The JonBenet Ramsey case, day-by-day

August 26: Boulder police spokeswoman Leslie Aaholm says police are still "months away" from forwarding evidence gathered in the murder investigation to the District Attorney's Office.

September 8:District Attorney Alex Hunter releases a photocopy of the ransom note found in the Ramsey home eight hours before JonBenet Ramsey's body was discovered on December 26.

September 9: - Investigators from the Boulder County District Attorney's Office and the Boulder Police Department meet with members of the FBI's Child Abduction and Serial Crimes Unit to discuss the case. According to an FBI spokesman, the purpose of the meeting was to come up with a profile or criminal investigative analysis to help police narrow the focus of their investigation to a few suspects.

September 29: -- Authorities release 65 pages of search warrants and related documents that allowed police to spend eight days going through the Colorado home of John and Patsy Ramsey. The Ramseys had objected to the release of the search warrants, arguing their right to privacy would be violated.

October 10: Boulder Police Chief Tom Koby names Cmdr. Mark Beckner to take over the Ramsey investigation from Cmdr. John Eller, who headed the probe for nine months. Koby acknowledges mistakes in the investigation, saying, "If we had it to do all over again, we would do it differently."

November 17: District Judge Richard W. May orders that documents involving a search of the summer home of John and Patsy Ramsey be made public, but rules that some of the information could be blacked out.

November 19: Boulder Police Chief Tom Koby says he will retire at the end of 1998 but plans to decide whether to charge someone with the Ramsey murder within six months.

December 5: Lead police investigator Mark Beckner says John and Patsy Ramsey "remain under an umbrella of suspicion" and will be questioned again.

December 9: Ramsey friends report that investigators are searching for the owner of certain types of shoes, leading some observers to speculate police may have footprint evidence.

January 16, 1998: John and Patsy Ramsey won't give Boulder police another interview unless investigators show them all the evidence gathered in the murder of JonBenet. But police say letting the couple and their legal team see the files might compromise the year-old investigation.

February 15: Boulder police lose evidence collected in the case, forcing them to re-trace some investigative steps taken in the 14-month investigation. Detectives have told friends of the Ramseys they no longer have records of some interviews and palm prints the friends had given.

March 10: District Attorney Alex Hunter indicates that the 15-month-old murder case of JonBenet Ramsey could be headed for a grand jury. Grand jury proceedings, which are secret, are akin to preliminary hearings in a criminal case in determining whether someone should be bound over for trial. A grand jury may issue an indictment to arrest someone for probable cause, a lower standard than the "beyond reasonable doubt'' threshold that must be met to find someone guilty at trial.

June 25: JonBenet's parents are interviewed by investigators from the Boulder County district attorney's office. Attorneys for John and Patsy Ramsey had said they were willing to cooperate with the district attorney's office in its investigation now that police have turned over the case to Alex Hunter's office.

June 26: An investigator at the district attorney's office questions Burke Ramsey for some six hours.

August 8: Steve Thomas, a lead detective in the investigation, resigns, saying prosecutors have "crippled" the case by not supporting the investigators and cooperating too much with Ramsey family lawyers.

August 13: Governor Roy Romer announces that the investigation will go to a Boulder County grand jury.

September 15: A grand jury convenes to hear evidence in the case. The jurors -- eight women and four men -- receive an overview from the district attorney's office.

January 28, 1999: Hunter asks public's help in locating manufacturer of a toy bear in a Santa Claus suit reportedly found in JonBenet's room.

September 23: Grand jury returns to work for the first time since May 25.

October 7-12: With Oct. 20 grand jury deadline nearing, panel meets several more times as speculation mounts that decision whether to indict anyone is near.

October 13: District attorney announces that no indictments issued; cites lack of sufficient evidence.