Jonbenet Ramsey Murder Case

The Murder of JonBenet Ramsey On December 26, 1996, JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her home in Boulder, Colorado. JonBenet Patricia Ramsey was a child beauty queen who lived with her two parents and her brother, Burke. She was born in 1990, which would make JonBenet six years old at the time of her death. Her killer still remains at large, more than twenty-three years later. There have been suspects and arrests, but ultimately no one has been charged with the murder of JonBenet. The riveting question remains, who killed JonBenet Ramsey?
The case was treated as a kidnapping case, rather than a murder case, for the first few hours after JonBenet’s mother, Patsy, realized she was not in her bedroom. This was due to the two-page ransom note Patsy found on her stairs at 5:30 in the morning on December 26th when she got up to make coffee. The note stated that it was from “a
During the autopsy, “some sort of undigested fruit, thought to potentially be pineapple, was found in JonBenet’s stomach that had been consumed just a few hours before she died” (Syrdal). Pictures from the Ramsey household from the day before the murder show a bowl full of pineapple on the table, with Burke Ramsey’s fingerprints all over the bowl. Patsy and John claimed that Burke had been sleeping the entirety of the night of the murder. Also, more evidence surfaced that placed further suspicion on the Ramseys. The ransom note was written in the Ramsey house and after being analyzed it was discovered that it was indeed written by a woman. Finally, after Patsy had finished reporting the disappearance to 911 she accidentally stayed on the line for a couple seconds where she can be heard saying “help me Jesus” and “what did I do” (Syrdal). The Ramseys were never prosecuted due to lack of sufficient evidence, but there is still a huge “umbrella of suspicion” placed upon the whole family (JonBenet Ramsey Murder Fast