Someone named Tom Heneghan, purportedly on the basis of inside sources, makes several big claims about JBR's father John. It says that John Ramsey, through his computer company Access Graphics (a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin), was a player in the Iran-Contra affair, which George H.W. Bush essentially ran. Among the claims:

• John Ramsey was on independent counsel Lawrence Walsh's list of witnesses to subpoena, but he never got called

• The phone numbers of Oliver North (a Lt. Col. directing Iran-Contra), Edwin Meese (attorney general under the later Reagan years), and Bill Clinton (protected Mena drug running) were found in Ramsey's office

• Bank accounts of Access Graphics, a Boulder CO company, were located at Silverado Savings and Loan, a corrupt S&L in Denver CO run by Neil Bush (George H.W. Bush's son) that collapsed and resulted in criminal charges against Neil

None of these allegations have been verified so far, but if they turn out to be true, they could be a major new clue in the JBR case. I'm currently trying to verify one of these claims by doing a public records request for Walsh's witness list. Anyone else's help in verifying or debunking Heneghan's claims would be greatly appreciated.

What has been confirmed so far:

• The Ramseys hired a media consultant (read: spin doctor) named Patrick Korten, who previously worked for both Oliver North and Edwin Meese

• Both Lockheed Martin (which acquired Access Graphics in 1991, after Iran-Contra) and Edwin Meese would be involved in a lesser-known scandal that grew out of Iran-Contra called the Inslaw/PROMIS affair. It involved the theft of PROMIS data mining software (which Meese played a role in), and its subsequent alteration by the CIA and its proprietaries (including Lockheed Martin) to merge it with artificial intelligence. Also involved in the Inslaw affair was Robert Byrd, a Senator from West Virginia. JonBenet's mother, Patsy Ramsey, won Miss West Virginia in 1977 and then attended ribbon cuttings with Gov. Jay Rockefeller and Sen. Byrd.