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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reported excerpts from the ransom note, which began, "Listen carefully, the two gentlemen who have your daughter don't like you," going on to claim authorship by a "small foreign faction." Yet why has Patsy Ramsey not been ruled out as the writer of the note that threatened to behead JonBenet (a fifth handwriting sample was recently requested of her)? And if outsiders killed the girl, why were there no footprints in the fresh snow around the Ramsey home the morning after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BREAKING THEIR SILENCE | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...Journal, John Cheever wrote, "I dream a movie in full color. It begins on a deceptively decorous note and then moves gradually into a bloody Bedouin war. The audience is rapt until the Bedouins leave the screen and behead all those in the front row. 'Why, it's real!' the survivors scream as they run into the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: True Minds That Don't Meet A.R. | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

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