Didn't you just always know her parents killed her?
JonBenet Ramsey Murder: Grand Jury Wanted to Indict Parents
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By CLAYTON SANDELL (http://abcnews.go.com/author/clayton_sandell) (@Clayton_Sandell (http://twitter.com/Clayton_Sandell))
Jan. 28, 2013
A grand jury believed there was enough evidence in 1999 to indict John and Patsy Ramsey (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/jonbenet-ramseys-father-says-her-unsolved-case-is-dead-killer-still-at-large/) on charges relating to the still-unsolved killing of their beauty queen daughter JonBenet Ramsey (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/jonbenet-ramseys-father-regrets-letting-her-in-pageants-says-toddlers-and-tiaras-is-bizarre/), ABC News sources say.
Six-year-old JonBenet was found dead in the basement of her family's upscale Boulder, Colo., home Christmas Day 1996. Suspicion fell on her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, but they insisted an intruder was to blame (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/jonbenet-ramseys-father-says-her-unsolved-case-is-dead-killer-still-at-large/) and they were never prosecuted.
In an interview with ABC News' Barbara Walters after her death, both of the girl's parents denied that they had killed her. They were eventually cleared by prosecutors.
After meeting for more than a year, a grand jury found sufficient evidence to indict the couple on charges of child abuse resulting in death, as first reported Sunday by the Boulder Daily Camera newspaper (http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_22446410/boulder-grand-jury-voted-indict-ramseys) and confirmed by two separate sources by ABC News.
"This grand jury, in effect, came up with a compromise finding, 'No, it's not murder,' but, 'Yes, we think they were responsible' for the death based on abuse," ABC News legal analyst Dan Abrams said.
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But District Attorney Alex Hunter refused to sign off on the grand jury's decision, saying there was too little proof.
"I and my prosecution task force believe we do not have sufficient evidence to warrant the filing of charges against anyone who has been investigated at this time," Hunter said then.
Hunter believed a conviction would be impossible. Abrams said that he agrees with the decision.
"I've seen the majority of the case files and I think Alex Hunter made the right call," he said. "I think there simply was not enough evidence to move forward."
Patsy Ramsey died in 2006 after a battle with ovarian cancer. John Ramsey remarried. His attorney told ABC News that Hunter is "a hero who wisely avoided a miscarriage of justice."
The case is still officially open but, as in 1996, investigators seem no closer to solving the crime this year, when JonBenet would have turned 23.
Quote Originally Posted by cluezo
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"This grand jury, in effect, came up with a compromise finding, 'No, it's not murder,' but, 'Yes, we think they were responsible' for the death based on abuse," ABC News legal analyst Dan Abrams said.
Kinda like the OJ case.
Not guilty but investigation ongoing.
Right?
Grand Jury indicted but the prosecutor felt that case was not strong enough to cause guilt 'beyond reasonable doubt.'
Always was an odd case.
iirc, no entry into the house that was identified. So....killer was in the house, and that means family?
Recycled garbage... who cares.
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a grand jury found sufficient evidence to indict the couple on charges of child abuse resulting in death,
Involuntary manslaughter?...If the DA doesn't have to follow the grand jury's decision, why go to all the trouble? Fish smell all over that case from the get go
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Fish smell all over that case from the get go
...for heaven's sake: she was only a child...
The parents should be executed for poor taste. Naming your kid JonBenet and dressing her up like that is criminal.
---Update---
Did you hear Patsy wanted to exhume the body? She didn't like the dress JonBenet was wearing.
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Ever order a "JonBenet"? It's a Shirley Temple with a busted cherry.
Poetry corner
DEAD BLONDE IN THE BASEMENT
by T. L. Young
Daddy left his Mastercard in his little girl's piggy bank,
now Mama's gonna lick her behind.
But not the same way Daddy did.
Mama getting out her little corkscrew from the kitchen,
all shiny and silvery and twisted.
Rammed it into the back of her baby girl's neck.
Her throat fit in the palm of Mama's hand likee the penis shaft
of a fully grown baby bull.
Like the days she used to jerk off the catttle down on Grandpa's farm.
She licked up the bull semen the same way
she licked up her baby girl's blood.
Salty on her tongue.
...^and this creature is allowed to buy fire arms...
yeah, that's quite the poem
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Recycled garbage... who cares.
It's definitely an old story.
If the grand jury indicted in 1999 why the story now?
Even if it was not supposed to go public, reporting on it 14 years later is a bit.....dated.
Interesting how the media (I read the article on msnbc) can report something and spur discussion amongst us.
An old story it may be but perhaps it taps into an old folk memory on AF,.
I'm sure people still remember the creepy teacher in Bangkok that 'confessed' to it? He got a very comfortable free flight (Business Class) back to the USA where shortly afterwards it was determined that he was er, a creepy teacher in Bangkok and hadn't been the killer (but he had known the girl.)
Shortly afterwards came a new heap of bureaucracy and hoop-jumping for teaching in Thailand.
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I'm sure people still remember the creepy teacher in Bangkok that 'confessed' to it? He got a very comfortable ride back to the States in Business Class where shortly afterwards it was determined that he was er, a creepy teacher in Bangkok and hadn't been the killer (but he had known the girl.)
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That's the chap. Thanks, Cluezo.
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Recycled garbage... who cares.
I live two hours from Boulder and no one around here does. Fucking parent(s) were involved somehow.
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I live two hours from Boulder and no one around here does
The investigation should focus on a suspect wearing a red and black horizontally striped T-shirt with rainbow coloured suspenders (UK: Braces).
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The investigation should focus on a suspect wearing a red and black horizontally striped T-shirt with rainbow coloured suspenders
Shit I'm wearing that right now. Better go duck and hide.