Word: ramseys
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...CHARLES RAMSEY D.C. police boss gets kudos for handling IMF protests. Should get consulting gig with Reno...
Seven months after JonBenet Ramsey's murder, with the investigation going nowhere, police detectives in her hometown of Boulder, Colo., took an extraordinary gamble. They flew to Atlanta, Ga., where her parents had moved after the killing, and drove to the suburb where the children's beauty-pageant queen was buried. On the eve of what would have been her seventh birthday, Aug. 6, 1997, the investigators broke into St. James Episcopal Cemetery with the help of a Georgia state cop who picked the lock on the gate. The Boulder detectives then planted a hidden microphone and camera...
Recalling those tragicomic efforts last week, former Boulder detective Steve Thomas said, "We were grasping at straws." JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, didn't visit the grave. They have denied any culpability in their daughter's death and have not been charged with any crime. Yet they were the primary targets of the graveyard stakeout. And several investigators still consider them the likeliest suspects in the unsolved killing, as Detective Thomas makes clear in his new book, JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation, St. Martin's Press, written with Don Davis, a former wire-service reporter. Thomas...
Working from circumstantial evidence and surmise, Thomas elaborates his theory of the crime: Patsy Ramsey accidentally killed her daughter in a late-night rage over the child's chronic bed-wetting, mortally wounding her with a blow to the head, and then in a state of panic, tried to make the assault appear to be the result of a botched kidnapping. Patsy penned a ransom note, Thomas alleges, and carried JonBenet to a basement storeroom, where she garroted her. Thomas believes John Ramsey was asleep and unaware of the events until morning, when he discovered the body and moved...
...prosecutors for crippling the case by failing to collect or test key evidence like phone records and hairs found at the murder scene and for denying detectives' requests for warrants for financial and movie-rental records. Thomas seizes on what he believes to be contradictions and inconsistencies in the Ramseys' statements. Did John check the doors the night of the killing and find them secure, as he said right after the murder, or did he not, as he said four months later? Did John read to his daughter in bed or carry her to bed asleep? If she was wearing...