The Murder of JonBenet Ramsey
The unsolved murder of the six year old beauty queen, JonBenet Ramsey has left the nation shocked and heartbroken even 20 years later. With the lack of verification from police, citizens from all around the world have resulted in making eyebrow raising speculations all on their own. The young beauty was born into a lavish way of living in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. Born August 6th 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia, JonBenet Patricia Ramsey was the daughter of a wealthy businessman and fashionable socialite. JonBenet’s father, John Bennett Ramsey, was the president and chief executive officer of Access Graphics, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin. Her mother Patsy Patricia Ramsey was a former pageant star and popular
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One of the conspiracies that includes Patsy and Burke Ramsey was the “Bedwetting Rage Theory.” The story is that the older brother Burke killed JonBenet, letting out his pent up rage after she peed her bed and crawled into his in the middle of the night. “The cops first inkling of suspicion came the morning after JonBenet’s body was found in the basement room, when Burke was taken to a friends house without asking a single question about why all the police were in his house or where his sister was. (Day to Day)” Two weeks later burke shocked a police psychologist by shouting, “I know what happened. She was killed. Someone took her quietly and took her down in the basement...hit her on the head. (Day to Day)” Police also say Burke had lashed out on his sister before, once hitting her in the face with a golf club, cutting her cheek. Detectives took various handwriting samples from anyone suspicious to the case. Patsy’s left hand sample matched the ransom note closer than any other sample provided. If Burke did indeed kill his younger sister, Patsy wrote a forged ransom note to cover for her 9 year old son’s actions. If Burke didn’t kill JB, Patsy wrote the note to cover for someone else; herself. Many are led to believe that Patsy was scolding JonBenet when the situation became violent and Patsy pushed JonBenet into the tub causing her to hit her …show more content…
One case that has been recently brought to the public, was the intruding of local dump owner, Michael Helgoth. 26 at the time, Michael allegedly killed JonBenet simply because he was a perverted psychopath and was in search for money. “A legendary homicide cop, uncovered clues indicating that Helgoth and two to three accomplices went to the Ramsey home… shocked her with a stun gun, bound her wrists tightly with a cord, gagged her with duct tape…used an expertly tied garrote to strangle her so tightly her hair ripped out. (Haley)” Another idea that was broadcast to the media was the public confession of John Mark Karr. John was a sex offender in his mid 40’s who confessed to raping and accidentally killing JonBenet Ramsey in her basement. “...We know that in the last 12 hours the Thailand police trotted him out before the media in Bangkok, where he confessed to the murder in front of the press and claimed it was an accident.(Day to Day)” He claimed he was in love with JonBenet and that the death was unintentional, however none of his confession matched any of the DNA evidence provided. Although these cases are questionable and intriguing, police are led to believe the intruder knew JonBenet. According to forensics, JonBenet had her favorite food, pineapple in her digestive system just a few hours before her death. This
JonBenet was the six-year-old daughter of Pasty and John Ramsey (Saferstein, 2015). This family, including JonBenet’s nine year old brother Burke, lived in Boulder, Colorado and sometime during December 25-26, 1996, JonBenet was murdered most likely inside the home (Saferstein, 2015). Pasty Ramsey maintains after a party with friends and family she put JonBenet to
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
The police investigating the crime said that the way the body was placed seemed like a cover-up for the crime, but could have also been moved by the father who found and picked her up, and that the ransom note was staged by Patsy Ramsey. In 2002 the DA reinvestigated the case, this time they looked at people that were not related to JonBenet as suspects. In 2008 the DA sent out an apology letter to the ramseys declaring that the family was completely cleared from the crime, and in February 2009 the Boulder Police reopened the investigation. There are two main theories about who killed JonBenet Ramsey one of the two is the Intruder Theory, Smits Theory was a theory that someone had broken into the ramseys
Perhaps even a family member of JonBenét Ramsey. It was around 5:00 a.m. on December 26, 1998, and Patsy walks down the stairs. She finds a two and a half page ransom note lying on one of the last three steps. This note is written with one of Patsy's notepads and a writing utensil in the home.
