December 30, 2025 • 12 mins
On this episode of True Crime Tuesday, Gary and Shannon touch on a true crime case from 30 years ago, the murder of six-year-old Jon Benet Ramsey, and the recent new developments in the case as well as a look into the 'Snow King', former Olympic snowboarder turned drug kingpin Ryan James Wedding.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, let's see what are we doing? Are we doing? Oh? Yeah,
true crime?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Did you not see the thing?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Oh about that murder from thirty years ago? No, it
sounds made up. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It's just in.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Garry and Shannon present True Crime.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Okay, So, Jambinet's her father says that the new evidence
in this case is a source of optimism. It has
been thirty years since six year old Jambrenet Ramsey was
found dead in their home there in Boulder, Colorado, and
(00:39):
this report from police. If you haven't heard about it
over the holidays, because God forbid a holiday pass without
a Jambonet Ramsey update, it was Christmas, by the way,
it was a day after Christmas when she was reported missing.
But this annual report now from police this year says
new evidence is being considered in the case.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
The Bolder Police chiefhims self put out a statement a
week or so ago week and a half ago that said,
this past year, our detectives have conducted several new interviews
as well as reinterviewed individuals based on tips we've received.
We've also collected new evidence and tested and retested other
pieces of evidence to generate new leads.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
If you're guessing this revolves around DNA testing. You are correct.
The technology continues to advance as it relates to DNA testing. Now,
police did not outline specifics what the new evidence includes,
who had been interviewed, who had been reinterviewed for the case,
but the chief went on to say, it's never too
(01:41):
late for people with knowledge of this terrible crime to
come forward, and I urge those responsible for this murder
to contact us. And you know, when you step back
for a moment and you think about this case of
this six year old girl, the type of six year
old girl that gets all the attention of a international attention,
(02:01):
and she did beauty queen, six year old, blonde hair,
doll out of a box, come to life type little girl.
She ends up dead in the home's basement. And this
hasn't been solved. Thirty years later, a case that got
international attention from go on Christmas never was solved, even
(02:27):
though the Boulder Police went in there and messed up
the whole crime scene from the beginning. There was an
odd ransom note, there were odd financial figures in the note.
It just seems like there was too much evidence. The
girl's body, the girl's clothes, the home itself, the parents,
the sun. It just seems like there was so much
(02:50):
potential for evidence to be found to find out exactly
what happened. The fact that nobody knows, well, somebody knows,
but the fact that we don't know thirty years later
for a case I got so much attention is wild.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
John Ramsey was on Ashley Banfield's show just a couple
of days ago and said that this is encouraging, this
new report from the Boulder PD, and said the key
really in progress has been the addition of new leadership.
It wasn't very good for twenty five or twenty six years.
And now knowing Chief Redfern from the outside, I've met
(03:25):
with him three or four times. I'm impressed with him.
I think he's sincere and honest. John Ramsey says he
hopes they'll also partner with Authrum Labs, which is made
a headline for itself when it got involved in the
Brian Coberger investigation in Idaho, and said that and this
I think is a key. The police department has not
(03:46):
told Dad has not told John Ramsey who was being
reinterviewed or what new evidence was being considered. And I
don't know if they that's just a matter of if
they want to keep it so close to the vest
that they're not sure that he'd be able to do that,
or if it had anything to do with him. But
(04:09):
they haven't told him what the updates are. But they
are re interviewing a bunch of people.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
It was the day after Christmas nineteen ninety six when
Chaalbine's mother, Patsy, said that they had found a note
that the daughter had been kidnapped in the home. The
note had been The letter had asked for one hundred
and eighteen thousand dollars, which, if I'm not mistaken, was
the bonus the father had received recently from work. The
note told the Ramses not to call police. Police turn up,
(04:37):
they start searching. They discover the girl's body in the
basement spare room. That raised questions right away, what the
hell your daughter? You get a note in your house,
this is your daughter's missing? You don't search the entire
home top to bottom, left and right, over and over.
