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Jonbenet Ramsey Murder Case Study

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It is Christmas Day of 1996. The small city of Boulder, Colorado is busy with visitors, Christmas dinners, and crumpled wrapping paper from the thousands of opened presents. The Ramsey family spent this day just like any other family, with food, friends, and gifts. As this normal, happy day came close to an end, this happy Christmas Day took a turn for the worst. Between the night of December 25 and the early morning of December 26, the young JonBenet Ramsey was brutally murdered. As light spread across the sky, so did the news of her murder. The happy city of Boulder, Colorado turned into a dark city, with all of its eyes turned on the Ramsey family. For years investigators searched the globe for the young girl’s murderer. Everyone around the country …show more content…

When the autopsy was completed, it showed that JonBenet had eaten pineapple shortly before she died. A bowl of pineapple was found in the Ramsey’s home and had Patsy Ramsey’s fingerprints all over it (Bane, 2016). Close family friends also told investigators that Patsy loved acting and theater. They also said that Patsy would often practice roles and characters around her house (“JonBenet Ramsey…,” 2016). This was not hard evidence, but it showed detectives that Patsy could have very easily acted her way out of suspicion. Another form of evidence that points to Mrs. Ramsey as the killer is the broken window found in the basement. At a glance, the broken window supports an intruder theory, but after a closer look, Boulder police found an undisturbed spider web and dust around the window. A forensic psychiatrist hired by the Boulder police also rejected the intruder theory based on the physical evidence found (Bane, 2016). The last bit of evidence that supports Patsy as the murderer is the fact that on a ratio of 12 to 1, child murders are committed by someone in the family (Bardach,

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