Word: jonbenets
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Behind the heavy wooden furniture and between the shelves stacked with law books in the office of Alex Hunter, district attorney of Boulder, Colo., there are three familiar images: a bust of Abraham Lincoln, a sketch of John F. Kennedy--and a photograph of JonBenet Ramsey...
Last week Hunter sat at ease, that photograph behind his right shoulder, and in a rare interview acknowledged to TIME that he had received "thousands" of letters about JonBenet, many of them from people who are "very sad and angry" that the killer or killers of the six-year-old have not been brought to justice. "I know people want closure," he said, "but I'm not going to rush to satisfy that understandable desire...
...makes the New York Times both the most invaluable and, at times, the most infuriating newspaper in the country. On the one hand, it's a rock of restrained, sober-minded news judgment in a media world that flies into paroxysms of excess every time an O.J. Simpson or JonBenet Ramsey comes along. Yet that same sobriety can make the paper seem stuffy and arthritic, more comfortable explicating the terms of a treaty on land mines than grappling with the latest pop-culture eruption. The Times is easily the best, most important newspaper in the country, authoritative and unfailingly serious...
Boulder authorities, in trying to keep the complete autopsy report under wraps, argued in successive courts that releasing it would publicize details known only to the killer or killers of JonBenet, thereby compromising the ongoing criminal investigation. (Some states ban the preliminary release of autopsy reports for this very reason, though Colorado is not among them.) But the findings made public last week seemed more heartbreaking than harmful...
...number of grisly details were familiar from earlier, partial autopsy reports. The child had been garroted--a noose twisted tightly about her neck with a stick--and her skull had been fractured. Other findings were new. When she died, JonBenet had a red-ink drawing of a heart in the palm of her left hand. Her blond hair was done up in two ponytails, leading some observers to speculate that she had never gone to bed that Christmas night. She had a yellow metal bracelet on her right wrist with the inscription "JonBenet" and the date "12/25/96," presumably a Christmas...