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In the recent interview with Barbara Walters, John, once again, makes mention of “moving on.”
Hardly new, John was ready to move on within minutes of “finding” the body of JonBenet with a phone call to his pilot to trying to arrange a flight to Atlanta.
Within a few days, in the infamous interview with Cabell on CNN, he claimed he wasn’t angry with the “intruder” who took the life of his daughter and was ready to “go on.”
Patsy Ramsey: And if anyone knows anything, please, please help us. For the safety of all of the children, we have to find out who did this.
John Ramsey: Not because we're angry, but because we have got to go on.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1101/07/acd.02.html
Doesn’t sound as if John is angry or seeking revenge, but I guess when the time comes to sell a book a little “embellishing” is alright?
At first my prayers were based on intense anger and a desire for revenge. The Bible tells us not to repay evil with evil. That was exactly what I had in mind. I knew if I found this faceless creature, I was very capable of tearing him from limb to limb and I would have no remorse. For a long time, I told friends, you put me in a room with this monster and in sixty minutes there would be no need for a trial. I needed that much time to make sure he suffered before he died.
The Other Side of Suffering, John Ramsey, page 172
Anderson Cooper: I’ve talked to a lot of parents who have lost their child to violent circumstances and for many it becomes the focus of their lives to find out who killed their child. For you, is getting that answer essential?
John Ramsey: It certainly was the focus for a long time, and frankly I wanted revenge – that was the emotion that I can be honest about.
But part of moving on, and you’ve got to move on, you can’t dwell in that spot is to accept the fact that it may not happen.
Anderson Cooper interview with John Ramsey, March 16, 2012
Back to reality:
Diane Hallis, who worked at Access Graphics, recalls that John Ramsey would look out the third floor windows of the offices trying to spot reporters. "He hated them," she says. "His anger was directed toward the media, but never toward the killer. He never mentioned the killer."
February 29, 1999
http://thehistoryvault.tripod.com/02291999feedingfrenzy-bw.htm
In an interview to be broadcast tonight, Ramsey voices empathy for the man arrested but later released after he confessed to slaying 6-year-old pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey in her Boulder home.
"After a while, he was so abused and vilified and convicted in the media that I started to feel sorry for the guy," Ramsey told "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Erin Moriarty in his first interview since his wife Patsy's death and Karr's arrest.
"You have this expectation that absolute evil is going to be ugly and dark and reprehensible. Here, you know, is a nice, clean-cut-looking young man."
November 25, 2006
http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_13068611
This excerpt from when Oprah “cleared” the Ramseys:
After JonBenet's murder, John says they did allow themselves to grieve, but they soon realized it was important to move on for the sake of their son, Burke, who was 9 years old at the time. "You have to move on.”
September 10, 2008
http://www.westword.com/news/now-we-really-know-john-ramseys-innocent-cause-oprah-says-so-5856432
While on the theme of moving on, I thought I’d look to see who else found it easy to get on with life after a homicide.
• Drew Peterson:
Geoff's Blog: My Interview with Drew Peterson
3/15/2009
Last night (Sunday) I had Drew Peterson on my show. For those of you who don't know who Peterson is, let me explain. The guy has been married four times. His third wife was found dead in a bathtub with no water in it. His fourth wife, Stacy, disappeared. It has been all over the news for a year and a half now.
[SNIP]
This is one sick SOB. His wife has been missing for over a year and he has to move on with his life, according to him. No mourning, just that's it, according to him. He has no remorse and claims he didn't do anything wrong. He is as guilty as sin, but one cold customer.
I questioned him last night, even told him I thought he killed his wife, and he stared right through me.
[SNIP]
His current fiancé is 23 and has two kids. Nice. He is engaged but can't get married because his wife has disappeared and a divorce is not easy to get, according to his attorney. Why get engaged? He has to move on with his life, so he says. He drives around, smiles, and hasn't a care in the world.
His behavior as a role model to his kids is beyond belief. Ask him about it, and he says that "Life moves on."
http://www.geoffpinkus.com/show_blog.asp?id=110
• Michael White:
Michael White is a polarizing figure. You can accept his version of events and believe that the evidence pointing at his guilt is all the result of bad luck on his part. Or you can conclude, as the jury did, that White is a liar. If White is that, he is also an unrepentant liar, one evidently motivated by an unabashed sense of self-pity, the notion that he himself is the real victim, so that justifies his actions, no matter how deceitful.
Even on the day he murdered Liana, he managed to play the victim. White heaped shame on the police after they asked him if he might be responsible for Liana's disappearance: "When somebody says, 'Hey are you responsible for your wife (being) missing?' you know, that's like an absolute kick in the chest, you know. Like, I'm already hurting as it is, let's just put another coal in that fire."
In that same interview, White also attacked Maureen, who had suggested that maybe somebody had been waiting in the garage for Liana that morning and had grabbed her. White felt like Maureen was blaming him, since he was the last one in the garage and should have locked it.
"Well, thanks for putting that in my head, you know," he groused to the police. "It is my fault now. I left the garage door open?"
