Mother and possible murderer of JonBenet Ramsey dead

[The New Fiona Apple]

Mother of Slain JonBenet Ramsey Dies

Patsy Ramsey, whose 6-year-old daughter JonBenet's 1996 slaying has never been solved, died Saturday of cancer, her lawyer said. She was 49.

Ramsey had been battling ovarian cancer since 1993 and suffered a recurrence several years ago, attorney L. Lin Wood said. She died at her father's home in suburban Atlanta with her husband, John, at her bedside.

"It is not unexpected but it is a sad day," Wood told The Associated Press.

JonBenet, who competed in beauty pageants, was found beaten and strangled in her parents' Boulder, Colo. basement on Dec. 26, 1996. A grand jury investigation ended with no indictments, and no arrests have been made.

   
 
 
The Ramseys said an intruder killed their daughter but a cloud of suspicion hung over the couple. The district attorney and a federal judge in Colorado have said it is likelier that an intruder was responsible.

JonBenet's death became fodder for tabloids and the subject of books.

"I think people realize now that this family was very much victims of that murder and have suffered greatly because of it in terms of the false accusations made against them," Wood told CNN Saturday.

Patsy 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. John Ramsey said he found his daughter's body in a basement room eight hours later.

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An autopsy concluded JonBenet suffered a skull fracture, and was strangled and beaten.

The couple left Colorado after JonBenet's death and wrote a book, "The Death of Innocence," which was published in 2000.

They had residences in Atlanta and in Michigan, where John Ramsey made an unsuccessful bid for the Michigan House in 2004.

He finished second among six candidates vying for the Republican nomination. 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 is survived by her husband and their 19-year-old son, Burke.

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[Mal Brossard]

Good riddance.

[brownst0ne]

I don't know what to say, now she can be with her daughter again, right?

[D]

Quick Question


why the fuck would a killer leave a ransom note if he had already killed the girl?


Those two are guilty.

[nycangel]

i always thought they were guilty, i also always thought the son had something to do with it, but wow i didnt even know she was sick.

[Jessica]

I thought her brother killed her ?

[nycangel]

I thought her brother killed her ?

i think so too, but its never been proven and i think her parents were guilty because they were covering for him so he wouldnt be in trouble, theres just way too much evidence pointing towards that family in my opinion

[Jessica]

What i heard was :

Little boy was jealous of all her attention and the way the tod was brought up for the pageants made her reaall vane, so she would turn up in front of her brother asking " do you find me pretty" and would even jump into bed with him ?
So the boy grew up and one day, lost it.
I heard there was semen found on her body and she had been penetrated.
So, it's likely the parents induced a quasi incestuous climate in the house in making the little girl asking attention to anything and anyone, including males of her own family.
This one male being a kid.

[zakas80]

oh well, she gets what she deserves for trying to live vicariously through her daughter all those years, i mean cmon that girl was like 6 yrs old and they had her dolled up with makeup ,manicures, & pressures of a modeling career!  couldnt just let her be a fuckin kid, instead of making her there meal ticket!

[GunsN'Gravy]

Aaron Spelling and now Patsy Ramsey 

[SLCPUNK]

I always thought it was odd. But could never form an opinion about it either way.

[mikegiuliana]

This was such big news but I never even cared when it happened..

[mikegiuliana]

Jessica, I think you may have read that in a tabloid.? Either way, I don't care, I didn't care about it back then, and I don't care about it now..... I think there's a special place in hell for her.

I think you were Jon's age when this happened

[Jessica]

No, i don't read american tabloids hun.

And what's surprising ? Incest between brothers and sisters is the most common out of all.
Imagine you're 12 and a little 6 year old trying to act like a woman comes into your bed on a regular basis with pretty girls and make up ?
At 12, you don't rationalise pulses.

[nycangel]

the story about the brother wasnt in the tabloids, i mean it was because tabloids write everything and just make it more embellished, but he really was a solid suspect.

I felt horrible the day i found out about this poor little girl, a little girl who had to be paraded around for fashion shows at such a young age, when most little girls want to play with dolls. i still feel so bad for her to this day, no little girl deserves to die like she did, and no little girl should be paraded around like a showpiece.

all the evidence pointed to the family, there just wasnt enough substantial evidence to convict them with a guilty sentence.

[Jessica]

Goes back to 3 problems :

exploitation of children by parents ( in france, it would NEVER happen, our laws are very tight concerning kids and fashion/advertising/filming/....)

SEXploitation of children or their image ( pretty little girls + make up+cute short dresses+half naking bathing suits and dolly parton curls is a sexual image that can be found in the adult world and that should never be found in the children's world)

Laws that need change concerning kids and work in general.

[nycangel]

Goes back to 3 problems :

exploitation of children by parents ( in france, it would NEVER happen, our laws are very tight concerning kids and fashion/advertising/filming/....)

SEXploitation of children or their image ( pretty little girls + make up+cute short dresses+half naking bathing suits and dolly parton curls is a sexual image that can be found in the adult world and that should never be found in the children's world)

Laws that need change concerning kids and work in general.

i absoutley agree with you, laws need to be changed, we're victimizing children, and their too young to be able to fight back. thats why its so easy, i think its disgraceful how we parade around children. let children be children

[Jessica]

I think women who push their daughters towards this are completely fucked up 

[pebbles]

if she did it she will pay for it , i dont know if she did or not.but dying of cancer is punishment in itself

[sandman]

looks like it may not have been the parents afterall....

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208761,00.html