Word: jonbenets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1997-1997
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...murder case seemed to be on the move last week. John and Patricia Ramsey finally submitted to police interrogation (she for 6 1/2 hours, he for 2). Then, as if they felt the public had to be served, they held a press conference. "I did not kill my daughter JonBenet," said John Ramsey before a select group of seven Colorado journalists. "I'm appalled," said his wife, "that anyone would think that John or I would be involved in such a hideous, heinous crime." But there were no tough questions--ground rules forbade queries about the night of the murder...
DENVER: The parents of JonBenet Ramsey spoke to reporters for the first time in four months to address growing suspicions that they might be connected to her death. "I did not kill my daughter," John Ramsey told six members of the local media. Reporters were not allowed to ask about the police interrogation of the parents, nor about the night their daughter died. The conference came one day after the couple finally submitted to separate police interrogations. The Ramseys had heaped suspicion upon themselves by refusing to agree to formal interviews with police and by their seeming refusal to offer...
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...