Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BOULDER, Colo., May 5 (UPI) _ Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter is
asking for $150,000
to cover expenses associated with the 16-month- old JonBenet Ramsey
case.
Most of the money would be spent on a grand jury specialist and a
research prosecutor who would
help decide whether to present the case to a grand jury, which was
empaneled amid unprecedented
hoopla last month.
The 6-year-old kindergartner was found strangled and battered in a
basement room at her parents'
home in Boulder on Dec. 26, 1996. Hours earlier her mother, Patsy
Ramsey, told police she found
a ransom note demanding $118,000.
Police, unable to put together enough evidence to make an arrest, asked
Hunter to give the case to
a grand jury. Detectives later this month will present Hunter with a
formal summary and sometime
after that he will decide whether a grand jury probe is warranted.
Also included in Hunter's request are travel expenses and fees for
consultants who will help with the
police presentation, as well as document preservation costs and money
for computers, telephones
and pagers.
Patsy Ramsey and her husband John, who sold their Boulder home and moved
to the Atlanta area,
have never been named as prime suspects but detectives late last year
said the couple remain
``under the umbrella of suspicion.''
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