Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
DOCUMENTS SAY?
>> Reporter: CAROL, AGAIN, THESE
ARE FROM THE 1999 GRAND JURY
INDICTMENT OF JONBENET RAMSEY'S
PARENTS.
WE'VE JUST NOW GOTTEN A LOOK AT
THESE DOCUMENTS LEARNING THAT
THE GRAND JURY DID INDEED
BELIEVE THAT THE PARENTS HAD
SOME RESPONSIBILITY IN THEIR
DAUGHTER'S DEATH.
WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT THEY
NECESSARILY DON'T SAY THAT THEY
BELIEVE THAT JOHN AND PATSY
RAMSEY COMMITTED THE ***
THEMSELVES.
THERE ARE FOUR PAGES RELEASED,
TWO ON JOHN AND TWO ON PATSY,
AND THE TWO CHARGES THAT THE
GRAND JURY WANTED TO HOLD THESE
TWO PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE FOR HAD
TO DO WITH ASSISTING IN THE
*** OR IN SOME WAY IMPEDING
THE INVESTIGATION.
NOW ULTIMATELY THEN D.A. HERE IN
BOULDER ALEX HUNTER DECIDED THAT
THERE WASN'T ENOUGH EVIDENCE FOR
HIM TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE
CASE AND TRY JOHN OR PATSY
RAMSEY IN THIS CASE AT ALL.
AND THE CASE WAS DROPPED.
AND THEN SEVERAL YEARS LATER,
BACK IN 200, THEN D.A., MARY
LACY, WHO HAD TAKEN OVER ENDED
UP SENDING A LETTER TO JOHN
RAMSEY FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF
PATSY RAMSEY SAYING THAT NEW DNA
TECHNOLOGY AND TESTING PROVED
THAT THEY DID NOT COMMIT THE
***.
AND ULTIMATELY THE PERSON WHO
COMMITTED THE *** WAS MALE
AND UNRELATED TO THE IMMEDIATE
RAMSEY FAMILY.
WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO THE
CURRENT ATTORNEY REPRESENTING
JOHN RAMSEY WHO DID NOT WANT TO
COMMENT SPECIFICALLY.
BUT HE REFERRED TO A LETTER HE
HAD SENT TO THE CURRENT D.A.
THE LATEST INFORMATION WHICH
INCLUDED, AGAIN, THAT THE DNA
HAD ULTIMATELY CLEARED HIS
CLIENT.
AND THAT'S ALL THEY WANT TO SAY
RIGHT NOW.
WE TALKED TO THE BOULDER POLICE
DEPARTMENT, CAROL, ALSO, ABOUT
WHERE THIS INVESTIGATION STANDS
TODAY.
AND WE ARE TOLD THAT THIS IS
STILL AN OPEN INVESTIGATION.
BUT IT'S A COLD CASE.
SO THAT MEANS THERE'S NOT AN
ACTIVE INVESTIGATION GOING ON
RIGHT NOW.
THEY DO CONTINUE TO GET TIPS.
THEY CONTINUE TO FOLLOW UP ON
LEADS THEY MAY HAVE.
BUT WE'RE TOLD THEY HAVE NOT HAD
ANY CREDIBLE TIPNESS A VERY LONG
TIME AND NO NEW LEADS THAT WOULD
PROVIDE A BREAK THROUGH INTO WHO
KILLED 6-YEAR-OLD JONBENET
RAMSEY.
>> I KNOW HE DIDN'T WANT THESE
DOCUMENTS RELEASED BUT HE
WASN'TED OTHER COURT DOCUMENTS
RELEASED AS WELL SO PEOPLE COULD
GET A CLEAR PICTURE.
BUT GOING BACK TO WHAT IT SAID,
IT BELIEVED ONE OR BOTH PARENTS
ASSISTED IN THE ***?
IS THAT WHAT YOU SAID?
>> THAT'S HOW WE'RE INTERPRETING
THEM.
I CAN READ YOU.
ON OR BETWEEN DECEMBER 25th AND
26th, 1996 -- THAT'S WHEN WE
KNOW JONBENET WAS KILLED IN HER
PARENTS' HOME -- THAT JOHN AND
OR PATRICIA RAMSEY DID
UNKNOWINGLY, RECKLESSLY TO
PERMIT A CHILD TO BE PLACED IN A
SITUATION WHICH POSED A THREAT
OF INJURY OR DEATH TO A CHILD'S