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Jonbenet Case Summary

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JonBenet was found murdered in the home where she lived with her father, mother and brother in Boulder Colorado. “Ramsey’s body was found on Dec. 26, 1996 just hours after Patsy called the police to say that her daughter was missing and that she had found a ransom note, asking for $118,000 for the safe return of JonBenet” (International Business, 2013, January 28). Some evidence in the murder points toward her parents, and other evidence seem unclear. Patsy Ramsey called 911 telling police that her daughter was missing and that she had found a ransom note. Neighbors along with other friends were also called to the Ramsey house. Hours after JonBenet’s mother called 911 to report her missing, her father John Ramsey found her body covered with a blanket in the basement of their home. …show more content…

He carried her body upstairs, where someone covered the body with a sweat shirt. JonBenet had been beaten and strangled was found with tape over her mouth and her hands tied together with a cord. Death resulted from both a severe blow to the head that fractured her skull and by strangulation with a cord tightened with a broken stick around her neck. The six year old girl had also been vaginally assaulted. Detectives found a note pad in the Ramsey’s house determined the pad was used to write the ransom note. John Ramsey was ruled out as the writer of the note but the police could not eliminate Patsy as the writer nor say definitively that she was. A broken window had been observed in the basement but John Ramsey told the investigators that he had broken the window when he locked himself out of the house. On the window sill dust and a spider web were undisturbed. There were no signs of forced entry. The alarm system had not been activated. It is unknown how an intruder may have gotten

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