Jon Burke Ramsey Case
JonBenet Ramsey was just 6 years old when she was found strangled in the basement of her home in Boulder, Colorado back in 1996. Investigators have been searching for her murderer for over 20 years. However, lots of evidence has been botched since the Boulder police department allowed the Ramsey’s friends and family members to enter and wander the crime scene. Therefore, evidence and theories remain scrambled but when closely examined, the events and the culprit of the crime are clear. Burke Ramsey, JonBenet’s older brother, killed the young pageant queen and was aided in the feigning innocence by his parents John and Patsey Ramsey. Burke Ramsey was a child with a bad temper and the capability of harming his sister. In fact, a year before
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The morning of December 26th, 1996 Patsy claimed to have “found a ransom note asking for $118,000 for the child” (Solin 1). The amount of money requested is very peculiar, considering the Ramsey family was extremely wealthy and $118,000 also happened to be “the exact amount that John Ramsey received as a bonus from work” (The Forensics Outreach Team 2). The note also included direct movie quotations from popular movies with ransom notes in them. Next, the handwriting expert Cina Wong said to have found “over 200 similarities in the writing of the ransom note and the 100 samples of Patsy’s penmanship” (Spargo 1). If this is not enough to prove the note was written by Patsy, the note was written on a pad from the Ramsey household. When rewritten by researchers, it took them an average of 20 minutes to get the whole note down (Norman 1). If looked at from a realistic point of view, it is extremely unlikely for an intruder to break into a house, murder a child and sit at the kitchen table for twenty minutes without being caught. Finally, although the trauma to the head was a major factor in her death, JonBenet’s autopsy reported strangulation was a factor. She was found with a garrote around her neck composed of tools from Patsy’s craft kit. In addition, Mark Beckner, former Boulder Police Chief who lead the JonBenet Ramsey case, reports that strangulation occurred somewhere between forty-five minutes to two hours after the brain injury. If an intruder staying for twenty minutes sounds questionable, forty-five minutes to two hours should convince one that it was certainly someone belonging to the
The morning of December 26th, 1996 Patsy claimed to have “found a ransom note asking for $118,000 for the child” (Solin 1). The amount of money requested is very peculiar, considering the Ramsey family was extremely wealthy and $118,000 also happened to be “the exact amount that John Ramsey received as a bonus from work” (The Forensics Outreach Team 2). The note also included direct movie quotations from popular movies with ransom notes in them. Next, the handwriting expert Cina Wong said to have found “over 200 similarities in the writing of the ransom note and the 100 samples of Patsy’s penmanship” (Spargo 1). If this is not enough to prove the note was written by Patsy, the note was written on a pad from the Ramsey household. When rewritten by researchers, it took them an average of 20 minutes to get the whole note down (Norman 1). If looked at from a realistic point of view, it is extremely unlikely for an intruder to break into a house, murder a child and sit at the kitchen table for twenty minutes without being caught. Finally, although the trauma to the head was a major factor in her death, JonBenet’s autopsy reported strangulation was a factor. She was found with a garrote around her neck composed of tools from Patsy’s craft kit. In addition, Mark Beckner, former Boulder Police Chief who lead the JonBenet Ramsey case, reports that strangulation occurred somewhere between forty-five minutes to two hours after the brain injury. If an intruder staying for twenty minutes sounds questionable, forty-five minutes to two hours should convince one that it was certainly someone belonging to the