Patsy Ramseysey Case Study

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Everybody had an opinion on what happened at the Ramsey household on December 25, 1996. Most people believed that the family is responsible for killing JonBenet. Ever since that day, the public has held the Ramsey family under a cloud of suspicion. The family did everything they could do to defend themselves. They believe that an intruder must have done it, but most of the public believes that the family should be held responsible for the killing. The main suspect that police keyed in on was the mother of JonBenet. The reason for the suspicion of the mother was the 911 call made by Patsy Ramsey the day of the murder. In this 911 call, the mother seemed very suspicious. Patsy said “We have a kidnapping” ( McClish). “It seemed like she knew something she was not telling” (McClish 2001). …show more content…

The ransom note did not give police a reason to suspect Patsy Ramsey of killing her daughter because there was no concrete evidence to link Patsy to the note. The forensic evidence also did not help to convict Patsy for committing the crime. Once all the evidence was, collected police found that is highly unlikely that the mother killed her daughter, but the evidence did not change the public’s mind on who they think did it. Even with all the evidence in hand the public still thinks that the Ramsey family should be responsible for killing JonBenet. There are many arguments to be made on why Patsy did not kill her daughter. The first one is the forensic evidence. “The evidence shows another person’s DNA on the underwear of JonBenet” (Verrengia 1997). This is concrete evidence that the mother did not do it. The 911 call is what struck everybody as being suspicious of the Ramsey family. The public did not consider the fact the mother might have been a bit traumatized to the thought that her daughter could be

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