MAN ARRESTED IN DEATH OF JONBENET RAMSEY
By CATHERINE TSAI, Associated Press Writer August 16, 2006
BOULDER, Colo. - A man suspected in the slaying of 6-year-old beauty queen
JonBenet Ramsey nearly a decade ago was arrested Wednesday in Thailand,
the district attorney said.
District Attorney Mary Lacey
said the arrest followed several months of work. She disclosed no details about the suspect before a news conference scheduled
for Thursday.
Federal officials familiar
with the case, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the man was already being held in Bangkok on unrelated sex charges. CBS reported that the suspect, a 41-year-old second-grade
teacher, will be brought back to the United States
this weekend.
Ramsey family attorney Lin
Wood said in Atlanta that he has been told that the suspect once lived in Conyers,
Ga., outside of Atlanta.
He would not comment on whether the Ramseys knew him, and he said he knew nothing else about the man.
Lin said the Ramseys learned
about the suspect a least a month before JonBenet's mother, Patsy Ramsey, died in June.
"It's been a very long 10
years, and I'm just sorry Patsy isn't here for me to hug her neck," Wood said.
The girl was found beaten
and strangled in the basement of the family's home in Boulder
on Dec. 26, 1996.
