2000-03-24: John and Patsy Ramsey on the Today Show (Part 5)

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COURIC: You pepper the book with fleeting references to some other people that you seemed to question. You talk about Bill McReynolds, who played Santa at your Christmas party. You also mention his wife, who in a strange twist wrote a play years before about a girl murdered in a basement.

Mr. RAMSEY: Mm-hmm. The point in the book was to clarify from our viewpoint why these people have been mentioned a lot in the media. And also to point out that there are legitimate leads that need to be followed.

COURIC: Apparently, this Santa Claus was investigated, and basically was dropped as a potential suspect?

Mr. RAMSEY: And--and--and that's--if that's true, then--then that's great. All I'm asking the police to do is investigate all of the leads that we have.

COURIC: You also mention Chris Wolf, a total stranger, whose girlfriend reported that he disappeared on Christmas night and was very agitated when he watched the news of the murder on TV.

Mr. RAMSEY: Mm-hmm.

COURIC: Why do you mention him?

Mr. RAMSEY: Because he'd been widely mentioned in the news, and we wanted to clarify the facts that we knew. I can tell you, when--when we first started looking at--at one particular lead early on, my reaction was, this is it. This is the killer. And our investigator said, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa,' said, 'Don't do a Boulder police on me. Don't rush to conclusions.'

COURIC: You also mention Jeff Marrick, a former employee of yours, John, who was very angry...

Mr. RAMSEY: Mm-hmm.

COURIC: ...with you because he was fired?

Mr. RAMSEY: I had no reason to suspect Jeff. But it was in response to the--a question the police asked, can you think of anybody that was angry with you?

COURIC: You also mention Glen Myer, who was a boarder at your neighbor's house. He stopped by at your Christmas party...

Mr. RAMSEY: Mm-hmm.

COURIC: ...just a few days before.

Mr. RAMSEY: I mention him because he's been mentioned, also, publicly. We didn't know Glen Myer lived across the street from us until after JonBenet was murdered.

COURIC: In fairness to the people we've just mentioned, we just want to say the Boulder police have told us that none of them are under suspicion at this time.

Mr. RAMSEY: All I ask the Boulder police to do is to look at every lead as objectively and as hard as they've--as they've looked at us.

Ms. RAMSEY: Mm-hmm.

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