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Patsy Ramsey: The Murder Of Jonbenoet Ramsey

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At 5:52 AM on December 26, 1996 in Denver Colorado, Patsy Ramsey made a frantic phone call to 911. Her daughter, 6 year old JonBenét Ramsey, was missing. A ransom note for JonBenét was found by Patsy, on the back staircase inside the house. Less than eight hours after Patsy’s call, JonBenét’s body was found. While many believe the killer was someone from outside the house, there is enough evidence that point to the Ramsey’s themselves. The story of JonBenét's death is more complicated than a girl gone missing, JonBenét’s body was found in the basement of the Ramsey house by John Ramsey. The crime scene was compromised by people coming to the scene. Later, police claimed they did not search the house because the ransom note gave them no reason …show more content…

First suspect, Gary Oliva, lived a few blocks from the Ramseys. In 2000 Oliva was arrested on unrelated drug charges. When arrested a picture of JonBenét was found in his backpack that he carried. Oliva responded to the picture by saying how JonBenét’s murder touched him very deeply. He felt she was an exceptional girl whose death was an exceptional loss. He also felt the need to build a monument, a shrine, to remember this little girl. The night JonBenét died, Michael Vail, a high school friend of Oliva, received a call from him. During the call Oliva told Vail he hurt a little girl in Boulder. Records show no other girl was hurt that night in the area. Gary Oliva did not match the DNA on the scene. In 2006, 10 years after JonBenét’s death, John Mark Karr became a suspect. Karr confessed to the murder via email to Michael Tracey, a journalism professor. Tracy had emailed with Karr for four years to gain his trust. Karrs wording was similar to the wording used in the ransom note. He also used Patsys nickname “Neddie”, which he wouldn't have known. He said he was in love with JonBenét and confessed to hitting her with a flashlight. On August 16th 2008, with the help of British Intelligence, Royal Thai authorities, and US Department Of Homeland Security, Karr was found in Bangkok Thailand attempting to escape child pornography charges. Karr's DNA was …show more content…

Patsy Ramsey was a competitor when she was younger. When JonBenét was winning all these competition she was gaining a lot of attention. In the months leading up to JonBenét’s death Burke was showing signs of anger towards her. Burke was most likely jealous of JonBenét. Before JonBenét’s death Burke Ramsey had a tendency to be harsh towards her and smear feces anywhere he could. It was done in JonBenét’s bedroom and on her Christmas presents, making Burke nine years old when he did this. This type of behavior is most often exhibited in people with behavioral problems, mental illnesses, or even in abuse victims. These behaviors show Burke Ramsey was a disturbed child who may have even been

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Rigor Mortis had set in showing that JonBenet was killed anywhere between 10pm the night before and 5am the day that she was found. When she was first found she had duct tape covering her mouth, a garrote around her neck, and it appeared that she had been hit in the head with a hard object. Not only had she been tied up, but it also appeared that she had been sexually assaulted. There was DNA evidence taken from her underwear and examined; it did not match with any of the suspects. In an article called The Death of JonBenet: A Case That’s Captivated The Country For 20 Years by Jean Casarez, she says the autopsy revealed that, “JonBenet's cause of death was suffocation in conjunction with forcible trauma to her skull,” (CNN).

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