Her body's discovered in that basement spare room. She has
duct tape on her mouth and her neck. They determined
(04:58):
that shit was strangulation death. Immediately ruled a homicide. Three
days later, they flow the body to Atlanta. She's buried
with her older half sister, who died in a car
accident four years before. Make matters weirder. Investigator said that
that home was written inside the house. A handwriting test
(05:21):
at one point was done which eliminated the father but
did not clear the mother. Her parents remained suspects for
quite some time.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Patsy eventually died. She died from cancer.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I believe, yeah, pretty soon after, within ten years.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Man, and remember Burke. Of course, the nine year old
brother at the time was considered a potential suspect right
early on. Yeah, man, just an awful case. Our True
Crime Tuesday introduces us now to a guy named Ryan
Wedding for Olympic snowboard. It represented Canada at the twenty
(06:02):
two thousand and two Winter Olympics the men's Parallel Giant slalom.
But after the Olympics, you know, you get bored. There's
kind of a letdown. He becomes one of the largest
cocaine dealers in the entire world, to the point where
Cash Patel headed The FBI has compared Ryan Wedding to
(06:22):
major drug lords like Pablo Escobar and El Chapo Guzman.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Wasn't there just a documentary Cocaine Quarterback making its way
around the streaming services about a quarterback that ended up
a cocaine kingpin.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, this is very well. I mean it's not similar,
it's not football, but it's clearly that kind of a storyline.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Well, sometimes when you've got athletes, like super athletes, athletes
that are successful at the highest level, they go on
to be you know, titans of industry.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
It's like that mindset.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, you just got to figure out which industry you
just got.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
To figure out. Sometimes it's cocaine.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
In this case, this guy was making headlines this week
because it was detailed that not only is he on
the FBI's ten most wanted list, Mexican authorities seized a
bunch of property that supposedly belonged to him, including several
motorcycles literally dozens of exotic and specialized motorcycles worth about
(07:22):
forty million dollars, among other things. So, this guy goes
to the Olympics in two thousand and two, Like we said,
after he goes back, he goes back to Canada. He
goes to Simon Fraser University, got into bodybuilding, et cetera.
Started speculating in Wall Street, which he financed by growing marijuana.
(07:43):
About twenty years ago, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police raided
the farm and they found guns. They found millions of
dollars worth of pot, and he was not on the
property at the time, so there was not enough evidence
to actually charge him. But he expanded his operation when
he was joining up with cocaine smugglers from places like
(08:05):
Iran and Russia. In twenty ten, he's convicted of attempting
to buy cocaine from a government agent, a US government
agent in two thousand and eight, sentenced to four years
in prison, did about three years, and at about that
time started feeling like this was his plan. Just October
of last year, STI over a year ago, he was
(08:27):
officially charged by the Department of Justice, our Department of
Justice for leading a transnational organized crime group that engaged
in cocaine trafficking and murder, including innocent civilians. He's charged
multiple felonies. One of sixteen people charged as part of
Operation Giant Slalom, and the murders by the way that
(08:48):
he's accused of having carried out were a married couple
and another individual, thirty nine year old guy. The married
couple was killed in November twenty three, the the single
guy killed in May of last year. He was believed
to have ordered the murders because apparently those people were
going to testify against him in the big federal case. Now,
(09:11):
according to authorities, since he got out in twenty eleven,
he went to Mexico. That's why the Mexican authorities found
these motorcycles allegedly, and he became a high ranking member
in the Sinaloa cartel.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Wow, good for him.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
The alleged second command of the trafficking ring was arrested
in October of last year, and as I mentioned, having
ordered the murder of a federal witness, potentially in Colombia
as well.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Like, that's really making your own name for yourself. You
are a slalom guy, right, the slalom.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Snowboard event, giant slalom.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Snowboard giant slalom guy, and you're able to work your
way into and into the upper echelon of a Mexican
drug cartel.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Seems being a slalom that's pretty cool. Like that's quite
a pivot.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And if you're waiting for the documentary, there is one
in production supposedly called snow King from Olympian to Narco.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
It's clever.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It's a collaboration between Rolling Stone Films and a couple
of places out of London and Canada. But so this
guy is going to be caught at some point. But
the Mercedes they also picked up. I said that sixty
some odd motorcycles worth forty million bucks. Those are expensive.
