A Frustrated Patsy Ramsey Says, ‘Let’s Have a Trial’

Patsy Ramsey says that if prosecutors in Colorado think she’s a murderer, they should charge her and “get it over with.”

After nearly four years of being under suspicion in the death of their 6-year-old daughter, JonBenet, Patsy Ramsey told USA Today that she and her husband, John, are weary and frustrated.

“I’m beyond being hurt or embarrassed,” she said in the newspaper’s Thursday editions. “If you think I did it, let’s have a trial and get it over with.” The Ramseys added that they do not want a trial but are not afraid to go to court.

Police planned no comment on Patsy Ramsey’s challenge, spokeswoman Jennifer Bray said Thursday.

Earlier, Ramsey attorney Lin Wood and prosecutor Michael Kane agreed to release the full tape of this week’s two-day, 10-hour police interview with the Ramseys in Atlanta, their first talk with police in more than two years.

Wood’s office said Thursday the tape could be released as early as next week. Wood released a tape of 22 minutes of the 10-hour session Wednesday.

The agreement came during an interview Wednesday night on CNN’s “Larry King Live.”

After Wood challenged Kane to explain why a grand jury did not indict his clients, Kane and Wood also agreed to seek release of grand jury transcripts. A grand jury was convened in 1998 to investigate the child’s slaying but disbanded last year without an indictment.

“I’ll tell you what: If you will go to court with me, and ask the [presiding] judge to authorize a release of that information, I will release it,” Kane said.

Boulder Dist. Atty. Alex Hunter said in a statement Thursday that Colorado law doesn’t permit the release of the grand jury transcripts until either an indictment is returned or a report is issued, neither of which has occurred in the Ramsey case.

The Ramseys have been under suspicion in the 1996 death of the child beauty queen, who was found beaten and strangled in the family’s home in Boulder, Colo. No one has been charged, and the Ramseys have maintained their innocence.