Just out of curiosity............What ages were the other children in the family?
John first saw Patsy in the spring of 1979. According to her mother's account, "He saw her as she entered an apartment in Atlanta, Georgia. He ran up a flight of stairs just to glimpse who she was." John did not meet her that time though, since she disappeared out of sight before he could catch her, but after waiting around outside he finally saw her again and introduced himself. Luckily for him, the pair hit it off and within one year they were married. John describes how delighted he was when Patsy liked him too.
The announcement about the Ramsey children marked the first time in the 10-week investigation that police have removed any name from the list of suspects.
In the home at the time of the crime was the 9 years old son. The other two children of John's was out of state at that time.
John Andrew Ramsey, a 20-year-old student at the University of Colorado, and his sister, Melinda Ramsey, a 25-year-old nurse in Roswell, Ga., were "publicly cleared of involvement to relieve them of stress caused by inappropriate speculation,"
John had been married before he met Patsy, and had three children with his previous wife Lucinda Ramsey: Elizabeth, Melinda, and John Andrew.
Ramsey's eldest daughter from his first marriage, Elizabeth Pasch Ramsey, died in a 1992 car accident at the age of 22.
According to John Douglas in The Cases That Haunt Us, the killer of JonBenét Ramsey was a white male, relatively young, who held a personal grudge against John Ramsey and sought to attack him personally by attacking his daughter. He broke into the house carrying the stun gun, the duct tape and the cord, planning to incapacitate her and molest her. The ransom note was probably a spur of the moment idea that occurred to him after he entered the house. He would have been bold and foolhardy enough to sneak into the house and lie in wait and too unsophisticated to know how difficult a child abduction is. The molestation may have been a kind of sexual experimentation. Because teenagers tend to fold quickly during questioning by investigators, he may not even have been investigated as a suspect.
