hurry, hurry. >> patsy, patsy, patsy.insisted they heard a third voice in the background. >> we do know that burke's voice is on there saying, what did you say? or what did he say or something to that nature. they lied about burke being awake at the time the 911 call was made. >> the ramseys fired back. >> some police claim they think they hear that. we would challenge the police to release that tape. let's make it public. >> they never did. burke was eventually cleared as a suspect, and to this day whatever is heard at the end of that 911 call is a mystery. nearly two years after the murder of jonbenet ramsey the investigation was frozen. the boulder district attorney convened a grand jury. the proceedings were top secret, but what we do know is that for the next 13 months jurors heard testimony covering every detail of the case. john and patsy ramsey were not asked to testify. >> we were fully prepared to be indicted at the end of the grand jury. i mean, we dealt with a custody letter for burke. he was going to go with

, patsy, patsy. patsy. >> the phone rang early at pam barday's house too. >> john said, where's michael? i said, he's out at the plane. what's wrong? what's up? he said, they've got jonbenet. she's got, they've got her. i said, what do you mean they've got her. she's been kidnapped. >> boulder police officer fred patterson was one of the first detectives on the scene. >> it was a very rapid response once i knew what we were going to. >> i met him at the front door and told him what was happening and he said, do you think she just ran away? i said, she's 6 years old. heavens no. >> there were no signs of struggle in the house. no signs of forced entry. no footprints outside the house. >> i was thinking, you know, close the roads. roadblocks. close the airport. you know, what are we doing here? and you assume the police know what they're doing. >> sergeant arrived and quickly read the ransom note. >> speaking to anyone about your situation will result in your daughter being beheaded. i had been a polic

did patsy murder her own daughter?he tabloids were having a field day, even speculating about a motive. >> let me give you the motive that is ascribed to you. you were downstairs. maybe she came down. she said, "mommy, i wet my bed." you said, "again, jonbenet!" and you either pushed her or you hit her. you were exhausted, furious. you did it. >> you have a child. of the night and slaughter your child? we're parents. we love our children. >> these are the two major motives -- either you sexually molested her, or you snapped. >> let me tell you something. i am a cancer survivor of stage four cancer. john has lost a child in an automobile accident. that completely changes your outlook. when you are standing on the brink of death with a terminal illness, your priorities suddenly line up in a row. and you know exactly what the important things are in life. and bedwetting is totally insignificant. >> did either of you for a moment suspect each other? >> no. >> not for a minute. >> absolutely not for a microsecond. >> report

>> you could say it was patsy, you could say it was john. could say it was burke, but we don't know and there's no evidence to prove it. >> reporter: for decades, the spotlight has been on jonbenet's parents, john and patsy ramsey. they were never charged with the crime, but were secukewered in court of public opinion. >> did you kill your daughter? >> no, i did not. >> did you kill your daughter? >> no, i did not kill my daughter. >> reporter: unidentified male's india dna was found on the underpants. the ramses were exonerated. but the investigators claim this evidence was misinterpreted. >> what would account for the blood in her underwear? >> underwear, could be from any other transfer. it's really no sexual assault here. >> no, this finding is not indicative of a sexual assault. >> they're looking for the wrong type of person if this was not a sexually motivated crime, which we believe that it was not. >> the suit takes exception with what it describes as the investigators' allegation that the ramseys could have helped cover up their da

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in remote and tiny loyalton, california, 71-year-old patsy jordan just learned her monthly pension iseing cut. 60%. >> how am i going to make it now? what am i going to do? >> reporter: patsy worked 34 years for the city of loyalton, but her pension once $49,000 a year will drop to a little more than $19,000. >> just scary they can do this. >> reporter: fellow retiree john cousins got the same letter. >> by 60%. >> reporter: from the california public employees retirement system or calpers. patsy and john are among the first retirees ever in calpers history, to have their pensions cut, and critics warn they won't be the last. spokesman brad pacheco says don't blame calpers. >> the city of loyalton defaulted on their retirees, they made a bad decision and retirees are going to suffer for it. >> reporter: loyalton pulled out of calpers three years ago, pensions 40% funded. >> who is watching out for you? >> nobody was. >> reporter: bad investments cost calpers billions of dollars, the debt right now, $164 billion and growing. >> we're paying out more in benefits than we're taking in, in

