Man Arrested In JonBenet Ramsey Case
Wow – talk about out of the blue. A man has been arrested in Thailand on unrelated charges, but authorities are flying there from Colorado to present documents. It looks like they are going to try to extradite.
Federal officials familiar with the case, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the man was being held in Bangkok on unrelated sex charges.
The girl was found beaten and strangled in the basement of the family's home in Boulder, Colo., on Dec. 26, 1996.
Law enforcement officials from Boulder were flying to Bangkok to present Thai authorities with documents in the slaying of the 6-year-old beauty pageant contestant, officials in Washington said. They asked to remain anonymous pending an announcement in Colorado.
The girl's parents, Patsy and John Ramsey, had been under an "umbrella of suspicion" in JonBenet's death. The Ramseys said an intruder killed their daughter. A grand jury investigation in Boulder ended with no indictments, and no arrests had been made in the case.
Patsy Ramsey died in July.
It is too bad Patsy Ramsey did not live to see this. One presumes they have some information about this man that makes him a suspect in the case.
UPDATE: Reuters is reporting that the suspect has confessed and gave details that have never been released in the case.
By Inland Empire View, August 16, 2006 @ 4:49 pm
FoxNews is reporting that the suspect had been in email contact with Patsy Ramsey and was sending bizarre and detailed messages to her. I don’t have the link right off the top of my head. Another report stated that the investigation was coordinated with ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement), which is charged with investigating kiddie porn crimes. Thailand is still a source of such horrible material and has a flourishing sex trade. I’m thinking that this guy (who had to be a lot nuts already) thought he could hide behind the internet and was tracked down via email headers. If so, the evidence is likely to be overwhelming. Hanging is too good for the bastard.