JonBenet Ramsey's mother dies

**sisca** · 06.24.06, 12:34 PM

(CBS/AP) Patsy Ramsey, the mother of JonBenet, died early Saturday morning CBS News has learned from a source close to the family.

The 49-year-old died from complications from cancer in Atlanta, Georgia.

"I think people will remember Patsy as some one who was falsely accused in connection with the death of her daughter," Lin Wood, the Ramsey's attorney, said on CNN, "when she should be remembered for being an incredibly loving mother, a wonderful wife and a person who showed great courage in fighting a vicious disease."

Wood said Ramsey had been battling cancer since 1993 and had suffered a recurrence three years ago. Her husband, John, was with her at the time of her death.

Patsy Ramsey is the one who 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."

No one has been charged in the death of JonBenet Ramsey.

i sure hope patsy ramsey is burning in hell for killing her daughter.

**VanHalen2079** · 06.24.06, 12:36 PM

So karma does indeed exist.

**LLFHS** · 06.24.06, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by VanHalen2079

So karma does indeed exist.

Maybe, but there's still one left.

**Axxman300** · 06.24.06, 04:57 PM

Wow, in spite of the mountain of evidence that proved their innocence and that someone had slipped inside the house that night, people still think the Ramseys are guilty. Forget the fact that most "Facts" that were reported by the press were false and ignoring the fact that the Boulder Police were in over their heads once it turned into a murder case, this was a witch hunt on the part of national media and BPD.

Just wow.

**FORD** · 06.24.06, 06:28 PM

Originally Posted by sisca

i sure hope patsy ramsey is burning in hell for killing her daughter.

Not only would I bet on that, but I'd also bet Aaron Spelling produces the TV movie account of it for the FOX affiliate in Hell.

And you know there is at least one.

**billy007** · 06.24.06, 07:57 PM

Originally Posted by sisca

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.

Originally Posted by Axxman300

Wow, in spite of the mountain of evidence that proved their innocence and that someone had slipped inside the house that night, people still think the Ramseys are guilty. Forget the fact that most "Facts" that were reported by the press were false and ignoring the fact that the Boulder Police were in over their heads once it turned into a murder case, this was a witch hunt on the part of national media and BPD.

Just wow.

Just wanted to repeat these parts...

**sisca** · 06.24.06, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by billy007

Just wanted to repeat these parts...

the bitch was guilty as hell. hey...the ramseys had MONEY... they paid off the freakin cops. thats the ONLY reason they were released from suspicion.

is oj not guilty too?? even though all signs actually DID point to him as the killer, he got off. you know why? MONEY.

**Viking** · 06.24.06, 11:33 PM

I don't think she had anything to do with it. I think O. J. did it.

**Darby** · 06.24.06, 11:45 PM

Originally Posted by FORD

Not only would I bet on that, but I'd also bet Aaron Spelling produces the TV movie account of it for the FOX affiliate in Hell.

And you know there is at least one.

IdoubtitAaronSpellingbitthedusttoday.

**FORD** · 06.25.06, 01:15 AM

Originally Posted by Darby

IdoubtitAaronSpellingbitthedusttoday.

Yes, which is exactly why he's now working for the FOX affiliate in HELL, as I said.

Reportedly he and Mrs Ramsey met in Satan's waiting room and immediately started negotiating the movie deal.

**smithjc** · 06.25.06, 01:46 AM

I was wondering when the cancer would catch up to her. Wonder if that murder will ever be solved.

**crazyjbn** · 06.25.06, 08:40 AM

DNA evidence showed OJ did it...incompetent court and jurors

DNA shows that ther ramiseys didn't do it.

simple

you can pay off who you want....can't deny DNA

**SactoFan** · 06.25.06, 04:57 PM

Originally Posted by Axxman300

Wow, in spite of the mountain of evidence that proved their innocence and that someone had slipped inside the house that night, people still think the Ramseys are guilty. Forget the fact that most "Facts" that were reported by the press were false and ignoring the fact that the Boulder Police were in over their heads once it turned into a murder case, this was a witch hunt on the part of national media and BPD.

Just wow.

It's also the considered opinion of John Douglas that they didn't do it...

**Axxman300** · 06.25.06, 09:03 PM

The Ramsey case was a prime example of the media running out of control, printing speculation - from other reporters who hadn't even been to the house - as fact. In the first three weeks after the murder 75% of what people were told about the events of the murder was wrong. It was only after about two months that NBC and ABC started looking at things that the true story started to emerge and the Ramseys started to look innocent.

The problem was that the Boulder Police and DA were ammetures and were playing a profiling game instead of actual detective work. There was an assumption that since they lawered up that they were guilty, even though if you are a suspect in a murder you are a dumbass if you don't have a lawyer present durring questioning. So what if they're rich? Unless they used their money to alter their own DNA there is no proof whatsoever of their guilt or involvement in their daughter's murder. Did the Ramseys know the killer? He certainly seemed to know them, she (yes, I think it's a woman) obviously felt betrayed by John. Perhaps over money but maybe he'd had something on the side. BUT THIS IS MY SPECULATION, NOT FACT. The evidence does point to the crime as being a sick form of revenge, commited by an intruder.

O.J. got off because the DA in Los Angeles fucked the case up in so many ways that I don't have enough room to list them. The biggest screw up was moving the trial out of Brentwood and taking it downtown, where they picked a jurry of morons. Had they kept the trial in that part of Los Angeles the jurry would have been made up of wealthier people and maybe O.J. would have been convicted, although had the DA put on that retarded prosecution for them..who knows?

**Filthy 150** · 06.27.06, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by crazyjbn

you can pay off who you want....can't deny DNA

But what if you pay off someone in the crime lab?
Or they just may be incompetent. The Houston crime lab is just finishing up reviewing hundreds of cases that were screwed up because of faulty DNA findings.

I'm sure there are thousands of instances where DNA findings were wrong all over the world.