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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...
Though the autopsy reinforced earlier impressions that the killer was familiar with the Ramsey house and had plenty of time to commit the murder, it offered no fresh insight into who might have killed the prepubescent beauty queen. Boulder County coroner John Meyer did not even estimate the time of death. But that did not stop the Ramseys' attorney, Hal Haddon, from weighing in with one of the first opinions on the report. "The autopsy details released today confirm what we have known for some time," he said in a statement, "that this vicious murder was well planned...
John and Patsy Ramsey are still a main focus of the investigation, but they are also becoming its highly publicized investigators. According to Haddon, the Ramseys' privately financed team involves upwards of 20 people, with four full-time private investigators and 10 forensics experts, including several handwriting analysts and a linguist. On Sunday, moreover, the Ramseys ran their fourth local newspaper ad appealing for help from the public. The ad noted that the killer "appears to be obsessed with techno-crime movies and phrases from them" and included quotes from Ransom, Dirty Harry and Speed that the family says...
...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...