Posted on 08/16/2006 2:11:38 PM PDT by M. Peach
A man arrested in Thailand is being held in connection with the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, law enforcement officials said today. Federal officials familiar with the case, who spoke with the Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said the man was being held in Bangkok on unrelated sex charges.
A source close to the case identified the suspect as one-time resident of Conyers, Ga., and said he was a school teacher.
The source said that authorities had been focusing on him for some time and that Patsy Ramsey had been made aware prior to her death on June 24 that his arrest was being pursued.
The girl was found beaten and strangled in the basement of the family’s home in Boulder, Colo., on Dec. 26, 1996.
Law enforcement officials from Boulder were flying to Bangkok to present Thai authorities with documents in the slaying of the 6-year-old beauty pageant contestant, officials in Washington said. They asked to remain anonymous pending an announcement in Colorado.
The girl’s parents, Patsy and John Ramsey, had been under an "umbrella of suspicion" in JonBenet’s death. The Ramseys said an intruder killed their daughter. A grand jury investigation in Boulder ended with no indictments, and no arrests had been made in the case.
Patsy Ramsey died in July.
In 2003, U.S. District Judge Julie Carnes 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, who the Ramseys had named as a suspect in their daughter’s murder. The Boulder district attorney at the time said she agreed with Carnes’ declaration.
Orchestrated by whom? There have been a number of cases where suspects broke into houses and kidnapped/murdered children. In my opinion, this was one of the first. After that little girl Polly was kidnapped. I wondered if perhaps this was what happened to Jon Benet.
Yeah, it's busy, but it doesn't have all the good stuff.
Fox is saying that this perp confessed and you are still clinging to your own theories?
let's not forget richard jewel who was cleared of the atlanta bombings after going through he*l and having HIS life ruined..
Their lawyer knew about a month before Patsy died in June.. He says the man was under investigation for an extended period of time..
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The earliest theories were that one of them had followed the Benet's home, then killed their kid.
Looks like the earliest theories may well have been right on the mark.
That's good to know.
That's where dirty sicko old men go to have sex with children 10 yrs and under. Boys and Girls... What a SICKO...throw up!!!
This is a shocker. I admit to being one who always thought the parents did it, or at least knew who did. Now I wonder. Wow! Such great news however!
FOX said he'd be brought to the U.S. this comin weekend..
You know, I hope John Ramsey sues the person who runs that miserable website you named. There is no evidence Patsy Ramsey murdered her daughter. Patsy Ramsey's life was miserable because of people like you and that vile person who runs that site.
Well, let's be honest. Fox doesn't always get the facts right on their breaking news stories.
But I'd bet he did it. They wouldn't have gone all the way to Thailand to get someone they weren't pretty sure was guilty.
Thank God there's not a John Conyers High School in Carr Ga!
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Who is JonBenet?
You are OH SO RIGHT...
Caution on who's suspect..
My mind jumped there right away as well..
Could be a gay principal. This way he didn't want anyone to know by going to Thailand. But your probably right.
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