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Court Case Of John And Patsy Ramsey

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Catastrophically, a beautiful child lost her life in a horrendous crime that has yet to be solved. Additionally, a string of law enforcement mistakes, hinder the investigation, keeping this homicide a mystery, of how this little girl was murdered in her home where her mother, father, and brother resided with her. First, John and Patsy Ramsey were in the upper class of Boulder, Colorado society. John had built his computer company into a billion-dollar corporation. On December 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey awoke just after five a.m. and walked downstairs to her kitchen finding a two-and-a-half page note at the foot of the stairs. The note stated that her daughter JonBenet had been kidnapped and a ransom of one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars …show more content…

One of the results was that they identified the genetic material and a DNA profile from a few drops of JonBenet’s blood that was located in the crotch of the underwear she was wearing when her body was located. That genetic profile belongs to a male and does not match anyone in the Ramsey family. Law enforcement have compared that profile to a large number of people associated with JonBenet, her family, and with the investigation to no avail no match was found (Saferstein, …show more content…

Was there touch DNA found on the paintbrush, or the spoon and bowl of pineapple consumed by JonBenet just before she died, or the white blanket that covered JonBenet’s body, or on the flashlight believed to hit her head, or on the pen and paper that was used in the ransom note. In addition, where is the intruder’s touch DNA on JonBenet’s underwear? There were no unidentified footprints, finger or handprints, hairs or fibers so how did the intruder not leave any other evidence behind? Woven inside the rope that was around JonBenet’s neck, which was wrapped around a piece of broken paintbrush, were fibers from Patsy’s jacket she wore that evening, and allegedly, inside the underpants were fibers from the wool sweater John Ramsey was wearing. Patsy’s fibers were also in the tote where the paintbrush came from and on the sticky side of the piece of duct tape that was on JonBenet’s mouth and was so small she could have easily moved off her mouth with her tongue if it had been placed on her mouth while she was alive (Saferstein, 2014). Lacy wrote that autopsy personnel were swabbed and tested for a DNA match but were the crime scene technicians or lab technicians tested? Since we do have the touch DNA test results questions remain on how many markers were in the touch DNA that was tested. The underwear DNA was not enough to run through CODIS, the federal database, but

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Her parents were suspects but then were ruled out in a dna test. How: A lengthy handwritten ransom note was found in the house. They suspected that the note was written by jonbenet's mother but they didn't have enough evidence. Foundings: Next to the ransom note was jonbenet’s body.

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John was a sex offender in his mid 40’s who confessed to raping and accidentally killing JonBenet Ramsey in her basement. “...We know that in the last 12 hours the Thailand police trotted him out before the media in Bangkok, where he confessed to the murder in front of the press and claimed it was an accident.(Day to Day)” He claimed he was in love with JonBenet and that the death was unintentional, however none of his confession matched any of the DNA evidence provided. Although these cases are questionable and intriguing, police are led to believe the intruder knew JonBenet. According to forensics, JonBenet had her favorite food, pineapple in her digestive system just a few hours before her death.

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Later that afternoon John Ramsey discovered JonBenet’s body covered in blanket on the basement floor, and John tore off a piece of duct tape used to cover JonBenet’s mouth before carrying her upstairs (Agrawal, 2016). Since the crime scene was compromised, investigators were forced to process physical evidence that was contaminated during the unsupervised search for JonBenet. Although the crime scene was considered compromised there were still several key pieces of evidence collected, which included a hand-written ransom note, JonBenet’s underwear, piece of nylon cord used during strangulation, and duct tape covering JonBenet’s mouth (Agrawal, 2016). Investigators concluded that JonBenet was struck in head so hard that her skull was fractured, she was strangled with so much force that the nylon garrote was embedded in her skin, and she was sexually assaulted (Ramsey, 2000). Additionally, investigators determined the ransom note was written with a pad and pen from the Ramseys’ home, and the ransom price was the exact amount of John’s year-end bonus (Agrawal, 2016).

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One of very first mistakes the Department made was that they did not search the house very thoroughly, nor did put the house on secure the home and the evidence within the home after the first arrived on the sense. The Police department should have made sure that nobody enter the home, nor left the Ramsey home, before they had the opportunity to search it, and question everyone in the home at the time of the event. With no doubt if the police would have searched the house when they first arrived on the sense, they would have found JonBenet in the cellar of the basement in the Ramsey home wrapped in a blanket. Allowing John Ramsey and a close friend to search the house for missing house hold items, and that allowed him to find his deceased daughter. The Bounder Police Department also allowed family and friends to enter the home,

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