...JonBenet Ramsey was a six year old beauty pageant star who was found dead on December 26th, 1996, the day after Christmas. She lived her mother Patricia also known as Patsy, her dad John and her older brother Burke in Boulder, Colorado. On morning of December 26th, when Patsy was walking down the stairs she found a ransom note. On the note, addressed to John, it said that in exchange for his daughter's safe return he would have to pay the 'kidnappers' $118,000, the same amount of money he got recently as a bonus that year. Patsy then proceeded to call the police. Eight hours after she called 911 John was searching for his daughter and came across her in the basement. JonBenet was found with her wrists tied up, duct tape over her mouth and a cord around her neck. Later on when she was examined the medical examiner stated that the cause of death was because of...
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...Who Murdered JonBenet Ramsey? From researching the murder of JonBenet Ramsey and watching “The Case Of: JonBenet,” I believe that JonBenet’s brother, Burke killed her and their parents covered it up to protect their son. John and Patsy obviously succeeded because to this day, no one knows who killed JonBenet. I have many reasons behind why I think Burke Ramsey killed his six-year-old sister. One reason is because of the evidence at the crime scene. Another reason being the marks on JonBenet’s body. The last reason for me to believe Burke killed his sister is because of what he said and how he was acting when he was interviewed two weeks after JonBenet’s death. In my opinion, the evidence found in the Ramsey house after JonBenet’s death points...
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...JonBenét Ramsey, a young beauty queen. She was very well know for her incredible pageant work. On December 25th 1996, she was found murdered in her parents basement. The possible suspects were her parents who were proven innocent, or her brother, many also believe the family had nothing to do with the death of their 6 year old child. So who is really responsible? The brother who has just recently spoken out about his sister or was it a family friend that was never caught? Burke Ramsey, brother of JonBenét, after 20 years finally spoke out on why he hasn’t spoken on the death of his sister. He claims “I wanted to grow up as a normal kid, which does not include going in front of TV cameras”(ABC News). Burke was originally taken off the suspect list when the DNA tests first happened, but later he was put back on after forensics specialists noticed there was multiple different DNA samples. Murder specialists think that is why Burke is just now speaking out. “Seemed like it would rouse it all up again”(ABC News), says Burke on why he waited so long to be interviewed. Burke was the number one suspect on CBS’ The Case of JonBenét ramsey. At the end of the special they revealed...
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...JonBenet Ramsey was born on August 6, 1990. Her father, John Ramsey, was a wealthy businessman and her mother, Patsy Ramsey, was a socialite. Patsy Ramsey won Miss West Virginia in 1977 and had been in many pageants when she was young. JonBenet had an older brother, Burke Ramsey who was soon to be 10 years old. It appears to many people that Patsy lived vicariously through her daughter; JonBenet had been in many beauty pageants by only the mere age of six. The Ramsey family was very wealthy and lived in a large house in a relatively nice area in Boulder, Colorado. On December 26, 1996, there was a 911 call at 5:52 am from a frantic Patsy Ramsey claiming her daughter was missing and kidnapped, along with receiving a ransom note; police raced to the scene. Hours later, John Ramsey found his daughter JonBenet in the wine cellar of their basement, wrapped in a blanket, dead and appearing to be strangled. In the 911 call made by Patsy Ramsey, you can hear that she seems...
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...pay for their return." The more cases there are, the more twisted and darker the motives and actions become. Many of these cases go unsolved because after a period of time, the notes end, or bodies show up, and all the frenzy slows down. Sometimes, secondary sources came out and reported random...
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...JonBenét Patricia Ramsey was born on August 6, 1990. She was an American child beauty queen who was killed in her house in Boulder, Colorado. There are many theories as to who killed killed this 6 year old girl. Until today it remains one of the biggest murder mysteries. She was found dead wrapped in her white blanket with a nylon cord around her neck. She was found with her wrists tied above her head, and duct tape over her mouth. Evidence later showed that she was hit over the head with a blunt object, which knocked her unconscious. Sometime between 45 minutes to two hours after she was knocked out, she was strangled to death with a piece of cord and the handle from a broken paintbrush. Police also later confirmed that she had been sexually...
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...approx. 10pm- JonBenet last scene alive by Patsy Ramsey. 12/26/1996- Ramsey parents say they were not awaken at any point during the night. 12/26/1996, approx. 12am- Neighbor says he saw people creeping around in the kitchen of the Ramsey household. 12/26/1996, approx. 2am- Neighbor, Melody Stanton, said she heard a scream. 12/26/1996, approx. 5:30am- Ramsey parents wake up, take showers, get dressed, and Patsy goes down the back stairs to the kitchen. 12/26/1996, approx. 5:45am- Patsy finds the ransom note on the back staircase. She reads the first few lines and figures out that JonBenet has been “kidnapped”. She runs up to JonBenet’s bedroom and screams. 12/26/1996, approx. 5:50am- Patsy and John go to Burke’s bedroom and see that he is still sleeping. 12/26/1996, 5:52am- Patsy calls 911 while John reads the ransom note. 12/26/1996, approx. 6am- Officers arrive at the Ramsey home, regarding a kidnapping. They search the home, including the basement, but don’t find anything. Officer French says he went down to the basement to search it but decided to not search the wine cellar, the room where JonBenet’s body was. 12/26/1996, 6:06am- Fleet White and his wife (family friends) arrive at the house. Fleet decides to search the basement. He says he went to the wine...
