Patsy Ramsey To Be Buried Next To JonBenet
POSTED: Saturday, June 24, 2006
UPDATED: 4:26 pm EDT August 16,
2006
ATLANTA -- The mother of murdered child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey will be buried next to her daughter.Patsy Ramsey died Saturday of ovarian cancer. She was 49.Ramsey's lawyer, L. Lin Wood, told CNN that Ramsey died at approximately 3:30 a.m. Saturday after struggling to battle a recurrence of the cancer. She died in her father's home outside Atlanta. Her husband, John, was at her bedside.Ramsey had been battling the latest recurrence of the disease for three years, Wood said. He said that she was originally diagnosed in 1993."She should be remembered for being an incredibly loving mother, a wonderful wife and a person who showed great courage in fighting a vicious disease," Wood said.Ramsey and her husband, John, moved to Atlanta following intense media scrutiny surrounding the death of their 6-year-old daughter. The child beauty queen was found beaten and strangled to death in the basement of the family's Boulder, Colo., home on Dec. 26, 1996.After leaving the Denver area, the couple maintained residences in both Atlanta and Michigan, where John Ramsey unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Michigan House. Their son, Burke, is now 19.John and Patsy Ramsey were originally the focus of the Boulder Police Department's criminal investigation into their daughter's death. An independent polygraph test eventually cleared them of wrongdoing in the case, but speculation and media attention continue to linger.A Colorado grand jury investigation ended with no indictments, and no arrests were made in connection with JonBenet Ramsey's death.The case remains unsolved.
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