[SNIP]
The public got a troubling taste of White in full victim mode when he stood in front of his house shortly after Liana went missing and proclaimed: "Liana -- hold tight.... If whoever has her, or if she is out there and you see me, just stay there and we will find you. I will find you."
Until that moment, Liana's friend, Nathalie Durie, had told everyone, including the police, that easygoing, gentle Michael had to be innocent. But this proclamation came across as so bizarre, it made Durie's jaw drop.
Why ask Liana to stay put, she wondered? What the heck did that mean? "I got goose bumps down to the tips of my toes. To me, he was like a whole different person."
White's sense of grievance only grew in the weeks after his arrest. In a jailhouse interview with CHED radio reporter Byron Christopher, White talked about launching his own investigation to find Liana's real killer. "I'd have to say certain elements in the homicide division do have tunnel vision," White complained. "It is unacceptable."
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=71baa299-180b-4924-b797-9c71ac38333f&p=4
A few hours before finding his wife’s body, White complained to the local newspaper, the Edmonton Sun, about being compared to Scott Peterson. In fact, he was very much like Peterson. In that interview, he was already speaking of his wife as dead, and described plans for her funeral. He seemed eager to move on, saying he had to “get back to normalcy” for their daughter’s sake.
“Liana would want me to,” he said.
Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives, By Marilee Strong, Mark Powelson, page 162
• OJ Simpson:
NOT GUILTY: THE MAN;Simpson Walks Out of the Courtroom a Free Man and Into the Lucrative Free Market, By JAMES STERNGOLD
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3, 1995 — O. J. Simpson walked out of the courtroom today a free man for the first time in 15 months, saying he was eager to rebuild his life and move on.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/04/u...room-free-man-into-lucrative-free-market.html
While on the topic of OJ Simpson, who famously said that he was going to make it his mission to “find the killers,” let’s not forget that it’s also John Ramsey’s mission.
Reporter: What do you want to say to the killer of your daughter?
John Ramsey: We'll find you. We will find you. I have that as a sole mission for the rest of my life.
Reporter: Mrs. Ramsey?
Patsy Ramsey: Likewise.
May 1, 1997
http://thewebsafe.tripod.com/05011997ramseymediainterview.htm
OJ Simpson:
But when things have settled a bit, I will pursue as my primary goal in life the killer or killers who slaughtered Nicole and Mr. Goldman. They are out there somewhere. Whatever it takes to identify them and bring them in, I will provide somehow."
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2197...re-20-years-ago-oj-simpson-receives-acquittal
In the recent interview with Barbara Walters, John, once again, makes mention of “moving on.”
Hardly new, John was ready to move on within minutes of “finding” the body of JonBenet with a phone call to his pilot to trying to arrange a flight to Atlanta.
Within a few days, in the infamous interview with Cabell on CNN, he claimed he wasn’t angry with the “intruder” who took the life of his daughter and was ready to “go on.”
Patsy Ramsey: And if anyone knows anything, please, please help us. For the safety of all of the children, we have to find out who did this.
John Ramsey: Not because we're angry, but because we have got to go on.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1101/07/acd.02.html
Doesn’t sound as if John is angry or seeking revenge, but I guess when the time comes to sell a book a little “embellishing” is alright?
At first my prayers were based on intense anger and a desire for revenge. The Bible tells us not to repay evil with evil. That was exactly what I had in mind. I knew if I found this faceless creature, I was very capable of tearing him from limb to limb and I would have no remorse. For a long time, I told friends, you put me in a room with this monster and in sixty minutes there would be no need for a trial. I needed that much time to make sure he suffered before he died.
The Other Side of Suffering, John Ramsey, page 172
Anderson Cooper: I’ve talked to a lot of parents who have lost their child to violent circumstances and for many it becomes the focus of their lives to find out who killed their child. For you, is getting that answer essential?
John Ramsey: It certainly was the focus for a long time, and frankly I wanted revenge – that was the emotion that I can be honest about.
But part of moving on, and you’ve got to move on, you can’t dwell in that spot is to accept the fact that it may not happen.
Anderson Cooper interview with John Ramsey, March 16, 2012
Back to reality:
Diane Hallis, who worked at Access Graphics, recalls that John Ramsey would look out the third floor windows of the offices trying to spot reporters. "He hated them," she says. "His anger was directed toward the media, but never toward the killer. He never mentioned the killer."
February 29, 1999
http://thehistoryvault.tripod.com/02291999feedingfrenzy-bw.htm
In an interview to be broadcast tonight, Ramsey voices empathy for the man arrested but later released after he confessed to slaying 6-year-old pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey in her Boulder home.
"After a while, he was so abused and vilified and convicted in the media that I started to feel sorry for the guy," Ramsey told "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Erin Moriarty in his first interview since his wife Patsy's death and Karr's arrest.
"You have this expectation that absolute evil is going to be ugly and dark and reprehensible. Here, you know, is a nice, clean-cut-looking young man."
November 25, 2006
http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_13068611
This excerpt from when Oprah “cleared” the Ramseys:
After JonBenet's murder, John says they did allow themselves to grieve, but they soon realized it was important to move on for the sake of their son, Burke, who was 9 years old at the time. "You have to move on.”
