2016/10/11

RollingStone October 8, 2016: JonBenet Ramsey's Brother Sues Forensic Investigator for $150 Million

"The accusations by Werner Spitz against this young man are outrageous," Burke Ramsey's lawyer says after 'The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey' accusations

Burke Ramsey, the brother of JonBenét Ramsey, filed a $150 million lawsuit against famed forensic pathologist Werner Spitz after Spitz suggested in an interview promoting the CBS docuseries The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey that Burke Ramsey was likely responsible for his sister's death.

Spitz alleged that the evidence showed that then-nine-year-old Burke Ramsey likely bludgeoned his sister to death with a flashlight and that the subsequent binding of hands, strangulation and duct-taping of JonBenét's mouth was staged to cover up Burke's assault on his sister. 

"If you really, really use your free time to think about this case, you cannot come to a different conclusion ... It's the boy who did it, whether he was jealous, or mentally unfit or something ... I don't know the why, I'm not a psychiatrist, but what I am sure about is what I know about him, that is what happened here," Spitz said to CBS Detroit. As of Friday morning, the September 19th interview appears to have been removed from the CBS Detroit website. more