“‘911: 911, what’s your emergency?’... Patsy: ‘We have a kidnapping! Hurry, please….’” This chilling 911 call at 5:52 am by Patsy Ramsey was the start of a monumental homicide mystery - JonBenét Ramsey, at the age of six years old, was brutally murdered on December 25, 1996 in Boulder, Colorado by strangulation and head trauma. An American child beauty queen, following the steps of stardom of her mother, and born in a wealthy family, made this murder a greater curiosity and more eerie. On December 26, she was found by her father, John Bennett Ramsey, with duct tape covering her mouth, a nylon cord strangled around her neck, and her hands tied above her head. With little evidence and many theories, three main suspects include, Patsy Ramsey, …show more content…
Though almost tried by a jury, John was cleared by the 2008 DNA test his wife was also cleared from and walks as a free man...well, not quite - many people have held John under suspicion since the day he found his daughter’s body in his basement. As expressed by the first detective at the scene in an interview with ABC News, “I see John Ramsey carrying JonBenét up the last three steps from the basement and my mind exploded - everything that I had noted that morning that stuck out instantly made sense. As we [John Ramey] looked at each other, I remember tucking my gun and consciously counting my bullets.” In the interview, Detective Arndt clearly looks distraught while telling of her experience and alludes to the killer being John. When she arrived at the scene, she noted the unusual actions John did and eventually told him to search for anything suspicious. Right away, John made a beeline to the basement, a rarely used place in the Ramsey home. Furthermore, although Arndt ordered John not to touch anything and leave the evidence where it was found, Ramsey picked up his child, took off her duct tape, and covered her in a blanket; destroying vital evidence. Quickly, theories spread about and concluded that John sexually abused JonBenét, explaining the autopsy report that a small tissue from her hymen contained erosion and the blood on her underwear. Overall, although theories on John Bennett are not proved, circulations are still in the air and he is still a prime suspect to the