(10:33):
If they're sixty of them and they're worth a forty
million bucks, that's an expensive motorcycle each one.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Oh yeah, those are drug run in motorcycles.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
The seizure of a rare two thousand and two Mercedes
clkgtr roadster part of the ongoing man hunt. As of
right now, there's a reward ten million dollars from the
United States and five million from others up to fifteen
million for information leading to his arrest and or conviction.
So he's on the FBI's top ten most wanted list.
(11:05):
That's as of March I believe of this year. So
good for him. Good for him finding some business, you know,
to do after he He didn't peak when he was
when he was an Olympic snowboarder. Most other people probably.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Mean most Slalom guys show up at the drug cartel meeting,
they'd be laughed out of that room.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, so what did you do before you got into
cocaine trafficking? Oh, you know, giant.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I don't think that's how the interview goes with the cartel.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I've never been in Rubigardal.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I think it goes more along the lines of the
Chris Little KFI News interview. He's more of a cartel
kind of guy. Because Chris Little had a question he'd
ask everybody in the KFI newsroom, which used to be
the newsroom over there. It's now sealed off in this building.
But he used to say, all right, imagine you are
put into a blender. You're shrunken down and you're put
(11:57):
into a blender. How do you get out that? Now
that's a cartel question, all right, because you've got to
think creatively. You're in a dangerous situation. You could die.
How are you gonna not die? That's that's cartel s
right there.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Not what did you do before you started trafficking cocaine?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
No, the takeaway is Chris Little has a better shot
at running a cartel than you do.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Probably true, It's probably true. All right, the John probably
got more product is up next. We'll see you tomorrow.
Our Good or Bad twenty twenty five, show what good
or Bad. We'll work on the title, but it's like,
what happened that was good? What happened that was Oh.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, we want to know what you think too, but
I don't want to hear about, like, you know, really
bad stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
You keep it light bad stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, yeah, like that one time in April, I stepped
in a puddle.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I broke my shoelace.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, all right, John's coming up next.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
See you tomorrow. State Drive.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Everybody
Okay, let's see what are we doing? Are we doing? Oh? Yeah,
true crime?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Did you not see the thing?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Oh about that murder from thirty years ago? No, it
sounds made up. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It's just in.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Garry and Shannon present True Crime.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Okay, So, Jambinet's her father says that the new evidence
in this case is a source of optimism. It has
been thirty years since six year old Jambrenet Ramsey was
found dead in their home there in Boulder, Colorado, and
(00:39):
this report from police. If you haven't heard about it
over the holidays, because God forbid a holiday pass without
a Jambonet Ramsey update, it was Christmas, by the way,
it was a day after Christmas when she was reported missing.
But this annual report now from police this year says
new evidence is being considered in the case.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
The Bolder Police chiefhims self put out a statement a
week or so ago week and a half ago that said,
this past year, our detectives have conducted several new interviews
as well as reinterviewed individuals based on tips we've received.
We've also collected new evidence and tested and retested other
pieces of evidence to generate new leads.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
If you're guessing this revolves around DNA testing. You are correct.
The technology continues to advance as it relates to DNA testing. Now,
police did not outline specifics what the new evidence includes,
who had been interviewed, who had been reinterviewed for the case,
but the chief went on to say, it's never too
(01:41):
late for people with knowledge of this terrible crime to
come forward, and I urge those responsible for this murder
to contact us. And you know, when you step back
for a moment and you think about this case of
this six year old girl, the type of six year
old girl that gets all the attention of a international attention,
(02:01):
and she did beauty queen, six year old, blonde hair,
doll out of a box, come to life type little girl.
She ends up dead in the home's basement. And this
hasn't been solved. Thirty years later, a case that got
international attention from go on Christmas never was solved, even
(02:27):
though the Boulder Police went in there and messed up
the whole crime scene from the beginning. There was an
odd ransom note, there were odd financial figures in the note.
