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>> burke was like, you know, typical boy. >> and a daughter, jonbenet. >> she was very proud that she was named after me because my name is john bennett ramsey. she had this effervescent personality like patsy. tah-dah, here i am. >> home had been atlanta, georgia, where jonbenet was born in 1990. the family moved to boulder the next year to expand johns software company. the business grew quickly. the ramseys owned a private plane and bought this 7,000 square foot house in town. >> do you remem...

Letter for burke. he was going to go with my brother. we signed the papers to do that. >> finally the d.a. came forward with the long awaited news. >> the boulder grand jury has completed its work. no charges have been filed. >> the headlines said it all, the nation was stumped. john and patsy ramsey would not be charged and neither would anyone else. >> i think there was a collective feeling of, oh, no, were never going to know who murdered this little girl. >> a decade after jonbenets murder, ...

Jonbenets pediatrician refuted the theory of ongoing molestation. >> absolutely, categorically, no, i do not think she was sexually abused. >> the blood in the underpants was critical in another way. >> it did identify a dna profile. >> forensic testing identified an unknown male. the ramseys were not a match. yet detectives zeroed in on patsy ramsey. their speculation, she accidentally killed jonbenet and john helped cover it up, but what kind of accident would cause patsy to murder jonbenet? i...

Soon there will be no one on the list but you. >> its an untold part of this story is how many leads these guys chased down. >> thats another thing that made this suitable for tabloids. on the suspect list is santa claus. the guy who had been in the ramsey house playing santa. >> john ramsey later told police he thought santa claus was a strong possibility. >> have you got any ideas who this could be? >> bill mcreynolds. he and jonbenet had a special kind of bond. she worshipped him. santa claus...

And my dad told me that jonbenet was in heaven. >> on new years eve in their hometown, atlanta, georgia, the family buried jonbenet. >> i think its the worst thing a human being can experience is the loss of a child. >> but things for john and patsy were about to get even worse. investigators had grown suspicious. >> a lot of things didnt make sense. why would they leave a ransom note with her body still in the house. >> my first impression was that this guy wrote the magna carta. >> you will wi...

A sadistic stranger or a monster at home? when we return, john and patsy open up to police at last. >> i dont give a flying flip. go back to the damn drawing board. i didnt do it.

>> when did it hit you that the $118,000 equated to your christmas bonus? >> it didnt initially because that bonus had actually occurred a year earlier, in january of 96, but it was on every pay stub that i got. >> police asked the ramseys for handwriting samples. john gave them two note pads. >> these pads were pads that were kept by the telephone and each -- john and patsy had their own pads. >> detectives concluded the ransom note was written on pages torn out of patsys notepad. >> also exami...

>> the morning after christmas the ramseys storybook life was shattered. >> police. 755 15th street. >> whats going on, maam? >> we have a kidnapping. hurry, please. >> the note said not to call 911, right? but you did anyway. >> we couldnt have waited. wed of gone mad. >> please, hurry, hurry, hurry. they said they would call between 8:00 and 10:00 on how to pay up. >> i called a friend of mine who was my banker, and he raised our credit limit on our visa card to $118,000. >> by 9:00 a.m. john ...

>> energetic and beautiful, jonbenet seemed to be following in her mothers footsteps. >> she loved to perform. my hope was she didnt run off to hollywood and be a movie star. >> i think patsy wanted her daughter to have the same opportunities she did. i dont believe she pushed her at all. jonbenet seemed to like dressing up in these beautiful dresses, and she liked the attention. >> but was there too much attention on the ramseys? in 1994 the family opened up their home for a christmas tour. >> ...

Them with evidence revealed in the autopsy. jonbenet had been the victim of a violent attack. >> the skull fracture, 8 1/2 inches long. >> this was a forceful impact. this was not something that could be done by just normal rough housing or playing around. following that impact the assailant placed a tightly applied ligature around her neck. >> slowly torturing her, and then when they were through they pulled that cord very hard and strangled her. >> the report had another gruesome detail. there...