Legendary Colorado Springs detective Lou Smit — who proudly boasted that his work led to more than 200 murder convictions — had a dying wish of his own.
He’d come out of retirement in 1997 to assist the Boulder district attorney as a special investigator into the murder of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey, who’d been found slain in the basement of her family’s home on the day after Christmas in 1996. Smit resigned within two years of taking up the position, firmly convinced of the Ramseys’ innocence and frustrated at what he perceived as failings within the Boulder investigative teams.
