What happened that Christmas became one of the most notorious and unsolved cases of modern
times.It was Christmas 1996 when a panicked phone call was made from the residence of
Patsy and John Ramsey to 911 emergency services, stating their daughter, JonBenét, was missing.
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On the 6th of August 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia, JonBenét was born to parents Patsy and John
Ramsey.After the birth of JonBenét, the family moved to Boulder, Colorado, in 1991 for John’s
work.Her father, a multi-millionaire businessman, and her mother, who was a former beauty queen
(Miss West Virginia of 1977) The family owned two private jets, a yacht and a holiday home
in Michigan. Their net worth in 1999 was reported to be $6.4million.
<> With her mother’s training, JonBenét started
to compete in children’s beauty contests from an early age, winning multiple titles,
including Little Miss Colorado Sunburst in 1995.
It was Christmas Day in Boulder, and the Ramsey family had spent the evening at the home of
their nearby friends, Fleet and Priscilla.The Ramseys put JonBenét to bed around 9 pm
The next morning at 5 am, Patsy Ramsey woke to find a three-page ransom note on the stairs.
The note claimed that someone had kidnapped JonBenét and demanding $118,000 for the safe
return of her. It also told the Ramseys not to contact the
police and that they would be in contact between 8 am to 10 am with instructions for how to
drop off the money.
Patsy called 911 shortly after her discovery.Police arrived at the Ramsey’s home, and due to
the Christmas holiday, seasoned officers were at home, leaving less experienced officers
to deal with the apparent kidnapping.
The family and the cops waited, but no call came. Some time after the ransom call window,
the cops asked the Ramsey's to check the house again for anything that was missing or out
of place that they could use as evidence. John and a friend immediately went to investigate
the basement after the cops asked them to scan the house. A few minutes later, John
came up the stairs carrying the body of JonBenét. He had found her in a backroom in the basement
just after 1 pm.
She was wrapped in a blanket, with duct tape over her mouth and a garrotte tied around
her neck with a paintbrush that had been used for leverage. Six-year-old JonBenét was dead.
The Coroner concluded that JonBenét was killed by ligature strangulation and craniocerebral
injuries. She had multiple abrasions to her neck, cheek, legs, and other body parts. She
also noted that there was blood in JonBenét’s underwear.
Her body also showed signs of sexual abuse. Unfortunately john carried his daughters body
upstairs which contaminated the crime scene. Many people suspect that the Ramseys themselves
killed their daughter. there are definitely a lot of weird details
about this case that nobody can explain.Watch on to find out what they were.
According to the police, the ransom note the Ramseys found was very unusual. First of all,
it was three pages long. That's, really, really long for a ransom note.
The note asked for exactly $118,000 for JonBenét's safe return
$118,000 sounds pretty random. Why not ask for a nice round $200,000?it was almost the
exact same amount of money John Ramsey had received as a Christmas bonus earlier in the month
The long ransom note claimed to be from a "small foreign faction." What exactly is a
small foreign faction? Nobody is quite sure. It also claimed that the kidnappers would
behead JonBenét if the money wasn't given to them in a brown paper bag
It ended with the strange sign off "Victory!" It is an all-around weird note.
The cryptic ransom note was discovered to be written on paper found at their house.
It seems a little risky to come to a kidnapping without a note prepared, why would the kidnapper
take the time to write three entire pages and risk getting caught?
There are no signs of forced entry or break-in into the basement. There were dust and spiderwebs
on the window that were left undisturbed.
When Patsy called 911 to report her daughter missing, she used some pretty strange language.
She said, "We have a kidnapping" instead of "My daughter has been kidnapped".
The Ramsey’s house was expansive, so the kidnapper would have needed clear instructions
to get JonBenét from her bedroom and down to the basement. It is likely that only someone
with knowledge of this house would have been able to do this successfully.
The weirdest part of the kidnapping was that there was no kidnapping as jonbenet was discovered
in the basement after several hours.The kidnappers said they’d call between 8–10 am on the
26th, but they never did.
As of 2001, the Boulder police report having interviewed more than 600 people, investigated
around 140 potential suspects and logged about 1400 items of evidence. So why hasn’t it been solved?
After 24 years, It is unlikely that this case will ever be solved due to the number of theories,
people involved and inadequate police work at the scene. Whatever the truth, it will
likely die with the person or people who committed it, after all this time