Patsy and JonBenet Ramsey may find justice side by side
Posted
August 16, 2006 at
7:05 pm by
Jessica
Ironic, and I’ll tell you why…
Several months after JonBenet Ramsey’s mother is laid to rest and her soul reunited with her daughter, Patsy Ramsey may finally be vindicated. Now, I am a skeptical and rather cynical person on a good day and usually highly suspect of people I believe to have committed a crime, but I have always believed Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey were innocent. It was something about their demeanor and most of all their sarcasm on that infamous Larry King interview with the Ramseys where they mocked the investigators who continued to consider them as suspects. To this day, there was always of veil of uncertainty in the media and the public. No motive existed. The silly ransom note of $113,000. The fact that the parents didn’t find the child until 6 hours later only to be lying dead in their own basement. All of this easily explained in a way that any parent in a devastating crisis would probably be able to contend with – there is no normal way to act when your child is missing.
I sincerely hope that the suspect that has been arrested today is indeed the killer and that the Ramseys will get the truth they so deserve. The public doesn’t even prosecute and try convicted pedophiles or serial child killers (like Andrea Yates) the way they have mistreated this family. Anyone who has ever convicted this family without proof should be ashamed of themselves.
The killer has not been convicted yet in a court of law, but whether or not this current individual, now in custody, is the murderer or not, it still presents a situation where the story has more to it that anybody knows right now.
From the www.nytimes.com:
Suspect Is Arrested in JonBenet Ramsey Case
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 — A suspect has been arrested in Thailand in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey, the 6-year-old beauty queen whose slaying in her parents’ Colorado home nearly a decade ago shocked the nation and for a time cast a cloud on the family, federal officials said today.
The suspect was arrested on Tuesday night in Bangkok by members of the Boulder County, Colorado, district attorney’s office, United States immigration officers and the Royal Thai Police, said Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the immigration and customs enforcement agency of the Department of Homeland Security.
An American security official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the man arrested is a United States citizen, and that the arrest resulted from “several months of fairly complex investigation.”
Federal officials familiar with the case said the man was already being held in Bangkok on unrelated sex charges, The Associated Press reported. CBS News reported that the suspect is a 41-year-old elementary-school teacher.
The Boulder County district attorney’s office declined to give details, pending a news briefing. There were early reports that the briefing would be held today, then subsequent reports that it would be held on Thursday. CBS said the suspect would be brought to the United States this weekend.
There were several unanswered questions this afternoon as news of the arrest began to spread, including exactly what charges will be lodged against the suspect and what led investigators to him after all this time. JonBenet was found beaten and strangled in the basement of the family home in Boulder the day after Christmas in 1996.
Early speculation centered on the parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, and even on a brother of the victim. But John Douglas, a noted F.B.I. crime-profiler, said in an interview on CNN this afternoon that he had never suspected anyone in the family. Read the rest…
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1. jjwalsh said:
August 19, 2006 @ 2:02 am
I wrote about this story as well, but from the angle of someone who did lay blame on the parents and is ashamed as you point out I should be.
I would also argue that my reaction and the reaction of the general public to blame the Ramseys is a kind of natural mental defense when something horrible like this happens.
By blaming the victims or being highly judgemental, it is possible to separate yourself from this horrible tragedy so you can mistakenly believe you are immune from it ever happening to you. I wasn’t a parent at the time, but I think a lot of parents were saying, the Ramseys shouldn’t have put her in all of those contests parading her about as a sex icon at 3. I think people also look at the parents of the Columbine kids and are similarily judgemental- it must be something they have done wrong because that would “never” happen with my kids…
It doesn’t help us to bury our heads in the sand, and it doesn’t help victims like the Ramseys who had very little sympathy from the media or public, but it is a very common reaction that we need to be aware of.