Pamela Chelin contributed to this report. Spitz’s office declined TheWrap’s request for comment. Despite the note’s warning not to involve police, Patsy immediately called them, as well as friends and family in order to aid in the search for JonBent Ramsey. Her death has attracted increased media attention this year, with Lifetime planning to air a docu-drama about her death in November, and CBS airing a two-part, four-hour special in September. Patsy and John had woken up early to prepare for a trip, when Patsy discovered a ransom note on the stairs demanding 118,000 for their daughter’s safe return. Despite the note’s warning not to involve police, Patsy immediately called them, as well as friends and family in order to aid in the search for JonBenét Ramsey. Pageant contestant JonBenet Ramsey was found dead at age six in her family’s Boulder, Colorado, home in 1996. Patsy and John had woken up early to prepare for a trip, when Patsy discovered a ransom note on the stairs demanding 118,000 for their daughter’s safe return. The defamation suit seeks at least $50 million in compensatory damages, and at least $100 million in “exemplary and/or punitive damages.” Ramsey’s suit claims that he has suffered damages including “economic damages, damages to his reputation, mental anguish and special damages.” “Defendant Spitz made this accusation without ever examining, JonBenet’s body, without visiting the crime scene, and without consulting with the pathologist who performed the autopsy on JonBenet,” the lawsuit asserts.Īlso Read: 'The Case Of: JonBenet Ramsey' Points to Single Murder Suspect, But Twitter Isn't Sold The suit, dated Thursday, goes on to claim that Spitz’s expert testimony has been “repeatedly excluded and called into question,” and that his opinions have been characterized as “simplistic and preposterous.”Īccording to the suit, Spitz claimed that Burke Ramsey, who was nine at the time of his sister’s death,”bludgeoned her to death.” “On or about September 19, 2016, Werner Spitz … provided an interview to CBS Detroit for, inter alia, a radio broadcast to the public in general (the “Interview”), in which he explicitly and falsely stated that Burke Ramsey killed his sister, JonBenet Ramsey,” the lawsuit, filed in circuit court in Michigan, reads.Īlso Read: Watch JonBenet Ramsey's Brother Burke Give His First Interview (Video) Spitz has “a disturbing history of making false statements related to the brutal murder of young girls.” In the suit, Burke Ramsey claims that Werner U. Lin Wood, threatened to sue CBS for libel (defamation) based on its conclusion that JonBenét was killed by Burke. But in October 1999, the grand jury hearing evidence in the case was finally.
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JonBenet Ramsey’s brother has filed a $150 million lawsuit against a pathologist who claimed that he killed his sister. Six-year-old JonBent Ramsey is killed in her Boulder, Colorado, home.