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Have just now been released. what they show is this panel voted to indict jonbenet ramseys parents, john and patsy, but that indictment never happened. some of these documents released today are about patsy ramsey, the mother here, who died of cancer back in 2006. the others, about her husband john, who did not at all want these documents to come out. so lets go to boulder, colorado, to cnns ana cabrera. really, the biggest question i have is do these documents reveal anything new? >> i think th...

>> good friday evening. im erin burnett outfront. an explosive revelation in the jonbenet ramsey case. the grand jury found enough evidence to indict john and patsy ramsey. the charges, child abuse resulting in the death of their 6-year-old daughter and accessory to a crime including first-degree murder. the district attorney at the time actually, after that, chose not to prosecute, citing a lack of evidence. but nearly 17 years after the child beauty queen was murdered, the case remains unsolve...

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Whether it was true. i knew i needed the actual paper work before people accepted. it and in fact 1999, 12 people did vote to indict both john and patsy ramsey on child abuse result nothing death. >> people thought it was an urban myth they were indicted and it was never confirmed and you are responsible for getting that in the public record. charlie, thank you for your reporting and sharing with us. ncould what was revealed in the ramsey indictment led to a different outcome if the da followed ...

Jury. theres also been tension between the boulder police and the boulder da throughout this case -- gregg: right. >> the boulder police were fixated on the ramseys. gregg: patsy ramsey, of course, died of cancer, but then there was a new da, mary lacy -- >> right. gregg: -- five years ago, she said that new dna evidence suggested an intruder was the killer and that she said, look, i plan from now on to treat the ramseys as victims of a crime. she essentially exonerated and apologized. did she g...

Patsy ramsey she believe had some role in their daughters death. and they wanted to indict the parents. but also important to note that the documents dont implicate the parents in actually committing the murder specifically. theres involvement, but they didnt necessarily say that these parents should be charged on first-degree murder charges. and ultimately the d.a. at the time took a look at the grand jurys indictment and said, theres still not enough evidence to put them on trial. >> i spoke w...

I would tell mea friends to keep -- -- keep your babies close to you. theres someone out there. >> reporter: although at first the murder looked like a botched kidnapping, the ramseys were suspected. the daughter was struck on the head and strangled with a thin piece of cord. a ransom note found inside the house contained little known details of the familys finances and history and state investigators said they thought it was in patsys handwriting. tension between investigators and the family ro...

Later be exonerated. jonbenet ramsey was found strangled in her upscale boulder, colorado, home, the day after christmas. this is back in 1996. her body dumped in the basement. there was a ransom note demanding specifically $118,000. and so back to the news today. some of these documents released are about patsy ramsey, the mother, who died of cancer back in 2006. the others, about john, who did not want the documents to come out. >> there has always been the dispute, was this an inside job by t...

Four pages, and i didnt see a whole heck of a lot in the four pages. no smoking gun. am i missing something? >> what youre sieeing is very simply only the documents the grand jury foreperson signed. this judge ruled and this is a state law there. that official actions by the grand jury cannot be kept secret. now, all of the documents, i mean, this grand jury investigation of the ramseys and the death of jonbenet cost over $2 million back in the 1990s. thats a lot of money. it went on for months....

December 26, 1996 in boulder county, colorado, john bennett ramsey, did unlawfully, knowingly, feloniously, render allowed to a child to be put into a situation which threaten the childs life or health which resulted in the death of jonbenet ramsey, a child under the age of 16. the charges read identical for patsy ramsey as well. there is another charge that is much longer but it basically amounts to accessory to a crime, saying one, helps the other. you will recall back in 1996, on december 26t...