Summary: The Murder Of Jonbenet Ramsey

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").

The medical examiner also stated rape was not indicated from the autopsy; however, sexual assault may have been a factor. The autopsy showed JonBenet had consumed pineapple before being murdered (Death of a Six, 2017). Investigators believe JonBenet died somewhere between 10pm on Christmas and 6am the following morning. Due to the decomposition of her body, it’s believed it was closer to 10pm (Death of a Six,

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

Perhaps even a family member of JonBenét Ramsey. It was around 5:00 a.m. on December 26, 1998, and Patsy walks down the stairs. She finds a two and a half page ransom note lying on one of the last three steps. This note is written with one of Patsy's notepads and a writing utensil in the home.

Also, supposedly found by the mother, Patsy, was a ransom note, but it was nothing like a real ransom note. It was three pages long, way too long to have been a real ransom note, and had mentioned a ridiculously huge amount of money, $118,000. Many think it was written by Burke and the parents because of the messy handwriting and it was also found to have been written in Burke’s notebook. Also being signed with the abbreviation “S.T.B.C.”, which can mean Christianity, “Saved By The Cross.” The Ramseys are known to be a Christian family.

Jonbenet Ramsey was a six year old beauty pageant icon who was unexpectedly kidnapped and then found murdered in the basement of her own residence. Her mother Patsy made the 911 call to the police. During the call, she screams “Help me, Jesus” not once but twice. Which seems incredibly suspicious while she is screaming there a two other voices in the background. After further investigation during the phone call, it was her husband John and their son Burke in the background.

The fracture on her skull matched the width of the flashlight, so it may be conceivable that he could have accidentally killed his sister. This theory however, is somewhat disbelievable since the strangulation JonBenét endured was proven to have been done while she was alive. John Ramsey, although ruled out as the author of the ransom note, is also considered by some to be the killer, as the media sought for cover stories and an ending to the story for sensation. The entire Ramsey family was publicly exonerated in 2008 by the Boulder County district, which faced controversy. As well as JonBenét’s family, came many other

Police were called the following morning to report that their daughter had gone missing. Police found a ransom note demanding 118,000 dollars, this never came to a complete investigation. Later that afternoon Ramsey's body had been found under a blanket in the basement. The detectives didn't do such a good job with continuing this case. There are multiple theories to this case.

The police investigation began instantly as a child abduction case, but soon took a turn for the worse when Jonbenet’s father, John Ramsey found her dead in the basement of her own house. “She was lying on the cold cement floor of the wine cellar with blood and bruises on her head, and a cord around her neck” (Agrawal). Immediately the child abduction case turned into that of a cold blooded murder. “The police should have done a better job controlling the crime scene from the begining” (Adams). With John Ramsey picking up his daughter’s dead body, and family friends walking around the house all morning, the chances of finding any evidence within the house was diminished.

In over 20 years no one has been able to say exactly who killed JonBenet, why she was killed, or what happened between the last time she was seen, the night of December 25 and the next afternoon when she was found in her basement. With the research collected there is a great certainty that her father killed her and her mother helped to cover it up. Her family has been hit with questions about JonBenet and theories from all sides with very little evidence to link them to it but with an analysis of the crime and the family that link has been found. you will lead down the dark road of what happened in the early hours of December 26, 1996, and put pieces together about how the parents of such an “adoring” family could have killed JonBenet and gotten

Patricia Ramsey, her mother, made a frantic phone call saying that she found an unknown ransom letter. Later that afternoon on the 26th of December her body was found in the family’s cellar. Before this happened a police officer told John Ramsey that he could go look around and see if anything in the house is missing (Brennan). Her body was found with tape over her mouth, a cord around her neck and wrist. During the autopsy they discovered that she suffered a fracture on the right side of her skull from an unknown object.

Starting with Patsy going downstairs to make coffee like she always did. While walking down the stairs, Patsy noticed the ransom note waiting for her, explaining that if they followed directions they would safely get JonBenet back. When police officer Rick French arrived at the Ramsey home around 6 a.m. he did a search routine for what he thought was a kidnapping. “From the beginning [French thought] it was obvious that [he] was called to investigate what was initially reported as a kidnapping [which] allowed contamination of evidence that might have been found at the crime scene” (Church). When the police left to get the search warrant to search the house, Patsy called some of her friends to come over and grieve with them.

When I looked at the handwriting of the ransom note and the handwriting of Patsy, there are some similarities, within the letters. Any individual can make their handwriting look sloppy, but there will always be similarities. I believe Patsy could have been irritated by something that JonBent could have possibly done, which caused Patsy to hit JonBent with a forceful object that could have caused serious brain damage. Instead of taking JonBent to the hospital she decide to stage a crime sense of a kidnap and murder instead. If Patsy did murder her daughter she got away with the

The note also said that if the Ramseys deviated from the instructions that were provided their daughter would be killed and her remains would not be returned to them for proper burial. After Patsy had finished reading she disobeyed what the note said and called the police; not long after they