If police lose in their bid to protect their files as the Burke Ramsey defamation suit proceeds slowly through the pretrial discovery process, it could provide the most detailed glimpse into the tortured history of one of the nation’s most notorious and enduring criminal mysteries of the modern era. The latest defense filing adds, “Suffice it to say that there are few, if any, criminal cases in the past half century that have garnered as much public attention and discussion.” Lawyers for CBS dismiss the potential harm to the beleaguered high profile case, stating in a filing Friday that “No fewer than 37 books have been written about the case, including two books by the Ramseys themselves, and several by former law enforcement agents who directly investigated the case.” The department also is seeking a protective order precluding discovery of its criminal investigative files, said to number now in excess of 60,000 pages. Disclosure of police investigative files will adversely affect the investigation.” The police department, through the office of the Boulder City Attorney, is fighting to quash the subpoenas, stating that “the Boulder Police Department has two detectives assigned and continues to work diligently to solve the crime. Burke Ramsey’s lawyers also have made a far more limited request for investigative documents from the police. for a 2016 documentary which suggested he could be responsible for his 6-year-old sister’s 1996 slaying, have issued subpoenas for vast numbers of files from the nearly 22-year police investigation. Lawyers defending the suit, brought by JonBenet Ramsey’s brother Burke Ramsey against the CBS Corp.
Now 29 years old, Burke says going through the endless media scrutiny and being accused of his sister’s 1996 murder was traumatizing.BOULDER - A high-stakes battle is underway in Boulder courts, spurred by a $750 million defamation suit, that could force police to turn over thousands of pages of investigative files on the unsolved murder of JonBenet Ramsey. Phil - the first time he’s ever spoken publicly about the murder of his sister - was found to be suspicious by many, considering he hadn’t directly addressed the case in 20 years. The team, led by former FBI agent and profiler Jim Clemente, concluded that Burke accidentally killed JonBenét, and then the kids’ parents tried to cover it up by making it seem like an intrusion, a sexual assault and finally, a murder.īurke’s recent appearance on Dr. The results of the investigation were many, but the ultimate answer, according to them, is that the JonBenét murder wasn’t intentional. READ MORE: JonBenét Ramsey’s brother, Burke, talks about her murder for first time The team even rebuilt the Ramsey basement (to scale) and reenacted the murder to see if a nine-year-old boy could possibly hit hard enough to kill someone (JonBenét ultimately died from a massive blow to her head). No evidence was found to incriminate them, and to this day no charges have been laid.Įnter the team of investigators, who now, in 2016, took into consideration all of the evidence. At the time of her body’s discovery, only her parents and her then-nine-year-old brother Burke were home.Īfter the pageant queen’s body was discovered, the Ramsey family was put under intense scrutiny by investigators and the media. There was no sign of forced entry into the Boulder home, and authorities stated that the little girl had been sexually assaulted. A mysterious ransom note was left in the house, demanding the seemingly random amount of $118,000. JonBenét Ramsey was found brutally murdered in the basement of her house the day after Christmas. JonBenét’s father, John, found JonBenét’s body with duct tape over her mouth and a cord wrapped around her neck. READ MORE: JonBenét Ramsey case: Lawyer suing CBS for docuseries accusing Burke of murder
IS THE JONBENET RAMSEY CASE STILL ACTIVE TV
After painstaking research for the TV special, a team of forensic specialists came to the dire conclusion after finding all other theories either impossible or highly unlikely.
IS THE JONBENET RAMSEY CASE STILL ACTIVE SERIES
The Case Of: JonBenét Ramsey, a two-part series exploring the brutal murder of six-year-old JonBenét in 1996, ended last night with the suggestion that her brother, Burke Ramsey, was the culprit. district attorney in 2008, but that didn’t stop a team of CBS investigators from going full-bore into the available forensic evidence. The family of JonBenét Ramsey may have been exonerated of any criminal wrongdoing by the Boulder, Colo.
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