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Ramseys Meet with Boulder Police in Atlanta

Aired August 28, 2000 - 10:21 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: For the first time in two years, John and Patsy Ramsey, meeting with Boulder, Colorado, police to answer questions about the death of their daughter, JonBenet. The sessions will not take place in Boulder, but rather in the offices of the Ramseys' lawyer, here in Atlanta, where the couple now lives.

CNN's Brian Cabell now, tracking the story, and joins us live here in Atlanta with the very latest on what's happening on this case.

Brian, hello.

BRIAN CABELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Bill.

Patsy Ramsey's now being interviewed. She's been interviewed in her attorney's office now for about the last hour and 15 minutes if they are running according to schedule. As you say, this the first time authorities have talked to either of them since 1998, and then they talked to them once in 1997 as well. Why would the Ramseys decide to talk to the authorities at this point? They say because they want to clear their name. They want to clear their reputation. Most of all, according to their attorney, they want police to start focusing on the real killer whom they say is someone other than them. Now why are the investigators talking to them? seven of them have come into town, why are they talking to them?

Because, quite clearly, after 3 1/2 years, they are looking for some answers.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

POLICE CHIEF MARK BECKNER, BOULDER, COLORADO: Well, a couple of things have come up, several things over the last couple of years. Certainly we have some questions about some things that they wrote about in their book. We have some questions about some forensic evidence that has developed over the last couple of years, those types of things.

JOHN RAMSEY: We shouldn't have to prove our innocence. We want them to objectively look for the killer of our daughter. And if they have new questions, which they say they do, that will help them in the investigation, then we are here to help.

QUESTION: Do you trust the prosecutors and trust the Boulder police? RAMSEY: Trust is not a word that jumps from my lips.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CABELL: What the Ramseys and their attorney are hoping is that the investigators will start looking at another case that occurred about nine months after JonBenet's death about two miles from their home. Apparently a man was lying in wait and assaulted a 14-year-old girl in her home that night and then he disappeared. He got away, he has never been caught.

They feel, the Ramseys feel, these two cases may be connected. They think perhaps, this man might be the same one who murdered JonBenet. They're hoping, in any case, that investigators will start looking at these two cases as being parallel.

I'm Brian Cabell, CNN, live in Atlanta.

HEMMER: Brian, quickly here, I know we talked last hour. You said Patsy Ramsey heading in was in a rather upbeat mood, at least based on what you've been able to gauge for the past four years, that caught your attention?

CABELL: Yes, it did, she looked more relaxed than I'd seen her in the last 3 1/2 years. They were willing to talk to reporters. They seemed very engaging and they seemed ready for what clearly will be a grueling interrogation. There are going to be some tough questions they're facing upstairs. And they are doing this willingly. And they're hoping this will be the final time they'll have to enter any room with investigators as possible suspects. They're hoping that so-called "umbrella of suspicion" will finally be lifted after these interviews, this interrogation.

HEMMER: And again, quickly, Brian, could go two days, is that right?

CABELL: They say at least through today it depends. It could last several hours today. At least through today and possibly into tomorrow.

HEMMER: Brian Cabell, thanks, live down here in the city of Atlanta.

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