BOULDER - Authorities asked Patsy Ramsey before she died if she would meet with the man who claims he killed her daughter, the Ramsey family's attorney, Lin Wood, said Friday.

When asked in May, Ramsey agreed to meet with John Mark Karr if it would advance the investigation into JonBenet Ramsey's 1996 slaying.

However, the meeting never took place because authorities did not get back to her before she died in June from ovarian cancer, Wood said.

Karr has claimed he wrote letters to Patsy Ramsey, but Wood says she never got them.

Wood says the written correspondence Karr sent to Patsy Ramsey either in the form of e-mails or letters was routed to someone else.

He said police or someone else set up an address for the correspondence to be sent to. Wood says they wanted to make it look like he was writing to Ramsey, but it was turned over to the police instead.

"He thought that he was corresponding with Patsy, but he wasn't," Wood told The Associated Press.

A spokesman for the Roswell, Ga., Police Department, which helped authorities identify and locate Karr, declined to say Friday whether his agency conducted the correspondence ruse.

"We're not commenting on any part of the investigation," Sgt. James McGee said.

Karr, 41, was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday. The former teacher told the AP he "was with JonBenet when she died. Her death was an accident."


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