MrRant 0 Report post Posted December 25, 2003 ATLANTA (Reuters) - The parents of murdered child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey have filed a lawsuit against the Fox News network seeking $16 million in damages for a 2002 broadcast they say defamed them, their lawyer said on Wednesday. In the suit, filed on Tuesday in federal court in Atlanta, the Ramseys objected to a report aired last year by the News Corp Ltd. TV channel around the sixth anniversary of the murder of 6-year-old JonBenet in Boulder, Colorado. The suit charges that a Fox reporter's statement saying "there has never been any evidence to link an intruder to JonBenet's brutal murder" was false and defamed the Ramseys. "The gist of the statements uttered in the Ramsey segment is that in all probability, one or more of the Ramseys murdered JonBenet," the suit says. Fox News spokesman Robert Zimmerman said the network had not been served with the lawsuit and had no comment. Lin Wood, an Atlanta-based lawyer for the Ramseys, said the lawsuit seeks compensatory damages of $2 million each for John and Patsy Ramsey and their son, Burke, and $10 million in punitive damages. JonBenet, a former Little Miss Colorado, was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her parents' home in Boulder, Colorado, on Dec. 26, 1996. No criminal charges have been filed in the murder. The Ramseys, who have professed their innocence and have said evidence links an intruder to JonBenet's killing, now have homes in Georgia and Michigan, the suit says. In March 2002, the Ramseys reached an out-of-court cash settlement with a former detective who wrote a book accusing the couple of killing their daughter. The Ramseys agreed to drop a libel lawsuit against the ex-detective. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest FrigidSoul Report post Posted December 26, 2003 they got away with murder and now they're making money off of it. What can ya do? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HollywoodSpikeJenkins 0 Report post Posted December 26, 2003 Gut them like fishes? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Boo_Bradley Report post Posted December 26, 2003 I bet their scouring Golf resorts world wide looking for the killer. Like OJ. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Boo_Bradley Report post Posted December 26, 2003 I bet their scouring Golf resorts world wide looking for the killer. Like OJ. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Corey_Lazarus 0 Report post Posted December 26, 2003 Nah. Some Puerto Rican Guy killed JonBenet and OJ's chick. Don't you watch South Park? Trey and Matt are the best detectives in the world! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EricMM 0 Report post Posted December 26, 2003 $16,000,000~!? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest BDC Report post Posted December 26, 2003 How do you think they keep their lifestyle up? *conspiracy theory bells go off* It's all about the money. They killed their daughter to sue organizations for defamation... Nah, that's really stupid. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ted the Poster 0 Report post Posted December 27, 2003 An episode of The System that's about the case has evidence pointing towards both the family and an intruder. I've never felt strongly either way after that... but $16 MILLION for a statement that was possibly just not phrased correctly?!?! That seems a tad excessive. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EdwardKnoxII 0 Report post Posted December 27, 2003 http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story....6/230392763.htm DNA From JonBenet's Clothes Given to FBI By CINDY BROVSKY DENVER (AP) - A sample of male DNA found on JonBenet Ramsey's underwear has been submitted to FBI investigators seven years after the 6-year-old was slain in her parents' home, the family attorney said Friday. ``The Ramseys have a lot of hope that the DNA will solve the case,'' said their lawyer, L. Lin Wood. The DNA sample was taken from two drops of blood on the garment, which has been in storage with authorities since the investigation began into the child's murder. JonBenet, a competitor in child beauty contests, was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her parents' Boulder home on Dec. 26, 1996. Earlier DNA tests on the blood indicated it was from a male who was not a member of the Ramsey family. At the time, the DNA sample wasn't of a high enough quality to compare against a national databank of DNA, the attorney said. Within the last few months, the Boulder District Attorney's office was able to get a high quality sample of DNA from the garment to send to the FBI, Wood said. Phone lines at the district attorney's office were continuously busy Friday and no one could be reached for comment. ``I do believe the single most important evidence in the case is the DNA,'' Wood said in a telephone interview from his office in Atlanta, where John and Patsy Ramsey now live. The DNA will be compared with other samples in the FBI's national databank to see if it matches men convicted of violent crimes or samples from other unsolved crimes, Wood said. Wood accused Boulder police of not aggressively pursuing the DNA because it appeared to have been from someone outside the Ramsey family. The Ramseys have long contended that an outsider killed their daughter, and they have accused police of ignoring that possibility. Police declined to comment, referring questions to the district attorney's office. District Attorney Mary Keenan took over the case this year after a five-year investigation by police failed to result in arrests or indictments. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
