Post by Christina Parker on Aug 17, 2006 15:52:41 GMT -5
The 1996 murder of JonBenet, a 6-year-old beauty queen, had cast a cloud of suspicion over her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey. My dad told me she was the most talented child you'd ever see.
In a brief news conference attended by dozens of reporters eager for details, Boulder County DA Mary Lacy said she could not discuss the case involving former schoolteacher John Mark Karr, 41, who was arrested a day earlier at a Bangkok apartment. In an interview with the Associated Press, Karr said he killed the girl by accident. Karr was a former friend of the family's.
For awhile after her death, police were suspicious of the parents being the murderers of their daughter. But, the parents denied killing their loving daughter.
Patsey Ramsey found this ransom note for $118,000 on Dec. 26 of 1996. Police said that Karr confessed to have drugged JonBenet and raped her. They did an autopsy to find that she was not drugged but did suffer rape.
Whatever the case of little JonBenet Ramsey, we will always miss her. A little Beauty Queen who had a dream, and died at the expense of someone's greed.
