Tom Koby

Tom Koby was the chief of the Boulder Police Department for the first year and a half of the Ramsey investigation. Known for his "laid-back" leadership style, Koby was harshly criticized by his own officers for allowing the District Attorney's office to dominate the investigation.

With Koby's permission, the DA's office handed over police reports and evidence to the Ramsey family before they had been interviewed. Koby also provided the entire case file to the DA's investigator Lou Smit for "indexing". Smit proceeded to rearrange the entire file around the "intruder theory" and fill it with his own theories of "suspicious" details in crime scene photographs.

In 1998, after a vote of no confidence by officers in the Boulder Police, Koby stepped down and was replaced by Mark Beckner.



Day One
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Re-investigation by the DA's office
Hunter request access to the entire casefile in February 1997. He said he merely wanted to "index" it to make it more organized.

Koby agreed as long as Hunter did not second-guess or reinvestigate.

By May 31, 1997, the police had submitted approximately 8000 pages of documents to the District Attorney's office.