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Thousands visit Web site featuring JonBenet teddy bear clue
Updated February 1, 1999
9:24 a.m. ET
BOULDER, Colo. (Court TV) — A Web site that featured a fuzzy photo of a teddy bear found at the scene of JonBenet Ramsey's murder seeking information about has received more than 10,000 visits since it was put up by investigators last week.
In addition to the Web site contacts about the bear, District Attorney Alex Hunter's office had received about 80 e-mails, 105 phone calls and two personal contacts since the site opened Thursday, spokeswoman Suzanne Laurion said Saturday.
And a Denver woman turned over a teddy bear closely resembling the toy found in JonBenet's room around the time she was killed. The toy, a foot-long stuffed bear in a Santa suit, was turned into authorities Friday and could provide a lead in the two-year murder mystery, Hunter's office said.
"It appears it will give us some information," spokeswoman Laurion.
The stuffed animal in the photo was reportedly among toys found
in JonBenet's room, but family members said it did not belong to
the little girl. The teddy bear is now apparently missing.
The search continues for the actual white bear, dressed in a red
jacket, pants and Santa hat. Police photographed it in the Ramsey's
home but did not take it as evidence and now it is missing.
It was first seen among the dead 6-year-old's toys, but family
members have said it didn't belong to the girl who was found beaten
and strangled on Dec. 26, 1996.
Pam Paugh, an aunt of JonBenet, said in an interview Friday that
a small brown pouch attached to the bear contained a note.
The note was not alarming, but in view of the circumstances it was both "telling" and "a bit prophetic," Paugh said in an interview with the TV show "Inside Edition." She speculated that the bear may have been used to lure JonBenet out of her room.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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