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Post by kitty on Nov 20, 2016 0:10:22 GMT -5
WATCHED DOCUMENTARY ON THE CASE AND IT'S PRETTY APPARENT THAT THE MOTHER WROTE THE RANSOM NOTE. THIS WAS TO PROTECT THE SON I BELIEVE. PROBABLY ATTEMPTED TO INDULGE IN SOME SEXUAL EXPERIMNTATION AND WHEN SHE STARTED MAKING A RACKET KILLED HER. OR POSSIBLY JUST JEALOUS OF ATTENTION. I agree. I think that it's pretty well accepted that Patsy wrote the ransom note and that Burke killed her. But I read somewhere last month that Burke is going to sue CBS for saying that he was the killer. I doubt that he will because he would have to prove that they were wrong and there's no way he could do that.
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Post by Joanna on Dec 3, 2016 1:10:43 GMT -5
Burke Ramsey Sues Werner Spitz for DefamationDr. Werner Spitz has responded to Burke Ramsey’s $150 million defamation lawsuit stemming from the two-part CBS documentary about the death of the latter’s sister, JonBenét Ramsey. According to court documents filed in Michigan, Wednesday, November 30, Spitz is arguing that the suit should be dismissed with prejudice because his claims that Burke (above) killed his younger sibling in 1996 were merely “speculation.” Honigman Miller Swartz and Cohn, LLP, Spitz’s attorneys wrote: “This lawsuit arises from the public discussion about theories involving one of the major unsolved crimes of the 20th Century. Because the First Amendment protects this speech on a matter of immense public concern, Plaintiff Burke Ramsey’s lawsuit should be dismissed.”
In The Case of JonBenét Ramsey, a panel of investigators – including Spitz – developed a theory that 6-year-old JonBenét was accidentally killed by Burke. The beauty pageant queen was found dead in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado, Dec. 26,1996.
Burke, now 29, filed the defamation suit in October, alleging Spitz’s claims “attacked and permanently harmed” his reputation. He is requesting compensatory damages “in an amount not less than” $50 million and punitive damages of no less than $100 million.
Spitz’s attorneys are arguing that JonBenét’s murder is “a subject of significant public interest and controversy.” The response alleges, “Dr. Spitz expressed his own view – as the First Amendment affords him the right to do – but his speculations, even if firmly held and confidently expressed, are not statements of fact.”
In response to Spitz’s motion for dismissal, Burke Ramsey’s attorney, L. Lin Wood, said in a statement that “the motion to dismiss by Defendant Spitz is a standard media defense tactic. The United States Supreme Court has made it very clear that the First Amendment does not provide blanket protection to all statements characterized as opinion,” he continued. “Spitz’s statements conveyed that Burke Ramsey killed his sister. That accusation is capable of being objectively proven to be false. Further, Spitz’s accusation was based on undisclosed facts and more importantly, false and distorted facts. Simply stated, Spitz’s accusation is legally viewed as a statement of fact, not a protected opinion.”
A hearing on Spitz’s motion for summary disposition is currently scheduled for Feb. 24, 2017, at 10:00 a.m.
Source: Linda Kimble, People, December 2, 2016.
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Post by catherine on Dec 4, 2016 17:25:01 GMT -5
I'm surprised that his father didn't talk his creepy son out of filing a lawsuit because he might end up answering some questions that he doesn't want to answer and convince even more people that he's guilty as sin.
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Post by Joanna on Dec 14, 2016 21:29:45 GMT -5
New DNA Testing Planned in JonBenét Case
New DNA testing is planned in the unsolved murder of 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey, whose death 20 years ago captivated the nation. The news was first reported by NBC affiliate KUSA in Denver and by the Boulder Daily Camera. The two news outlets did a joint investigation in October which cited a variety of potential flaws in the interpretation of the DNA evidence in the case.
Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett confirmed in a statement to NBC News Wednesday that his office had met with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, which he said will be conducting “some further testing of the DNA evidence in the Ramsey case, as well as other cold case homicides and pending investigations,” in a new lab with new testing procedures.
JonBenét’s pajama-clad body was discovered on the morning after Christmas 1996 in the basement of her family’s tony Boulder home. The little girl, much of whose brief life was spent on the beauty pageant circuit, had been beaten and strangled. No one has ever been charged in the case. Two theories have emerged among experts and armchair detectives: that an intruder broke into the house and killed JonBenét, or that someone in family was responsible for her death.
Despite an initial reluctance by the Ramseys to be interrogated by authorities and allow their then-9-year-old son to be questioned, no one in the family was ever named as a suspect.
