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Jon Benet
Ramsey
Pedophileophobia.com
presents the case that has shocked the nation and
more than once. This horrible case is one that
every American would like to see solved. It should
be remembered though that the person who committed
this despicable and cowardly crime was not just a
pedophile, he or she was a sociopathic killer and no
one should associate the run of the mill pedophile
with this type any more than one should think that
all men who are sexually attracted to grown women
are potential murderers of women. An evidence
chart has been provided with some conclusions given
by this site.
JonBenét
Ramsey (scroll down to see evidence chart.)
JonBenét Patricia Ramsey ( August
6,
1990 –
December 25,
1996) was a six-year-old
beauty pageant contestant who was found
murdered in the basement of her parents' home in
Boulder, Colorado,
United States, eight hours after being
reported missing. The case drew national
attention in the United States when no suspect
was charged and suspicions turned to possible
family involvement. The tantalizing clues of the
case inspired numerous books and articles that
attempt to solve the mystery.
On August 16, 2006, the case returned to the
news when
John Mark Karr, a 41-year-old
[1] school
teacher, reportedly confessed to her murder. On
August 28, 2006, the district attorney announced
that Karr's
DNA did not match that found at the scene,
and no charges would be brought against him.
Life
JonBenét Ramsey was born at Northside
Hospital in
Atlanta, Georgia, and moved with family to
Colorado when she was a year old. Her first
name is a combination of her father's first and
middle names, John Bennett; her middle name is
that of her mother,
Patsy Ramsey, who enrolled her daughter in a
variety of different beauty pageants in several
states. In addition, she funded some of the
contests in which Ramsey was involved. Patsy
Ramsey was a former beauty queen, having held
the title
Miss West Virginia 1977; her sister was Miss
West Virginia 1980. JonBenét Ramsey held a
number of child beauty contest titles, including
(in alphabetical order) America's Royal Miss,
Colorado State All-Star Kids Cover Girl, Little
Miss Charlevoix Michigan, Little Miss Colorado,
Little Miss Merry Christmas, Little Miss
Sunburst, and National Tiny Miss Beauty.
John Ramsey, JonBenét's father, had a net
worth of $6.4 million as of
May 1,
1996. Distinguished as a naval officer, he
held a pilot's license and owned two planes.[1].
In 1989, late in his military career, he formed
the Advanced Product Group, one of three
companies that merged to become Access Graphics.
After mandatory military retirement, he became
president and chief executive officer of Access
Graphics, a computer services company and a
subsidiary of
Lockheed Martin.[2]
In 1996, Access Graphics grossed over $1
billion, and he was named "Entrepreneur of the
Year" by the Boulder Chamber of Commerce.
Immediately following the murder he was
"temporarily replaced so the company did not
have to bother him about business matters as he
grieved," according to Lockheed spokesman Evan
McCollum
[3]. After losing his job at Access
Graphics, which was sold to
General Electric in 1997
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Atlanta to do consulting work.[4]
In addition to their $800,000 residence in
Boulder, the family had a $300,000 lakefront
summer home in
Charlevoix, Michigan.[5]
John Ramsey stated that he found his
daughter's body in the basement of their 15-room
home in Boulder on
December 26,
1996.
JonBenét's grave lies in Saint James
Episcopal Cemetery in
Marietta, Georgia, next to the grave of her
mother.
Murder case
On
December 26,
1996, Patsy Ramsey (according to her
testimony) discovered that her daughter was
missing after finding a two-and-a-half page
ransom note demanding $118,000 inside the family
residence. Despite specific instructions that
the police and friends not be contacted, she
telephoned the police and invited over family
and friends. The local police conducted a
cursory search of the house but did not find any
obvious signs of a break-in or forced entry. The
note suggested that the ransom collection would
be monitored and JonBenét would be returned as
soon as the money was obtained.
In the afternoon of the same day, Boulder
Police Detective Linda Arndt asked Fleet White,
a friend of the Ramseys, to take John Ramsey and
search the house for "anything unusual." John
Ramsey and two of his friends started their
search in the basement first. There in the wine
cellar John found his daughter's body covered in
a white blanket. Later that evening, the police
authorized the removal of the body by issue of a
search warrant. Typically, this procedure would
be performed under consent of the parents.
The results of the autopsy revealed that
JonBenét was killed by strangulation and a skull
fracture. A
garrote made from a length of nylon cord and
the handle of a paintbrush had been used to
strangle her; her skull had suffered severe
blunt trauma; she may have been
sexually assaulted. The official cause of
death was
asphyxia by
strangulation associated with
craniocerebral
trauma. The other half of the paint brush
was found in a tub of Patsy Ramsey's art
supplies.[2]
It was noted by experts that the construction of
the garrote required a special knowledge of
knots. Autopsy also revealed that the child had
eaten pineapple only a few hours before the
murder, of which her mother claimed to be
unaware.
