Jonbennet Ramsey Case

JonBenét Ramsey On December 26, 1996, six-year-old JonBenét Patricia Ramsey, a child beauty queen, was murdered in her home in Boulder, Colorado (Mel, G.). One the morning of December 26, JonBenét’s mother, Patsy Ramsey, found a 2 ½ page ransom note on her staircase that demanded John Ramsey, JonBenét’s father, to withdraw $118,000. The demanded amount was the exact amount of a bonus he had received earlier that year. The Ramseys called the police once the ransom was discovered. During the initial search of the Ramsey house, the detectives managed to overlook the wine cellar where JonBenét’s body was. John Ramsey later found her body tied up and covered with a blanket during a second search of the house. She had a nylon cord around her neck, duct tape on her mouth, and various wounds on her face and back. Vaginal trauma was found, but was inconclusive. JonBenét’s official cause of death was asphyxiation by strangulation (2016).

According to CrimeandInvestigation (CI), Unauthorized people, family and friends, were allowed to walk in and out of the house at will, which at the worst could have let to removal of evidence and at the very least, contaminated the forensic integrity of the crime scene; therefore, the evidence was compromised. Along with the carelessness of not properly sealing off the crime scene, the removal of JonBenét’s body was executed by two men who were untrained in forensics, which meant that photographs of the crime scene were not accurate, says CrimeandInvestication (CI). As a result of the evidence being compromised, the case was ultimately passed to the district attorney’s office in 2002 because the family had no confidence in the