Reader: I Remember Spanish Speakers, Not Spaniards, in Swansea

I've followed this case since the beginning. Back then, even with all the eyebrow-raising antics of Patsy and John Ramsey, I gave them the benefit of the doubt — until they moved away. Who does that? If it were my kid, I'd take a leave of absence from work and camp out at the Boulder cop shop. I'd be the biggest pain in the hind end they'd ever known: "Find my daughter's murderer STAT!" You know who moves away? People who are guilty.

This entire thing stinks to high heaven, and everyone who hosed the pooch on this case needs to pay...hard. Thanks to Alan Prendergast for an excellent article.
Pat Desrosiers
Denver

Thank you for writing about the Ramsey case. I've read whatever I could find about it. It's frustrating that the case has dragged on for eighteen years. After reading this piece, I woke up the next morning with a clear thought: ''Fleet White did it, or he knows who did.'' I saw the photo of the Whites in Alan's story, and I saw that Fleet had this shit-eating grin, as if he knows something big. There certainly must be, at least, obstruction of justice going on; someone's not being honest. I hope that the case will be solved in my lifetime.
Cheryl Murphy
Commerce City

I remember all the news stories that year. Even at my young age, my connection with spirit was strong, and I knew it was a family member.

Who the fuck cares, you ask? Us non-idiots who realize our justice system is corrupt and want our brainwashed society to know and understand this horrible truth.
Kate Lynn
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Great article about the Swansea/Elyria neighborhood. I grew up in that area in the '60s and early '70s and remember a lot of what Kyle Harris wrote about. The one thing I don't remember was a large community from Spain living in that area. There were some Spanish-speaking people, and more were moving into the neighborhood, but they were Hispanic (Mexican-American) or Mexican. Shirley Valentine and Kyle Harris, it seems, don't know the difference between people from Spain (Europe) and people of Mexican descent or from Mexico.

Miss Valentine made a statement — "The whites moved out and the Spanish moved in" — that made me cringe. Maybe she and Harris need to huddle up with Gustavo Arellano, author of ¡Ask a Mexican! He, however, may not be as gentle as I was with trying to sort out two different frickin' countries, on two frickin' different continents, and two entirely different frickin' peoples.

We speak English in America, so I guess we are all from England, according to Valentine and Harris.
David Moya
Lakewood