Clues
Police investigations within and around the
residence discovered the following clues which
were, by some, interpreted as evidence of
intrusion:
- Two dissimilar footprints in the wine
cellar that did not match any of the shoes
in the residence
- A third footprint of an unknown person
on the outer part of the window of the room
by the wine cellar (John Ramsey said the
window was malfunctioning)
- A possible footprint on a suitcase,
placed directly below the same window
- A rope that was foreign to the residence
found on the bed of the guestroom near
JonBenét's room
- Physical marks on JonBenét's body that
suggested the use of a stun gun
- Blood sample on JonBenét's underwear
that did not match any known suspect
Ransom note
Wikisource has original text related
to this article:
Investigators determined that the lengthy
ransom note was written on a pad of paper that
belonged to the Ramsey family. A
Sharpie felt-tip pen similar to the one used
to write the note was found in a container on
the Ramseys' kitchen counter, along with other
pens of the same type.
[6] According to the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, on the same
pad of paper, a practice sheet of the ransom
note was found. No fingerprints could be
detected on the note. The text of the note had
many odd features, including the fact that
$118,000 was demanded - $100,000 in $100 bills
and $18,000 in $20 bills.[7]
Perhaps coincidentally, John Ramsey earned a
bonus that year of $118,117.50. The police
regarded the ransom price a suspiciously low
amount of money in proportion to John Ramsey's
income. The writer of the note claims "We are
a group of individuals that represent a small
foreign faction. We do respect your buisiness
(sic) but not the country that it serves.".
Several handwriting samples were taken from a
number of suspects who might have written the
ransom note. Forensic analysis cleared everyone
except for Patsy Ramsey, whose writing style
bore some resemblance to the ransom note.[8]
[9]
Later developments
In December 2003, forensic investigators
extracted enough material from a mixed blood
sample found on JonBenét's underwear to
establish a
DNA profile. The DNA belongs to an unknown
caucasian male. The DNA was submitted to the
FBI's
Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), a
database containing more than 1.6 million DNA
profiles, mainly from convicted felons. The
sample has yet to find a match in the database,
although it continues to be checked for partial
matches on a weekly basis.
Later investigations also discovered that
there were more than 100 burglaries in the
Ramseys' neighborhood in the months before
JonBenét's murder, and that 38 registered sex
offenders were living within a two-mile radius
of the Ramsey's home.[3]
JonBenét's mother,
Patsy Ramsey, died of
ovarian cancer on
June 24,
2006,[4]
at the age of 49. She had been battling cancer
off and on after first being diagnosed in 1993.
She had a recurrence in 2003. She was aware at
the time of her death that the Boulder County
(Colorado) District Attorney's Office was
investigating a suspect in
Bangkok, Thailand.
John Mark Karr
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On
August 16,
2006, 41-year-old
John Mark Karr, a former school teacher, was
arrested in
Bangkok,
Thailand on five-year-old child pornography
charges from
Sonoma County,
California. Authorities reportedly tracked
him down using the Internet after he sent emails
regarding the Ramsey case to Michael Tracey, a
journalism professor at the
University of Colorado.[5]
Once apprehended, he confessed to being with
JonBenét when she died, stating that her death
was an accident. When asked if he was innocent,
he responded, "No."
However, Karr's DNA did not match that found
on JonBenét Ramsey's body. On
August 28,
2006, prosecutors announced that no charges
would be filed against him for the murder of
JonBenét Ramsey.
Defamation lawsuits
Several defamation lawsuits have ensued since
JonBenét's murder. Lin Wood was the attorney for
John and Patsy Ramsey and has prosecuted
defamation claims on their behalf against
St. Martin's Press,
Time, Inc.,
The Fox News Channel,
American Media, Inc.,
Star,
The Globe,
Court TV and
The New York Post.
Speculation
In 1999, the
Governor of Colorado,
Bill Owens, told the parents of JonBenét
Ramsey to "quit hiding behind their attorneys,
quit hiding behind their
PR firm."[10]
Case speculation by experts, media and the
parents has supported different theories. For a
long time, the local police supported the theory
that her mother had accidentally killed JonBenét
in a fit of rage after the girl had wet her bed
on the same night. Another theory was that John
Ramsey had been sexually abusing his daughter
and murdered her as a cover. John Ramsey's son
Burke Ramsey was also targeted by speculation,
and asked to testify at the
grand jury[11].
The Ramseys have invariably held that the
crime was committed by an intruder, and hired
John Douglas, former head of the FBI's
Behavioral Science Unit, to examine the
case. While being paid by the Ramsey family he
concluded that the Ramseys were not involved in
the murder. He also concluded that it was
unlikely that anyone would resolve the case. He
detailed his arguments in his 2001 book,
The Cases That Haunt Us.
Due to the lack of evidence, a grand jury did
not indict the Ramseys for any crime. Seven
months after the murder, the family moved back
to Atlanta.
References
- Hickey, Eric. Encyclopedia of Murder
and Violent Crime.
- M., Ronald and Stephen T. Holmes.
Profiling Violent Crimes.
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