john and patsy ramsey had to fight claims they had a hand in her murder. >> it was the day after christmastle jon benet ramsey was found in the basement of the upscale home in boulder, colorado. at six years old a child beauty queen competing in pageants much like her mother a former miss west virginia. patsy ramadi called the police to report that jon benet was missing and patsy shows them a ransom note. police conduct a search and find no sign of jon benet. seven hours later he finds his daughter's body in a little used room in the basement. an autopsy showed she'd been beaten, strangled and possibly sexually assaulted and police shifted their search from a possible intruder to the ramsey family itself. the boulder d.a. said that john and patsy were under an umbrella of suspicion and the case became a media circuit and the family was caught in the court of media position. >> i did not kill jon benet, i loved that child with the whole of my heart and soul. >> the investigation dragged on for months, with little progress and no arrests made. john and patsy put their house on the market and

patti ramsey reported that jonbenet was missing and patsy showed them a ransom note and police conduct search and find no sign of jonbenet. seven hours later john ramsey found his daughter's body in a little room in the basement. she was beat yen strangled and sexual assaulted. it was not long before police shifted from the intruder to the ramsey family itself. they were under an umbrella of suspicion and the case became a media circus . the family was tried in the court of public opinion. >> i did not kill jonbenet or anything to do. i loved that child. with my whole of heart and soul. >> the investigation dragged on fors months and little progress and no arrest john and patti moved to atlanta not far from where their daughter was buried. a grand jury decided there was not enough evidence to charge anyone with jonbenet's murder. tragedy struck the family when patsy ramsey died. and in 2008 after that christmas. they were exxonerated in the case. new dna testing techniques proved that her parents were innocent and the boulder district attorney office sent a letter to john. >> the case

in 2006, patsy ramsey lost a long battle with ovarian cancer. she was buried next to jonbenet. attorney's office announced the ramseys were no longer suspects in their daughters' death, citing new analysis of dna evidence. john ramsey's book is titled reque "the other side of suffering." john thanks for being here. >> my pleasure, thanks for having me. >> we were commenting how strange it seems 15 years have passed. does that feel like a long time? >> well it seems like it was really just yesterday in many respects. it's hard to believe it was 15 years ago. >> one of the things that strikes me is, we talked about how you and your wife were considered suspects for 12 years. >> yep. >> as you're going through this tragedy of losing your daughter, what does it feel like to have people think of you as someone who may have killed her? >> well, it was interesting, because of course in the beginning, you know, the crushing blow was the loss of our child so the rest of this, the craziness was just noise level in our lives. didn't matter. we'd lost our child, but we received so much comp

. >> reporter: it began the morning after christmas 1996, john and patsy ramsey woke to find a bizarreby night fall, john made a horrifying discovery in the basement. >> the worst moment of that morning was not finding her, but realizing that she was gone and taken. when i found her it was a rush of relief, and then, of course, within moments, i realized that she was probably dead. but she was back in my arms. >> reporter: within hours, the ramseys especially john felt they were being treated like suspects. what is that like, living under that cloud of suspicion? >> at the time we were so crushed by the loss of a child it didn't matter. >> reporter: footprints, broken window, dna evidence, all tantalized clues that fueled the media frenzy unlike any in modern journalism. >> did you kill jonbenet? >> no. >> reporter: it would take 12 years for the boulder district attorney using new dna procedures to clear the entire ramsey family and issue an apology. but not before his wife lost her battle with ovarian cancer. his finances and the family reputation seemed beyond repair. yet, all of th

her parents john and patsy ramsey were almost treated as a prime suspect.ts before any involvement of her death but not before patsy ramsey would die ovarian cancer in 2006. now john ramsey has "the other side of suffering." and ashleigh banfield had a chance to sit down with john ramsey. >> do you believe if she were alive today, she would be 21 years old. i can't believe we have been around that long. i did expect him to be bitter and i expected everything he had been through, even losing another daughter years before he lost jonbenet. he wants everyone to know something else about his daughter. >> what would you want people to know about jonbenet? >> she was so much more as a beauty queen that she's been tagged and it hurts that way when she has been tagged that way. it was a small element of her life. she was energetic, incredibly smart, just an amazing young child. >> you used to call her johnny b? >> yeah, johnny b. she lit the room up and got everybody -- one day i came home from work and was growling about something and she said "dad, i don't like t

ramsey family. but not before patsy lost her battle with ovarian cancer. his successful business, no longer his.he finances and the family's reputation seemed beyond repair. >> this room will be the master bedroom. >> reporter: despite the loss of jonbenet and patsy, today, john has found love again. he married his new wife, jan, in july. and they're in the process of renovating this modest home in rural michigan. i see this as metaphor for your life. >> it is. >> reporter: rebuilding. >> we're developing it together. >> reporter: for a man who used to employ hundreds of people, john ramsey says he's learned to love downsizing. he says years of healing and praying have helped him get past hopelessness and despair. it seems that you chronicle almost the secret power of forgiveness. >> i struggled a lot with forgiveness and what that meant. the first phase was, i can't forgive this creature. if i get hands on him, we won't need a trial. >> reporter: no one would blame you for being angry. >> and i was for a time. but you can't stay there. it's damaging to you as a person. and that gets back to thi

i think a lot of people don't know this, john ramsey lost another daughter four years before jonbenet lost his 22-year-old daughter, and patsy everyone around him key to his life so it's remarkable he can be as kind spirited as he is. >> i'm surprised given his disposition and the way that he talked to you that he was ever a suspect. >> for 16 years. another thing people might not know, all of jonbenet's things were packed up, they never went back into the home, and all of those things, all of her boxes are in her grandfather's basement to this day. they've never been touched since, and john thinks at some point he might get around to donating them to charity or do something about it but it's sort of eerie to think about that. and the killer may still be out there. >>> 54 minutes past the hour here. coming up, severe weather in the heartland. have you seen this? tornadoes caught on tape in oklahoma and nebraska. we have the latest on injuries and all of the damage. that is ahead on "starting point." i've found a new way to get my profile out there. check me out. everybody says i've got a friendly disposition and they love my

john ramsey revealing shows like "toddlers and tiaras" are disturbing. he calls them bizarre and says his wife patsyproached pageants that way. he says she and jonbenet did them for fun but he still regrets the pageants because it drew too much attention to his family. >> energy secretary steven chu backpeddling on his plan to jack up prices of gas to europe levels. he first said that before he joined president obama's cabinet in 2008 and then last week, he said cutting gas prices is not his overall goal but now he's got a different idea. >> you say that you no longer share the view that we need to figure out how to boost gasoline prices in america? >> i no longer share that view. >> you did then but you don't now. >> of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up. we want it to go down. >> interesting. republican senator mike lee of utah getting chu to flip-flop in front of the senate energy and natural resources committee. >> lindsay lohan just can't stay out of trouble, apparently! tmz reporting she was leaving a lounge late last night in hollywood when she hit the manager of the lounge w