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...the crime scene, the officers didn’t know enough to implement proper crime scene protocols. One of the biggest issues of the case was not properly securing the crime scene. Family and friends of the Ramsey’s came and went in the house as they wished; unaware JonBenét was in the basement. Another red flag is that the detective had John Ramsey and a close friend, Fleet White, search the house to look for “anything unusual”. John and Fleet were to be the ones to find JonBenét’s body. The officers, media, and everyone following...
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...two decades ago, a young six-year-old beauty pageant contestant named JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her family’s basement on December 25th, 1996. She was found the following day by her father and a neighborhood friend who were looking through the basement to find anything that looked suspicious. From a critical stand point, the investigation has several holes. The autopsy revealed that she died from strangulation and a skull fracture. 1.) The police told John Ramsey to search for his daughter himself after his wife, Patsy Ramsey called 911 telling them about a ransom note left in their home. John Ramsey and a neighbor found his daughter in the basement of the house. They took JonBenet upstairs which contaminated the crime scene...
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...JonBenet was a sweet and pretty girl who loved to be in pageants. JonBenet was six years, but she was in pageants since she was 3 or 4 years old. But, the day of christmas her mother and father were up packing because they were going on a trip. Mrs. Ramsey had went to her room to wake her up too pee and she wasn’t in her bed so, soon as she knew she was missing she went to call the police. They had found a ransom note on the stairs telling them about the killing and what they wanted from them. When the police arrived they asked questions and they told them to search the house top to bottom.How did the dad know to go check the basement first? Good questions i think he knew where the body was the whole time and it took them eight hours to find her. They brought body out of the basement up to the living room where everyone was and laid the body on the ground....
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...JonBenét Patricia Ramsey was born in Atlanta, Georgia on August 6th, 1990. She was murdered in her home December 25, 1996 and her body was found December 26, 1996, in the basement of their 4-story home, located in Boulder, Colorado. JonBenét was the daughter of John and Patsy Ramsey. She was an American childhood beauty queen. Media coverage of the case has often focused on JonBenét's participation in child beauty pageants, her parents' affluence and the unusual evidence in the case. Reports have also questioned the police's overall handling of the case. Several defamation suits have been filed against several media organizations by Ramsey family members and their friends over reporting of the murder. JonBenét’s murder – particularly as the days went by and no arrests were forthcoming – quickly became a national obsession, featured day after day on network news, television tabloid programs, talk radio, newspapers and magazines. Her image flitted across television screens numerous times, often showing her in a fancy red cowgirl outfit, singing "I want to be a cowboy sweetheart," or dancing across the stage in a glittering Las Vegas showgirl outfit, complete with heavy makeup. Her unusual first name became so well known that like Cher and Madonna she no longer had need of a last name. The public’s shock at the murder soon began to share equal time with its growing hate at the Boulder police’s investigation, a hate fed by a steady stream of leaks from the Boulder County District...
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...The JonBenét murder case occurred December 26, 1996. A complex combination of errors from the first day slowed development in the progress of the case. In addition the parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, originally refused to be interviewed by authorities. It wasn’t until January of 1997 that an interview took place, and that was on CNN. Further formal interviews occurred in April of 1997 and again in June of 1998. In 1999 and 2003 District Attorney Alex Hunter and Judge Julie Carnes of Atlanta, took action that would remove the Ramsey’s from further suspicion due to lack of viable evidence. When a final suspect surfaced DNA tests dismissed him from being a suspect as well. February, 2009, Boulder Police Chief Beckner and DA Garnett took...
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...unexplained causes. Forensic pathology has an interesting start in its history. It helps find the causes of unexplained deaths. Forensic pathologists are needed across the world due to murder, suicide, and many more complications due to their wide knowledge of forensic pathology. Forensic pathology is a type of pathology that determines the causes of death. “The word pathology means ‘the study of disease’(Howard C. Adelman).” Path meaning “ disease, and ology meaning “ study of ” in Greek. Pathology is the science of the causes and effects of diseases, with laboratory examination of the body for forensic purposes. Forensic means relating to the...
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...JonBenet Ramsey was a very beautiful pageant girl who died December 25,1996. Her case was never solved and it has been twenty years. The belief of this case has been unsolved for multiple reasons.According to deep research she found in the wine cellar of the family house taped up with a fractured skull. They found a suppose it ransom note,but they couldn’t find any DNA on the note.Also in that ransom note they say it's similar to the mother’s handwriting in the note and the sharpie came from the house. They found the murder weapon to be a flashlight and she was battered with it. As well as seeing the evidence lead up to no clues on her murder,but they found the range of how she was hit and they believed it was a young child. Also in the intense they couldn’t find any true evidence if it was true. Her brother was most under investigation, because he had a pure hate it for his sister. They had to investigate 140 people who could be the actually suspect in the crime. The case took so long they had to move the case to the FBI,because the family thought the police wasn’t working hard enough. Her brother had a complex issues with himself and he wanted he sister gone. The evidence found couldn’t define it was him or not they felt a hunch that could have been him that night....
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...crime scene is called the first responder. They have a variety of responsibility’s that must be handled accordingly. They are to take control of the crime scene such as arrest people who might be suspects of the crime, clear the crime scene of any unauthorized individual’s, and make a perimeter of the crime scene. They are to have performed all the tasks that are assigned to a first responder until someone relieves them of their duty’s. December 25, 1996 a young beauty paganist at the age of six was murdered. The girl in question was named JonBenet Ramsey, and was found dead in her family’s home in Boulder Colorado. Her mother had called the police the morning after Christmas in hysterics. She described that there was a ransom note for her daughters return, and for her not to call the police, or they would kill her. When the police arrived, they did a sweep of the crime scene and did not find anything amiss. 21 years have passed since this murder, and it has yet to be solved because the crime scene was contaminated by the first responder’s negligence....
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