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Summary: The Murder Of Jonbenet Ramsey

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December 26, 1996, Boulder Colorado, the day after Christmas, six-year JonBenet Ramsey is found dead in her basement with a three-page handwritten ransom note demanding $118,000, from someone claiming they kidnapped JonBenet and they would receive a call the next morning at at 10am, the note was addressed to John Ramsey and asked for the exact amount of John's Christmas bonus that year (Casarez). She died of a skull fracture and strangulation and nobody knows who killed her; her mom parents, John and Patricia Ramsey, were under much suspicion for her murder and to some people still are today. JonBenet had a big brother named Burke, and he’s one of the most suspected people; he was only 9 years old at the time of her death so it’s very unlikely he killed his little sister. Burke stayed quiet about her death for a long time but 20 years later in 2016 he spoke for the first time to CBS. Burke and John filed a $750 Million lawsuit against the company for a documentary accusing Burke of his sisters murder and his father of a cover-up even though at the time the two of them had already been exhaunterated by that point due to DNA testing (Roberts). JonBenet was a sweet little girl, and she participated in and …show more content…

In 2016 Burke went on Dr.Phil and explained that the reason for his silence was that he wanted a somewhat normal childhood and not to spend his life flooded by cameras and accusations. Burke and JonBenet were very close and got along very well. Burke has his own theory of what happened to his little sister and why she was murdered: Burke believes that JonBenet was killed by a phedophile who was in the auidence of one of her pageants. This theory is backed by the fact that there was DNA from an unidentified male was found at the crime scene and all over JonBenet's clothes and

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Burke states "For the last 20 years, I wanted to grow up like a normal kid, which does not include going in front of TV cameras.” I, myself find it ironic that Burke was never publicly interviewed until he was grown and officially ruled out as a potential suspect. I believe it is clear that JonBenet’s older brother was an aspect of his sisters' murder or at least knew exactly what happened the night of the murder. However, his parents tried to protect him as a young child by not allowing their son to be interviewed in the event that he would slip up and say something that could put the whole family under investigation. The article and interview used pathos by appealing to the viewer's emotions as Burke Ramsey was explaining and revisiting the thoughts of his sister's death.

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In August, 2016 former police chief Mark Beckner held an AMA,ask me anything, on Reddit. Beckner was asked questions about the Ramsey case and was unaware that his answers were available to the world. The ask me anything session on Reddit sparked the reopening of the case.     JonBenet was the daughter of Jhon and Patsy Ramsey. Patsy Ramsey also had her spot as a beauty queen.

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A Boulder grand jury indictment in 1999 accused John and Patsy Ramsey of two counts each of child abuse resulting in death in connection to the first-degree murder of their 6-year-old daughter JonBenét, according to documents released Friday morning. The charges didn’t directly accuse the Ramseys of killing their daughter. Instead they alleged that the parents permitted JonBenét to be placed in a dangerous situation that led to her death and it accused them of helping whoever killed the girl.

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Though almost tried by a jury, John was cleared by the 2008 DNA test his wife was also cleared from and walks as a free man... well, not quite - many people have held John under suspicion since the day he found his daughter’s body in his basement. As expressed by the first detective at the scene in an interview with ABC News, “I see John Ramsey carrying JonBenét up the last three steps from the basement and my mind exploded - everything that I had noted that morning that stuck out instantly made sense. As we [John Ramey] looked at each other, I remember tucking my gun and consciously counting my bullets.” In the interview, Detective Arndt clearly looks distraught while telling of her experience and alludes to the killer being John.

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In Jonbenét Ramsey’s autopsy, in the digestive tract, were small increments of pineapple. Jonbenét may have taken a piece of pineapple using her hands, causing Burke to release all of his anger. Burke, in an uncontrollable rage, would strike Jonbenét Ramsey in the head with the flashlight in the kitchen. With all of this evidence point to Burke Ramsey as the murderer, there is a shunned theory that an outsider infiltrated the Ramsey household and killed Jonbenét

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For example, they found cut up pineapples with Burke's fingerprints on it. On the autopsy performed on JonBenet, it showed that she has previously eaten pineapples before the time of her death. Burke, JonBenet's brother, claims he never even came near pineapple. Another piece of evidence that was found was blood on JonBenet's underwear. A DNA sample of the blood was extracted and tested.

