Posted on 08/16/2006 1:47:38 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
Aug 16, 2006 3:37 pm US/Central
Arrest Made In JonBenet Ramsey Case
CBS News Interactive: The JonBenet Case
(CBS) DENVER A man arrested in Thailand is being held in connection with the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, U.S. law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
Federal officials familiar with the case, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the man was being held in Bangkok on unrelated sex charges.
Details on the arrest are developing, according to CBS affiliate KCNC-TV in Denver.
Patsy Ramsey made the 911 call on December 26, 1996, telling police that her daughter was missing. "There's a note left and our daughter's gone," she said breathlessly.
Ramsey said she found a ransom note on the back staircase of the family's home demanding $118,000 for the safe return of JonBenet.
Boulder police responded immediately to Ramsey's call for help, and what first looked like a kidnapping quickly became a murder investigation, when JonBenet's body was found by her father in a small storage room in the basement of her house.
An autopsy concluded JonBenet suffered a skull fracture, and was strangled and beaten.
Because of the bizarre ransom note, and the fact that JonBenet was killed in her own home, detectives focused on her parents, John and Patsy, as their prime suspects.
Boulder police brushed aside many of the leads that came in, and dismissed the possibility that an intruder had somehow slipped inside the house and committed the murder.
The police chief said the parents were "under an umbrella of suspicion," but a grand jury did not indict the couple for murder.
Throughout lengthy and sometimes hostile police interrogations, both in 1998 and 2000, the Ramseys maintained their innocence. A 2005 48 Hours report found that DNA evidence ruled out the parents as suspects and investigators were no longer focusing on the Ramsey family.
The couple wrote a book, "The Death of Innocence," which was published in 2000.
They later left Colorado and had residences in Atlanta and in Michigan, where John Ramsey unsuccessfully ran for a state House seat in 2004. The Ramseys discussed their daughter's death during the campaign.
"We can't just hold our breath and hope the killer will be found and then go on with our lives," Patsy Ramsey said in 2004. "We have to move ahead now. We can't let evil win."
Patsy Ramsey died in June 2006 from complications from cancer in Atlanta.
He's on the ninth hole. Oh yeah, he killed Natalee Holloway too. Pass it on. ;-)
Oh, geez! Spit drink at computer over that one! LOL!
Now if they can just find Nicole Simpson's and Ron Goldman's real killer...
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OJ should head over to Thailand to see if there is a link between this guy and the Simpson/Goldman murders...providing there are some nice golf courses over there.
We don't know anything yet... the Ramseys certainly didn't help their case...
I never suspected the parents but understood why they were always considered suspects.
...and there are folks like you who think it's all a big joke. Try living it. I'll see how hard you laugh, how many jokes you crack and how long it will take you to just beg to die...have fun. It hurts so bad you can't even begin to conceive.
I'll bet there are even those who think the kid's suffering wasn't all that bad, that she wasn't terrified or in pain. What the heck -- it's just a life.
I guess that's why all the Hockey Playeres were not chartged with statutory rape.
The man who was arrested is John Mark Carr as reported on the Howie Carr Show at 5:00pm.
Me too. Oh, yes Siam.
I had done a search on JonBenet Ramsey and Thailand to see what I could find and that came up.
Yul regret that quip.
But it is also a center for what is euphemistically called "sex tourism."
He wasn't stationed there, which is what I'm responding to.
You are correct, and I am mistaken. Thanks
I hear the suspect has confessed. I guess you were wrong and contributed to the misery of two innocent people.
I heard on the news, the guy confessed...if it's true, I guess your handwriting expert needs to go back to school.
He has confessed to "aspects" of the crime. Let's wait.
I found a person by that name who got an MBA from UNC - any NC connection implies a certain Ramsey supporter who turns in everyone she can think of.
From the article - Patsy knew about the coming arrest.
""I want to have only very limited comment on today's arrest because I feel it is extremely important to not only let the justice system operate to its conclusion in an orderly manner, but also to avoid feeding the type of media speculation that my wife and I were subjected to for so many years. I do want to say, however, that the investigation of the individual arrested today in connection with JonBenet's death was discussed with Patsy and me by the Boulder district attorney's office prior to Patsy's death in June. So Patsy was aware that authorities were close to making an arrest in the case and had she lived to see this day, would no doubt have been as pleased as I
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