The JonBenet Ramsey case, day-by-day

Dec. 2, 1999 -- Regana Rapp, 29, who along with her husband was accused of providing confidential information about the JonBenet investigation to a tabloid, pleads guilty to racketeering. Under a plea agreement, Rapp received a two-year deferred sentence and 50 hours of community service.

Dec. 20, 1999 -- Craig Lewis, editor of the supermarket tabloid, Globe, was arrested after being indicted on extortion and bribery charges for his efforts to obtain information about the JonBenet case. The indictment accuses Lewis of offering $30,000 for a copy of the ransom note that Patsy Ramsey reported finding hours before her daughter was found dead.

March 17, 2000 -- The Ramseys release their book, "The Death of Innocence," about their daughter's death and launch a national media campaign to promote it.

March 2000 -- The Ramseys settle a $25 million lawsuit against the supermarket tabloid, Star, for stories linking JonBenet's death to Burke, who was 9 at the time of his sister's killing. Boulder police have said Burke is not a suspect.

May 8, 2000 -- The Ramseys file libel suits against the New York Post and Time Warner for $4 million each, saying they libeled the Ramseys' son, Burke, by portraying him as the prime suspect in his sister's murder. (Time Warner is the parent company of CNN.com)

May 11, 2000 -- The Ramseys file two multimillion-dollar lawsuits claiming a book and a supermarket tabloid falsely accused their son Burke of molesting and killing his sister. The suits were filed in Atlanta and Austin, Texas, against the Globe and Windsor House Publishing Group, the publishers of "A Little Girl's Dream? A JonBenet Ramsey Story."

May 24, 2000 -- John and Patsy Ramsey announce at a news conference that the results of their lie detector tests say they were not involved in the death of their daughter JonBenet and that neither knows who killed her. The tests were not administered by the FBI and therefore not acceptable to Boulder, Colorado, authorities.