Fbi Unit To Study Ramsey Case

Sun., Sept. 7, 1997

Compiled From Wire Services

Investigators pursuing a solution to the murder of JonBenet Ramsey are in Virginia to review the case with FBI experts.

Chief Trial Deputy Peter Hofstrom, senior trial deputy Trip DeMuth and retired Colorado Springs homicide investigator Lou Smit flew from Denver to Washington/Dulles International Airport on Saturday in preparation for meetings Monday and Tuesday.

Five Boulder Police detectives assigned to the case traveled here separately on Saturday.

The Boulder investigators and prosecutors are expected to meet at the FBI Quantico facility with agents of the bureau’s elite Child Abduction Serial Killer Unit.

It is hoped that that the FBI experts this week will be able to highlight strengths and weaknesses of the case as it has developed to date. Also, they will offer opinions on whether the teams are close to being ready to prepare an arrest warrant and, if not, how police should proceed.

JonBenet, 6, was found strangled and with her skull fractured in the Ramsey family’s basement the afternoon of Dec. 26.

More than seven hours earlier, her mother had reported finding a ransom note demanding $118,000 for the child’s safe return.

John and Patsy Ramsey, parents of the slain child beauty queen, are a focus of the investigation. The Ramseys claim they’re innocent and both police and prosecutors stress that other theories are also being examined.

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