Jonbenet Ramsey Research Paper

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On the night of December 26, 1996, JonBenet Ramsey, a six-year-old beauty queen, appeared dead at the crime scene. The autopsy showed that someone strangled her to death. Also, her skull had gotten fractured, and she also appeared sexually assaulted. The ongoing investigation has multiple suspects, but none seem totally guilty. The police found JonBenet dead in her basement. Police investigated and interviewed many people who may have taken part in the murder. The top suspects, her mom, dad, and step-brother all have reasons to commit this crime. Patsy Ramsey said that she found a three-page note left on the counter by JonBenet’s so-called kidnapper. The kidnapper asked for $118,000 and promised not to hurt JonBenet as long as they got the …show more content…

John Ramsey never liked the fact that she got entered into beauty pageants. JonBenet’s body, found with signs that show sexual assault, shows the possibility that her father took her into the basement, sexually assaulted her, and then killed her. Then he’d have left the ransom note to draw attention away from. Most of the evidence points directly to him for only the family had known they had a basement where JonBenet died. John Ramsey told the cops that he didn’t hear anything that night. This lead people to believe he killed her due to the his claims that nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Her dad said he had broken a window a few weeks earlier. He had forgotten to fix it, so this made it easier for someone else to get in. This cover up would lead suspicions away from him and point straight towards an intruder. With her dad living in the same household, it gives him easy access to his daughter in her sleep. She had abrasions on her neck that matched a stun gun the police found. John Ramsey, a very rich man, may have bought the stun gun and used it on JonBenet in order to get her to the basement without any resistance or noise. John could have killed his daughter in many different ways on the night of December 26. Even with a sufficient amount of misleading red herrings, one could speculate the truth through the emotional and social side of the Ramsey’s