JonBenét Ramsey
Born: August 6, 1990, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Died: December 25, 1996, Boulder, Colorado, United States
Education: High Peaks Elementary School
Siblings: Burke Ramsey, Elizabeth Pasch Ramsey, John Andrew Ramsey, Melinda Ramsey
Parents: John Bennett Ramsey, Patsy Ramsey
Grand jury prepared child abuse indictment against JonBenet Ramsey's parents, newly released documents show:
JonBenet Ramsey poses for a beauty pageant portfolio at a photo studio in 1994.
A Colorado court on Friday released a long-sealed 1999 grand jury
indictment of JonBenet Ramsey's parents for child abuse resulting in
death, but it gave no specifics and did not accuse them of killing her.
Prosecutors
declined to act on the indictment and charge John or Patsy Ramsey at
the time, and years later they publicly exonerated the couple and
suggested an unknown intruder was the culprit.
Yet the Boulder
Police Department — which put the Ramseys under an "umbrella of
suspicion" soon after the 6-year-old beauty queen's slaying in 1996 —
portrayed the belated document release as a vindication of their
investigation.Patricia
Ramsey and her husband, John Ramsey, produce a picture of JonBenet
during a press conference in Atlanta, where they released the results of
an independent lie detector test months after her death in 2000.
JonBenet Ramsey: Grand jury voted to charge parents in case:
A prosecutor apologised to Patsy and John Ramsey in 2008 after DNA evidence appeared to exonerate them.
The release on Friday of the grand jury indictments came after a
lawsuit by the Boulder Daily Camera newspaper and the Reporters
Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP).
The 1999 documents show the grand jury moved to charge Mr and
Mrs Ramsey with child abuse resulting in death and with being an
accessory to a crime.
The documents allege the couple placed their daughter "in a
situation which posed a threat of injury to the child's life or health"
which led to her death, and then helped the killer evade discovery and
prosecution.
Alex Hunter, the Boulder County district attorney at the
time, declined to sign the indictments, effectively dropping the
charges.
"I and my prosecutorial team believe we do not have
sufficient evidence to warrant the filing of charges against anyone who
has been investigated at this time," Alex Hunter, the Boulder County
district attorney, said in 1999.
Analysts say it is uncommon for a district attorney not to sign off on a grand jury decision.
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