MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) -- Someone scrawled "No Justice in U.S.A." on the grave of JonBenet Ramsey, days after a grand jury declined to bring charges in her death.
The graffiti, in red marker, was reported Monday, Marietta police Lt. Rick Townsend said Wednesday. He said police have no witnesses or leads in the case.The 6-year-old girl, killed in her family's Boulder, Colo., home in December 1996, was buried in St. James Episcopal Church Cemetery in Marietta, northwest of Atlanta. Her family now lives in Atlanta.
Townsend said the words were written on a marble slab that lies on the ground covering the child's grave. The headstone was not vandalized, he said.
A grand jury in Boulder investigated JonBenet's death for 13 months but adjourned Oct. 13 without indicting anyone.
James Ray, vice chairman of the church's cemetery committee, said the church has locked the cemetery gates in the past to prevent media from getting to JonBenet's grave. But he said the gates were later unlocked because people wanted to get to other grave sites.
Meanwhile, Colorado's attorney general moved to ensure the secrecy of a special panel appointed by the governor to consider using a special prosecutor in the Ramsey case by swearing in the panel's seven members as assistant attorneys general Monday.
"That designation ensures that the attorney-client privilege between the attorney general and the governor is protected," said Ken Lane, a spokesman for Attorney General Ken Salazar. "These deliberations and any comments made there are confidential."
Gov. Bill Owens announced last week that he would look into using a special prosecutor in the case after the grand jury investigating the little girl's death ended its work without returning an indictment.