In the city of Boulder, Colorado in the early hours of December 26, 1996 Patsy Ramsey found a three page ransom note for her 6 year old daughter JonBenet Ramsey. The note was found on the back staircase of the house and asked for 118,000\$, the same amount her father had received as a Christmas bonus that year (S.B.T.C.). Later that day the 6 year old was found dead in her basement by her father. Her death was shrouded in trauma as no one was certain if she died of blunt force trauma or strangulation when the ransom note said that she would be decapitated, or why, if she was being help for ransom, less than 12 hours later her father found her in the basement , dead. When all the details are looked at and inspected it becomes clear that she was not being held hostage which raises the question, Who killed her? and why. So, over the course of my paper I will be discussing the different people who might have killed her and what their motives may have been. Along with the different suspects I will be covering the investigation and how different theories of her death came around. Some of the most popular theories is that her mother or brother killed her in a fit of rage, and the murder was covered by her family. Another popular theory is that some one did …show more content…
after the body was found the crime scene was heavily compromised which resulted in evidence being compromised or destroyed. The way that the body was found and how she died is the first major reason that the case remains unsolved, as it is unclear if the cause of death was strangulation, or blunt force trauma to the head. Another confusing lead is that jonbenet had eaten a single piece of pineapple, what makes the clue confusing is that no one in the house recalled eating pineapple, despite the fact that a bowl of pineapple was found in the kitchen with Burke and Patsy's finger prints on