Let the games begin -- again. Sitting in a Hong Kong newsroom reading Bangkok-based wire stories screaming that a man in Bangkok has confessed to one of America's most famous murders-- the 1996 slaying of the child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey -- is a surreal experience for me, a one-time resident of the city where the 6-year-old child was murdered in her own home. It packs an odd jolt of disconnect, deju vu and news junkie adrenalin for anyone who watched the sick circus unfold 10 years ago.
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Let the games begin -- again. Sitting in a Hong Kong newsroom reading Bangkok-based wire stories screaming that a man in Bangkok has confessed to one of America's most famous murders-- the 1996 slaying of the child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey -- is a surreal experience for me, a one-time resident of the city where the 6-year-old child was murdered in her own home. It packs an odd jolt of disconnect, deju vu and news junkie adrenalin for anyone who watched the sick circus unfold 10 years ago.
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