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Who Killed Jonbenét Ramsey Unsolved

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The Unsolved Murder of Jonbenét Ramsey On the morning of December 26, 1996, Jonbenét Ramsey, a 6-year-old beauty pageant queen, was pronounced kidnapped in an emergency 911 call. Later that day, Jonbenét Ramsey was found dead in her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. The case was flourishing among the media, following every step of the case. Eventually, the story would expand within the entire United States. The initial investigation was extensive, however, the killer was not found. Today, the world still doesn’t know who had killed Jonbenét Ramsey or why. People have speculated whether an intruder had killed Jonbenét Ramsey, or someone within the family. With all of the evidence that was presented in The Case of: Jonbenét Ramsey, it could be inferred that the person who killed Jonbenét …show more content…

In an interview conducted by Jim Clemente and Laura Richards, Judith Phillips, a friend of the Ramsey family at the time, says that “Burke had a bad temper, like he had a chip on his shoulder. He had hit Jonbenét” (Phillips – family friend). Burke Ramsey had hit Jonbenét Ramsey with the gold club roughly a year and a half before the murder, according to Phillips. This proves that Burke Ramsey was more likely to hit Jonbenét again, due to past behavior. When the Ramsey came home after a Christmas dinner, Pasty Ramsey had made a bowl of pineapple and milk, alongside a cup of tea, for Burke as a snack. 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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When she arrived at the scene, she noted the unusual actions John did and eventually told him to search for anything suspicious. Right away, John made a beeline to the basement, a rarely used place in the Ramsey home. Furthermore, although Arndt ordered John not to touch anything and leave the evidence where it was found, Ramsey picked up his child, took off her duct tape, and covered her in a blanket; destroying vital evidence. Quickly, theories spread about and concluded that John sexually abused JonBenét, explaining the autopsy report that a small tissue from her hymen contained erosion and the blood on her underwear. Overall, although theories on John Bennett are not proved, circulations are still in the air and he is still a prime suspect to the

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Also, the handwriting was found to definitely not be his. As for the raping the object that was used was said to be very small; like the size of the end of a paintbrush (which was never found). Therefore I don’t think John murdered Jonbenet. Evaluation - Burke Ramsey: I don’t think Burke committed the crime either. Even though his behavior was odd.

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On December 26th,1996, JonBenet's mother Patsy Ramsey claimed to have found a handwritten 2.5 page ransom note on their stairs. The ransom note also demanded $118,000 for JonBenet to have a safe return, otherwise they claimed JonBenet would be “beheaded”. The

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JonBenet Ramsey was a 5-year-old beauty queen with a big personality who lived in Boulder, Colorado. She was murdered a day after Christmas in 1996. Her murder still remains unsolved, but there are multiple theories around her death. JonBenet’s unidentified murderer could have been a close member of her family or one of three other suspects that have some relation to her murder.

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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.

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The only people in the house at that time were Patsey, John and Burke but in testimonies with the police the Ramsey’s claimed that Burke was

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Now the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey was a gruesome one,first Jon Benet was hit in the head with enough force to crack her skull open perfect enough,evidence shows that it was a flashlight because when it impacted it made a almost rectanuglar shape in the head. Second there was strangulation marks around her neck

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“There. We have a, there’s a note left and our daughter’s gone.” Were Patsy Ramsey's words while on the phone, reporting her six year old daughter’s disappearance to 911 at 5:52 a.m. on Christmas day in 1996. The missing six year old girl was JonBenet Ramsey. When she was found murdered, it was obvious she suffered from various injuries.

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Finding JonBenet like this. John Ramsey immediately ripped the tape from JonBenets mouth and carried her upstairs, this disturbed the crime scene which was horrific for the case, as the body/victim was the main evidence. This resulted in Patsy and John Ramsey being investigators' main suspects. All in all, with distinct knowledge of the note and relationships/hardships in the family, makes JonBenet family the more plausible theory for who murdered

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He did not mean to kill her but he did want to hurt her cause she stole the pineapple. Patsy and John heard them fighting came down the stairs and saw JonBenét on the floor and they freaked out and panicked. They couldn’t let this get out into the public cause they were an eyesore and they new that if the word of Burke killing JonBenét they knew they would lose Burke too. So patsy and John did what they had to do. Patsy wrote a ransom note put it in the stairs, John “strangled” her and made it look like someone had broken in by smashing a window and tieing JonBenét up and hid her in the basement and locked the door.

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’s murder. It is speculated that perhaps a burglar broke into the Ramsey home and took an unfortunate casualty, the Ramsey’s beauty queen. “The crime scene wasn’t sealed off properly after authorities arrived at the Ramseys’ home, and unauthorized individuals were able to enter and leave the house before the initial investigation was complete, resulting to evidence being compromised” (Solin). Going along with the idea in mind that the Ramseys were big entertainers, various workers had easy access to the home of JonBenet Ramsey and could have possibly let themselves in to perform the crime. These assumptions are weeded out by studies done that once again prove a forced entry to be out of the

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There were many reports filed that questioned the police’s overall handling of this case and defamation suits filed by the Ramsey family against media organizations. The first mistake that was made in this case was allowing family and friends in and out of the Ramsey house after a kidnapping was reported. The police officers should have immediately sealed off the crime scene and taken full statements from JonBenet’s parents to study their behavior. There was also no attempt to gather sufficient forensic evidence before JonBenet’s body was found. Once the body was found, John Ramsey carried it upstairs before there was any examination.

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Later that afternoon John Ramsey discovered JonBenet’s body covered in blanket on the basement floor, and John tore off a piece of duct tape used to cover JonBenet’s mouth before carrying her upstairs (Agrawal, 2016). Since the crime scene was compromised, investigators were forced to process physical evidence that was contaminated during the unsupervised search for JonBenet. Although the crime scene was considered compromised there were still several key pieces of evidence collected, which included a hand-written ransom note, JonBenet’s underwear, piece of nylon cord used during strangulation, and duct tape covering JonBenet’s mouth (Agrawal, 2016). Investigators concluded that JonBenet was struck in head so hard that her skull was fractured, she was strangled with so much force that the nylon garrote was embedded in her skin, and she was sexually assaulted (Ramsey, 2000). Additionally, investigators determined the ransom note was written with a pad and pen from the Ramseys’ home, and the ransom price was the exact amount of John’s year-end bonus (Agrawal, 2016).

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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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