Due to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation inquiry into Touch Tone, and the subsequent arrest of Touch Tone's
operators, I was never was able to obtain the physical receipt Touch Tone said they could make available. This one
piece of information was of significant importance, since it directly linked Patsy Ramsey to evidence found at the
crime scene. In addition, I learned from my source at Touch Tone, that they'd been told by a clerk at Mc Guckin
Hardware, that Patsy signed the receipt and forged the name of her husband John Ramsey.
After the arrests of the Touch Tone's operators, I halted my investigation after being threatened with arrest by
Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agents Brown and Maroney. Agent Brown informed me that CBI Agents were
prepared to come to Los Angeles for the purpose of making copies of my computer's hard drives.
Shortly thereafter, Gavin De Becker of De Becker and Associates from Studio City, California, contacted me via telephone
and told me he'd been hired by John Ramsey to find out who I sold information to regarding the Ramseys in the news media. De Becker is a very
well respected “Threat Management Consultant.” In strict accordance with the confidentiality agreements I had with my clients, I informed De
Becker I'd be unable to share any work product with him.
After my report was seen by millions of viewers on the national television news show “Hard Copy,” there was an uproar of support to the theory.
My investigation involved hundreds, if not thousands of hours of research, and the most important information came from close friends of
Patsy Ramsey and family members themselves. No one would say for sure, but the information I gathered from these sources indicated that
Patsy Ramsey herself was possibly a victim of sexual abuse as a child. Patsy may have shared this information with someone during her life. After
many years of carrying the burden of being a survivor of molestation, it would have been difficult for anyone to shoulder the burden of finding out
her daughter too was now being molested like she had been as a child.
The below was copied from a 1999 New York Times article on the racketeering charges against Touch Tone Data supporting the information
I'm once again releasing.
Law Confronts a Peddler of Private Data
By DOUGLAS FRANTZ
Published: July 1, 1999
[The indictment of the Rapps spelled out how they obtained some information about the Ramseys. Within days of the child's death on
Dec. 26, 1996, callers from Touch Tone used pretexts to obtain American Express credit card records for her parents, John and Patricia
Ramsey, according to the charges. Those records showed that purchases were made at a Boulder hardware store several days before the
child's death.
On Jan. 14, 1997, a Touch Tone investigator called McGuckin Hardware pretending to be ''John'' and asking for information concerning
two American Express charges. The investigator followed up with a letter identifying the charges and seeking the invoices. The letter was
signed ''John Ramsey.''
