Pasty and John Ramsey had the perfect all-American family, until they were involved with the murder of their own daughter. JonBenet was a 6-year-old beauty queen whose body was found in the basement of her Boulder, Colorado home; while the murder still remains unsolved, it is obvious who killed her. This murder investigation still captivates the nation to this day.
The Ramsey’s were the definition of a perfect family. In 1996, John Ramsey’s company, Access Graphics, had grossed more than one billion dollars in revenue, which was big news for the family (Casarez). JonBenet Ramsey was a pageant queen. She had won Little Miss Colorado, Little Miss Charlevoix, Colorado State All-Star Kids Cover Girl, America’s Royale Miss, and National Tiny Miss
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The note was written by someone who claimed to have kidnapped their daughter. Since it was the day after Christmas, Bolder Police Force was understaffed. The mistakes that these police officers made is the main reason why JonBenet’s murder is unsolved. Law enforcement and friends drifted in and out of the home all day. John Ramsey says Linda Arndt, one of the main detectives, told him to search the home from top to bottom to see if there was anything suspicious. John and an unidentified friend went to the basement first and he found his daughter in the utility room (Casarez). That brings up the question of why didn’t John search the house when his daughter was thought missing? How did John manage to find her when the police didn’t? JonBenet was found with a garrote fashioned out of rope embedded deep within her neck. The same rope was around one of her wrists. At the end of the garrote was a broken paintbrush that appeared to be from Pasty Ramsey’s art set. Dr. John Meyer, who performed the autopsy, concluded JonBenet’s cause of death was suffocation in conjunction with forcible trauma to the skull (Casarez). A reexamination of the DNA evidence using new technology found an unidentified male’s DNA on JonBenet’s underpants. (“JonBenet Ramsey’s Brother Breaks Silence 20 Years After Her Murder”). After that, the case turned from a kidnapping to a …show more content…
It demanded $118,000, which was close to the exact amount of John Ramsey’s bonus that year, for the safe return of their daughter. Also, the note said John would receive a call by 10 a.m. the next day, and he never did. Written in the note was “but not the country that it serves,” and that was a strong declaration that would lead nowhere (Bergara). Somehow, the killer entered the house, and wrote the note inside, all while the Ramsey’s slept unknowingly. A practice letter was written on Patsy’s notepad; there were easy spelling errors and words with accents spelled correctly. A ransom note is simply not three pages long, notes are not often practiced either. It is highly probable that Patsy wrote the ransom note. In December of 1999, a grand jury voted to indict both Ramsey parents for the crime but the district attorney, Alex Hunter, declined to sign the indictment, citing thin evidence, and instead said no further court action would be taken (JonBenet
Some think the family wrote the note since it seemed to have been rewritten several times, but the intruder was most likely trying to write the best paper without giving any hints to as who it might be. The note gave them the option to have their child returned as said by CNN Library,“JonBenét's mother, Patsy, says she found a ransom note demanding $118,000 for JonBenét's return,” ("JonBenet Ramsey"). The note had a time on it, the family couldn't call the police, but had to wait for a phone call. The majority think that since they never got a call, the family must have done it, but instead, it could have been the killers focusing on the escape. Hive provides us with key information about the note, “The ransom note warned the couple not to contact the police but to await a phone call between 8 and 10 that morning,” ("JONBENET RAMSEY").
When the police first arrived onto the scene of the murder, the child had not been found yet. They started to do a deeper look into the house when all of a sudden John comes up from the basement stairs carrying JonBenet’s dead body, despite being told if he did find anything to leave in its original placement. Obviously ignoring these orders, John even ripped off the piece of duct tape from JonBenet’s mouth. When John covered her dead body with a blanket and laid her down, this caused him to destroy some vital evidence that could've been found if he had not removed her from her original stance in the basement. The first police officer to arrive at the crime, Linda Ardndt, spoke out to the public about John’s strange behavior the day of the murder.
Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey? Six-year-old Jonbenét was murdered on December 26, 1996. A hand-written ransom note was left and hours later her body was found in the basement; her hands tied behind her back, tape over her mouth and a cord wrapped around her neck. JonBenét’s death was ruled a homicide. Almost 22 years later no one has been charged with the murder of Jonbenét Ramsey.
JonBenet Ramsey Case On the morning of December 29th, 1996, Patsy Ramsey got dressed and went downstairs to start getting prepared for the day. What she was not prepared for was the ransom note that was left for her at the bottom of the stairs. JonBenet Ramsey, Patsy’s six-year-old daughter and, had been kidnapped. The note said that if Patsy and the rest of her family did not listen and do what was on the note then JonBenet would be killed.
