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FYFYAug. 29, 2000, updated 9:45 p.m. - John and Patsy Ramsey returned today for a second day of questioning about the death of their daughter, JonBenét, by investigators from Boulder, who insisted their questions "have to be answered."
The two sides squabbled Monday over the line of questioning by special prosecutor Michael Kane, with the Ramseys' attorney, L. Lin Wood, saying Kane was refusing to consider any suspects other than the 6-year-old's parents.
TIMELINE
1996
Dec. 26
Patsy Ramsey reports getting up to make coffee around 5:30 a.m. and finding a 2 1/2-page ransom note. The note says JonBenét has been kidnapped and demands $118,000 in cash. That afternoon, John Ramsey finds JonBenét 's body in a spare room in the basement. She had been strangled with a garrote, and her mouth and neck were bound with duct tape.
1997
Jan. 1
In their first public comment on the case, John and Patsy Ramsey grant an extensive interview to CNN in which Patsy Ramsey proclaims, "There is a killer on the loose."
April 18
Boulder DA Alex Hunter for the first time publicly identifies John and Patsy Ramsey as the focus of the investigation.
April 30
Police conduct long-awaited "formal interviews" with the couple. Patsy Ramsey is interrogated for 6 hours. Her husband later is interrogated for about two hours.
1998
Jan. 15
John and Patsy Ramsey refuse to submit to another round of interviews unless they can review the evidence, a condition unacceptable to police.
June 24
The couple return to Colorado for interrogation by DA's investigators and are reportedly questioned together and separately. And for the first time, the prosecution conducts an extensive interview with their son, Burke, 11.
Aug. 6
In a stinging, eight-page resignation letter, Detective Steve Thomas says Hunter's office is "thoroughly compromised" and has "crippled" the case. Thomas charges that critical evidence has not been collected and maintains that other evidence hasn't been tested.
Sept. 16
Five months after they were chosen, Boulder County grand jurors begin their investigation into the girl's slaying.
Sept. 24
Veteran homicide Detective Lou Smit resigns, saying that authorities are focusing too heavily on the parents.
1999
Oct. 13
The grand jury ends its 13-month investigation. Hunter announces that his team doesn't think it has "sufficient evidence to warrant filing of charges."
Oct. 27
Gov. Bill Owens challenges the Ramseys: "Quit hiding behind your attorneys, quit hiding behind your public relations firm; come back to Colorado and work with us to find the killers in this case, no matter where that trail may lead."
2000
March 10
Alex Hunter calls it quits. After 28 years, he says he won't run again.
March 17
"The Death of Innocence" by John and Patsy Ramsey goes on sale.
April 10
Steve Thomas releases his book, "JonBenét: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation," in which he theorizes that Patsy Ramsey accidentally killed her daughter, then covered it up.
May 24
John and Patsy Ramsey release results of polygraph tests indicating that they're telling the truth when they say they didn't kill their daughter.
As Kane returned for the second day of talks today, he said Wood "doesn't want his client to answer some tough questions."
"This case is ... almost four years old. Whether it's an intruder or somebody in the house who committed this homicide, there are some difficult, tough questions that have to be answered," he said.
Asked if he expected the mood to change, Kane said, "I'm sure it'll be the same thing, but we'll see."
He said he planned to leave town at noon today. Other members of the investigative team, led by Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner, left their hotel with suitcases but did not indicate when they would return to Boulder. Asked for a comment, Beckner said, "We're supportive of Mike Kane. he's part of our team."
The investigators spent seven hours Monday questioning Patsy Ramsey at Wood's office in downtown Atlanta and planned to continue interviewing her today before moving on to her husband. The Ramseys entered the building today morning through an underground entrance and did not speak to reporters.
What began as a cordial interview of Patsy blew up Monday afternoon, with a prosecutor threatening to walk out and the Ramseys' attorney promising to end today's session if the tone of the questions doesn't change.
When Monday's questioning in Atlanta ended just before 4 p.m. Denver time, the Ramseys' attorney had uncharacteristic praise for Boulder police, especially Chief Mark Beckner, but blasted Kane, the prosecutor who led a 13-month grand jury investigation of JonBenét Ramsey's death.
"The bottom line is we had a productive morning, the afternoon was a waste of time, and the reason for that is spelled Michael Kane," Wood said in a phone interview after the session ended.
Earlier, Wood told a flock of reporters outside his office that Kane is an "overzealous, obsessive special prosecutor from Pennsylvania who long ago lost his objectivity." Wood said Kane was on a "fishing expedition" during the day-long interview, which took place in Wood's office in a downtown Atlanta high-rise.
Kane questioned Patsy about security for JonBenét 's brother, Burke, when he returned to school after his sister's death. He also asked her about donations made to a foundation the family set up, Wood said.
The JonBenét Ramsey Children's Foundation was set up by the Ramseys to provide reward money for information leading to JonBenét 's killer. Kane, reached at his Atlanta hotel room, said he didn't think it would be ethical to respond to Wood's comments, since the interviews are set to continue today. But former Boulder detective Steve Thomas, who formally questioned Patsy Ramsey in 1997, defended Kane's actions.
"I think he sees the case for what it is and is trying to be as aggressive as he can with it," Thomas said.
Kane also declined to say whether Monday's questioning had been productive. But he confirmed he did threaten to walk out at one point Monday afternoon.
Until Monday, the Ramseys had been formally interviewed only twice by police since their daughter was found beaten and strangled in the basement of their Boulder home Dec. 26, 1996. They did not testify before a Boulder grand jury that disbanded last October after a 13-month investigation. No indictments were issued.
Beckner told reporters Monday morning that much has happened since the Ramseys were last questioned in June 1998. Beckner said investigators wanted to ask the Ramseys about things they wrote in their book, "The Death of Innocence," published this spring. And "new forensic evidence has developed over the last couple of years," he said.
Beckner declined to say the Ramseys are suspects. But he pointed out they were in the house when their daughter was killed, which he said makes them "suspicious witnesses."
With Beckner and Kane in Atlanta are Boulder police investigators Tom Trujillo, Jane Harmer and Tom Wickman. Prosecutors Mitch Morrissey and Bruce Levin, who worked with Kane during the grand jury investigation, are there as well. Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter, who leaves office in January, was not present.
As he left Wood's office at the end of the day, and later through a spokeswoman, Beckner declined to comment on Monday's session, saying he didn't want to jeopardize today's interviews.
But Wood said he was encouraged, at least, by Beckner's behavior. "From what I saw today, we need to try to work with Chief Beckner and Michael Kane needs to go back to Pennsylvania and work on developing his private practice."
Kane was a prosecutor in Denver and later a federal prosecutor in Pennsylvania. He joined the grand jury investigation at Hunter's request.
No conditions were set on the interviews. But the Ramseys, who have consistently maintained that they are innocent, have said their goal is to create a new, better relationship with Boulder police, who they say zeroed in on them as suspects immediately. Boulder police say they have looked at dozens of other possible suspects.
As she entered her attorney's office Monday morning, Patsy Ramsey asked reporters to pray that "it's a productive day." But former Detective Thomas wasn't hopeful anything would come of the interviews: "Don't hold your breath and anticipate an arrest or conclusion coming from these two days of peace talks."
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