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Seven months after JonBenet Ramsey's murder, with the investigation going nowhere, police detectives in her hometown of Boulder, Colo., took an extraordinary gamble. They flew to Atlanta, Ga., where her parents had moved after the killing, and drove to the suburb where the children's beauty-pageant queen was buried. On the eve of what would have been her seventh birthday, Aug. 6, 1997, the investigators broke into St. James Episcopal Cemetery with the help of a Georgia state cop who picked the lock on the gate. The Boulder detectives then planted a hidden microphone and camera...
Recalling those tragicomic efforts last week, former Boulder detective Steve Thomas said, "We were grasping at straws." JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, didn't visit the grave. They have denied any culpability in their daughter's death and have not been charged with any crime. Yet they were the primary targets of the graveyard stakeout. And several investigators still consider them the likeliest suspects in the unsolved killing, as Detective Thomas makes clear in his new book, JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation, St. Martin's Press, written with Don Davis, a former wire-service reporter. Thomas...
Earlier this spring Washington, D.C., police chief Charles Ramsey must have looked at the video from December's anti-WTO protests in Seattle and said, not in my town. So when a crowd estimated at between 6,000 and 10,000 showed up to protest a meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Ramsey was ready. Police using pepper spray arrested 630 protesters Saturday (including a Washington Post photographer) and another 40 early Sunday. They also conducted raids, confiscating dozens of the metal "sleeping dragons" protesters use to lock their arms to form human chains, and fire...
What about that wordy ransom note, which included suspiciously personal details about the family? Walters quotes "law-enforcement sources" as saying the handwriting similarities between Patsy Ramsey and the note's author have been "grossly exaggerated." Walters leaves it at that, which is a bit out of context: police handwriting analysts never definitively claimed Mrs. Ramsey wrote the note, only that they eliminated every suspect...
...most part Walters sets aside the "What kind of tree would you be?" questions in favor of tough interrogation. Why does the crime scene appear staged? John Ramsey: "Why would I...have staged this horrible scene and then disturbed it myself--pulled the tape off her mouth, carried her upstairs... If I'd have staged it, I would've wanted the police to see it as I staged it." O.K., but why did you try to fly to Atlanta shortly after the body was found? "We had been asked to leave the house," he explains. "We had nowhere...