Burke Ramsey's $750 million defamation case filed against CBS Corp. and other parties who participated in a controversial 2016 documentary about the murder of his sister JonBenet Ramsey has been settled, but those involved aren't discussing terms of the agreement.
According to The Daily Camera in Boulder, Burke Ramsey's Atlanta-based lawyer, Lin Wood, tweeted a news account concerning the settlement in which he was quoted saying that the suit had been "amicably resolved to the satisfaction of all parties," and added the note, "After handling many defamation cases for them over the past 20 years, hopefully this is my last defamation case for this fine family."
According to Burke Ramsey's lawsuit, which is filed in December 2016 in the Circuit Court for Wayne County, Mich., the gist of the documentary was "that Burke Ramsey killed his six-year-old sister," and that such a claim is "false and defamatory per se" and "Burke Ramsey did not kill his sister and had no involvement in her brutal murder."
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A clerk in Groner's office on Friday said the order declares that the claims against those producing the documentary "are dismissed with prejudice and without costs or attorney fees. This is a final order and the case is closed."
The term "with prejudice"means that an action cannot be refiled.
In addition to the CBS Corp., other defendants named in the suit were the production company Critical Content, LLC., plus Jim Clemente, Laura Richards, A. James Kolar, James Fitzgerald, Stanley Burke, nationally known forensic scientist Henry Lee and forensic pathologist Werner Spitz, all of whom participated in the CBS production.
JonBenet was found murdered in the basement of her parents' University Hill home the afternoon of Dec. 26, 1996, several hours after her mother, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report JonBenet was missing and that she had found a ransom note demanding $118,000 for her safe return.
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