1996, JonBenet Ramsey was found dead in the Ramsey's basement. It all started with a ransom note that was found by the mother, Patricia (Patsy) Ramsey, early that morning. The ransom note was not any typical short note left by a murderer, it was a two and a half page note. On the note, the killer demanded $118,000, one hundred thousand of it being in one hundred dollar bills and the rest in twenty dollar bills. The killer stated , "She is safe and unharmed and if you want her to see 1997, you must follow our instructions to the letter."
The police investigating the crime said that the way the body was placed seemed like a cover-up for the crime, but could have also been moved by the father who found and picked her up, and that the ransom note was staged by Patsy Ramsey. In 2002 the DA reinvestigated the case, this time they looked at people that were not related to JonBenet as suspects. In 2008 the DA sent out an apology letter to the ramseys declaring that the family was completely cleared from the crime, and in February 2009 the Boulder Police reopened the investigation. There are two main theories about who killed JonBenet Ramsey one of the two is the Intruder Theory, Smits Theory was a theory that someone had broken into the ramseys
Both John and Patsy Ramsey submitted handwriting samples to the police shortly after JonBenét was killed. Investigators ruled out John as the writer of the note, but Patsy’s handwriting has kept her under suspicion. In 2008 when new DNA evidence revealed that they were not the killers. John Mark Karr was arrested for the murder after he confessed to killing JonBenét in 2006. At the time, handwriting analyst Curt Baggett claimed that Karr was the writer of the letter, based on a comparison to an entry written by Karr in a yearbook.
JonBenét Ramsey, a six-year-old beauty queen daughter of Patsy Ramsey and John Ramsey found murdered in her home on December 26, 1998. This murder has yet to be solved, and as the years go by, the case seems to get colder and colder. As a result, there have been many conspiracy theories in this case. Many people have started to believe that an intruder murdered her, but what if it was someone in the house? Maybe someone very familiar with this home.
For years, the murder of JonBenet Ramsey has gone unsolved. Many people were pulled as possible suspects. Her parents, neighbors, and even a possible unknown intruder. None of the known suspects were found guilty and were erased from the case. JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered in her own home in Boulder, Colorado.
While it was confirmed Patsy’s husband John did not compose the note, Patsy was labeled as “inconclusive”. Many things within the ransom note are specific such as, “We are a group of individuals that represent a small foreign faction.” Normally kidnappers don’t give out specific information in a ransom note, as this could aid the police within their investigation and possibly lead to them finding out who commited the crime. About six-eight hours after initially being called to the Ramsey household JonBenet's body was discovered by John Ramsey and his friend in the basement of JonBenet’s home.
This was the exact amount of money John Ramsey, her father, had earned as a bonus from his job that almost nobody knew about except close acquaintances. This means that the killer miraculously broke into the home, wrote a two and a half page note on the scene, murdered JonBenét and got away with it all while Patsy and John Ramsey were present in the home. This ransom note left more questions than answers with one of them being why would anyone leave a ransom note portraying a kidnapping although they had already took JonBénet’s
JonBenet Ramsey who was a young loving beauty queen of Colorado, who’s live was taken way too early. JonBenet was murdered in her home in Boulder Colorado on December 26, 1996 at the age of six. After completing my research, I was able to make a prediction of who I believed murdered the incent child, and it did not take much research to see the mistakes made by the Boulder Police Department. The Boulder Police Department made numerous mistakes in the JonBenet Ramsey case.
JonBenet Ramsey was a 6-year-old beauty queen. On December 26, 1996 around 5:45am JonBenet’s mother, Patsy Ramsey, discovered a two page and a half note sitting on the steps inside the house after noticing that JonBenet wasn’t in her bed. The ransom note stated that they had their daughter held hostage, and the only way to get her back is if they give them $118,000. When the police showed up they started to investigate the whole house. By 1:00pm the detectives and investigators still haven't found any evidence.
The murder of Jonbenet Ramsey is a really depressing and mysterious at that. The murder was extremely brutal, she had wounds on her face, a cracked skull, duct tape on her mouth, she was tied up, and she had a garrote around her neck. According to the documentary we watched she was hit in the head with a flashlight and then strangled with a garrote. It was expected that she snatched a piece of pineapple from her brother’s bowl in which he hit her with a flashlight because of it, and she was still alive so it was most likely the parents got in on it because they didn’t want to be filed for abuse and jailed so they strangled her to death and put a blanket over her body, breaking a window and adding a ransom note to make it seem like someone broke in.
JonBenét Ramsey’s death has been a mystery that’s been widely talked about, but her murder still remains a mystery. Early morning on December 26, Patsy Ramsey, JonBenét’s mother, found a ransom note demanding 118000$ for JonBenét who had been ‘kidnapped’ that morning (Newton 97). Later that day, JonBenét’s body was discovered in the basement, her body