sure that we’ll get some payoff on the vast warehouse space that has been decorated to perfectly mimic the Ramsey house, but in the first two hours, other than people nodding and being impressed with the verisimilitude, it accomplished nothing.
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The supporting team of experts is stuck in a conference room, part of an enormous production infrastructure that is yielding very limited returns in the first two hours. Werner Spitz, James Kolar and James Fitzgerald to poke at those leftovers. Clemente and Richards have been brought in to reheat very familiar leftovers and they’ve assembled a B-team of true-crime legends including Dr. Jarecki found an entirely unique way into the case because of his access to Robert Durst. Koenig and Demos and Ricciardi to some degree “found” their cases or amplified the light that had been cast on the cases previously. “It’s the 20th anniversary” does not count as an intellectual imperative. Those true-crime sensations I mentioned earlier were driven by a personal and individual fascination for Sarah Koenig and for Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi and for Andrew Jarecki.
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Clemente and Richards, who describes herself as a victim advocate, unquestionably have the background and basic credentials to be in this position, but The Case Of never indicates why this particular cold case is of particular interest to these particular investigators at this particular moment. Instead of building the story around the presence of an onscreen filmmaker or utilizing a piece of the CBS News team to steer a reinvestigation, The Case Of: JonBenet Ramsey uses dutiful-but-bland retired FBI agent Jim Clemente and New Scotland Yard veteran Laura Richards as the focal point. Of course, even in dutiful repetition of tawdry crime details, The Case Of: JonBenet Ramsey drew a big audience for CBS on Sunday, so why waste time on inquisitiveness or storytelling? 'The Case of: JonBenet Ramsey' Premiere: Multiple Bombshells Dropped in Colorado Cold Case
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Had the project been gripping or illuminating or even sensationalistic enough to justify a six-hour running time, the network probably would have figured a worthwhile enough audience could be enticed. CBS initially scheduled its miniseries The Case Of: JonBenet Ramsey for six primetime hours kicking off this fall season and commemorating - “celebrating” sounds wrong and “honoring” doesn’t feel like what’s occurring here - the 20th anniversary of the 1996 murder that captured rampant media attention and captivated some portion of the nation.Īfter watching the first two hours, which premiered on Sunday night opposite the Emmys and NFL football, it’s easy to see why CBS either decided or simply was willing to cut the docuseries down to only four hours over two nights.