linda arndt had said to me "we're hopeful that the kidnappers will just drop jonbenet off someplace."w, clutching this cross and just imagining that she was gonna come running down that street. >> they're waiting for the telephone call from the kidnapper. what's going to happen next? >> my former abc news colleague elizabeth vargas did one of the first extensive interviews with detective linda arndt. >> 10:00 comes and goes. and there's no acknowledgment that the deadline imposed by the author of the ransom note has come and gone. >> nobody said, "it's 10:00, and the kidnappers haven't called"? >> nobody said that. >> according to arndt neither john nor patsy ramsey seemed to mark it or freak out about it. she says later she found it curious that john ramsey checked his mail in the kitchen in the middle of the crisis. >> how are you supposed to act? >> i don't know for sure. i really thought i could get jonbenet back if i kept my wits about me, you know? there was a pile of envelopes that had come through our front door slot. i was looking for another communication for the kidnapper.

her name was linda arndt, and she notices that john ramsey is restless. >> it's my understanding that linda arndt had pulled one of john's friends aside and said, john's pacing, and he needs something to occupy his time. i'm going to suggest that you search the house. would you go with them we started in the basement and we're just looking in and. >> we have one one room in the basement that there are no windows in the in that room. when i opened the the door and turned the light on and i. >> see her. >> john picked up his daughter's body and carried her up the stairs. >> and that's when the real questions began. >> what transpired there? when they found the body, changed the whole perspective of what we were looking at. we were no longer looking at a straight kidnaping. we were looking at now a homicide. >> she was tortured. >> a garrote was put around her neck twice and pulled tight enough that it left a deep marks in her neck. she was hit in the head with something. they never were sure what it was, but it was 8.5in long. >> the injury she sustained that the skull injury was more l