Now you've got me, here. Are you able to source the info on JR taking JB to Amsterdam? We have so many sources over so many years, but I don't quite remember this. I know JR went there to do business, as many sources have mentioned it. But taking JB...did he take Burke or the other kids, as well?
Thanks for any help you can give us on this.
Tried to find it too. I did find a past post from you, KK, on FFJ. This an exchange between PR and TH in an interview:
it sounds as though TH was pushing for where they had traveled. I thought Louisiana was a strange one to inquire about, but then maybe they had a tip from FBI about *advertiser censored* there. In this interview, PR doesnt seem to recollect a European trip.
THOMAS HANEY: Do you recall, say
17 1996, did you travel outside of the country?
18 PATSY RAMSEY: I don't -- I don't
19 think so. I don't remember. Oh, seems like we
20 were in Mexico, we went to a beach down there.
21 Took the children. Mazatlan. And that would
22 have been in, I know it was hot down there, so I
23 don't know when it would have been. But the six
24 of us went. And the kids had never been to
25 Europe, so we wouldn't have gone there with
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1 them.
2 THOMAS HANEY: In the United
3 States, now, you normally went to Charlevoix and
4 up in that area, Atlanta and Colorado?
5 PATSY RAMSEY: Uh-hum.
6 THOMAS HANEY: Are there, do you go
7 to California regularly --
8 PATSY RAMSEY: Oh, we went up to
9 Maine I think sometime, because John was having
10 a boat built up in Maine. We went up there from
11 the little lake, I believe. (INAUDIBLE.) I
12 don't know, just one of these trips, you know.
13 THOMAS HANEY: How about had you
14 ever, that year, last year or so, had you
15 traveled then to Louisiana or --
16 PATSY RAMSEY: No.
17 THOMAS HANEY: -- recently?
18 PATSY RAMSEY: No.
However, from ST: the little girl traveled widely, to new York several times, and as far away as Italy." Note PR denies taking the kids to Europe. (So jaded here, if PR says that, my mind thinks they
did all go to Europe.)
And from the Bonita Papers: JonBenet's grandmother, Nedra, admits that both she and her brother, Burke, were spoiled and were seldom disciplined. But Nedra would balance this observation, in typical grandmother fashion, by saying that the children were very well behaved and mature a fact confirmed by friends of John and Patsy who were also acquainted with the children. In spite of the material benefits available to the Ramsey children, neither appeared to be pampered. because
both Burke and JonBenet were exposed to world travel and many social situations, they had achieved sophistication and social skills not normally found in children of their ages."
Just a guess here that if the comment in ST book about an Italy visit true, and JR had an AG office in Amsterdam, the whole family may have visited not just Italy, but also Amsterdam. The trip would be a business expense deduction for JR. moo