BRIAN CABELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It was a tragic, bizarre story, but all the elements were there: the pretty little girl, the former beauty queen, the millionaire father, the mystery of it all -- all of it happening on Christmas night. It was a strange, strange story that the media simply loved. Clearly, from the start, the Boulder police fouled up the investigation. They allowed family and friends to walk all over the house, so the scene was contaminated from the very start. They had thought, of course, this was a kidnaping, and then eventually, within a matter of hours, they discovered, in fact, it was a murder. The parents' reaction from the very start was suspicious in the minds of the police and the minds of the media. They didn't cooperate fully with the police. In fact, they talked to CNN at length before they talked to the police, which raised an awful lot of suspicion in the minds of many. Since then, they have undertaken a PR campaign to try to prove that they are innocent. They have written books. They have appeared on talk shows. They have tried to put forward the most sympathetic view of themselves that they possibly can. But still after a couple of years, that umbrella of suspicion, as the police put it, lies over them.
CNN 20: JonBenet Ramsey Is Murdered, December 26, 1996