. >> patsy, patsy, patsy. >> reporter: a cnn special report, the murder of jonbenet. >> that is tuesdayan with me now. i can't wait to see it. i know a lot worveg went into this. >> it's been 20 years. what was it like revisiting this case and speaking with those closest to it. obviously, to jonbenet's father. >> it was extraordinary. that's what we want to bring to all the viewers. i interviewed john ramsey who is getting on in years and for hours i spoke with him. he took me through everything, not that he wanted to but he did. we heard about christmas day. he talked about how when he realized there was a ransom note what went through his mind. he talks about that afternoon when he went down to the basement and he is the one that found jonbenet. he goes through that. i asked him about the grand jury because they vote ed yo ed unan to indict him and his wife. the dna evidence. i spoke to the forensic scientist that did dna testing. it's not someone just analyzing numbers. she did the testing. she talks to me about how and what happened and when she found out the results and what those

believes, as did the jury's -- as did the juror, that there was enough evidence to point to john and patsy ramsey, having placed situation to be murdered. you can take that for what it is. short ofously stopped handing out a murder indictment, but the juror also told me he agreed with the da at the time, not hunter's, decision to take that indictment to court. he said there was reasonable doubt. so the threshold they had as grand jurors, there was enough to indict, but he did not believe they would have gotten a conviction. jummy: another question -- who else did you talk to? what was the most surprising thing you learned from all these interviews? amy: we talked to a former friend of jonbenet ramsey, to family friends of the ramseys. we had a new review with john ramsey with barbara walters just a year ago. -- we had an interview with john ramsey with barbara walters just a year ago. you can see the handwriting analysis 's ownnd patsy ramsey handwriting samples that she gave to investigators. it is pretty stunning when them up and look at them word by word, letter by letter. we will let y

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jonbenet's mother patsy died. i know they lived under a cloud of suspicion for a long time.r indicted? >> the grand jury voted unanimously to indict john and patsy ramsay, both of them on child abuse resulting in death and accessory after the fact, meaning they helped somebody to first degree murder, but the district in history making for boulder, colorado, did not bring charges. john ramsay told me he definitely thought he was going to be indicted along with his wife. they had even given custody of burke to someone else because they believed that this was it for them. but the prosecutor did not believe it could be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. we go into forensic evidence, dna evidence which the grand jury never had. i spoke to the forensic scientist that did dna testing, so it is not somebody just looking at the numbers. she did the testing, and the results as they explained themselves are remarkable. >> burke was their other child, correct? >> yes, burke. and burke has come out for the first time, a lot of scrutiny with burke because of a smile that he had and john ra

. >> these pads were pads that were kept by the telephone and each john and patsy had their own pads.rter: detectives concluded the ransom note was written on pages torn out of patsy's note pad. >> that was the voice of jean casarez who's host this special report for years the world was following this family and the case is still open. >> there are no statute of limitations on murder. i spoke with the current district attorney of boulder and he said we get tips, somebody knows something and as long as i have the evidence that i believe beyond a reasonable doubt that someone murdered her i will bring charges. >> what about the evidence? >> of course there are challenges. this little girl was a kindergartener. john ramsey doesn't give interviews, very rarely does he. we were able to go to where he lives, an undisclosed location, he doesn't like people to know where he is, he wants his privacy because he lost it. i spoke with him. we take him back 20 years. he didn't want to go there but he tells us what happened, how he found her, her condition. do you know she had duct tape over her mo

was there enough evidence to indict john and patsy ramsey? of a crime?upon the evidence that was presented, i believe that's correct. >> reporter: but if the case went to trial, did he believe that the ramseys would be convicted? >> no. >> based on the evidence you were presented, do you feel you know who killed jonbenet ramsey? >> i highly suspect i do. >> now, the grand jury handed up an indictment accusing john and patsy ramsey, not of murder, but of child abuse finding they allowed jonbenet to be placed in a situation which resulted in her death and, of course, the prosecutor decided not to pursue that indictment. >> let's talk to dan abrams about that right now. usually you think of prosecutors sort of molding the grand jury in the image they want them to be but we're hearing, we wanted to do it, he didn't. >> only the prosecution presenting evidence to a grand jury, right. there is no defense attorney there. so, typically what happens is the prosecutor will present the evidence in the hope of getting an indictment and almost all cases they get it.

