
Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy said new DNA tests point to an "unexplained third party" as responsible for the murder.Ī grand jury voted in 1999 to indict the parents of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey on charges of child abuse resulting in death, but then-Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter refused to sign the indictment. On July 9, 2008, nearly 12 years after their daughter’s murder, John and Patsy Ramsey were officially cleared in the death by the Boulder District Attorney’s office based on new DNA evidence collected from JonBenet’s clothing this particular type of DNA analysis did not exist at the time of the killing. No charges have ever been filed against anyone for the murder. The couple spent the next 10 years defending themselves against the allegations by insisting that an intruder killed their daughter. Daughter’s murderĪfter the murder of JonBenét in the family’s home in December 1996, Boulder law enforcement officials declared that Patsy and her husband were "under an umbrella of suspicion" due to their possible involvement in the crime. In a 2011 interview, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone stated that they regretted how the Ramseys were portrayed in the episode. She was also caricatured in the 2001 South Park episode, "Butters’ Very Own Episode." The South Park episode strongly implied that Patsy Ramsey with her husband were responsible for the death of JonBenét Ramsey.
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Ramsey was portrayed by Alex Borstein in MADtv episodes 417 and 502 by Marg Helgenberger in the 2000 miniseries Perfect Murder, Perfect Town and by soap opera actress Judi Evans in the 2000 TV movie Getting Away with Murder: The JonBenét Ramsey Mystery.

Greer had accused Westmoreland of participating in the kidnapping and murder. In November 2006, Rod Westmoreland, a friend of JonBenét Ramsey’s father, filed a defamation suit against Keith Greer, who posted a message on an Internet forum using the pseudonym "undertheradar". District Court Judge Julie Carnes that "abundant evidence" in the murder case pointed to an intruder having committed the crime. Derek Bauer, who obtained dismissal of both lawsuits including an in-depth decision by U.S. The Ramseys were defended in those lawsuits by Lin Wood and three other Atlanta attorneys, James C. Martin’s Press, Time, Inc., The Fox News Channel, American Media, Inc., Star, The Globe, Court TV and The New York Post.Erin Moriarty, "CBS", March 26, 2005.Vanessa Miller, "Colorado Daily" February 2, 2009David Kohn, "CBS" FebruJohn and Patsy Ramsey were also sued in two separate defamation lawsuits arising from the publication of their book, The Death of Innocence, brought by two individuals named in the book as having been investigated by Boulder police as suspects in JonBenét’s murder. was the plaintiff’s lead attorney for John and Patsy Ramsey and their son Burke, and has prosecuted defamation claims on their behalf against St.

Several defamation lawsuits have ensued since JonBenét’s murder. Patricia Ann "Patsy" Ramsey (née Paugh Decem– June 24, 2006) was the mother of JonBenét Ramsey, a 6-year-old American beauty pageant contestant who was murdered on December 25, 1996.

For the granddaughter of Queen Victoria sometimes known as "Patsy Ramsay", see Princess Patricia of Connaught.
