True Crime Exclusive: On The Hunt For JonBenet’s Murderer:
Her Father John Ramsey Speaks To Dr. Oz
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(nar)DO: Today John Ramsey continues his crusade
to see his daughter's killers brought to justice.
DO: JR joins me now.
It's been over 20 years
since you lost your daughter
JR: mmhmm
DO: How's John Ramsey doing?
JR: He's doing well.
Ah I ah, am good.
I remarried,
I I was single for about five years
after Patsy died.
Ah, my, I have three children,
that are living.
They're doing great.
I'm pretty proud of them.
Grandchildren now, so.
DO: It's a good feeling I have some of those too.
JR: They're a lot of fun ...
and amaze you, actually.
DO: Your beautiful daughter JonBenet would be 28
JR: mmhmm
DO: if she was alive today.
What kind of a woman would she have been,
do you think?
JR: Well, you know,
I always think of her as a six year old,
my six year old daughter.
That's how I remember her.
It's hard for me to imagine
what she would be like.
She was very outgoing,
very gregrascious, [sic]
in, in a, a very unique way.
DO: Can I take you back to
the evening of her murder.
JR: mmhmm
DO: I know this is painful
but it helps to put the pieces together
which is what we're trying to do, today.
DO: When did you first realize she was missing?
And what did you think had happened to JonBenet?
JR: Well, (sq) you know,
we had this ransom note
which said she was taken
and it's a horrible, horrible feeling.
DO: So you call the police
JR: mmhmm
DO: And when they come,
what, what did they do?
JR: Well they, they sent us
police car and one person
and the first thing he said
"Well, did she run away?"
Good heavens, no.
She six years old.
She didn't run away.
And I showed him the ransom note and uhm
uhm and the note said
ah "We will call you tomorrow".
So we waited, for the phone to ring.
And the amount of money that was asked for
in ransom, was a strange number,
118 thousand.
You know, why not a million?
Why not? (sq),
You know, where did that number come from?
It meant something to the killer, obviously.
But, that was, I thought, very bizarre.
DO: Did it mean anything to you, that number.
JR: Well, I'd actually received a bonus of 118, 000
and it was on every pay stub that I got for the rest of the year.
DO: So someone knew enough about you to know
that you had gotten a bonus?
JR: Well, it wouldn't have been difficult
if you had gone through our house,
and you know,
our drawers and stuff.
DO: So, as painful as the loss of your daughter,
there's also the pain of being,
at least having members of your family
accused of being involved with this.
JR: ehhmm
DO: This ransom note,
I've seen some people argue
Patsy was responsible for.
DO: Leave that accusation aside
JR: mmhmm
DO: as preposterous.
How did that affect you
to hear those kind of allegations?
JR: Well, it, at the time
ah, we were crushed
by the loss of our child
so all this other nonsense was,
it didn't matter.
You know, we'd lost our child, uhm.
The accusations,
the, you know, we,
it, it was noise level stuff compared to
what our real grief and pain was.
DO: So let's go back to that evening,
you find the ransom note,
the police are there.
They're sort of figuring out if Jonbenet ran away
or asking some questions.
JR: mmhmm
DO: And I understand
you're sent out,
to search the house
So, is that right?
JR: Ya, that's right.
They asked us to ah
go through the house,
see if we saw anything unusual.
So we started in the basement
and uhm,
ah noticed some things
that were not right;
uhm,
there was an open window, ah,
there was a suitcase,
under the window, s sstanding up
and immediately,
so that, that didn't,
that doesn't belong there.
That's not where we would have put it.
uhmm, and then I went into the
(sq) (@ 6:44, nose rub) the other room,
where we found JonBenet
and, very quickly found her,
and ah.
So I never really went any further in the house.
DO: And what did you do when you saw JonBenet?
What went through your mind? That terrible.
JR: Well it was relief.
uhm, you know, people say
"Well that had to be the worst moment of your life".
No it wasn't,
I found my child.
I found her.
She was back
in my arms.
And, ah, I fairly quickly realized
that this wasn't good.
(sq) that squeaky throat tightening noise that JR often makes
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