Word: ramseys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...evidence so far is inconclusive. The man in city hall has at times displayed a brand of competence unlike any we saw from Barry. The city is on the verge of a third straight budget surplus. The new police chief, Charles Ramsey, is remaking our laughingstock of a police department into an impressive law-enforcement agency; it not only handled the recent protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund with aplomb but also arrested a teenage suspect in the zoo shooting only 24 hours after it happened. A burst of new charter schools is providing students with educational...
...text. Even worse, the information was located on page 18 of the newspaper, just to the left of the U.S. temperature map. Eighteen pages earlier, the day's top headline proclaimed "U.S. Will Let Friends From Cuba Visit Elian," which was closely followed by the revelation that Jon Benet Ramsey's parents rejected a lie detector test...
...CHARLES RAMSEY D.C. police boss gets kudos for handling IMF protests. Should get consulting gig with Reno...
Working from circumstantial evidence and surmise, Thomas elaborates his theory of the crime: Patsy Ramsey accidentally killed her daughter in a late-night rage over the child's chronic bed-wetting, mortally wounding her with a blow to the head, and then in a state of panic, tried to make the assault appear to be the result of a botched kidnapping. Patsy penned a ransom note, Thomas alleges, and carried JonBenet to a basement storeroom, where she garroted her. Thomas believes John Ramsey was asleep and unaware of the events until morning, when he discovered the body and moved...
...prosecutors for crippling the case by failing to collect or test key evidence like phone records and hairs found at the murder scene and for denying detectives' requests for warrants for financial and movie-rental records. Thomas seizes on what he believes to be contradictions and inconsistencies in the Ramseys' statements. Did John check the doors the night of the killing and find them secure, as he said right after the murder, or did he not, as he said four months later? Did John read to his daughter in bed or carry her to bed asleep? If she was wearing...