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   posted 04-08-2003 08:06 PM                          
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*This will be in the Atlanta legal paper, The Fulton County Daily Report tomorrow*

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DA in Ramsey Case Agrees That Evidence Backs Claim of Intruder

R. Robin McDonald
Fulton County Daily Report
04-09-2003
 
The district attorney of Boulder, Colo., has released a letter concurring with U.S. District 
Judge Julie E. Carnes' findings in a suit in Atlanta against the parents of 6-year-old murder
 victim JonBenét Ramsey. 

Boulder County District Attorney Mary W. Keenan on Monday released a statement saying
 that, after reading Carnes' order in the case Wolf v. Ramsey, "I agree with the court's 
conclusion that 'the weight of the evidence is more consistent with a theory that an intruder 
murdered JonBenét than it is with a theory that Mrs. Ramsey did so.'" Wolf v. Ramsey, 
1:00-CV-1187 (N.D. Ga. March 31, 2003). 

Keenan wrote, "John and Patricia Ramsey have been the focus of an exhaustive investigation
 with regard to the murder of their daughter, JonBenét, for more than six years. ... Since Mr. 
and Mrs. Ramsey have not even been charged, much less convicted, they must be presumed
 innocent and must be treated accordingly." 

Last winter, Keenan -- who was not district attorney when JonBenét was killed -- rekindled
 the languishing investigation into the 6-year-old girl's death and removed it from the jurisdiction
 of the Boulder Police Department. 

Early in the investigation, police had focused on John B. and Patricia P. "Patsy" Ramsey as the
 key suspects in their daughter's slaying, a position police never fully abandoned. After a 
13-month investigation, a Boulder County grand jury in 1999 declined to indict the Ramseys. 

Carnes, a federal judge in Atlanta and a former federal prosecutor there, released the 93-page
 order last week. Carnes' order stems from a 2000 case filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta by 
Robert Christian Wolf, a Boulder journalist who was questioned by police as a potential suspect
 in JonBenét's 1996 slaying. 

Wolf sued the Ramseys -- who now live in metropolitan Atlanta -- claiming they had defamed him
 by naming him as a suspect in their book about their daughter's death, "The Death of Innocence: 
The Untold Story of JonBenét's Murder and How Exploitation Compromised the Pursuit of Truth." 
Wolf also claimed that the Ramseys knew he was not a legitimate suspect because Patsy Ramsey
 had killed JonBenét either accidentally or intentionally. 

On March 31, Carnes dismissed the case against the Ramseys on a motion for summary judgment.
 In her order, she meticulously evaluated all of the evidence against the couple, the first time that
 a judge has done so in a public forum. Keenan called Carnes' ruling a "thoughtful and well-reasoned
 decision based on the evidence that was presented by the parties in that case" and recommended
 that "it should be read in its entirety." 

In addition, Keenan said that for several months her office "has been investigating new and other 
unpursued leads, most of which involve the possibility that an intruder committed this crime." The
 office, she said, is proceeding "with the full cooperation" of the Ramseys. 

The Ramseys' Atlanta attorney, L. Lin Wood Jr., said that, as a practical matter, Keenan's statement
 exonerates the Ramseys and "effectively brings to an end this 6 1/2-year era of false accusations" 
against the couple.