By Steve Huff
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There were a couple of instances where the history of the Ramsey case crossed paths with Jason Midyette's grandfather, J. Nold Midyette.
In March of 1996, John Ramsey, then the president and chief executive of Access Graphics, signed a 5-year lease on buildings in the 1400 block of the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder. That lease was worth $9.5 million. The owners of the property were J. Midyette and real estate investor Don Rieder. At the time, Access Graphics was the largest private employer in the Mall area.
J. Nold Midyette and John Ramsey crossed paths in the business pages of the Daily Camera again in October of that year. The piece was about the phenomenal growth of Ramsey's company at the time, how Access Graphics had grown from 120 employees in 1990 to more than 400 employees by December of 1995. Access Graphics had worked out a 10-year deal with Midyette that would eventually add 48,000 square feet of office space to the 52,000 square feet John Ramsey's company owned at the time. Also, in October of '96, a new office building was going up at 1433 Pearl Street, and the first company slated to occupy the new place in July of 1997 was to be Access Graphics.
Between October of '96 and July the next year, everything changed, in a famously terrible way, for the Ramseys.
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| Patsy and John Ramsey |
Two businessmen accustomed to dealing with big money, made plans in 1996 that would have extended through this year, according to the latter article. One, John Ramsey, saw everything he had crash down around him. It seemed to keep crashing after his daughter's murder, even up to this year.
In the summer off 2006, Patsy Ramsey died from cancer and was laid to rest beside JonBenet in Marietta, GA. Already, in Boulder, J. Nold Midyette's family had suffered its own tragic, crushing loss.
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