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Nearly eight months after the body of JonBenet Ramsey was found by her father in the basement of the family's home in Boulder, Colo., local authorities, under a district court order, last week released the full autopsy report on the murdered little girl. Anyone who had predicted last Dec. 26, when a ransom note found by JonBenet's mother turned later in the day into a homicide investigation, that the big news about the case in August would be the grudging release of the autopsy would have been called crazy. What, no arrests, charges, indictments, trial? But, as last...
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...
...last juicy tidbits of the coroner's report on JonBenet Ramsey are released to expectant reporters, but TIME's Dick Woodbury says it's a toss-up whether the information will reveal anything...
...know this man? JonBenet's killer?" ask the orange flyers being distributed in Boulder, Colo., neighborhoods. The leaflets and newspaper ads, which contain a behavioral profile of the alleged murderer, mark the latest public relations effort by the child beauty queen's parents, JOHN and PATRICIA RAMSEY, in the search for JONBENET'S killer. Voicing disgust at police for concentrating their suspicions on him and his family, Ramsey disclosed that his 10-member legal team was pursuing an assortment of "solid" outside leads. The computer-company executive, who has spent hundreds of thousands on lawyers and private eyes, is enlisting...