Linda Arndt

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Taken off the case in May 1997 and took medical leave "to deal with the physical exhaustion and strain". .

Background
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First Days of the Investigation
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Fax to the Ramsey Family
Three days after the discovery of the body, on December 29, 1996, the Ramseys flew out of Boulder, despite the fact that police were still attempting to speak to them.


 * Detective Arndt made one final try at persuading the lawyers to grant interviews, but was told that the family would be out of state for an unknown time. She responded that she had a single page of questions the police would like to have answered, and the attorney said, “Fax them.”

In a move which was later heavily criticized, Linda Arndt faxed the Ramseys' lawyers a list of 16 questions, and the Ramseys' lawyers provided brief answers to each question. Their answers were no more than a sentence or two for each question. A transcript of the fax, including those answers which have been made public, is available here

Though the police gained little from the fax, it provided the Ramseys' lawyers with an overview of the gaps in the police's knowledge.

Other Investigative Actions
Working with social services

Removal from the Case
Linda Arndt spoke of "politics" among the Boulder Police Department's Ramsey case investigative team. She said, in 2000:


 * The politics involved people in supervisory positions [who were] able to see black and white and not able to see anything that wasn't tangible. And if a person's opinion on the investigative team was in the minority, that opinion was dismissed.


 * Q: Does that include your opinions?


 * A: It included mine, all of the Department of Social Services, including some other people.

When asked which opinions of hers were dismissed, Arndt replied:


 * A: Incest. Naming the Ramseys as suspects.

Resignation
Resigned Thursday, March 18, 1999

Good Morning America Appearance
Wednesday, May 19, 1999