Report: Ramsey friend sold information to National Enquirer
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Posted 9:48AM on Friday, November 29, 2002
BOULDER, COLORADO - A confidant of John and Patsy Ramsey says she sold handwriting samples and interrogation transcripts from their daughter's murder investigation to a supermarket tabloid for $40,000. <br>
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Susan Bennett of Hickory, North Carolina, told the Rocky Mountain News she sold the material to the National Enquirer because she believed that its publication would prove the Ramseys' innocence. <br>
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Ramsey attorney L. Lin Wood says the couple feels betrayed that a friend would sell information. Wood says tabloids have cast suspicion on the parents throughout six years of reporting on the unsolved case of the murder of their daughter, JonBenet. <br>
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Wood says the information sold to the Enquirer was part of a discovery order in a federal libel lawsuit brought against the Ramseys by Chris Wolf. The Ramseys call Wolf a suspect in a book they wrote about the murder. <br>
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Wood says Wolf's lawyer -- Darnay Hoffman of New York -- denied providing Bennett with the material. Hoffman was unavailable for comment.