John Ramsey Unsolved Essay

Pasty and John Ramsey had the perfect all-American family, until they were involved with the murder of their own daughter. JonBenet was a 6-year-old beauty queen whose body was found in the basement of her Boulder, Colorado home; while the murder still remains unsolved, it is obvious who killed her. This murder investigation still captivates the nation to this day.

The Ramsey’s were the definition of a perfect family. In 1996, John Ramsey’s company, Access Graphics, had grossed more than one billion dollars in revenue, which was big news for the family (Casarez). JonBenet Ramsey was a pageant queen. She had won Little Miss Colorado, Little Miss Charlevoix, Colorado State All-Star Kids Cover Girl, America’s Royale Miss, and National Tiny Miss

The note was written by someone who claimed to have kidnapped their daughter. Since it was the day after Christmas, Bolder Police Force was understaffed. The mistakes that these police officers made is the main reason why JonBenet’s murder is unsolved. Law enforcement and friends drifted in and out of the home all day. John Ramsey says Linda Arndt, one of the main detectives, told him to search the home from top to bottom to see if there was anything suspicious. John and an unidentified friend went to the basement first and he found his daughter in the utility room (Casarez). That brings up the question of why didn’t John search the house when his daughter was thought missing? How did John manage to find her when the police didn’t? JonBenet was found with a garrote fashioned out of rope embedded deep within her neck. The same rope was around one of her wrists. At the end of the garrote was a broken paintbrush that appeared to be from Pasty Ramsey’s art set. Dr. John Meyer, who performed the autopsy, concluded JonBenet’s cause of death was suffocation in conjunction with forcible trauma to the skull (Casarez). A reexamination of the DNA evidence using new technology found an unidentified male’s DNA on JonBenet’s underpants. (“JonBenet Ramsey’s Brother Breaks Silence 20 Years After Her Murder”). After that, the case turned from a kidnapping to a

It demanded $118,000, which was close to the exact amount of John Ramsey’s bonus that year, for the safe return of their daughter. Also, the note said John would receive a call by 10 a.m. the next day, and he never did. Written in the note was “but not the country that it serves,” and that was a strong declaration that would lead nowhere (Bergara). Somehow, the killer entered the house, and wrote the note inside, all while the Ramsey’s slept unknowingly. A practice letter was written on Patsy’s notepad; there were easy spelling errors and words with accents spelled correctly. A ransom note is simply not three pages long, notes are not often practiced either. It is highly probable that Patsy wrote the ransom note. In December of 1999, a grand jury voted to indict both Ramsey parents for the crime but the district attorney, Alex Hunter, declined to sign the indictment, citing thin evidence, and instead said no further court action would be taken (JonBenet