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Dates: during 1997-1997
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...sanitize" the house, no bid has yet come close to the mansion's pre-suicide value--about $1.5 million. The real estate agent handling the sale, Randall Bell, is an expert at moving "distressed" properties, having previously consulted, he says, on the sales of homes where Nicole Simpson, JonBenet Ramsey and Sharon Tate passed away, as it were. Not afraid to confront his chief marketing obstacle head on, Bell has renamed the property the Heaven's Gate Mansion, or the Gate for short--which, he says, is at least preferable to its usual media label: "the death house." --Reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND ACTS | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...filed suit against district attorney Alex Hunter, charging--under an obscure Colorado statute that allows private citizens to question the actions of prosecutors--that Hunter has "unjustifiably refused" to charge Patsy Ramsey. Hoffman's evidence? Testimonials from four writing experts alleging it is probable the ransom note discovered when JonBenet was first reported missing is in her mother's hand. A judge has yet to decide whether the suit merits a hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND ACTS | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...seem to wish the issue would just disappear. A recent Denver Post report found that citizens were more concerned with issues like traffic, parking and urban growth than with solving beauty-queen slayings. Fleet White, a close friend of John Ramsey's who was with him when he found JonBenet's body, wrote a letter to the New York Times pleading with the media to leave Boulder alone on the murder's first anniversary. That request will probably not be met. Earlier this month, the media coordinator for the Oklahoma City bombing trials surveyed news organizations about their interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND ACTS | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...Bill Cosby's son Ennis, a beloved young teacher? Did the June settlement by the states with the cigarette companies hit the bastards hard enough? What was happening in the never ending investigation of the crash of TWA Flight 800? Where is the justice for the killer(s) of JonBenet Ramsey, whose case seems to stew forever? Where is the justice for Pol Pot, the most odious mass murderer since Hitler and Stalin, who was brought into public view on videotape in a Khmer Rouge show trial. There he sat, still as death, watery eyes, age spots, every inch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YEAR EMOTIONS RULED | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...confidence vote by members of his department in May, and police sources say relations between Koby and Eller had been strained for months. "This public backbiting is out of control," says Craig Silverman, a former Denver prosecutor. "This was a good day for the killer of JonBenet." Silverman says the removal of Eller could prove disastrous should the case ever go to trial. "A jury will not convict if it doesn't trust the police and doesn't trust the prosecutor," he said. "Now it is clear the police don't even trust each other, and that will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STARTING OVER | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

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