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What a piece of garbage this is. Elizabeth Vargas evidently has no shame, and neither does the network that represented this program as a legitimate piece of investigative journalism. Far from it. The first 3/4 of the program is entirely about allegations made by a woman (Bernice Johnson) incarcerated in Colorado. The man that she claims is the killer is the man that she attempted (or planned) to kill, this being the reason she is incarcerated. Her reasons for believing he is the killer are slim and none. In her theory, this man was hired by another man on the east coast, to kidnap JonBenet and the kidnapping went wrong. After Vargas stretched all this out for 90 minutes, in the end they finally stated in a plain way that there is no reason for anyone to think these two men had any contact or even were aware of each other's existence. And no real reason to think that the man on the east coast had any interest in JonBenet Ramsey. The reason why the authorities are not interested in the theories of that incarcerated woman become all too apparent. Why do Vargas and the A&E network producers believe that any of this is something that the public should be made aware of? Anything to make a quick buck.

What happened to the A&E is terribly sad. When it first began as a cable channel in the '80s, it focused on the arts. There was nothing else on cable like it. For anyone interested in the arts, it was the best thing that had ever happened to cable. I recall that they used to have a Sunday morning program that was truly outstanding. The downfall seems to have begun in 1994, when they first began airing reruns of "Law & Order". How does a TV channel dedicated to the fine arts switch to the worst sort of fiction that television has ever produced? In 2012, "Duck Dynasty" arrived, a program most notable for grown men with long scraggly beards who liked to use dynamite to blow up beaver dams and kill the beavers. To be fair, A&E has done a ton of really good stuff over the many years since it was created, but this kind of programming, the preposterously DISINGENUOUS search for JonBenet's killer, is just plain garbage.