After 4 Months, Ramseys Meet With Police

The parents of JonBenet Ramsey met separately with investigators Wednesday to discuss their daughter’s death, four months after the 6-year-old girl was killed.

JonBenet was found beaten and strangled in her family’s basement on Dec. 26, about eight hours after her mother discovered a ransom note demanding $118,000. An autopsy report indicated she may have been sexually abused.

No arrests have been made in her death and last week authorities acknowledged her parents are the focus of the investigation.

John and Patricia Ramsey met separately with two Boulder police detectives and a representative of the Boulder County district attorney’s office, beginning at 8 a.m. Wednesday, police chief Tom Koby and district attorney Alex Hunter said.

The interviews ended around 5 p.m. and Hunter would not say whether further meetings would be conducted. “I can’t speak to that,” he said.

The Ramseys were interviewed under conditions spelled out by police, including that Patricia Ramsey be interviewed first, that the interviews last indefinitely with reasonable breaks, that they be taped and that the Ramseys could each be accompanied by a lawyer.

“John and Patsy Ramsey fully complied with the agreement and answered all questions posed to them,” Hal Haddon, a Ramsey attorney, said in a press release.

The parents talked with police only on Dec. 26. Since then, investigators have been trying to arrange formal interviews with the parents, who were under no legal obligation to talk with police.