The grand jury, and then-District Attorney Alex Hunter, never issued a report about its investigation. The grand jury adjourned in October 1999 after 13 months. The Ramseys have maintained they had nothing to do with their daughter's death. 26, 1996, and testified before the grand jury in January 1999. I truly believe it was an accident that just continued," said Hoffmann-Pugh, who worked in the Ramsey house until three days before the slaying on Dec. "I don't believe Patsy meant to kill her. She got into arguments with JonBenet about wearing a dress or about a friend coming over. She'd be in a good mood and then she'd be cranky. I felt in my heart they were going to indict Patsy." She said she told the grand jury that Patsy had become very moody right before Christmas of 1996. "They wanted to know how she related to JonBenet.
"It was almost all about Patsy, down to the underwear she had purchased from Bloomingdales," she said. She said the grand jury focused almost exclusively on Patsy Ramsey.
Hoffmann-Pugh challenged the state's rules, which forbid witnesses from repeating what they've told grand jurors unless an indictment or report is issued, in order to write a book about her experiences with the Ramsey family.
I want Patsy Ramsey tomorrow to look in the mirror and say to herself, "I killed JonBenet.'" But as time went on, things came to me that made me think she did it. "At first, I didn't want to believe that Patsy could do such a thing," said the 57-year-old Platteville resident, who now delivers newspapers. District Judge Wiley Daniel ruled that two sections of the Colorado Rules of Criminal Procedure violate the prior-restraint protection of the First Amendment.Īfterward, Hoffmann-Pugh walked outside the federal courthouse in Denver and said she told the grand jury investigating the murder that she believes the beauty queen was killed by her mother, Patsy Ramsey. Witnesses who may have testified include: * Glenn Stine, friend of the Ramseys * Tom and Enid Schantz, owners of Rue Morgue Mystery Bookshop in Boulder * Richard French, Boulder police officer * Boulder police detectives Jim Byfield, Jane Harmer, Tom Trujillo, Michael Everett, Carey Weinheimer and Ron Gosage * Steve Ainsworth, Boulder County sheriff's detective : Linda Hoffmann-Pugh said she believes the grand jury that investigated the beauty queen's death was focusing on the girl's mother. WITNESSES Witnesses who testified before the Ramsey grand jury include: * Burke Ramsey, JonBenet's 14-year-old brother, by video * John Andrew Ramsey and Melinda Ramsey Long, John Ramsey's adult children from previous marriage * Lou Smit, former Colorado Springs homicide detective * Susan Stine, friend of the Ramseys * Ellis Armistead, investigator hired by the Ramseys Linda Arndt, former Boulder detective * Craig Lewis, editor at "The Globe," was called to testify, but was exempted due to Fifth amendment and his defense in another related lawsuit. Bill Owens should appoint a special prosecutor to the case. * Hoffmann-Pugh has never turned off her porch light since the death of JonBenet and won't until her killer is found. It was too difficult to see unless someone knew it was there, she said. * An intruder never would have found the door to the basement room where JonBenet's body was discovered. Only Patsy would have known it was in the dryer, she said. There was still a Barbie Doll nightgown clinging to the blanket, so it had to have come out of the dryer recently, she said. * The blanket wrapped around JonBenet's body had been left in the dryer. * Pieces of rope were tied around JonBenet's neck and wrist when her body was discovered Dec. Patsy would have found it getting out clean sheets." I took it away from Burke (JonBenet's older brother) and hid it in a linen closet near JonBenet's bedroom. * "Only Patsy could have put that knife there. * A Swiss Army knife was found in the basement room where JonBenet's body was found. * The grand jury seemed to zero in on Patsy Ramsey, and she thought it would indict her. * She thought Patsy Ramsey had killed JonBenet. Former Ramsey housekeeper Linda Hoffmann-Pugh, speaking publicly for the first time about her testimony before the Boulder County grand jury, told reporters Thursday: Ex-Housekeeper Says Patsy Ramsey Killed JonBenetīy Mike McPhee Denver Post Staff Writer 7-6-1Ī federal judge Thursday gave grand-jury witnesses permission to talk about their secret testimony, prompting the Ramsey family's former housekeeper to declare that Patsy Ramsey killed her 6-year-old daughter.