Word: jonbenets
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Following the JonBenet Ramsey murder, Ted Cohen, editor of the International Directory of Pageants, the bible of pageant publications, circulated a letter to beauty-pageant officials stating that he would be drafting a proposed code of ethics for the industry. He might not be the best man for the job. Metro Dade police have told TIME that they have received at least 50 complaints alleging that Cohen, a former Florida state representative, made improper sexual advances to minors dating back to 1972. In 1992, after being charged with one count of sexual battery, one count of false imprisonment...
...media and the general public, the fascination with the JonBenet Ramsey case makes a certain sense. There are the mysterious details of the crime, the near silence of the Boulder police department and the unusual behavior of the girl's wealthy parents. And, of course, there are all those pageant pictures available to feed the nightly TV-news machine. But others see an injustice here: a fixation with the violence that rarely befalls members of rich or famous families--the JonBenets or Ennis Cosbys of the world--and a glossing over of the more pervasive violence sweeping through the lives...
...murders of JonBenet Ramsey and Ennis Cosby promise to be staples of prime-time newsmagazine shows for months to come...
There is something grotesque about a young child wearing lipstick, eye makeup and show-girl costumes. Whether or not the parents of JonBenet had anything to do with her death, they certainly made a travesty of her life. POLLY S. BROWDER La Jolla, California...
From her home in Roswell, Georgia, Nedra Paugh, the 64-year-old grandmother of JonBenet Ramsey, indignantly surveys the media frenzy in Boulder, Colorado. Her granddaughter's childhood, which the papers depict as abnormal, was nothing of the sort, she says. Referring to a story in the Globe purportedly offering photographic evidence (a bruised elbow) that JonBenet had been physically abused, the incredulous grandmother tells TIME, "I know all about what happened. I was there. JonBenet had climbed up on a stool to look at her hamsters in their cage, and she somehow pulled the whole cage down...