In March of 2021, ABC aired a 20/20 episode detailing the JonBenet Ramsey murder. This episode aired only 9 month prior to the 25th anniversary of this tragic murder in the Ramsey family. The morning of December 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey wakes up to find a ransom note of the bottom steps of the back staircase in their home in Boulder, CO. Immediately following the discovery of the ransom note, Patsy calls 911 in a panic, explaining that her 6 year old daughter, JonBenet Ramsey had been kidnapped. Shortly after calling the police, Patsy’s husband, John Ramsey wakes up and tey both wait for the police to arrive.
The note was written by someone who claimed to have kidnapped their daughter. Since it was the day after Christmas, Bolder Police Force was understaffed. The mistakes that these police officers made is the main reason why JonBenet’s murder is unsolved. Law enforcement and friends drifted in and out of the home all day. John Ramsey says Linda Arndt, one of the main detectives, told him to search the home from top to bottom to see if there was anything suspicious.
I am very familiar with this tragic event that occurred December 26, 1996 in the Ramsey household. JonBenet Ramsey was located in her basement home where her father John, her mother Patsy and brother Burke also lived. Before her lifeless body was discovered Patsy found a ransom note in the home demanding a large sum of money. It was shown that JonBenet’s skull was fractured, she had been strangled and molested. There was blood located in JonBenet’s underwear that did not belong to her.
Semen was found in JonBenet’s underwear and it was said that it was from the father or even 9-year-old Burke. When Patsy called 911 to report a missing persons report for JonBenet, there were voices heard in the background of the phone call found by in. A deep voice, believed to be the voice of John Ramsey, says, “We’re not speaking to you.” Patsy is then heard asking, “What did you do?! Help me, Jesus!”
Patsy Ramsey was especially suspicious. The theory is that Jonbenét, who was prone to bedwetting, had another accident in which angered Patsy, and she whacked her over the head, fracturing her skull. The garrote used to strangle JonBenét used items from Patsy’s hobby kit, which could indicate a cover up. Because there was no evidence of a break in to suspect an intruder, both the media and police focused on JonBenét's family. Burke Ramsey was also considered as a suspect, because of a bowl of pineapple.
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.
According to statistics, 92 percent of kids who are murdered at their house are killed by someone in their family (Newton, The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes, 313). This suggests the same for JonBenet’s death. When police arrived at the Ramsey home to investigate, the noticed the “peculiarities in the behavior of the grieving parents” and the fact that Patsy had on full makeup and her hair was nicely done (Newton 313). After further investigation of the evidence, the detectives uncovered that the ransom note was written with a pen and paper from Patsy Ramsey’s home office. Oddly enough, the strange amount of money that was demanded in the ransom was identical to John Ramsey’s bonus check (young jonbenet)
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.
When I looked at the handwriting of the ransom note and the handwriting of Patsy, there are some similarities, within the letters. Any individual can make their handwriting look sloppy, but there will always be similarities. I believe Patsy could have been irritated by something that JonBent could have possibly done, which caused Patsy to hit JonBent with a forceful object that could have caused serious brain damage. Instead of taking JonBent to the hospital she decide to stage a crime sense of a kidnap and murder instead. If Patsy did murder her daughter she got away with the
The murder of Jonbenet Ramsey is a really depressing and mysterious at that. The murder was extremely brutal, she had wounds on her face, a cracked skull, duct tape on her mouth, she was tied up, and she had a garrote around her neck. According to the documentary we watched she was hit in the head with a flashlight and then strangled with a garrote. It was expected that she snatched a piece of pineapple from her brother’s bowl in which he hit her with a flashlight because of it, and she was still alive so it was most likely the parents got in on it because they didn’t want to be filed for abuse and jailed so they strangled her to death and put a blanket over her body, breaking a window and adding a ransom note to make it seem like someone broke in.
Along with the dead body left in the Ramseys basement there was a mysterious note left by the killer of Jonbenet. The note that was left shows that only either the Ramseys or someone close to their family could have done the crime (Osbourne 42). In the note it states Mr. Ramsey’s financial status, demanding $118,00 from the Ramseys. Investigators have been trying to link specific evidence to the note such as fingerprints and writing samples but no results are coming up.