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Burke Ramsey was a nine-year-old at the time of this murder happening. There were many theories that Burke possibly was jealous of how his family would treat JonBenét so much better than him and them giving her more attention, so maybe he wanted to kill his sister, and his parents helped him hide it. " According to an old family friend of the Ramseys, Burke was easily angry and had struck JonBenet with a golf club after getting mad, leaving her with a scar on her face (CBS Real Crime). This behavior shows that Burke was capable of being fatally violent with JonBenet. Burke’s response to questions in his investigative interview are very odd, and they do not show any feelings of a typical child.

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JonBenet Ramsey was a six year old beauty queen who was found murdered in her Colorado home, on December 26, 1996. JonBenet was born on August 6, 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia. She was a daughter of a wealthy businessman and socialite. Still unsolved, the murder led to one of the most publicized police investigations of the 1990s. To date no one has ever been charged for her murder and the investigation remains open for over two decades after her death.

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He was in the house at the time of the murder, he was jealous of JonBenét because she was the pageant winner and like the trophy child in the family. She always got what she wanted and she always got more attention from her parents then Burke did. First of all there is an easy motive for Burke with his sister, he was always jealous and he was always quiet and to himself unlike JonBenét she

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No one knows who is truly responsible for the murder of Jonbenet, but the theories that live to haunt her death are what keeps the media interested. Many believe that Jonbenet’s brother was also her murderer. Although Burke Ramsey (Jonbenet's brother) was only 9 at the time of her death, his suspicious attitudes towards her death lead many to believe that he killed her. During a CBS interview just days after his sister's death, Burke Ramsey was asked to draw a picture of his family. In that picture, he drew himself, his mother, and his father.

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The next pieces of the theory account to JonBenet’s 9 year old brother, Burke. Both Patsy and John claim that Burke was asleep in his room for the entire time. Yet he is clearly heard in the background of the 911 call saying “what did you find” (Was child beauty queen JonBenet murdered by brother?) Based on all of these facts, her family being involved in her murder remains a

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With these suspects interrogated and their stories checked the Ramsey couple are still at the top of this list. Out of the eight suspects, only one confessed to this horrendous crime has been made by John Karr; John admitted to killing JonBenet in August of 2006 but after authorities carefully reviewed where he was the day of and surrounding the murder they realized it was unlikely he had done it because he was in Alabama at the time (Worthen). With the Ramseys being the lead suspects in 1998 Boulder county convened a grand jury to see if an indictment could be supported by the evidence at the time(Puffer-Rothenberg). It took this jury a year to come to a conclusion, within this time frame another jury voted to indict the Ramseys for their “alleged” involvement in their daughter's murder, however, D.A Alex Hunter decided not to file charges even though this jury's verdict was guilty(Worthen). After this the 1998 jury concluded that no charges could be filed based off of the evidence at hand (Puffer-Rothenberg).

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At the young age of six years old Jonbenet was a bed wetter. Her mother did not like when she would do that. The morning of December 26 Patsy found a three ransom note on the staircase inside their home. The ransom note demanded $118,000 for their daughters’ safe return. But, what the Ramsey’s did not know was that their daughter had already been

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JonBenet Ramsey who was a young loving beauty queen of Colorado, who’s live was taken way too early. JonBenet was murdered in her home in Boulder Colorado on December 26, 1996 at the age of six. After completing my research, I was able to make a prediction of who I believed murdered the incent child, and it did not take much research to see the mistakes made by the Boulder Police Department. The Boulder Police Department made numerous mistakes in the JonBenet Ramsey case.

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Her brother Burke Ramsey’s motive to killing his sister Jon Benet was that she was getting all of the attention and he felt left out and not a part of the family. The next suspect is her mom Patsy, her motive was that Jon Benet always wet the bed and that would make Patsy irate so that could have been her motive. Another suspect is her father John Benet a good motive about John was that at the crime scene John removed physical evidence from Jon Benet. There whole family had something against Jon Benet so maybe they all kad it planned out. John, Patsy, and Burke could have all had something to do with this crime.

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