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Court Case Of John And Patsy Ramsey

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Catastrophically, a beautiful child lost her life in a horrendous crime that has yet to be solved. Additionally, a string of law enforcement mistakes, hinder the investigation, keeping this homicide a mystery, of how this little girl was murdered in her home where her mother, father, and brother resided with her. First, John and Patsy Ramsey were in the upper class of Boulder, Colorado society. John had built his computer company into a billion-dollar corporation. On December 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey awoke just after five a.m. and walked downstairs to her kitchen finding a two-and-a-half page note at the foot of the stairs. The note stated that her daughter JonBenet had been kidnapped and a ransom of one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars …show more content…

One of the results was that they identified the genetic material and a DNA profile from a few drops of JonBenet’s blood that was located in the crotch of the underwear she was wearing when her body was located. That genetic profile belongs to a male and does not match anyone in the Ramsey family. Law enforcement have compared that profile to a large number of people associated with JonBenet, her family, and with the investigation to no avail no match was found (Saferstein, …show more content…

Was there touch DNA found on the paintbrush, or the spoon and bowl of pineapple consumed by JonBenet just before she died, or the white blanket that covered JonBenet’s body, or on the flashlight believed to hit her head, or on the pen and paper that was used in the ransom note. In addition, where is the intruder’s touch DNA on JonBenet’s underwear? There were no unidentified footprints, finger or handprints, hairs or fibers so how did the intruder not leave any other evidence behind? Woven inside the rope that was around JonBenet’s neck, which was wrapped around a piece of broken paintbrush, were fibers from Patsy’s jacket she wore that evening, and allegedly, inside the underpants were fibers from the wool sweater John Ramsey was wearing. Patsy’s fibers were also in the tote where the paintbrush came from and on the sticky side of the piece of duct tape that was on JonBenet’s mouth and was so small she could have easily moved off her mouth with her tongue if it had been placed on her mouth while she was alive (Saferstein, 2014). Lacy wrote that autopsy personnel were swabbed and tested for a DNA match but were the crime scene technicians or lab technicians tested? Since we do have the touch DNA test results questions remain on how many markers were in the touch DNA that was tested. The underwear DNA was not enough to run through CODIS, the federal database, but

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