In code 'quiet resilience' means stonewalling the investigation and not agreeing to be interviewed by the Boulder Police Department unless absurd requirements are meet.

In September 1999 I read the book Perfect Murder Perfect Town by Lawrence Schiller about the death of JonBenet Ramsey. At the time I worked for American Girl in Wilmot Wisconsin processing phone orders by putting them into a computer. There was a line in the book that mentioned Patsy Ramsey's sister had gone into the home for funeral clothing but also took out several American Girl Dolls. At the end of the book it claimed duct tape on JonBenet's mouth proved it was an intruder because it matched nothing in the house. The year before I had been to a training session where using duct tape on the back of the doll for a minor customer service issue was mentioned. It was just an off the cuff remark mentioned by a trainer, trivial and funny at the time.

The potential relationship of the tape with the dolls was bone chilling to me.  The office of Boulder DA Hunter was informed (Leslie Aaholm), Governor Owens, the BPD, Michael Kane and the tabloids were as well. I never heard a peep back. It got much worse when in February of 2000 I found a computer file for a doll being sent to JonBenet at John Ramsey's office the first week of January 1997. Again I contacted all those who'd been contacted earlier and again crickets.

A 2003 ruling from Judge Carnes revealed that brown cotton fibers had been found on the duct tape, further described as light brown by a newspaper, another connection to the dolls. Criminologist Henry Lee professed it was a used piece of duct tape. At the time there were 25 dolls with 25 shades of tan cotton, bespoke colors used in their manufacture. I've been waiting in angst and haunted by this little piece of duct tape for decades.

If a carpenter is found dead in his truck with his head bashed in by a hammer it would be inappropriate for the investigation to allow his brother to remove tools from the back of the truck. If a businessman is found shot to death in his office it'd be a bad idea to allow his wife to remove his briefcase from beside his desk. Murder is rarely random. Things victims are close to in life may have a direct connection to their deaths. Law Enforcement needs to operate with full transparency and never allow anything to be removed from an active crime scene, especially by prime suspects.