. >> reporter: but things for john and patsy were about to get even worse.tors had grown suspicious. >> a lot of things didn't make sense. why would they leave a ransom note with her body still in the house? >> my first impression was that this guy wrote the magna carta. >> will withdraw $118,000 from your account. >> if i were kidnapping this guy's daughter, i'd ask for a quarter million, half million, a million dollars, so the amount of money is just really odd to me. >> reporter: the ramseys thought so, too. >> what's that mean? we looked at psalm 118. where did the number come from? >> when did it hit you the 118 dollars equated to your christmas bonus? >> it didn't initially. that bonus occurred a year earlier in january of '96 but it was on every pay stub that i got. >> reporter: police asked the ramseys for handwriting samples. john gave them two notepads. >> these pads were pads that were kept by the telephone and each john and patsy had their own pads. >> reporter: detectives concluded the ranson note was written on pages torn out of patsy's notepad

patsy jordan took that bargain. 34 years she worked for them.y paid in full their bill to the california public retiree system but then decided we're going to pull out. guess what? calpers, the nation's largest public retirement system, which is horribly underfunded, cut patsy and three other people's pensions, first time it's ever happened in the history of california. here's what patsy told us. >> i just think they're setting an example out of the four of us. i really do. i think we're just the ones that are going to pay for this. >> reporter: an example for all of california. >> yes. for all the retirees. >> reporter: they cut their pensions, trish, 60%. now, remember, loyalton was 40% funded, but calpers itself, $300 billion. that means they only have 65 cents for every dollar that they have promised to pay pensions. that's a huge hole. but calpers says, don't blame us. here's what calpers told us. >> the city of loyalton defaulted on their retirees. they made a bad decision. and those retirees are going to suffer for it. >> reporter: they'r

. >> but things for john and patsy were about to get even worse.gators had grown suspicisu suspicio suspicious. >> a lot of things didn't make sense. why leave a ransom note with her body still in the house. >> my first impression was this guy wrote the magna carta. >> you will withdraw $118,000 from your account. >> if i were kidnapping this guy's daughter, i'd ask for a quarter million. million dollars. so the amount of money is really odd to me. >> the rams yips thought so too. >> what's that mean? we looked at psalm 118. was it a biblical -- where did this number come from? >> when did it hit you the $118,000 equated to your christmas bonus? >> it didn't initially. because that bonus had actually occurred a year earlier, in january of '96, but it was on every pay stub that i got. >> police asked the ramseys for handwriting samples. john gave them two notepads. >> these pads were pads that were kept by the telephone and each, john and patsy had their own pads. >> detectives concluded the ransom note was written on pages torn out of patsy's notep

has to start to send signals to them saying no more business as usual, we are not going to be your patsys more it starts before point of leverage he can find, if it is taiwan or trade. it is easy for them to put sanctions on u.s. companies they control their economy, we do not. charles: i think that mexico and canada. they will fall right over. china will be a much tougher deal. i mean we talk about trade deficit, we're saying we give them a dollar for something of value we think is worth a dollar or more, maybe something made of cheap plastic, how do we fight this war? how do we say to the american consumer, tighten your belt, that flat screen tv may be now 800 bucks. >> you know, charles it is complicated. what we're seeing is that every time there is a diplomatic discord with china, what do chinese do? they slap on regulatory sanctions on company, they want to be the predator eating the prey, they believe that we're the prey, this is a lopsided relationship. we need to put the pressure on china. despite the fact that they might respond with either, military exchangers or just reducing

. >> in remote and tiny and lilting, california, patsy chart and just learned her monthly pension is been cut. 60%. >> how am i going to make it now? >> worked 34 years, but her pension blues now dropped to its little more than $18,000. >> just scary they can do this. >> fellow retiree john cousins got the same letter. from the california public employees retirement system, patsy and john are not the first retirees after an history to have their pensions cut and critics warned they won't be the last. spokesman brad pacheco says don't think calpers. >> they default on their retirees. they made a bad decision and those retirees are going to suffer for it. >> floats and pulled out three years ago. pensions only 40% funded. >> is watching out for you? bad investments have cost billions of dollars needed to cover pensions for almost 2 million people. that gap right now $164 billion growing. >> we pay out more in benefits than retaking contributions. >> helpers is selling assets to cover the shortfall. but none of that will help to honor pat lee. >> we are the ones that will pay for this.

