Slaying Probe Yields Early Ransom Note
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A “practice” ransom note reportedly found by Boulder, Colo., police in the home of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey has emerged as the latest clue in the mystery surrounding the strangling of the child beauty queen. The rough draft and the three-page ransom note found by JonBenet’s mother Dec. 26 were both written on paper taken from a legal pad found in the Ramsey home, the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News reported. The Boulder Daily Camera has also quoted unidentified friends of the Ramseys as saying that the ransom note, addressed to JonBenet’s father, John Ramsey, president of a billion-dollar computer company, was purportedly from a foreign group.
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