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Who is Steve?
Former Boulder Police Detective

Steve Thomas, former Boulder Police Detective, was enjoying his police career as an inconspicuous undercover narcotics detective until a fateful Christmas homicide in 1996.

Thomas was called in as one of the lead investigators on the JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation two days after the discovery of her body on December 26, 1996. Inheriting a botched crime scene, a reluctant DA's office, and politics of the worst sort, he worked the case from 1996 - 1998.

During the investigation, he pursued countless leads, gathered evidence, and interviewed hundred of witnesses and suspects across the country, including the Ramsey parents.

On August 6, 1998, on JonBenet's 8th birthday, Steve Thomas resigned from the Boulder Police Department. He wrote a five page resignation letter, issuing a pointed critique of the district attorney's office and the concerns about the mishandling of this of the murder investigation, exposing what many had suspected about the criminal justice system in Boulder.

Quotes from Steve, "This case, first and foremost, should have been a pretty straightforward murder investigation. What it became, instead, was a disastrous failure on the part of government, of which I was a part, and a political charade and fraud put upon the public."

Quotes from Steve, " I was a police officer and detective for 13 years. It was a calling I loved. How often in life are we blessed to thoroughly enjoy our work? But no one should be asked to choose between what is demonstrably wrong, one's ethics and one's livelihood. Rather than work for a system that was flawed from the inside out, I left police work. People ask me if I miss it -- I most certainly do. But I do not miss, for a second, the criminal "in-justice" system that is in place and the way business is conducted in Boulder."

A graduate of the University of Colorado, Steve Thomas received more than a hundred commendations and awards during his 13-year police career, including the Award of Excellence, a medal for lifesaving, a SWAT citation, and a Distinguished Service Award. Thomas' career included a variety of assignments, ranging from recruit training and SWAT to special investigations and undercover narcotics. One of Thomas' drug cases was heard by the Colorado Supreme Court, resulting in a unanimous search-and-seizure decision favoring law enforcement. After two officer-involved shootings, Thomas also instructed on surviving critical incidents. Prior to the Ramsey case, Thomas worked on a multi-state task force investigating racketeering and organized crime that resulted in numerous grand jury indictments.

Steve Thomas has been a guest lecturer on criminal justice topics and instructed on law enforcement issues. His commitment and respect for professional law enforcement has not diminished.

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