>> the grand jury actually did vote unanimously to indict john and patsy ramsay, both of them on child, meaning they helped somebody to first degree murder. the district attorney in history making for boulder, colorado, did not bring charges. john ramsay said he thought he was going to be indicted along with his wife, they had even given custody of their son to someone else because they believed that this was it for them. but the prosecutor did not believe it could be proven beyond all reasonable doubt. we go into forensic evidence, dna evidence. the grand jury never had it. i spoke to the forensic scientists that did dna testing. it's not somebody just looking at the numbers. she did the testing and the results that she explains are remarkable. >> burke is their other child? >> yes. and burke has come out for the first time, a lot of scrutiny with burke, because of a smile that he had, and john ramsay is very upset about that, he talks to me about that saying that that is burke's natural gaze, that he's a fine young man. he was nine when this happened. it was a horrendous, brutal crim

. >> reporter: it was noon, six hours had passed since patsy ramsey had called 911.l girl jonbenet was still missing. police combed the house trying to figure out how an intruder could have gotten in. one possibility -- an open window in the basement. but that was dismissed quickly. >> the window well had cobwebs on it. you can't go through cobwebs without disturbing them. >> reporter: officers examined the ransom note and tapped the phone. >> the kidnapping note said i'll tall you between 8:00 and 10:00. >> reporter: as the deadline came and went, john ramsey was pacing so police asked him to search the house for clues. >> one of the detectives asked me and my friend who was there to go through every inch of the house. started in the basement. we have one room in the basement that there are no windows in that room. when i opened the door and when i turned the light on, i -- i hoped that she was still okay, but i could tell that she probably wasn't. >> reporter: jonbenet's body was covered in a blanket. >> did you take duct tape off her mouth? >> uh-huh. i took the d

slightly more conspiratorially minded people are looking at this and thinking, has vladimir putin got his patsycted to the white house, and is donald trump going to be doing vladimir putin spitting? -- putin's bidding? if he appears to be somehow, with prudent behind him pulling the strings, it will be fascinating and troubling to watch. brent: bizarre. washington correspondent which are walker on the story. -- richard walker on the story, thank you. you are watching dw news live from berlin. let's get you caught up on what top stories are. evacuations from eastern aleppo have been suspended amid reports of a convoy under fire. russia says the evacuation of rebel fighters and their families is not suspended but completed. tonight, a 12-year-old boy is the suspect into attempted bomb attacks here in germany, one at a christian is -- christmas market, another at eight town hall. a german born child of iraqi parents that needed to times in ludwigshafen. they failed to explode. he is in police custody. they say islamist propaganda may have radicalized him. reporter: this is where it was supposed to

. >> patsy? patsy? >> wow. i don't know what else you'd watch tonight.me on the edge of my seat. jean casarez is with me. congratulations to you and your producer. i know how much work goes into these. i can't wait to see it. you had a long sit-down interview with her father, with john ramsey. what did he say? >> he lives a long ways away in a very remote area. he wants his privacy, but he allowed us to travel there to get to him. i spoke with him for hours. we heard things that i'd never heard before. what it's done to his life. he told me he's lost his privacy. he lost his money. he lost his reputation. and he truly says for the rest of his life he is trying to find who murdered his daughter. he talks about that he knows he was the prime suspect. he knows the grand jury indicted he and his wife, even though charges were never brought and what that did to his life. they had even signed custody of burke to someone else. >> their son. >> yes, because they believed they were going to be charged. >> because there are all of these incredibly confusing detail

