Patsey Ramsey's Poem: The Murder Of Jonbenet Ramsey

What was supposed to be a cheerful Christmas night, turned out to be a living nightmare for the Ramsey family. More than two decades ago, on December 26, 1996, six year-old beauty pageant queen, JonBenet Ramsey, was discovered deceased in her basement. The Ramsey family lived in a luxurious home located in Boulder, Colorado. On the night of JonBenet’s murder, the Ramseys realized their daughter was missing. Later that night, Patsy Ramsey, JonBenet’s mother, discovered a ransom note. The ransom note made tensions even higher in the household and that is when Patsy allegedly called police. Over the last twenty-two years, investigators have tried to determine who was behind the murder; however, they did not have enough evidence to solve the case.

However, when Patsy wrote with her left hand for the police department to analyze similarities, results were shocking. Patsy had to write for the police several times for accurate results. Another major detail is brought up regarding the ransom note and where Patsy found it the morning of her daughter’s death. The first account of Patsy Ramsey explaining where she found the ransom note was described as, “Patricia Ramsey told him at first that she had gone into JonBenet’s room at about 5:45 to wake her up…” When Patsy spoke about when and where she found the ransom note later on, she claimed that she had found it on their staircase then proceeded to go check on JonBenet. It is very difficult to believe that Patsy would have different stories about what happened on a morning that would be so eventful (Calgary). In the long two page ransom note, the writer said to give them $118,000 for the safe return of JonBenet. This specific number is very interesting considering John Ramsey had recently got a raise that was around this same amount (Dayton Daily News). Who else could’ve known about this amount of money (Osborne 21)? The ransom note also contained various references

Results of the autopsy explain that JonBenet was killed by strangulation and from blunt force trauma to the head. The strangulation was from a cord found within the Ramsey house (Orlando Sentinel). There was also a flashlight found at the crime scene. As mentioned, there was blunt force trauma to JonBenet’s head and it’s important to note that with the right force, someone could easily use a flashlight and it would match up perfectly with the trauma. Due to the circumstances of her discovery, some investigators suspect Burke may have hit his sister with the flashlight and then used his toy train to try and poke to see if she was conscious. The marks from the toy train matched up with JonBenet’s inflicted wounds on her skin. However, DNA has not been matched with anyone! It is interesting that the murderer would not bring his/her own weapon instead of using an item that was in the Ramsey house.