aspiegirl2 wrote:
It must have been difficult for the family at the time, losing a child and having to put up with the mystery for an entire decade.
Not only that, but a lot of people blamed the parents, especially the father. And now the mother is dead, so she never got to see her daughter's killer be caught...
Here's another article that goes into it:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060817/ap_ ... colorado_7Quote:
JonBenet Ramsey D.A.: More work needed
By CATHERINE TSAI, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 6 minutes ago
BOULDER, Colo. - The district attorney in the JonBenet Ramsey slaying said Thursday there is "much more work" to be done in the case against the suspect, and she warned the public not to "jump to conclusions."
Mary Lacy, who has spearheaded the investigation for Boulder County, did not immediately disclose any details about the case involving former schoolteacher John Mark Karr, 41, who was arrested a day earlier at an apartment in Bangkok. In an interview with the Associated Press, Karr said he killed the girl by accident.
But Lacy suggested that the arrest may have been forced by other circumstances, including the need for public safety and fear the suspect might flee.
"There are circumstances that exist in any case that mandate an arrest before an investigation is complete," Lacy said.
She refused to say whether authorities were worried Karr was lying about killing the little girl. Lacy said Karr has not been formally charged, and declined to speculate what counts he might face.
"I'm asking you this morning, let us do our job thoroughly and carefully. The analysis of the evidence in this case continues on a day-by-day, on an hour-by-hour basis as we speak," she said, adding that "there is much more work to be done now that the suspect is in custody."
"We should all heed the poignant advice of John Ramsey yesterday," she said, referring to JonBenet's father. "He said do not jump to conclusions, do not rush to judgment, do not speculate, let the justice system take its course."
Lacy said Colorado investigators were in Thailand, but refused to provide a timeline of when Karr might be returned to America. She said he just started work as a second-grade teacher in a Bangkok international school on Tuesday and had traveled extensively since leaving the United States several years ago.
Karr told The Associated Press he was with JonBenet when she died.
"I am so very sorry for what happened to JonBenet," he told the AP in Bangkok. "Her death was an accident." Asked if he was innocent, Karr said: "No."
A senior Thai police officer said Karr also told investigators he drugged and had sex with the 6-year-old beauty queen before accidentally killing her.
An autopsy done a day after her body was found on Dec. 26, 1996, said a blood screening showed no drugs or alcohol in her body but said she had vaginal abrasions.
Karr was given a mouth-swab DNA test in Bangkok, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation. The results of that test were not immediately known.
Karr will be given another DNA test when he returns to the United States, the official said.
A California woman who said she was Karr's ex-wife told San Francisco television station KGO that she was with him in Alabama at the time of the homicide. She said she does not believe her former husband was involved in JonBenet's killing.
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Three years!
16 Aug 2006, 5:29 pm
