Summary: The Unsolved Murder Of Jonbenet Ramsey

The unsolved murder of JonBenet Ramsey, in 1996, remains one of the most discussed, and criticized cases in the United States. Even after 20 years, people, and the so called “experts” in all forms of law enforcement have their own theories, although nothing has been proven, and no suspects have been identified or brought to trial. The case of the murder of JonBenet Ramsey started in the early morning hours of December 26, 1996, in Boulder, Colorado (Saferstein, 2011). At approximately 5:00 in the morning, Patsy Ramsey left her bedroom, and intended to go to the kitchen. When she reached the bottom of the stairs, Patsy Ramsey found a two and a half page ransom note, which informed her that her six year old daughter, JonBenet, had been

While searching the house, Ramsey and White went into the basement, and after looking around, John Ramsey opened the door to, what was later identified as the wine cellar, and turned on the light. At that time John Ramsey found the body of JonBenet on the floor. Instead of calling out to the police, who were in the house, John Ramsey removed the white blanket, which had been covering the body, and carried JonBenet’s body up to the living room and placed her on the floor (Saferstein, 2011). This action alone, contaminated the crime scene, and may have possibly damaged or caused valuable evidence to be lost. When the body of JonBenet was found, her mouth and neck were bound with duct tape, and she had been strangled with a garrote (Denver Post, 1999). While some of the details of this case, up to this point, may seem strange to a seasoned investigator, the case took other odd twists and

They did offer to submit to the interviews, but only if they could review all of the evidence, which had been gathered by that time. This offer was rejected by the police. Then, on January 29, 1998, the Ramseys turn over the clothes, which they had been wearing the night of the murder, to the police as evidence. The items which were turned over were two shirts, a sweater, and one pair of pants. What is interesting about this is the second pair of pants was not included, and that this was done more than a year after the murder occurred. The investigation continued as a police investigation until the District Attorney’s office was asked to take over the investigation on March 12, 1998 (Denver Post, 1999). The net development, of note, in the case occurred on June 24, 1998, when the Ramseys return to Colorado to be interrogated by the District Attorney’s investigators (Denver Post, 1999). It was at this time that Burke Ramsey, JonBenet’s 11 year old brother is questioned for the first time, even though he was in the house on the night the murder took place. On September 16, 1998, the assembled grand jury begins their investigation into the case, and tis investigation lasted for more than a year, and ultimately, no indictments were issued, and no responsible parties were ever identified (Denver Post,