Who killed JonBenet Ramsey? Even nineteen years later and police still do not know the answer to the question. Throughout the case concerning the murder of JonBenet there were many suspects and reasons to why someone would kill the young beauty queen. Although the crime scene was unintentionally tampered with and not handled the way that it was supposed to be, a lot of the evidence led back to one suspect only. Patsy Ramsey, was thought to be the killer under the circumstances and evidence found. Even now, nineteen years later with more evidence and assumptions being revealed, it is believed that Patsy Ramsey killed her daughter the day after Christmas in 1996. Patsy Ramsey claimed to grieve and love her daughter, it is believed that she killed …show more content…
Starting with Patsy going downstairs to make coffee like she always did. While walking down the stairs, Patsy noticed the ransom note waiting for her, explaining that if they followed directions they would safely get JonBenet back. When police officer Rick French arrived at the Ramsey home around 6 a.m. he did a search routine for what he thought was a kidnapping. “From the beginning [French thought] it was obvious that [he] was called to investigate what was initially reported as a kidnapping [which] allowed contamination of evidence that might have been found at the crime scene” (Church). When the police left to get the search warrant to search the house, Patsy called some of her friends to come over and grieve with them. As the family and friends grieved over eating pie, one of the family friends decided to entirely clean the kitchen. This ironically erased tons of evidence considering the kitchen was right next to the basement where JonBenet was later found. When the police came back, they were not even the ones to find the body of the beauty queen. Though French admitted to not checking “in the darkened room on the other side lay the bludgeoned and strangled body … of Jonbenet Ramsey” (Glick, Keene-Osborne, and Murr). When John Ramsey was the one to carry the body upstairs, much of the evidence was contaminated. When the body was brought upstairs, John gripped her tightly, crying and weeping, but Patsy did not have a reaction, she was