“I always believed it was someone in the household. Kidnappers don’t spend 45 minutes writing multiple pages, which is what was found in this case. That’s abnormal. Ransom requests get made out in advance. Killers don’t wander around a kidnapping spot looking for a crayon. Also, it demanded exactly the precise amount of the father’s just-received bonus.

“There was no evidence of vaginal penetration. And the DNA was a red herring. It doesn’t eliminate anyone. Local authorities said finding a stranger’s DNA on the child’s panties eliminated everyone close to her. No.

“Suppose panties bought in Boulder were from a package handler in China. That handler would leave cells on it. If I just shake your hand, a microscopic tiny amount — one or two DNA cells from me — would be on your hand.

“I never believed investigators should have exonerated everyone familial.”

Keeping up with ‘Jones’s’

In “Bridget Jones’s Baby,” a new familiar-old-friend film, Bridget (Renée Zellweger) ditches Colin Firth’s character for Patrick Dempsey’s, and somewhere there’s Emma Thompson, who once played the “Hillary” role in 1998’s “Primary Colors.”

Colin: “I love even movies I’m not in. I go to movie theaters, like everyone else, with my children. I saw the original ‘Bridget Jones’ never dreaming I’d be in a sequel. When I was cast in this I went back to see the first one again.”

Today’s beauties, like Bella Hadid braless on the DKNY runway, wear no clothes. A teenager in short short shorts so short got a pat-down. Were she hiding any weapon, only a gynecologist could’ve found it. This, to see a beautiful lovely movie. What is our world coming to?

Odds and ends

Civilization needs another book on the GOP candidate? Now comes “Donald Trump: The Man Who Would Be King” by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince . . . While shooting “Sully,” Tom Hanks wore a hat to cover his grown-out naturally white hair . . . Settling on his vote, decorator Carleton Varney’s carrying a huge canvas bag imprinted in big letters with: “It’s in the Bag for Lindsay.” John Lindsay ran for (and then became) NYC mayor in 1965.

Please try to pay attention

NYC’s comedy fest has the “Trump” from the previous “Trump versus Bernie debates” Nov. 3 at Skirball Center . . . A Hill devotee: “We’re not worrying about pneumonia. Our worry is her paranoia” . . . Having argued for months if a presidential debate’s really scheduled, how about two minutes of silence?

Tax men

Larry Kudlow about his new book “JFK and the Reagan Revolution”: “Reagan took and duplicated JFK’s tax-cut ideas. Supply sider Kennedy deregulated. Cutting taxes kept the dollar steady. The idea is, slash the business tax. Stop worrying about taxing the rich people. You can’t tax your way into the Oval Office.”

Druggist: “Viagra prolongs the ability to make love.” Customer: “Can you get it over the counter?” Druggist: “Yes, but I’d need another pill.”