The Murder of JonBenet Ramsey
The murder of JonBenet Ramsey has become one of the nation's notorious unsolved murder mysteries. A wide range of crime scene investigators and police officials have searched for clues for JonBenet's killer, but countless authorities have already considered this murder to be one of the most inexplicable cold-cases in America. As the world marks the twenty first year anniversary of the tragic event with still no standing suspects, an abundance of evidence proven through research points to one suspect in particular.
JonBenet Ramsey, daughter of a socialite and wealthy businessman, John and Patsy Ramsey, was born on August 6, 1990. JonBenet followed in the footsteps of her mother winning multiple child beauty pageants (Worthen). On the morning of December 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey found her daughter missing from her bedroom, followed by a ransom note found on the staircase demanding $118,000 for JonBenet’s return (Brodsky). In Rachel Brodsky’s case report she states, “JonBenet’s body was discovered in the basement of her family’s Boulder, Colorado, home, wrapped in a white blanket. A nylon cord was around her neck, her wrists had been tied above her head, and her mouth had
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Once the details of JonBenet’s autopsy were released, indication of previous sexual abuse was apparent. Since her “vagina injury” was most likely caused by a finger or some object, not necessarily rape, it made it clear that before the murder, someone behaved inappropriately with the young girl (Ramsland). Allegations were made that John Ramsey had sexually assaulted his daughter right after the basis of new evidence, revealing that he visited a pornographic book shop in downtown Denver frequently in the past (Worthen). This evidence further verified that John Ramsey is not the “innocent” man he would like everyone to perceive him as
Her body had been bathed and thoroughly washed before being placed, it was also completely drained of blood [2]. Two detectives were assigned to the case: Harry Hanson and Finis Brown. When they and the police arrived at the crime scene, it was already swarming with people, gawkers and reporters. The entire situation was out of hand and crowded, everyone trampling all over in hopes of good evidence. One thing they did report finding was a nearby cement block with watery blood on it, tire tracks and a heel print on the ground.
In the JonBenet Ramsey case didn’t know she had blunt force injury until her autopsy shows where she suffered a linear fracture to the right skull leaving a long crack in her skull. She even suffered from being strangle to death by rope being tied around her throat and being pulled really tight around her neck making it hard for her to breath her neck had red blood stains from like the inside of the skin reflecting on the outside also showing nail scratch marks on her neck describing her trying to get the rope from around her neck. Lindsay armstrong was torn to pieces by the defence lawyer and made to hold up a g-string underwear she wore during the time of the attack. She said it was like being raped all over again the 14 year old accuser
Have you ever wondered how detectives solve a murder case? So far in this book, Lindsay and her team try to figure out clues and connections to who the murderer of the two crime cases could be. One of the unsolved murder cases is a repeating event that Lindsay and her friends call “Claire’s Birthday Murder” and the other case includes three men that rob small stores and then kill the employee working. This book has given me the opportunity to evaluate Lindsay and Joe, predict that Lindsay and her team will find out who the murderer is, and question if the men dressed in police uniforms are actually who they say they are.
Unexpectedly, upon researching the JonBenet Ramsey case I have found several theories, some of them make sense while others are extremely disturbing and far-fetched. There are multiple documents, websites, and conspiracy theories, some that are based on facts while others I am not sure where they got their information. In reading a multitude of articles I revert back to the text, I believe that Patsy Ramsey killed her daughter and that everyone in the house devised an elaborate and effective cover-up. The evidence seems to point to Patsy in more ways than I can dismiss. First, she was the one that discovered the bizarre ransom note that was written with her pen and from her notepad. Also, the only fingerprints found on the notepad was the CBI agent, and the sergeant that took the notebook into custody and Patsy Ramsey (Mahney, 2015). Next, the fibers of the distinctive jacket worn by Patsy Ramsey on the night of the murder were found woven inside the rope that was found around the neck of JonBenet and the rope was wrapped around Patsy Ramsey’s broken paintbrush. Furthermore, Patsy’s fibers were found in the tote where the paintbrush came from, did Patsy wear this jacket when she painted; I doubt it so how did the fiber get there. Lastly, Patsy’s fibers were also on the sticky side of the duct tape that was used over her daughters’ mouth (Saferstein, 2014). JonBenet was a bed
During late October in 1967 a man named James Richardson was charged for the murder of his seven children. The children were poisoned and it is believed that he was the one who poisoned them. There is no solid, or reasonable evidence that it was him. Anything that even remotely points to him is all people’s speculative opinions. Everything seemed to be stacked against him. James Richardson was wrongfully convicted for the murder of his seven children, and there is some evidence that points towards who most likely did it.
It is established, statistically that 92 percent of children murdered in their home are killed by members of their family. On December 26, 1996, Pageant queen, JonBenét Ramsey was murdered and found in her basement later that same day. No one has been charged for the crime and the case is still open today. The mystery behind JonBenét Ramsey can be summed up in two theories : the parents and the brother.
Jacob Barber, a fourteen year old boy, was accused of murdering his classmate Ben Rifkin and was put on trial. Fortunately, Leonard Patz—a child molester and once a suspect in Ben’s case—suddenly confessed of killing Ben and committed suicide. As a result, innocent Jacob was freed from his accusation. However, the sudden death of Patz and another girl Hope Conner, who was seen with Jacob shortly before her death, raised renewed suspicion about Jacob’s potential involvement in not only Ben’s case but also the murder of Hope. While the coincidences of Patz’s suicide and Hope’s death are seemingly convincing evidence of Jacob’s guilt, there is a lack of direct evidence to convict Jacob for the murders of Ben and Hope.
