Murder of JonBenet Ramsey is listed in TOP 25 CRIMES OF THE CENTURY

Discussion in 'Justice for JonBenet Discussion - Public Forum' started by Cherokee, Mar 2, 2007.

  1. Cherokee

    Cherokee FFJ Senior Member

    http://www.time.com/time/2007/crimes/?xid=site-cnn-partner

    Well, I'm impressed. At least Time magazine didn't say the Ramseys were cleared.

    http://www.time.com/time/2007/crimes/20.html

    THE MURDER OF JONBENET RAMSEY, 1996

    Two corollary developments distinguish this terrible unsolved killing of a beautiful six-year-old girl in Boulder, Colo. The first was the suddenly widespread revelation of the existence of children's beauty pageants -- in which JonBenet was entered time and again by her former beauty queen mother, Patsy. Public fascination and repulsion over the makeup, costumes and prepubescent swimsuit competitions at times overshadowed the crime of child murder itself. The second development was the tenacity with which observers and large segments of the public held on to suspicions that JonBenet's wealthy family had something to do with her death. The murder was discovered the day after Christmas 1996 and to this day no credible suspect has been arrested, despite the high-profile false confession of teacher John Mark Karr. In the meantime, Patsy Ramsey has died of cancer. But those who view her with suspicion have not relented.
     
  2. Elle

    Elle Member

    Thank you for posting this, Cherokee.

    I hope John Ramsey and his son, Burke, can put their heads on their pillows at night and sleep freely, because one day they may have to face Law Enforcement one more time with the truth about what really took place on Christmas night, 1996,
     
  3. Tril

    Tril Member

    Yes, thanks, Cher.

    I hope you're right, Elle, that the remaining Ramseys will one day find themselves facing more questions from LE.
     
  4. koldkase

    koldkase FFJ Senior Member

    Until someone in the Ramsey family does right by JonBenet, they will never rest in peace.

    Thanks, Chero. You're right, Time didn't capitulate. Law suit to follow. :yes:
     
  5. Show Me

    Show Me FFJ Senior Member

    Good for the Times!
     
  6. Paradox

    Paradox Banned for Stupidity by RiverRat

    Colorado gets two.

    I hope things like this list get to John Ramsey and they wear his delusion down.
     
  7. The Punisher

    The Punisher Member

    And I for one don't plan on relenting in the foreseeable future.
     
  8. tylin

    tylin Banned

    Nope, haven't relented at all.
     
  9. Little

    Little Member

    Thanks Cherokee.

    The name JonBenet was on (maybe still is) the list of most searched names, now she's on a list for famous murder victims. If someone wants to get a lot of hits on a news story all they have to do is mention JonBenet somewhere in the article whether is has anything to do with JonBenet or not.

    At the tender age of six JonBenet's name has brought her family the attention Patsy and Nedra sought - not the way they wanted it, but hey, they're famous any way you slice it. She's also posthumously made a lot of money for a lot of people from attorneys to... well, mostly attorneys.

    If only John could copyright the name he could squeeze a little more money and face-time out of this.

    Little
     
  10. Cherokee

    Cherokee FFJ Senior Member

    Yeah, what was it Patsy said to Judith Phillips? Something like ... "there is no bad press ... all press is good."
     
  11. The Punisher

    The Punisher Member

    That may be closer to the heart of this than we think.
     
  12. LurkerXIV

    LurkerXIV Moderator

    JonBenet and the other unsolved murders...

    ...in Boulder County:

    Boulder County Unsolved Homicides

    Boulder writer and historian and Camera columnist Silvia Pettem has compiled fact sheets on Boulder County cold cases for the Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons.

    Howard Morton, the organization's director, shared that information with the Daily Camera.


    Harold Nicholson, 18, was found dead May 23, 1970, beaten and stuffed into the trunk of a car he had bought the day before. It was parked three feet inside the Boulder County border near 134th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard in Broomfield.

    He had been married for five weeks and was reported missing when he failed to pick up his wife.

    Gerald Cordner, 28, was shot in the back of the head, execution-style, on May 23, 1978, in what police called a drug-related robbery. Cordner was labeled a "large dealer" in cocaine with nationwide connections.

    He was found two days later, slumped over a desk in the 95th Street farmhouse where he lived and apparently was trying some drugs when he died. Local drug users and dealers were reluctant to talk to police.

    Sid Wells, 22, a University of Colorado journalism student from Longmont, was found shot to death Aug. 1, 1983, in an apartment his mother owned. The shotgun slaying also received worldwide exposure because he had been dating Robert Redford's daughter, Shauna, also a CU student.

    The apartment's resident Thayne Smika, then 24, was arrested, then freed after the District Attorney's Office determined the evidence was not strong enough to prosecute.

    Boulder police reopened the case in 1997, but the district attorney ruled police still didn't have sufficient evidence to arrest Smika, who has since vanished.

    Margaret Hillman, 14, was reported missing in September 1983 after a party at Heil Ranch, north of Lefthand Canyon, where she lived with her family.

    She had left the barn party about a mile from her home and told her parents she was going to ride home with another relative. It was determined she had not gone with any specific person, and her parents reported the next morning that she had not come home. Police thought she might have decided to walk home.

    After an extensive search of the 5,000-acre ranch, officials found no trace of her. Almost a year later, in July 1984, her body was found in a ravine less than a mile from where she was last seen.

    David Eugene Cox, 55, was found bludgeoned to death Jan. 4, 1994, in his mobile home at Boulder Meadows in North Boulder. He was last seen alive on New Year's Eve 1993.

    An autopsy showed he died of massive head injuries caused by a blunt object, which police said was a cast-iron teakettle.

    Cox had worked at Neodata and also had a business selling Indian jewelry and kachina dolls. He was divorced with no children and was survived by a brother.

    JonBenet Ramsey, 6, was found dead Dec. 26, 1996, in the basement of her family's Boulder home on 15th Street. The slaying has attracted worldwide attention.

    In August, a media circus descended on Boulder after John Mark Karr was arrested in connection with the decade-old case. He was exonerated after his DNA didn't match crime-scene evidence.

    Susannah Chase, 23, a senior at the University of Colorado, died Dec. 22, 1997, a day after she was brutally beaten a block from her Whittier neighborhood home at 18th and Spruce streets.

    Forensic testing five years later unearthed two new pieces of evidence: a fingerprint and a DNA sample pulled from a bloody bat found near the crime scene. But no one has been arrested in the case.

    Frank Santos, 37, was fatally shot at 10:18 p.m. July 9, 2004, as he drove toward Boulder on U.S. 36 west of McCaslin Boulevard. A bullet fired through the driver's side window of his silver 1994 Chevrolet Cavalier hit him in the head.

    Police looked for the driver of a large, dark SUV that was seen on the highway about the time of his death.
     
  13. Cranberry

    Cranberry Member

    I think the historian has an inaccuracy. Shouldn't it read: Exonerated by DNA because it didn't match JMK's made up story?
     
  14. The Punisher

    The Punisher Member

    Mm, yes, I think it should.
     
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