It just seems like there was too much evidence. The
girl's body, the girl's clothes, the home itself, the parents,
the sun. It just seems like there was so much
(02:50):
potential for evidence to be found to find out exactly
what happened. The fact that nobody knows, well, somebody knows,
but the fact that we don't know thirty years later
for a case I got so much attention is wild.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
John Ramsey was on Ashley Banfield's show just a couple
of days ago and said that this is encouraging, this
new report from the Boulder PD, and said the key
really in progress has been the addition of new leadership.
It wasn't very good for twenty five or twenty six years.
And now knowing Chief Redfern from the outside, I've met
(03:25):
with him three or four times. I'm impressed with him.
I think he's sincere and honest. John Ramsey says he
hopes they'll also partner with Authrum Labs, which is made
a headline for itself when it got involved in the
Brian Coberger investigation in Idaho, and said that and this
I think is a key. The police department has not
(03:46):
told Dad has not told John Ramsey who was being
reinterviewed or what new evidence was being considered. And I
don't know if they that's just a matter of if
they want to keep it so close to the vest
that they're not sure that he'd be able to do that,
or if it had anything to do with him. But
(04:09):
they haven't told him what the updates are. But they
are re interviewing a bunch of people.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
It was the day after Christmas nineteen ninety six when
Chaalbine's mother, Patsy, said that they had found a note
that the daughter had been kidnapped in the home. The
note had been The letter had asked for one hundred
and eighteen thousand dollars, which, if I'm not mistaken, was
the bonus the father had received recently from work. The
note told the Ramses not to call police. Police turn up,
(04:37):
they start searching. They discover the girl's body in the
basement spare room. That raised questions right away, what the
hell your daughter? You get a note in your house,
this is your daughter's missing? You don't search the entire
home top to bottom, left and right, over and over.
Her body's discovered in that basement spare room. She has
duct tape on her mouth and her neck. They determined
(04:58):
that shit was strangulation death. Immediately ruled a homicide. Three
days later, they flow the body to Atlanta. She's buried
with her older half sister, who died in a car
accident four years before. Make matters weirder. Investigator said that
that home was written inside the house. A handwriting test
(05:21):
at one point was done which eliminated the father but
did not clear the mother. Her parents remained suspects for
quite some time.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Patsy eventually died. She died from cancer.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I believe, yeah, pretty soon after, within ten years.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Man, and remember Burke. Of course, the nine year old
brother at the time was considered a potential suspect right
early on. Yeah, man, just an awful case. Our True
Crime Tuesday introduces us now to a guy named Ryan
Wedding for Olympic snowboard. It represented Canada at the twenty
(06:02):
two thousand and two Winter Olympics the men's Parallel Giant slalom.
But after the Olympics, you know, you get bored. There's
kind of a letdown. He becomes one of the largest
cocaine dealers in the entire world, to the point where
Cash Patel headed The FBI has compared Ryan Wedding to
(06:22):
major drug lords like Pablo Escobar and El Chapo Guzman.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Wasn't there just a documentary Cocaine Quarterback making its way
around the streaming services about a quarterback that ended up
a cocaine kingpin.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, this is very well. I mean it's not similar,
it's not football, but it's clearly that kind of a storyline.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Well, sometimes when you've got athletes, like super athletes, athletes
that are successful at the highest level, they go on
to be you know, titans of industry.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
It's like that mindset.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, you just got to figure out which industry you
just got.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
To figure out. Sometimes it's cocaine.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
In this case, this guy was making headlines this week
because it was detailed that not only is he on
the FBI's ten most wanted list, Mexican authorities seized a
bunch of property that supposedly belonged to him, including several
motorcycles literally dozens of exotic and specialized motorcycles worth about
(07:22):
forty million dollars, among other things. So, this guy goes
to the Olympics in two thousand and two, Like we said,
after he goes back, he goes back to Canada. He
goes to Simon Fraser University, got into bodybuilding, et cetera.
Started speculating in Wall Street, which he financed by growing marijuana.
