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The brutal crime set off a
awn-out, controversial search
jr her killer.
The prominence of the family —
lionaire president of Access Graph
ics; the mother, Patsy Ramsey, is a
former Miss West Virginia — and
the beauty of the little blond victim
guaranteed worldwide attention for
nearly three years.
'7 must report to you
that I... believe we
do not have sufficient
evidence to warrant
the filing of charges."
— Alex Hunter
Boulder County district attorney
It was before dawn on the day af
ter Christmas in 1996 when Patsy
Ramsey says she found a ransom
note on the back staircase in the
family’s home demanding $118,000
for the safe return of JonBenet.
“Listen Carefully!” the note be
gins. “We are a group of individu-
faction. We respect your business
but not the country that it serves.
At this time we have your daughter
in our possession.”
Eight hours later, Ramsey said
he found his daughter’s body in a
basement room, wrapped in a
white blanket. A rope was wrapped
around her neck and a wrist and
tied to a stick.
A red-ink heart was drawn on
her left palm, and Ramsey told po
lice he removed duct tape from the
child’s mouth before carrying her
body upstairs.
An autopsy concluded JonBenet
suffered a skull fracture, was stran
gled and beaten, and may have
been sexually assaulted.
Critics claimed the investiga
tion was compromised early
when detectives, believing they
were dealing with a kidnapping,
allowed friends and family to
roam through the Ramsey man
sion. They also asked Ramsey to
conduct a search, which led to the
discovery of the body.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island has be-
ome the first state to sue the makers of lead paint,
eeking millions to pay for removing the paint from
iomes and caring for poisoned children,
inspired by the national tobacco settlement, state
Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse sued eight
aint manufacturers this week and called on the in-
ustry to “take responsibility and clean up its mess.”
“This silent, invisible poison is the result of inten-
ional, deliberate, informed decisions made by the lead
aint industry," Whitehouse said yesterday.
Whitehouse said the paint companies should pay
‘or treating children affected by lead poisoning, for
pie in oA troviding special schooling to children with learning
alth offitai Usabilities attributed to lead paint and for removing
fie paint from homes. Other states have expressed in
vest in joining the lawsuit, Whitehouse said.
Donald E. Scott, an attorney for the paint com
panies, called the lawsuit a “groundless and waste
ful action.”
“This litigation tries to make a scapegoat of com
panies,” Scott said. “It substitutes legal wrangling for
serious efforts to reduce childhood lead poisoning.”
Eighty percent of the state’s homes were built be
fore lead-based paint was banned in 1978, and Rhode
Island’s lead-poisoning rates are three times the na
tional average. One in five children in the state suffer
from lead poisoning, state health officials said.
Lead poisoning can cause a variety of ailments,
ranging from lower IQs and learning disabilities to
seizures and death.
Lead paint is particularly hazardous to children
who can easily ingest the toxin when they chew on
flakes or when they put their hands in their mouth af
ter crawling through the fine dust created by the open
ing and shutting of painted windows.
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