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Arrest Made In JonBenet Ramsey Case (CBS Story)
WFRV ^ | 8/16/06

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.


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1 posted on 08/16/2006 1:47:38 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: Mr. Brightside

Wow....
susie


2 posted on 08/16/2006 1:48:49 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: Mr. Brightside

Thailand???


3 posted on 08/16/2006 1:48:54 PM PDT by dubie
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To: Mr. Brightside

Thailand?


4 posted on 08/16/2006 1:49:47 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Mr. Brightside

I think the Brother did it. Just my opinion.
Mom knew and took it to her grave.


5 posted on 08/16/2006 1:49:50 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (shoot low, they are riding Shetlands.....)
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To: Mr. Brightside

Man, I lived there during that time. Too bad her mom didn't live long enough to see this...


6 posted on 08/16/2006 1:50:08 PM PDT by WV Mountain Mama (God bless Israel and their men and women fighting against an evil, cowardly enemy.)
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To: brytlea

Wow, not "Some Peurto Rican guy"??? Or was it Costa Rican?


7 posted on 08/16/2006 1:50:34 PM PDT by PfromHoGro (Butters...that's me!)
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To: Mr. Brightside
Reminds me of when the McMartins were blackballed (bankrupted when they used to be millionaires) by the government prosecutors and how due to that, the business of child care to go through hell and lots of raises in insurance premiums.
8 posted on 08/16/2006 1:50:47 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Mr. Brightside
Ramsey said she found a ransom note on the back staircase of the family's home demanding $118,000

I always thought that was odd.

Why $118,000? Why not $100,000, or $150,000?

9 posted on 08/16/2006 1:51:03 PM PDT by holymoly ("A lot" is TWO words.)
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To: P from Sheb

*snicker*


10 posted on 08/16/2006 1:51:08 PM PDT by WV Mountain Mama (God bless Israel and their men and women fighting against an evil, cowardly enemy.)
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To: P from Sheb

If he had a machine gun, that would be Costa Rican...


11 posted on 08/16/2006 1:51:27 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Mr. Brightside

Hate to ask the obvious question but has any information been posted as to where the father and brother are at present?


12 posted on 08/16/2006 1:51:34 PM PDT by Captain Rhino ( Dollars spent in India help a friend; dollars spent in China arm an enemy.)
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To: Mr. Brightside

Thailand? Who'd of thunk it?


13 posted on 08/16/2006 1:51:43 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am a big fan of urban sprawl but I wish there were more sidewalks)
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To: Mr. Brightside

I had no idea John Ramsay was in Thailand...


14 posted on 08/16/2006 1:51:45 PM PDT by gridlock (The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
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To: holymoly

IIRC, that was the amount of a bonus that Jon Ramsey got that year, or something along those lones...


15 posted on 08/16/2006 1:51:52 PM PDT by WV Mountain Mama (God bless Israel and their men and women fighting against an evil, cowardly enemy.)
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Thailand???

One of the many meccas for pedophiles and assorted deviants. Surprising, but not really.

16 posted on 08/16/2006 1:52:09 PM PDT by Mordacious
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To: holymoly

Wasn't that the amount of Mr. Ramsey's Christmas bonus?


17 posted on 08/16/2006 1:52:16 PM PDT by kassie
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To: Mr. Brightside
I always thought they were somehow responsible. I this is true, I regret my assumptions.
18 posted on 08/16/2006 1:52:25 PM PDT by stevio (Red-Blooded Crunchy Con American Male (NRA))
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To: WV Mountain Mama

lones=lines


19 posted on 08/16/2006 1:52:32 PM PDT by WV Mountain Mama (God bless Israel and their men and women fighting against an evil, cowardly enemy.)
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To: Captain Rhino

Thailand?


20 posted on 08/16/2006 1:52:49 PM PDT by Froufrou
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