(07:43):
About twenty years ago, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police raided
the farm and they found guns. They found millions of
dollars worth of pot, and he was not on the
property at the time, so there was not enough evidence
to actually charge him. But he expanded his operation when
he was joining up with cocaine smugglers from places like
(08:05):
Iran and Russia. In twenty ten, he's convicted of attempting
to buy cocaine from a government agent, a US government
agent in two thousand and eight, sentenced to four years
in prison, did about three years, and at about that
time started feeling like this was his plan. Just October
of last year, STI over a year ago, he was
(08:27):
officially charged by the Department of Justice, our Department of
Justice for leading a transnational organized crime group that engaged
in cocaine trafficking and murder, including innocent civilians. He's charged
multiple felonies. One of sixteen people charged as part of
Operation Giant Slalom, and the murders by the way that
(08:48):
he's accused of having carried out were a married couple
and another individual, thirty nine year old guy. The married
couple was killed in November twenty three, the the single
guy killed in May of last year. He was believed
to have ordered the murders because apparently those people were
going to testify against him in the big federal case. Now,
(09:11):
according to authorities, since he got out in twenty eleven,
he went to Mexico. That's why the Mexican authorities found
these motorcycles allegedly, and he became a high ranking member
in the Sinaloa cartel.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Wow, good for him.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
The alleged second command of the trafficking ring was arrested
in October of last year, and as I mentioned, having
ordered the murder of a federal witness, potentially in Colombia
as well.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Like, that's really making your own name for yourself. You
are a slalom guy, right, the slalom.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Snowboard event, giant slalom.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Snowboard giant slalom guy, and you're able to work your
way into and into the upper echelon of a Mexican
drug cartel.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Seems being a slalom that's pretty cool. Like that's quite
a pivot.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And if you're waiting for the documentary, there is one
in production supposedly called snow King from Olympian to Narco.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
It's clever.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It's a collaboration between Rolling Stone Films and a couple
of places out of London and Canada. But so this
guy is going to be caught at some point. But
the Mercedes they also picked up. I said that sixty
some odd motorcycles worth forty million bucks. Those are expensive.
(10:33):
If they're sixty of them and they're worth a forty
million bucks, that's an expensive motorcycle each one.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Oh yeah, those are drug run in motorcycles.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
The seizure of a rare two thousand and two Mercedes
clkgtr roadster part of the ongoing man hunt. As of
right now, there's a reward ten million dollars from the
United States and five million from others up to fifteen
million for information leading to his arrest and or conviction.
So he's on the FBI's top ten most wanted list.
(11:05):
That's as of March I believe of this year. So
good for him. Good for him finding some business, you know,
to do after he He didn't peak when he was
when he was an Olympic snowboarder. Most other people probably.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Mean most Slalom guys show up at the drug cartel meeting,
they'd be laughed out of that room.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, so what did you do before you got into
cocaine trafficking? Oh, you know, giant.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I don't think that's how the interview goes with the cartel.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I've never been in Rubigardal.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I think it goes more along the lines of the
Chris Little KFI News interview. He's more of a cartel
kind of guy. Because Chris Little had a question he'd
ask everybody in the KFI newsroom, which used to be
the newsroom over there. It's now sealed off in this building.
But he used to say, all right, imagine you are
put into a blender. You're shrunken down and you're put
(11:57):
into a blender. How do you get out that? Now
that's a cartel question, all right, because you've got to
think creatively. You're in a dangerous situation. You could die.
How are you gonna not die? That's that's cartel s
right there.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Not what did you do before you started trafficking cocaine?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
No, the takeaway is Chris Little has a better shot
at running a cartel than you do.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Probably true, It's probably true. All right, the John probably
got more product is up next. We'll see you tomorrow.
Our Good or Bad twenty twenty five, show what good
or Bad. We'll work on the title, but it's like,
what happened that was good? What happened that was Oh.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, we want to know what you think too, but
I don't want to hear about, like, you know, really
bad stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
You keep it light bad stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, yeah, like that one time in April, I stepped
in a puddle.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I broke my shoelace.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, all right, John's coming up next.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
See you tomorrow. State Drive.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
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