In 2008, based on results of DNA testing at the time, former Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacy officially cleared JonBenét’s family – mother Patsy, father John, and brother Burke – of the cloud of suspicion that had hung over them since the murder. Lacy’s letter of exoneration was based on evidence that showed an unknown male’s DNA on JonBenét’s underwear and long johns, supporting the intruder theory, and therefore, eliminating the Ramseys as suspects, she said. But the DNA evidence that she reviewed, which was obtained exclusively by KUSA and the Daily Camera, along with reports from the private lab in Virginia that did the testing, did not support her conclusion, according to forensic experts who examined the material for the news outlets. Lacy’s letter stated: “The match of male DNA on two separate items of clothing worn by the victim at the time of the murder makes it clear to us that an unknown male handled these items. Despite substantial efforts over the years to identify the source of this DNA, there is no innocent explanation for its incriminating presence at three sites on these two different items of clothing that JonBenét was wearing at the time of her murder.”
Kevin Vaughan, investigative reporter for KUSA, said the team of experts disagreed, not only about there not being a possible explanation for the DNA on the underwear and long johns, but also about the DNA belonging to a single, unidentified male. “They weren’t certain at all that this male DNA sample that was part of this mixture was even a profile of an individual person. It likely could have been a mixture of multiple people’s DNA,” Vaughan told NBC News Wednesday. “They asserted basically that based on the actual testing, there was no way to know for sure that this DNA got there during the killing, belonged to the killer, or anything like that.” The lab reports that Lacy’s office received said the same thing, he added. “She wrote this letter making all of these definitive declarations, that this DNA matches. The reality was that she had been told by her own lab that it’s a lot more complicated than that,” Vaughan added.
Garnett, the district attorney, would not answer additional questions from NBC News about what specifically the new tests would look at or when they would be conducted. His statement called DNA a “very rapidly developing area of forensic investigation.” Garnett continued: “What I am confident about is that the Ramsey case is more than a DNA case, and to ever have a prosecutable case, we have to have several different pieces of evidence come together. DNA would be a part of that and additional testing might give us new information that could be helpful to the investigation, however I don’t expect that DNA test results alone will definitely solve or prove the case.”
Lacy did not respond to multiple requests for comment from KUSA over the course of its investigation and has publicly spoken only about her exoneration of the Ramseys once: in October, she told ABC News that she stood by her actions. “If the evidence had been there [to prosecute them], I’d have gone for it,” she said.
Source: Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, December 14, 2016.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jan 6, 2018 2:43:03 GMT -5
Judge Allows Burke Ramsey’s Defamation Suit to Proceed
BOULDER, Colo. – A circuit judge in Michigan declined to dismiss a $750 million defamation lawsuit filed against CBS by Burke Ramsey, JonBenet Ramsey’s brother. Ramsey sued CBS in December 2016, claiming his reputation was ruined after a television series that concluded he killed his 6-year-old sister more than two decades ago.
The young beauty pageant queen was found dead in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder the day after Christmas in 1996. A prosecutor cleared her parents and brother in 2008 based on DNA evidence.
Lawyers for CBS argue the statement that Burke Ramsey killed JonBenet “was never made in the series.”
Source: Associated Press, January 5, 2018.
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Post by Isbeau on Jun 6, 2018 10:17:04 GMT -5
A&E had a show called Father Speaks and they revealed that the touch DNA was predominantly Hispanic. That was supposedly revealed for the first time anywhere. I don't buy touch DNA unless it leads somewhere. I don't even know of any Hispanic suspects.
Until they come up with their "real" killer, the Boulder Police have not been discredited.
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Post by Joanna on Jun 6, 2018 13:28:27 GMT -5
A&E had a show called Father Speaks and they revealed that the touch DNA was predominantly Hispanic. That was supposedly revealed for the first time anywhere. I don't buy touch DNA unless it leads somewhere. I don't even know of any Hispanic suspects.
Until they come up with their "real" killer, the Boulder Police have not been discredited. I've always believed that John Ramsey left the house at some point and brought in an item, or items, and deliberately contaminated the scene, just as he did when he brought the body up from the basement. He could easily have gone to a dumpster at an apartment complex, or in a low class neighborhood and retrieved an item of clothing, or whatever, and brought it back to the house.
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Post by kitty on Dec 26, 2018 17:43:42 GMT -5
I just saw a magazine in the grocery store saying that the JonBenet case had been solved and had a photo of a sleazy looking man who looked like he was in handcuffs. The name of the magazine was "In Touch," which I don't remember ever seeing before. I checked online and didn't see anything about it being solved. Has anyone else seen anything about this?
