John Ramsey
Appearances
48 Hours
Post Mortem | JonBenét Ramsey
Finding the killer isn't going to change my life at this point, but it will change the lives of my children and my grandchildren. This cloud needs to be removed from our family's head and this chapter closed for their benefit. So there is an answer.
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Post Mortem | JonBenét Ramsey
I want the police to take all the evidence and give it to an author of labs, an outside expert, state-of-the-art DNA lab. Let them develop a profile that's compatible with the genealogy database that's out there, a huge database. Then do the genealogy research and see if we can find a relative that lived in Boulder, Colorado in 1996, December 1996, and go from there.
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Post Mortem | JonBenét Ramsey
That will solve the case if we can get that sample and do the research.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
After John discovered the body and she was brought to the living room, when I laid eyes on her, I knelt down and hugged her. But I had my whole body. on her body. My sweater fibers, or whatever I had on that morning, are going to transfer to her clothing.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
It happens. If she got up in the night and ran into somebody, it was somebody there that wasn't supposed to be there. I don't know what transpired after that, whether it was an accident, intentional, premeditated or whatnot. But it was not one of her three family members that were also in that house, period. End of statement.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
I mean, I appreciate being here. I appreciate it. It's very hard to be here, but it is a damn sight harder to be sitting at home in Atlanta, Georgia, wondering every second of every day what you guys are doing out here. You know, have you found anything? Are we any closer? Is the guy out here watching my house? You know, is my son safe? My life has been hell from that day forward.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
Finding the killer isn't going to change my life at this point, but it will change the lives of my children and my grandchildren. This cloud needs to be removed from our family's head and this chapter closed for their benefit. So there is an answer.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
And I want nothing more than to find out who was responsible for this.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
How would you describe Lou Smith? He's my hope in finding out who killed my daughter.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
Blood, hair, DNA, everything we've given them, everything they've asked for.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
If our DNA matched anything significant, they would have arrested us in a New York minute.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
If our DNA matched anything significant, they would have arrested us in a New York minute. Don't ever think they wouldn't have.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
We had buried our child. She was at peace. That was just an abhorrent thought.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
Certainly. People that have told us that know what they're doing, that with 95% medical certainty that a stun gun was used. No question.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
This is my child you're talking about. It's not a body. It's different.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
She was the spark plug of our family. Because of this zest that she had, she just kept things alive and hopping. It's not the same without her.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
Why is it so hard for people to understand that we love this child with everything in our being? We would never touch a hair on the head of one of our children. I mean, it just is inconceivable to me.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
Patsy was a very strong woman. She really was a very kind person, a wonderful mother. She got pretty vilified in the media, which was horribly unfair. I think hurt deeper than it showed.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
Yes, I do. If the police will take advantage of all the technology that's available to them, and that's going to one or two of the world's cutting edge labs for DNA testing. And I think if they do that, and if we're successful getting a sample in the right format, and then do the genealogy research, I'm 80% confident it could be solved. But you got to do it.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
We were casual with our security in our home in Boulder. We thought it was a safe place. And we got casual and complacent.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
the little beauty pageants they participated in, and I wouldn't have done that. You need to keep your children private. It was conflict for me because Patsy had just recovered from stage four ovarian cancer, was grateful to have some life ahead of her. In remission, she didn't know how long to spend with her children, to raise her children.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
I think she tried to pack a lot of mother-daughter time in that period of time that she knew she had ahead of her.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
Well, I occasionally have dreams, and they're really wonderful dreams, but I don't try to imagine what she would have been. She was in my life for six years and was my little girl, and that's how I remember her.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
We could find the killer tomorrow. He could be arrested, convicted, and, you know, jailed. And there'd still be 20% of the population would think that we had something to do with it.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
They are wrong. I don't know what else to say. How else do you say no except no? No means no.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
Life has never been the same, and it has basically ruined us financially and emotionally and everything else. So we're scaling back. This is my wedding dress.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
Here's my broken heart and my tears. In a rare, unguarded moment. I thought I would paint during my cancer treatment, but I was just so sick I couldn't.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
How did you find out? I was back in February for my annual checkup.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
You lost your hair. Yes. It's growing back. My eyebrows are growing back. It all comes out, but you know what? That's very little thing to worry about.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
They've never investigated this case, other than to investigate the family. They have never investigated this case.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
I asked Mark Beckner that. I came closer to him in the face than I am to you, Aaron. And I said, tell me what it is that makes you think I killed my beautiful, precious child. And he said, well, well, it's just a lot of little things. I think he really doesn't know.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
It was a strategy that was put in place to bring immense pressure on us to break us.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
Well, we're not soap opera actors. I mean, I suppose if I was an actor, I could act really angry, but I'm not. That's who I am. is what you see. And I'm angry. This is angry for me.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
What I do know is that we didn't kill her daughter. So let's look at the rest of the picture, guys.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
I did not kill my child. I didn't have anything to do with it.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
I didn't do it. John Ramsey didn't do it and we didn't have a clue of anybody who did do it. So we all got to start working together from this day forward to try to find out who the hell did it.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
I didn't put the bowl there, okay? I did not put the bowl there. I would not do this. Set it like this.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
They do? You're sure? Well, I don't know. I did not put that there.
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The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
Right. I did not feed JonBenet Pineapple. So I don't know how it got in her stomach. I don't know where this bowl of pineapple came from.
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The Firefighter's Secret
I felt like there was probably more information that could have been gathered that wasn't there.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: JonBenét Ramsey
I couldn't read the whole thing. I had just gotten up. It was the day after Christmas, and we were going to go visiting. And it was quite early in the morning, and I had gotten dressed and was on my way to the kitchen to make some coffee. And we have a back staircase from the bedroom areas. And I always come down that staircase. And I'm usually the first one down.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: JonBenét Ramsey
And the note was lying across the room. the three pages across the run of one of the stair treads and it was kind of dimly lit because it's very early in the morning and i started to read it and it was addressed to john said mr ramsey And it said, we have your daughter. And I, you know, it just wasn't registering. And I may have gotten through another sentence like, we have your daughter.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: JonBenét Ramsey
And I don't know if I got any further than that. And I immediately ran back upstairs and pushed open her door, and she was not in her bed. And I screamed for John.
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: JonBenét Ramsey
I don't know who it is. I don't know if it's a he or a she. But if I were a resident of Boulder, I would tell my friends to keep your babies close to you. You know, America has just been hurt so deeply with the tragic things that have happened. The young woman who...
Crime Junkie
MURDERED: JonBenét Ramsey
drove her children into the water and we don't know what happened with the OJ Simpson and I mean America is suffering because they they have lost faith in the American family we are a Christian God fearing family We love our children. We would do anything for our children.