Analysis Of The Death Of John Benet Ramsey

The details gathered in the investigation death of Jon Benet Ramsey focused on members of her family. JonBenet was an underage girl known to participate in beauty pageants, she was found murdered in the home where she lived with her mother father and brother in Boulder Colorado. On December 26, 1996 Patsy Ramsey, Jon Benet mother called the police and reported her daughter missing and informed, them she had found a note asking for a large sum of money for the safe return of the child. Hours after her mother called 911 and gave the account of what she observed the girl’s father, John Ramsey found his daughter in their basement covered with a blanket. He carried her body upstairs, where someone covered the body with a sweatshirt. The detectives
They allowed John Ramsey to containment the area where evidence could be gathered, he was allowed to remove her body from the basement. John and Patsy Ramsey contradicted their story repeatedly; they told police and reporters that Jon Benet was asleep when they put her to bed, but there was evidence of pineapples in her stomach, a bowl of pineapple was sitting in the family’s kitchen, suggesting that Jon Benet had eaten recently. John and Patsy both said their son Burke was asleep the morning of December 26, on the tape of the 911 call Burkes voice was heard in the background asking what is going on. Detectives believe a shoe imprint found near her body was made by a hiking shoe. Reportedly, no one in her family and none of the family’s friends or acquaintances owns a shoe that matches the print. A broken window in the basement was observed, but John Ramsey told investigators that he had broken the window when he locked himself out of the house. Investigators found a spider web outside of the window so it could not be determined how long the window had been broken. None of the fingerprints taken from family or friends matched a palm print found on the wine cellar
The DA formed a prosecution task force that included a forensic expert and a retired homicide detective. Their findings in the investigation pointed to an intruder as the perpetrator which conflicted with the theory that someone in the family was responsible for Jon Benet’s death. DNA taken from Jon Benet’s underwear and fingernails did not match DNA samples provided by family members and friends. Dr. John Meyer the coroner in Boulder County who examined the body is criticized by colleagues around the country. According to a report in the Denver post (1997), Dr. Meyer spent only 10 minutes with the corpse at the scene of the crime and neglected several critical procedures on the autopsy table the following morning. Dr. Meyer was criticized for not extracting fluid from Jon Benet eyeballs, which is a procedure that allows the measurement of the vitreous potassium in her eye fluid, another critical factor in estimating the time of her death. That type of evidence considered together would have provided a reliable window of when the death would have probably occurred. The coroner did not make note of the facial skin around the girl’s mouth, or the presence of residual adhesive, which her father said he ripped off a strip of duct tape from her mouth when he found her body. The