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Post by pat on Dec 27, 2018 1:32:42 GMT -5
I just saw a magazine in the grocery store saying that the JonBenet case had been solved and had a photo of a sleazy looking man who looked like he was in handcuffs. The name of the magazine was "In Touch," which I don't remember ever seeing before. I checked online and didn't see anything about it being solved. Has anyone else seen anything about this? If there had been an arrest, it would be all over the news. What you saw was probably something the woman who claims she's solved the case said. I think that she claims a man who has been arrested for possession of porn, or something like that, killed the kid.
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Post by kitty on Dec 27, 2018 18:36:38 GMT -5
If there had been an arrest, it would be all over the news. What you saw was probably something the woman who claims she's solved the case said. I think that she claims a man who has been arrested for possession of porn, or something like that, killed the kid. Thanks. That's probably what it was. I still think Burke did it.
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Post by aprillynn93 on Dec 27, 2018 19:32:44 GMT -5
I think it was Burke as well. I think many people do. It's the only explanation I've heard so far that really makes sense. I think it is like the Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman murders - most of us are pretty sure OJ did it.
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Post by Joanna on Jan 10, 2019 19:15:37 GMT -5
Boulder Police Dismiss Oliva's Latest Claims
BOULDER, Colo. – The Boulder Police Department says there are no new updates in the investigation into JonBenét Ramsey’s death following a reported confession shared widely online.
On Thursday, DailyMailTV published a story that a convicted pedophile had confessed to accidentally killing the 6-year-old Boulder girl in 1996. In letters written from prison, 54-year-old Gary Oliva reportedly told a friend, “I never loved anyone like I did JonBenét and yet I let her slip and her head bashed in half and I watched her die. It was an accident. Please believe me. She was not like the other kids.”
On Thursday, police told FOX31 and Channel 2 the department is aware of Oliva, has investigated his potential involvement in the case and that the man has confessed to JonBenet’s murder several times in the past. “The department routinely receives information on this investigation. Information provided to the police department is reviewed along with the many tips and theories we receive,” the department said in an email.
Police said there are no new updates in the investigation. Moreover, former Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett said DailyMailTV has not reported anything that wasn’t already known to authorities.
Source: Eric Ruble, KDVR, January 10, 2019.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Sept 25, 2023 16:49:34 GMT -5
Several People on Radar in Jon Benét Ramsey Murder
According to the police in Boulder, Colorado, several people are on the radar as possible suspects in the December 1996 murder of 6-year-old beauty queen Jon Benét Ramsey. In an official statement, the department insisted law enforcement had “never wavered in its pursuit to bring justice to everyone affected by the murder of this little girl.”
In May of last year, it was revealed that police had followed up on 21,016 tips, analyzed almost a thousand DNA samples and sent detectives to 19 states to interview or speak with close to 1,000 individuals in connection with the crime.
The case has confounded investigators for almost 27 years. Jon Benét went missing on December 26, 1996, and it was approximately seven hours before John Ramsey found his daughter, with a garrote around her neck, in the basement of their sprawling Boulder home. However, instead of leaving the corpse where he found it so that police could gather evidence, he brought it upstairs and deposited it on the floor where numerous people had walked, thus contaminating both the body and crime scene.
During autopsy, the examining physician noted the child’s wrists were tied together with a white cord, and there was a cord double-knotted around a broken paintbrush creating a garrote around her neck. The cause of death was determined to be “asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma,” an indication she was choked to death. She also had a skull fracture and subdural hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) as well as bruises to the brain. Additionally, the pathologist noted abrasions on the side of her face between her ear and jaw, and possible petechial hemorrhages in the eyes. There also were several small, dark circles that police at one time suggested could be marks left by a stun gun. Although there was no clear-cut evidence of rape, police did not rule out sexual assault.
Many who are convinced Burke Ramsey – who was almost 10, big for his age, and “weird,” – killed his sister, believe John Ramsey deliberately contaminated the crime scene by introducing foreign matter, which he could easily have obtained when he left the house between 10:30 and noon that day, ostensibly to get the mail. Why, they ask, would a man who had been warned via the War and Peace-length ransom note to expect a phone call from the “kidnapers” have left the house and possibly missed the most important call of his life? Last year, the Boulder police issued a statement saying they were working “in consultation with DNA experts from around the country” to solve the case. “We have a shared goal to bring justice and hopefully some peace – to JonBenét’s family and everyone who was impacted by her loss,” Police Chief Maris Herold added.
Sources: Steve Helling, The West Palm Beach Messenger, September 24, 2023, and Claudia Aoraha, The Daily Mail, September 25, 2023; Abby Norman, Romber, September 18, 2016; ABC News, December 16, 2016, and Ann Louise Bardach, Vanity Fair, October 1, 1997.
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Post by snowfairy on Sept 25, 2023 21:19:09 GMT -5
I think Burke did it because nothing else makes any sense. I saw the Dr. Phil interview with Burke a few years ago and it's obvious that he has some serious mental health issues.
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