Patsy Ramsey assails media in school visit

Associated Press

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- The mother of slain beauty princess JonBenet Ramsey paid a quiet visit to her old sorority house and the journalism school at West Virginia University.
But Patricia Ramsey, a 1979 WVU graduate and 1977 Miss West Virginia from Parkersburg, did not leave the campus Wednesday without taking a shot at the media over its handling of her daughter's murder.
"Everyone wants to talk to us,'' Ramsey said. "However, no one seems to want to print the truth.
"I would like to tell everyone what it is like to be on the other side of journalism.'' She said photographers jump "out of nowhere and take pictures.''
Few people, including university President David C. Hardesty, knew about the low-key visit, said Carolyn Curry, the president's communications director.
Ramsey's 6-year-old daughter was found strangled in her Boulder home last Dec. 26. There have been no arrests, and the family has since moved to Atlanta.
"We have nothing to say, there is nothing to say,'' Ramsey said. "All we want to know is who did this.''
The Daily Athenaeum, the student newspaper, reported Ramsey's visit after she bumped into a reporter studying Wednesday night in the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism, from which Ramsey graduated with a degree in advertising in 1979, said Christina Myer, news editor.
Ramsey told the reporter she was in Morgantown visiting a friend who was sick with cancer.
Ramsey also visited Alpha Xi Delta, her sorority.

October 31, 1997