JonBenet Ramsey A kidnapping gone wrong? A murder of a family member? The case of JonBenet Ramsey remains unsolved, but these questions will arise during any investigation into her murder. This case gained massive amounts of attention during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Many theories surfaced during the investigation, but in the end no one was convicted. Initially it seemed obvious that someone had broken in while they were sleeping and killed JonBenet, but as the investigation progressed and evidence surfaced the suspicion was taken away from a mysterious intruder and directed to Patsy and John Ramsey. On Christmas morning 1995 John and Patsy Ramsey awoke and in their Colorado home to find a ransom note telling them that their daughter …show more content…
According to facts provided by Lawrence Schiller, Patsy provided questionable answers to the police’s questions and overall made the process very difficult (58). Maybe she was grieving, maybe she was lying. Based off the officer’s statements she was not grieving as much as she was trying to divert the topic of conversation. A mother that has just lost her child would want to do anything to either find who the murderer is or at least show some signs of grief. These factors lead to the investigators wondering why she was not grieving and concluded that she could be hiding something. There are no other real reasons to be so difficult unless there is something to hide. It is odd because John Ramsey interrogations caused no issues during his rather long interview. So was Patsy protecting him, was she the one who did it, or was her stress may have been the cause of her suspiciousness To make the situation even worse some of the “facts” that she gave came back to be false. One such example of her lies is that she stated that JonBenet’s siblings were asleep until after the police arrived, yet Burke, JonBenet’s older brother, can be heard in the background of the 9-1-1 call (Bane 126). Burke was just nine years old at the time and was not likely involved in any of the possible crimes. This is no real breakthrough in the case, but it does set the precedent that some of Patsy’s answers may not have been fully truthful. Even on such a simple question there would be no reason to lie, but she did. Why? These are the questions that everyone has asked since JonBenet’s death and there are still no answers, but Patsy did not help her case with the answers in the