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-Short Attention Span Theater-
JonBenet Ramsey's mother dies of cancer
2006-06-24
Patsy Ramsey, the mother of slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, died on Saturday from cancer in Atlanta, the family's attorney told CNN. Ramsey's husband, John, was at her side when she died at about 3:30 a.m., attorney L. Lin Wood told the cable network. Ramsey, 49, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1993, underwent treatment and lived cancer-free for nine years, Wood said. Three years ago she suffered a recurrence, he said. JonBenet, 6, was found beaten and strangled in the family's Boulder, Colorado, home on December 26, 1996, in a case that remains unsolved. Her parents came under the Boulder police's "umbrella of suspicion," but a grand jury issued no indictments.
Posted by:Fred

#11  We probably won't know whodunnit until Judgment Day, and even then we'll have other things to think about.
Posted by: Korora   2006-06-24 17:56  

#10  For God's sake, can you all at least let the body cool?
Posted by: Hupese Crimp4377   2006-06-24 17:08  

#9  ..What convinced me that they knew something was watching them at JonBenet's funeral. Did anyone notice that they were walking apart from one another - not even close enough to reach out a hand to each other at the worst moment of their lives together. Even as much as my ex and I loathed each other at the end of our marriage, we would have been beside one another at our child's funeral. They knew...and I'm inclined to agree with Manolo.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2006-06-24 16:24  

#8  
There is a lot of speculation that the mentally retarded brother (half brother) may have done the killing in a fit of rage.

-M
Posted by: Manolo   2006-06-24 15:53  

#7  Sexual abuse ? What the fig are they dressing up these little dolls for if not part of the orgy warm up and forplay. I'll bet most of these 'contestants' were/are tongue kissed before they are six.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-06-24 15:45  

#6  Don't expect to see her in heaven
Posted by: Frank G   2006-06-24 14:53  

#5  not to imply that she killed another child - but I remember the phrasing was just very odd for a mother to refer to her own dearly departed daughter.
Posted by: 2b   2006-06-24 14:40  

#4  Barbara - she said something more along the line of "I did not kill that child."
Posted by: 2b   2006-06-24 14:37  

#3  I was into this way back when. It's actually an interesting murder case - despite the headlines. It's a true Agatha Christie murder. The mother and father know what happened and the fact that they refused to cooperate causes me to have zero sympathy for them. I came to the conclusion that the mother could not have done such a brutal murder with those sexual overtones - but is either responsible/complicit in the death or there was sexual abuse going on prior to the murder that forced them into silence.
Posted by: 2b   2006-06-24 14:32  

#2  Mike, I believe she sure as hell knew something.

At a press conference not long after the girl's body was found, someone asked the mother if she had killed her child. She very calmly answered no, I did not kill my child.

I realize she was very media-savvy, but to show no outrage at such a suggestion? Something's not right.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-06-24 14:29  

#1   Whatever happened, this woman has been through Hell. I do believe though that she knew what happened to her daughter - see the book Mindhunter .

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2006-06-24 14:21  

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