And it's not the parents!


http://news.yahoo.com/fc/us/jonbenet_ramsey_murder

BOULDER, Colo. - A man suspected in the slaying of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey nearly a decade ago was arrested Wednesday in Thailand, the district attorney said in the long-awaited breakthrough in one of the nation's most lurid unsolved murder cases.

District Attorney Mary Lacey said the arrest followed several months of work. She disclosed no details about the suspect before a news conference scheduled for Thursday.

CBS reported that he is a 41-year-old second-grade teacher and will be brought back to the United States this weekend. Federal officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the man was already being held in Bangkok on unrelated sex charges.

Ramsey family attorney Lin Wood said in Atlanta that the arrest was vindication for JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, who came under suspicion in the slaying.

Wood said the Ramseys learned about the suspect a least a month before Patsy Ramsey's death June 24 after a long battle with ovarian cancer.

"It's been a very long 10 years, and I'm just sorry Patsy isn't here for me to hug her neck," the attorney said.

Wood said that he had been told that the suspect once lived in Conyers, Ga., outside of Atlanta. He would not comment on whether the Ramseys knew him, and he said he knew nothing else about the man. The Ramseys lived in Georgia up until 1991; they moved back to Atlanta after their daughter's death.

JonBenet was found beaten and strangled in the basement of the family's home in Boulder on Dec. 26, 1996. Patsy Ramsey reported finding a ransom note demanding $118,000 for her daughter.

The image of blonde-haired little JonBenet in child beauty contests has haunted TV talk shows for years afterward, helping feed myriad theories about her killer.

Investigators said at one point that JonBenet's parents were under an "umbrella of suspicion" in the slaying. But the Ramseys insisted an intruder killed their daughter, and no one was ever charged.

In the months after the slaying, Patsy Ramsey went before the cameras, vigorously defending herself and her husband, chastising the media and blasting local law enforcement as incompetent.

In a statement Wednesday, John Ramsey said: "Patsy was aware that authorities were close to making an arrest in the case and had she lived to see this day, would no doubt have been as pleased as I am with today's development almost 10 years after our daughter's murder."

In 2003, a federal judge in Atlanta concluded that the evidence she reviewed suggested an intruder killed JonBenet. That opinion came with the judge's decision to dismiss a libel and slander lawsuit against the Ramseys by a freelance journalist, whom the Ramseys had named as a suspect in their daughter's murder. The Boulder district attorney at the time said she agreed with the judge's declaration.

Wood said Wednesday's arrest further vindicated his clients.

"I am sure there were still doubts in the minds of individuals whose thinking had been poisoned against this family because of the years of false accusations," Wood said.

"Today is additional vindication of the family, but I think that knowledgeable individuals familiar with the evidence in the case have known for many years that this family was falsely accused, that they were innocent and that what they lived through in the last 10 years was an American tragedy."

Wood said he and the Ramseys "have been totally amazed and impressed with the professionalism of law enforcement" under Lacey's direction. Lacey became district attorney in 2001.

Law enforcement officials from Boulder were flying to Bangkok to present Thai authorities with documents in the slaying, officials in Washington said. They asked to remain anonymous pending an announcement in Colorado.

KUSA-TV of Denver, citing no sources, reported that the suspect has confessed to certain elements of the crime.

Woops, guess I owe the dad an apology. I always thought he did it.

Sorry dude.

Big Ol Pimp Wrote:Woops, guess I owe the dad an apology. I always thought he did it.

Sorry dude.

I dunno......I am still skeptical.

Living in Colorado during that time ... it was the irrational talk shows that tried the family on air . Bunch of idiots. Always were... still are.

clew901 Wrote:

Big Ol Pimp Wrote:Woops, guess I owe the dad an apology. I always thought he did it.

Sorry dude.

I dunno......I am still skeptical.

The latest I hear is that the suspect confessed and they have a dna match. Since johnny cockroach is dead it appears the guy will be found guilty.

I had hoped this would put this whole ordeal to rest but this guy is starting to sound like a real whack job. He has been studying the case for so long he could know all kinds of things the investigators thought was not public knowledge. I have read 4 articles in his arrest this morning and nothing about DNA. I'm starting to feel the sicko they are holding is not the sicko who did it.

And now his family and ex-wife are saying he was in Alabama the day she was murdered, so who knows!!! I just hope whoever did it meets justice and soon.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/17/ramsey...index.html

On Yahoo's home page today, he pretty much admitted to killing her. Either way the guy's creepy as hell and should be locked up.

cwise Wrote:On Yahoo's home page today, he pretty much admitted to killing her. Either way the guy's creepy as hell and should be locked up.

The man is insane. He definitely has said he did it but that doesn't mean he did do it. His wife left his sick ass after he was caught with kiddie porno so why in the hell would she offer up an lie to cover his sick ass? I at first thought it was sad the mother hadn't lived to see justice for the sicko who did it but now I think she is better off not going through this sordid mess to only find out the guy made it up. Weird people are everywhere.

tigertommy Wrote:I have read 4 articles in his arrest this morning and nothing about DNA. I'm starting to feel the sicko they are holding is not the sicko who did it.

I'm starting to believe the same thing.

Well, with the way it panned out I now just hope like hell they have something for real on this nutcase because he doesn't need to be walking the streets.

SouthavenTiger Wrote:

tigertommy Wrote:I have read 4 articles in his arrest this morning and nothing about DNA. I'm starting to feel the sicko they are holding is not the sicko who did it.

I'm starting to believe the same thing.

He didn't do it. I still point the finger to the parents.

clew901 Wrote:

SouthavenTiger Wrote:

tigertommy Wrote:I have read 4 articles in his arrest this morning and nothing about DNA. I'm starting to feel the sicko they are holding is not the sicko who did it.

I'm starting to believe the same thing.

He didn't do it. I still point the finger to the parents.

Yup, I hereby rescind my apology to the dad.