On Thanksgiving evening, November 27, 1992, Sergeant Kenneth Mathison and his wife Yvonne drive their 1988 tan Ford van along Route 131 in Hilo, Hawaii. The rain is pouring down and before he knows it, Kenneth Mathison is awaiting police assistance as he cradles his wife’s dead body in the back of their van. Mathison, a sergeant of 25 years with the Hilo Police Department was allegedly informing his wife, a maternity nursing professional at the Hilo Medical Center, that he was being investigated in his second paternity suit. According to Mathison, when Yvonne heard the news, she jumped from the passenger side of the van. While he was looking for her in the blinding rain, Mathison purportedly ran over his wife. He then carried the body into the van and secured it with yellow rope in the back before attempting to find help. Will the forensic evidence support Mathison’s account of that fateful evening?
As I retrieved the information from the Crime Museum Library, the status and evidence detailing the death of JonBenet had several flaws and contaminations. The article on this subject “Cold Case,” discuss how the mother notices a ransom note on the counter at 5 am in the morning, left for her husband. The contents of the note to alert the parents their daughter, JonBenet, was kidnapped and the money ($118,000) instructions where to send it soon. The problem with this note, the kidnappers knew the amount in question was a bonus given to John, no fingerprints on the note, and how the kidnappers wanted the
Murdered long into the Christmas night. Killer unknown, motive unknown. The mystery of JonBenet has sprung up many theories about who killed her, why they killed her and where they are today. The mystery of JonBenet has formed many theories about who killed her. It could have been some sex crazed pedophile who had snuck into the house and raped and murdered JonBenet. However, this theory doesn’t really add up. Burke, JonBenet’s brother could have thrown a fit and swung a flashlight and killed JonBenet and the parents strangled her and covered everything up. An intruder could’ve broke into the house and knocked JonBenet in the head with something and then strangled her. No one knows why they did this, though. No one knows who killed JonBenet,
Sue Grafton once stated: “Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right.” This is clearly the thought the Boulder Colorado police conceived in the case of little beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. As many have observed from the onslaught of media coverage, the day after Christmas 1996, six year old Jon Benet Ramsey was found buried under a white blanket, bound, beaten, and strangled to death in the wine cellar of their Boulder home. With such a strikingly rare and glamorous story of a six year old beauty queen dead, who was a part of a “perfect American upper-middle class family”, combined with a lack of a lead and ever mounting suspicion piling up against the parents it was no surprise to find that it was fuel to the media and soon stories sold and became a matter of competition between the press. So, like wildfire, this heart-breaking story spread, stretching across the nation, shattering the souls of the world. News broadcasts, magazine and newspaper articles, and television specials all shaped and molded peoples perceptions of this beautiful child’s murder, especially her parents, John and Pasty Ramsey’s involvement or lack there of. The police and FBI’s merciless quest to connect Jon Benet’s murder to her parents, seemed to cause the them to overlook important evidence, or at the very least dismiss suspicious findings that would otherwise send red flags to investigators. There are many contributors as to why this case remains unsolved including lack of investigative expertise, failure to protect valuable evidence, and focusing too much on the parents as suspects but, ultimately, the over involvement of...
The story of Jonbenet Ramsey was a case that was unsolved for years. There are stories, interviews and a couple movies out there that are each different in their own way. The book We Have Your Daughter by Paula Woodward was the story in detail from police reports to the written ransom note. Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Paula Woodward started reporting on the day after the young girl was found dead. For the past twenty years Woodward has gathered new evidence, conducted unrestricted interviews, and pored over available fact and document concerning the murder. When I had read the book, it really made me feel like I am investigating the crime myself, you feel like a detective wondering why this happened to the young child. In fascinating detail it gives enough information for you to make up your own ending. That was in fact her goal writing this book, and that is why I found it interesting, the information in this book wasn’t too terribly gory, but it was quite emotional reading this. I enjoyed the book unlike the conspiracists that had a
The murder of JonBenet Ramsey was very shocking and caused a huge investigation that is yet unsolved. Family was one of the things that contributed to JonBenet’s murder. JonBenet Ramsey is a very special six-year-old girl with a successful family. She was a little pageant girl with blond curly hair and blue eyes; she was a very well known competitor since she had won many pageants (SV;SV) (Schneider). Her mother, Patsy Ramsey, was a former beauty queen; her father, John Ramsey, was a millionaire businessman (SV; SV) (Bardsley, and Bellamy).
...ony and eating food that she was not allowed to eat. One time, she claims she was held naked in the bathroom for days with no water that she had no choice but to drink from the toilet to survive. On top of all that, she admits that Reine’s brother sexually molested her 3 times and warned her not to tell anyone or else he would beat her. This is when the investigator requested to get the employer’s statement, but her brother told him that she was admitted into the hospital because of a nervous breakdown. Her psychiatrist “advised” the investigator not to take her statement since she was in bad shape. This was an abvious attempt to avoid taking to the authorities. In the end, the jury ordered Jonaleynne to be kept in Caritas until she was recovered and then sent back to her home, and Reine is currently in the Baabda prison for women.
“We were so naive. I now believe with all my heart that it's not a good idea to put your child on public display (Chang). Says John Bennett Ramsey. His daughter was murdered in his own home. JonBenet Ramsey was a very young girl who was a pageant queen at just the age of six. Her father believes that her killer might have been someone who has seen her perform in pageants multiple times. There for creating a stocker / killer for his young daughter. They displayed her all pretty and perfect with her hair all done, makeup all fixed and all dressed. Allowing her to look twice her actual age, there for showing that her looks could