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Case Report: The Murder Of Jonbenet Ramsey

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“There. We have a, there’s a note left and our daughter’s gone.” Were Patsy Ramsey's words while on the phone, reporting her six year old daughter’s disappearance to 911 at 5:52 a.m. on Christmas day in 1996. The missing six year old girl was JonBenet Ramsey. When she was found murdered, it was obvious she suffered from various injuries. Including being strangled by a rope around her neck, sexual assault, and other minor injuries. Meanwhile in the case of the unsolved murder of JonBenet, scientists continue to work toward answers using forensic science to discover unknown DNA, observing the unusual ransom note left behind at the scene, and even having theories with evidence of their own for who could be responsible. In the first place, JonBenet …show more content…

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. She talked about how instead of grieving, John was trying to book a flight for Atlanta for the next day. When questioned about this in an interview, John defended himself by saying that the police had asked him and his family to leave their home. Now onto the sexual abuse rumors that John was accused of. There is no evidence concluding that John actually did commit sexual acts on his six year old, but in JonBenet’s autopsy reports, signs of sexual abuse did show

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