. >> reporter: patsy bruce served on tennessee's parole board for 12 years. she heard mckinney's first exoneration case. >> why wasn't the judgment by a court and district attorney clear and convincing for you? >> because they didn't notice that they didn't test everything that was ordered by the original judge to be tested. >> reporter: prosecutors say the two samples not tested either had no d.n.a. or were so degraded tests could not be performed. do you feel there is a guilty man walking? >> i have not been convinced he's innocent. >> that's not justice for him not to receive compensation for being wrongfully imprisoned. >> reporter: mckinney's lawyer has appealed the case to governor bill haslam, who has the final stay. >> there's been one mistake made when he was sent to prison. i trust another one is not made that does not allow him exoneration. >> reporter: the governor could make a decision at any moment. after waiting 31 years for his freedom, mckinney says he can wait a little longer. omar villafranca, cbs news, lebanon, tennessee. >> pelley: up nex

was there enough evidence to indict john and patsy ramsey of a crime? >> based upon the evidence that was presented, i believe that's correct. >> reporter: but if the case went to trial, did he believe the ramseys would be convicted? >> no. >> reporter: no doubt? >> there is no way that i would have been able to say, beyond a reasonable doubt, this is the person. >> reporter: in the end, the grand jury indicted, not for murder, but for child abuse. finding the ramseys allowed jonbenet to be "placed in a situation which resulted in death." in a stunning twist, that prosecutor decided not to move forward with a case against the ramseys, and ten years later, another d.a. publicly cleared the family. amy robach, abc news, new york. >> thank you. and she'll have much more on her special "20/20" tonight. the full interview, 10:00 p.m. eastern. >>> and there's still much more ahead on "world news tonight." the disturbing video just in. the football star punching a woman inside a restaurant, weeks before his bowl game. >>> and shots fired inside a walmart. holi

we're not going to be a patsy for these things in the future. by the way, just for the record, part of the u.n. is the international monetary fund. another subject for another time but also destructive organization. we shouldn't be using taxpayer dollars to undermine our own interests. >> bruce, let's talk money for a second. we spent $3 billion a year on a united nations the u.s. does. a quarter of the budget. voluntary contributions the last demanded to know how much that was from the u.s. was it 2010. $7.69 billion not insignificant. >> yeah. i don't think there's anything wrong with doing an audit and if congress wants to come in and examine how we're spending our money. these outbreaks, zika virus, ebola virus, they have aid worker, they have infrastructure. we can't just go isolationist when it comes to global diseases or they will start knocking on our door. >> john, do we need, as bruce says, the u.n.? >> i don't think we need the u.n. and i would love to see president-elect trump defund that which doesn't have our best interests in mind

. >> in remote and tiny california 71-year-old patsy learned her monthly pension is being cut. 50%. > those what am i going to do. >> patsy worked 34 years to the city of but her pension once 49,000 a year will now drop to a little more than 19,000 dollars. >> it is scary. that they can do this. >> fellow retiree got the same letter. >> 60%. >> from the california public employees retirement system calpers. >> among the first retirees to have their pensions cut and critics warn they won't be the last spokesman says don't blame calpers. >> -- on retirees -- those retires are going to suffer for it. >> he pulled out of calpers three years pooengs 30% funded. >> who is watching out for you, nobody was. >> bad investments cost calpers billions of dollars needed to cover pensions for almost two million people debt 164 billion dollars, and growing. >> we're paying out more in benefits, and take than in contributions. >> calpers selling assets to cover short fall but none of that will help john or patsy. >> wreer the ones that are going to pay for this. >> california. >> yes. >> for all reti

. >> patsy bruce served on tennessee's parole board for 12 years, she heard mckinney's first exonerationn't the judgment by a court and district attorneyvinc. ordered by the original judge to be tested. >> prosecutors say the two samples not tested had no dna or were so degraded tests could not be performed. >> do you fool theeel there is y man walking? >> i have not been convinced he is innocent. >> it is not justice for him to not receive compensation. >> his lawyer has appealed the case to governor bill haslam who has the final say. >> there has been one mistake made where he was isn't to prison. i trust another one is not made that does not allow him exoneration. >> the governor could make a decision at any moment. after waiting 31 years for his freedom, mckinney says, he can wait a little longer. omar villafranca, cbs news, lebanon, tennessee. >> up next, love lost. and found. i'm good.? i just took new mucinex clear and cool. what is this sudden cooooling thing happening? it's got a menthol burst. you can feel it right away. new mucinex fast-max clear & cool. feel