open image in gallery Lou Smit, a detective who worked in Colorado Springs law enforcement for decades, came out of retirement at the request of Boulder authorities after the 1996 murder of ...

Who was JonBenét detective Lou Smit, who died with the belief the Ramseys were innocent? - Veteran detective Lou Smit came ...

If there’s only one way we can ever describe Andrew Louis “Lou” Smit, it would have to be as arguably one of the greatest ...

I truly believe this is one of the most brutalized families in American history,” says Joe Berlinger of the late Patsy, John ...

“The problem was the 5-foot, 9-inch minimum height requirement – Lou was only five feet 8 ¾ inches,” writes John Wesley Anderson, a fellow Colorado Springs detective who asked Smit to be ...

Lou Smit’s friend and former law enforcement colleague, John Wesley Anderson, published a book last year about the late detective’s quest to get justice for JonBenet; Suit’s work is ...

Lou Smit just didn’t know it yet as he drove to Boulder from Colorado Springs in the months immediately after the murder. The retired veteran detective had been called in by Boulder’s district ...

The faint markings on the suitcase - possibly a footprint - bolsters retired homicide detective Lou Smit's theory that an intruder killed the 6-year-old beauty queen. "The suitcase is in a peculiar ...

When Detective Lou Smit quit the JonBenét Ramsey investigation in 1998, he kept documents, computer files and videos that built the preliminary foundation of the murder case. He also had inside ...