Ramsey home being sold to family

<p>The home where 6-year-old JonBenet was killed is being sold to the daughter of "Hour of Power" televangelist Robert Schuller.</p><p>Carol Milner and her husband, Tim, expect to close on the 15-room, Tudor-style home next week for $1 million.</p><p>"Our Realtor said 'Here's a wild idea,'" Tim Milner said Monday. "I said, 'I'll go look, but I don't know.' All we saw was compassion for the little girl. ... The house didn't seem weird."</p><p>Carol Milner grew up in Southern California, where her father's Crystal Cathedral Ministries is based. She lost a leg in a motorcycle accident as a teenager, and was a member of the U.S. disabled ski team based in Winter Park in the 1980s.</p><p>The 6,800-square-foot house John and Patsy Ramsey bought for $500,000 in 1991 has been renovated since their daughter's death in 1996. The basement room where her beaten and strangled body was found has been sealed off by a new wall.</p><p>The Ramseys moved to Atlanta in the months following their daughter's still-unsolved death. John Ramsey is now seeking election to the Michigan Legislature.</p><p>In 1998, a private group of investors comprised of Ramsey friends purchased the home for $650,000. University of Colorado football strength coach E.J. "Doc" Kreis called the house home for two years before he was fired a year ago. It also housed a number of CU graduate students.</p><p>The Milners and their four children moved from California to Boulder in 2002. Tim Milner said they outgrew their home and the Ramsey house seems like a good fit.</p><p>He said they checked with the kids, ages 9 to 17, before committing to the sale, and at first they were a "little freaked out."</p><p>"But the house we're in now is a hundred years old, and I'm sure people died in this house," Milner said.</p><p>Tim Milner said he is not worried about a steady stream of curious onlookers coming to the home, though he plans to add a plaque with their family name to the house. He said he also hopes an address change in June 2001 _ from 755 to 749 15th St. _ may throw people off track.</p><p>"Maybe I'm being dumb," Milner said.</p>

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