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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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The autopsy reported stated that the cause of the death was “asphyxia by strangulation associated with carniocerebral trauma” and pineapple was found in her stomach. Guess what was found at the crime scene, a bowl of pineapple on the counter of the Ramsey’s kitchen with Burke and Patsy’s fingerprints. Burke had a habit of waking up in the middle of the night to eat a snack; Patsy had to know about Burke ’s habit so maybe she had cut pineapples slices for him to snack on at night.

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Blog Post 3 Today I read and watched “JonBenet Ramsey's Brother Breaks Silence 20 Years After Her Murder.” By ENJOLI FRANCIS.This article was mainly focused on JonBenet's older brother as the main suspect in the case. The article included an interview with Burke Ramsey, which was his first time speaking publicly about JonBenet’s death. The interview was recorded in 2016, 20 years after the murder of JonBenet.

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Participating in pageants, JonBenet Ramsey was a six-year-old girl from Boulder, Colorado. During her pageant career, she “was elected America’s Royal Miss, Little Miss Charlevoix, and National Tiny Miss Beauty” (Eaton 1). As seen in Picture 1, she always had her crown, sash, and scepter. She was the youngest of five siblings, but only lived with Burke Ramsey, her nine-year-old brother. Tragedy struck on December 26, 1996, when Patsy and John Ramsey found their bed empty with a ransom note on the home’s stairs.

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Some may find this piece of evidence not important, but the night of her death Jonbenet did wet the bed; Patsy HATED that Jonbenet was wetting her bed. That night she could’ve got so mad at her and accidentally did the deed. The ransom note was analyzed and Patsy’s writing was said to be a possible match to the note, but it was inconclusive. Patsy also found the note, which was placed on the back of the stairs (the part you see while walking up). This is odd because she claims to have found it while walking down the stairs and it would essentially be impossible for her to see the pages.

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JonBenét Ramsey, a six-year-old beauty queen daughter of Patsy Ramsey and John Ramsey found murdered in her home on December 26, 1998. This murder has yet to be solved, and as the years go by, the case seems to get colder and colder. As a result, there have been many conspiracy theories in this case. Many people have started to believe that an intruder murdered her, but what if it was someone in the house? Maybe someone very familiar with this home.

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In March of 2021, ABC aired a 20/20 episode detailing the JonBenet Ramsey murder. This episode aired only 9 month prior to the 25th anniversary of this tragic murder in the Ramsey family. The morning of December 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey wakes up to find a ransom note of the bottom steps of the back staircase in their home in Boulder, CO. Immediately following the discovery of the ransom note, Patsy calls 911 in a panic, explaining that her 6 year old daughter, JonBenet Ramsey had been kidnapped. Shortly after calling the police, Patsy’s husband, John Ramsey wakes up and tey both wait for the police to arrive.

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After JonBenet’s body was collected, the investigators gathered the evidence. What they found made it seem JonBenet’s family were suspects. According to a documentary, the ransom note was written on paper that belonged to the Ramsey’s; the duct tape that was used to bind her was consisted with fibers they found on Patsy’s clothing. Patsy was being accused of writing the note herself. Handwriting experts stated that the note was in the tone of

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Not only did the police officers fail to secure the scene, the Ramsey’s invited two family friends to the house before they got there so the crime scene was contaminated. The police asked John to help them search the house top to bottom but again he oddly started in the basement. Normally this wouldn’t be taken as odd but when they went downstairs they found the body of JonBenet wrapped in a blanket. The officer with John said it was like he walked straight to the body. Also after being asked by boulder police to stay in the line of sight John was M.I.A for at least an hour and a

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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.

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I believe the JonBenet Ramsey murder will be solved with either a confession of the murderer or new forensic testing. It is very doubtful that a confession will occur. The mother, Patsy Ramsey, is deceased. Patsy Ramsey was one of the primary suspects because she was accused of writing the ransom note. Handwriting experts said the writing on the note matched Patsy’s handwriting.

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The murder of Jonbenet Ramsey is a really depressing and mysterious at that. The murder was extremely brutal, she had wounds on her face, a cracked skull, duct tape on her mouth, she was tied up, and she had a garrote around her neck. According to the documentary we watched she was hit in the head with a flashlight and then strangled with a garrote. It was expected that she snatched a piece of pineapple from her brother’s bowl in which he hit her with a flashlight because of it, and she was still alive so it was most likely the parents got in on it because they didn’t want to be filed for abuse and jailed so they strangled her to death and put a blanket over her body, breaking a window and adding a ransom note to make it seem like someone broke in.

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Immediately after reading it Patricia Ramsey called the police reporting JonBenet as missing. The police arrived at their house and less than 8 hours later her body was found in the basement of their Colorado home. The suspects of this horrendous crime are John Ramsey, Patricia Ramsey, and her 9-year old brother Durke Ramsey. The killing of an innocent girl will haunt the history of America until this case is solved. So, who committed this horrendous crime?

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William Shakespeare, an English playwright, wrote, “Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.” On December 26, 1996, a six-year-old girl named JonBenét Ramsey was found deceased in her wealthy suburban home in Boulder, Colorado. This is a widely known case, problematic because of its conflicting issues such as, evidence, conflicting testimonies, and suspicious behavior. Though no one was convicted of the young child's murder, many believe the case was operated poorly. This is the reason believed for this case going unsolved due to lack thereof or insufficient evidence.

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JonBenet Ramsey who was a young loving beauty queen of Colorado, who’s live was taken way too early. JonBenet was murdered in her home in Boulder Colorado on December 26, 1996 at the age of six. After completing my research, I was able to make a prediction of who I believed murdered the incent child, and it did not take much research to see the mistakes made by the Boulder Police Department. The Boulder Police Department made numerous mistakes in the JonBenet Ramsey case.

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The planning of the murder was to kill her and make it look like a person from the outside killed her. When she was killed the next morning her mother Patsy Ramsey called her friends to come into the murder scene. When they came into the house they brought in footprints and a lot of fingerprints. Then the detectives could not find a whole lot of finger prints from the suspect. The father John Benet brought the body up to the living room then moved her again to the

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