02-19-2017, 11:51 PM
20/20 program with Barbara Walters
BARBARA: (V/O) But it would, in fact, be four months before the Ramseys would sit down with detectives for formal interrogation. There was a mutual distrust between the Boulder Police Department and the Ramsey family.
BARBARA WALTERS: Why didn't you take a lie detector test?
PATSY RAMSEY: No one ever asked us…
BARBARA WALTERS: Really?
PATSY RAMSEY: … to take a lie detector test.
BARBARA WALTERS: Police never asked you to take a lie detector test?
JOHN RAMSEY: No.
PATSY RAMSEY: No.
JOHN RAMSEY: I was asked, during my interview with Steve Thomas, a hypothetical question—
BARBARA WALTERS: One of the policemen.
JOHN RAMSEY: One of the policemen that investigated this murder. He said, if I were to ask you to take a lie-detector test, what would you say. And I said I would be offended. That's what I would say. I wasn't interested in proving my innocence at that point. That...that was… a non-issue.
PATSY RAMSEY: We were frightened… there was a murderer loose.
BARBARA WALTERS: Mr. Ramsey, would you now take a lie-detector test—
JOHN RAMSEY: I would, certainly.
BARBARA WALTERS: Would you, Mrs. Ramsey?
PATSY RAMSEY: Yes, I would take a lie-detector test.
BARBARA: (V/O) But it would, in fact, be four months before the Ramseys would sit down with detectives for formal interrogation. There was a mutual distrust between the Boulder Police Department and the Ramsey family.
BARBARA WALTERS: Why didn't you take a lie detector test?
PATSY RAMSEY: No one ever asked us…
BARBARA WALTERS: Really?
PATSY RAMSEY: … to take a lie detector test.
BARBARA WALTERS: Police never asked you to take a lie detector test?
JOHN RAMSEY: No.
PATSY RAMSEY: No.
JOHN RAMSEY: I was asked, during my interview with Steve Thomas, a hypothetical question—
BARBARA WALTERS: One of the policemen.
JOHN RAMSEY: One of the policemen that investigated this murder. He said, if I were to ask you to take a lie-detector test, what would you say. And I said I would be offended. That's what I would say. I wasn't interested in proving my innocence at that point. That...that was… a non-issue.
PATSY RAMSEY: We were frightened… there was a murderer loose.
BARBARA WALTERS: Mr. Ramsey, would you now take a lie-detector test—
JOHN RAMSEY: I would, certainly.
BARBARA WALTERS: Would you, Mrs. Ramsey?
PATSY RAMSEY: Yes, I would take a lie-detector test.