September 10, 2008
http://www.westword.com/news/now-we-really-know-john-ramseys-innocent-cause-oprah-says-so-5856432
While on the theme of moving on, I thought I’d look to see who else found it easy to get on with life after a homicide.
• Drew Peterson:
Geoff's Blog: My Interview with Drew Peterson
3/15/2009
Last night (Sunday) I had Drew Peterson on my show. For those of you who don't know who Peterson is, let me explain. The guy has been married four times. His third wife was found dead in a bathtub with no water in it. His fourth wife, Stacy, disappeared. It has been all over the news for a year and a half now.
[SNIP]
This is one sick SOB. His wife has been missing for over a year and he has to move on with his life, according to him. No mourning, just that's it, according to him. He has no remorse and claims he didn't do anything wrong. He is as guilty as sin, but one cold customer.
I questioned him last night, even told him I thought he killed his wife, and he stared right through me.
[SNIP]
His current fiancé is 23 and has two kids. Nice. He is engaged but can't get married because his wife has disappeared and a divorce is not easy to get, according to his attorney. Why get engaged? He has to move on with his life, so he says. He drives around, smiles, and hasn't a care in the world.
His behavior as a role model to his kids is beyond belief. Ask him about it, and he says that "Life moves on."
http://www.geoffpinkus.com/show_blog.asp?id=110
• Michael White:
Michael White is a polarizing figure. You can accept his version of events and believe that the evidence pointing at his guilt is all the result of bad luck on his part. Or you can conclude, as the jury did, that White is a liar. If White is that, he is also an unrepentant liar, one evidently motivated by an unabashed sense of self-pity, the notion that he himself is the real victim, so that justifies his actions, no matter how deceitful.
Even on the day he murdered Liana, he managed to play the victim. White heaped shame on the police after they asked him if he might be responsible for Liana's disappearance: "When somebody says, 'Hey are you responsible for your wife (being) missing?' you know, that's like an absolute kick in the chest, you know. Like, I'm already hurting as it is, let's just put another coal in that fire."
In that same interview, White also attacked Maureen, who had suggested that maybe somebody had been waiting in the garage for Liana that morning and had grabbed her. White felt like Maureen was blaming him, since he was the last one in the garage and should have locked it.
"Well, thanks for putting that in my head, you know," he groused to the police. "It is my fault now. I left the garage door open?"
[SNIP]
The public got a troubling taste of White in full victim mode when he stood in front of his house shortly after Liana went missing and proclaimed: "Liana -- hold tight.... If whoever has her, or if she is out there and you see me, just stay there and we will find you. I will find you."
Until that moment, Liana's friend, Nathalie Durie, had told everyone, including the police, that easygoing, gentle Michael had to be innocent. But this proclamation came across as so bizarre, it made Durie's jaw drop.
Why ask Liana to stay put, she wondered? What the heck did that mean? "I got goose bumps down to the tips of my toes. To me, he was like a whole different person."
White's sense of grievance only grew in the weeks after his arrest. In a jailhouse interview with CHED radio reporter Byron Christopher, White talked about launching his own investigation to find Liana's real killer. "I'd have to say certain elements in the homicide division do have tunnel vision," White complained. "It is unacceptable."
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=71baa299-180b-4924-b797-9c71ac38333f&p=4
A few hours before finding his wife’s body, White complained to the local newspaper, the Edmonton Sun, about being compared to Scott Peterson. In fact, he was very much like Peterson. In that interview, he was already speaking of his wife as dead, and described plans for her funeral. He seemed eager to move on, saying he had to “get back to normalcy” for their daughter’s sake.
“Liana would want me to,” he said.
Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives, By Marilee Strong, Mark Powelson, page 162
• OJ Simpson:
NOT GUILTY: THE MAN;Simpson Walks Out of the Courtroom a Free Man and Into the Lucrative Free Market, By JAMES STERNGOLD
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3, 1995 — O. J. Simpson walked out of the courtroom today a free man for the first time in 15 months, saying he was eager to rebuild his life and move on.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/04/u...room-free-man-into-lucrative-free-market.html
While on the topic of OJ Simpson, who famously said that he was going to make it his mission to “find the killers,” let’s not forget that it’s also John Ramsey’s mission.
Reporter: What do you want to say to the killer of your daughter?
John Ramsey: We'll find you. We will find you. I have that as a sole mission for the rest of my life.
Reporter: Mrs. Ramsey?
Patsy Ramsey: Likewise.
May 1, 1997
http://thewebsafe.tripod.com/05011997ramseymediainterview.htm
OJ Simpson:
But when things have settled a bit, I will pursue as my primary goal in life the killer or killers who slaughtered Nicole and Mr. Goldman. They are out there somewhere. Whatever it takes to identify them and bring them in, I will provide somehow."
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2197...re-20-years-ago-oj-simpson-receives-acquittal
Whew, somebody left the door open and a breath of fresh air arrived in this post! Thank you for describing those little bitty hints of character flaws, so disquieting no matter how many times we’ve heard them. 
