Glenn Meyer

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Glenn Meyer was a man who was renting a room from the Ramseys' neighbors the Barnhills at the time of the killing. Meyer was one of the first people investigated as a potential intruder suspect in the days after the crime. Meyer was fully cooperative with the Boulder Police Department. He provided multiple DNA samples, handwriting samples, fingerprints, and hair. He also voluntarily took a polygraph test. Police found no physical evidence to link Meyer to the crime scene and no credible motive for him to commit the crime. Meyer also had an alibi from the Ramseys' elderly neighbor Joe Barnhill, in whose house Meyer was staying.

In spite of this, the District Attorney's office and the Ramseys' private investigators continued to investigate Meyer independently. They also found no evidence to link him to the crime, and soon moved on to other suspected intruders such as Michael Helgoth and John Mark Karr.

In recent years, theories of Meyer's involvement have been touted in Facebook groups and in a series of 2018 tabloid articles published by Dylan Howard, an outspoken supporter of the Ramsey family.

Personal Background
Glenn R. Meyer (November 5, 1932-July 3, 2005) was born in Indiana. He had no criminal record. Meyer was a US Army veteran of the Korean War. Meyer married Charlotte Hey on March 22, 1980 (Meyer was 48 years old at the time) and they were separated in October 1986, ten years before the crime. He had no children with Charlotte Hey, but he had two sons presumably from an earlier marriage. He worked as a mortgage lender for Meyer Mortgage Company in Boulder, Colorado, from 1989-1999. At some point after that, Meyer returned to Shelby, Indiana, and moved into Major Manor, a retirement community (falsely referred to as a "shelter for the homeless" in the tabloids).

Meyer reportedly knew the Barnhills through a Methodist church - Meyer had been attending a weekly men's Bible study group with Joe Barnhill.

Meyer was 64 years old at the time of the killing.

Police Investigation
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Tabloid Theories
Tabloid editor Dylan Howard (who runs ---), and who is known for promoting a new intruder suspect every year around the holiday period, published a string of articles about Glenn Meyer in 2018:


 * February 2, 2018 "Shock Confession: My Husband Murdered JonBenet!": claims by Meyer's ex-wife Charlotte Hey (now Charlotte Cole) that she believed Meyer killed JonBenet because she asked him about it and "he didn't deny it". She claims it was suspicious that he had kept newspaper clippings about the case. She also claims "he used up all my savings" and "couldn't keep a job". It is not clear why she waited 20 years to share her suspicions, and did so in a tabloid interview, rather than by calling police. Article also cites Facebook posts by amateur researcher Roscoe Clark (See below).

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 * Mar 7, 2018: "JonBenét Murder Bombshell! Beauty Queen Was Killed By TWO Men." Published in Radar Online, New Idea, In Touch Weekly, all published by Dylan Howard.


 * April 4, 2018: "Case Closed? Ransom Note IDs JonBenét Ramsey’s Killer!" Claims Glenn Meyer's "handwriting matches the ransom note". Its sole basis for this claim is a Facebook post by amateur researcher Roscoe Clark (see below). Published in The National Enquirer, Radar Online, New Idea, In Touch Weekly


 * July 23, 2018: National Enquirer. "JonBenét Killer Finally Found". Claims that amateur Facebook poster Roscoe Clark (see below) has solved the case after reportedly giving information about Meyer to Boulder Police Department.


 * Glenn Meyer's body to be dug up : calls by anonymous "investigators" to exhume Meyer's body. Despite the fact that Meyer's DNA does not match the unidentified DNA found at the scene, one anonymous "investigator" tells the Enquirer, "I think there could be benefits, forensically, to exhuming him".

Facebook Speculation


Many of the tabloid articles implicating Meyer are explicitly based on claims by a man named Roscoe Clark, who runs the Facebook page "Jonbenet Investigation". Clark, who has no formal training or accreditation in any form of forensic investigation, is known for reconstructing pieces of evidence in his own home and photographing them on backgrounds similar to the original Boulder Police evidence photographs. Clark also dresses up in clothing resembling an actual CSI investigator. Clark also makes elaborate drawings and diagrams of elements of the crime scene and has made plaster casts of JonBenet Ramsey's skull.

Clark's elaborate theory of the crime is that there were multiple intruders, one of whom was Glenn Meyer, and that they were still hiding in the Ramsey home on December 26, even while police were searching the house. He believes JonBenet was "stab [sic] in the head more than seven times with the screwdriver end of a Red Swiss Army Knife". Clark also claimed:


 * "The small brown extention power cord that had one end cut off was inverted into JonBenet inside her oversize panty, all the killer to revived her using 120 volts of power"

Clark also creates ice-sculptures depicting JonBenet Ramsey and has been in contact with John Ramsey. He refers to himself on his Facebook page as "a group of experts".

Other Comments on Meyer
Jeff Shapiro, an investigative journalist

I know Meyer and he's harmless, just a nice guy.

"I never did meet JonBenet or the mother," Meyer said. "But I can't imagine a mother would do that. (I don't know) why neither one wants to take a lie detector test. The truth is what always comes out."