Will we ever find out what happened to JonBenet beyond a reasonable doubt?
Sadly, probably not....One thing we know for sure that JonBenet was murdered.
I am hopeful that one day there will be some kind of justice for JonBenet.
I know i have written about her murder a few times before, there is just so many things that bother me about this case, I have to write about it.
You can read all my articles on Jonbenet here.
JonBenet's Murder Case
The Train Table
Enhanced 911 Audio
Psychiatrist Murdered
More Murders
Who Could Have Killed JonBenet
Break In The Case
JonBenet's Body to Be Exhumed
New Theory And Missing Evidence
Did you know DNA found at the crime scene was not from a single intruder?
A sample on JonBenet's underwear identified as coming from 'Unknown Male 1' may in fact was a composite from multiple people.
Did you know that alledgedly District Attorney Lacy knew this and yet in 2008 she alledgedly with held the whole truth, implying that the DNA pointed to a single intruder?
Did you know that the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury voted to indict parents in 1999?
Grand jurors, even without hearing from the lead detectives and without summoning John and Patsy, voted to indict them with multiple felonies including child abuse resulting in death.
Allegedly, the Denver Post quoted the previous district attorney, Alex Hunter as saying,
"The grand jurors have done their work extraordinarily well... we do not have sufficient evidence to warrant the filing of charges against anyone who has been investigated..."
Interesting to say the least.
Patsy told the police that while walking down their back spiral staircase, she found the note laid out in three pages across one of the lower steps.
Investigators had a hard time reenacting Patsy's steps on the steep, tight spiral stairway without falling or stepping on the note.
After the 911 call that Patsy made, but before the authorities arrived, Patsy called neighbors Fleet and Priscilla White to the Ramsey home, along with other friends.
Did you know that Detectives found a partial draft of the ransom note in the home, and Patsy's legal pad on which the final ransom had been written on three of seven pages torn from the center of the pad?
Not every murder case is the same but usually a kidnapper doesn't write the ransom note, molest the victim, kill the victim, and leave the victim behind in the house.
A kidnapper doesn't forget to call to arrange to get the ransom money and doesn't break in on Christmas risking family stay overs.
A kidnapper doesn't put oversized underwear found in the house on the victim.
A predator, doesn't usually break in to molest a child inside her home and he sure doesn't stop to write a ransom note.
Supposedly the ransom note’s time element indicates it was composed around midnight.
Take the line “I advise you to be rested.” from the ransom note.
A kidnapper would not normally give such advice to his victims.
And the kidnappers tell the victims to get rest when they were supposedly already sleeping?
Did you know that the note never refered to Jonbenet by name?
Did you know that would have taken 21 minutes just to write, plus the time to compose and to write the draft version?
After the note was complete, the pad of paper was returned to its place on the hallway desk and the pen used was also returned to its place by the phone in the kitchen.
The ransom that was asked for was kind of small when you consider that Mr. Ramsey was CEO for a billion dollar company.
Did you know that the amount being asked for was also exactly equal to Mr. Ramsey’s annual bonus?
Detectives found Ramsey handwriting samples in the home from Patsy, that were similar to the style on the "ransom" note.
The note's immediate misspellings and grammatical errors made it seem like the kidnapper was uneducated.
Later in the note, the author then slid into a more natural use of terms that showed a better education.
There was a broken basement window, but it had a dusty sill and an unbroken spider web in its right bottom corner.
Below the sill, police found a scuff mark and below that a piece of broken glass on the basement floor.
There were no signs of forced entry and the alarm system had not been activated.
Burke could have swung the flashlight that apparently cracked her skull, but the Boulder police have no evidence pointing to him and have never considered him a suspect.
Burke injuring his sister would probably lead to a frantic 911 call, not to the staging of a molestation and murder scene.
Even if his sister died, the family could have hired an army of lawyers and the city would probably view it as accidental killing of a sibling by a nine-year-old child.
The parents would also have to worry about Burke blurting the truth out.
Detective Linda Arndt remembers Mr. Ramsey’s demeanor when he initially greeted her as not distraught nor even upset, but cordial.
Arndt says that the Ramseys did not spend those morning hours in each other’s company.
Arndt says that 10 a.m., the ransom note deadline, passed and that the Ramseys did not remark whatsoever regarding the fact that the kidnapper had not called.
She also said that she asked everyone in the house to examine the ransom note for clues, and that almost everyone offered ideas to her except Mr. Ramsey.
She said that she was confused about why the Ramseys would not speak to her, give a formal interview or take a polygraph.
Arndt suggested Mr. Ramsey search the home.
He did so with Fleet White.
When Mr. Ramsey came upon the corpse in the basement's wine cellar, he ripped the duct tape from her mouth, picked her up and brought her upstairs.
The sticky side of the tape had a perfect imprint of the young girls lips, but no indication of a protruding tongue or any effort to dislodge the tape.
This suggests that the tape was used as a prop in staging a scene to make it look like the girl was being abducted.
Like it was placed after death.
The cord was tied, far too loosely to restrain a living child.
The route to wine cellar would be very difficult to navigate by a stranger, especially at night, especially if the child had been struggling.
The staircase light switch is not in an expected location on a wall, but above and behind someone entering the stairs, so they proably would have done all this in the dark.
At 1:30 p.m. a detective overheard John Ramsey talking by phone to his pilot and arranging a trip to Atlanta that evening for himself, his wife and son.
He was told he couldn't leave of course.
During the autopsy, black light helped reveal that her body had been wiped clean but that a residue of blood was left on her thighs.
Did you know that a paintbrush handle that was used as a ligature had a broken-off tip never found at the house?
The handle was used in accordance with a rope to choke JonBenet to death.
During an online chat in 2015 in a forum which he thought was relatively private, Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner wrote,
"We know from the evidence she was hit in the head very hard with an unknown object, possibly a flashlight or similar type item.
The blow knocked her into deep unconsciousness, which could have led someone to believe she was dead.
The strangulation came 45 minutes to two hours after the head strike, based on the swelling on the brain.
While the head wound would have eventually killed her, the strangulation actually did kill her.
The rest of the scene we believe was staged, including the vaginal trauma, to make it look like a kidnapping/assault gone bad."
The coroner found something in her stomach
“which may represent fragment of pineapple.”
The party she attended that night had served no pineapple.
John Ramsey says that he had carried a sleeping JonBenet from the car straight to her bed that night. but police found a bowl of pineapple on the Ramsey’s dining room table.
The blanket that the murderer draped around JonBenet's body had a pubic hair that didn't belong to any family member.
Unidentifiable DNA material, "composite from multiple people", was on her underwear and beneath her fingernails.
DNA "on her long johns appear to come from JonBenet and at least two other people, not one".
An unidentifiable palm print of unknown age was on the wine cellar door. The panties on her body were too large for JonBenet.
Her long johns, along with her panties, contained a stain with male DNA which could not be linked to any house member.
Even new clothing can come with DNA present, but new clothes don't usually come with DNA in stains.
Patsy exclaimed that she had never before seen the underwear on her daughter’s corpse.
Detectives later found out that Patsy had recently purchased that pair of underwear at Bloomingdale's in New York for her 12-year-old niece, but JonBenet wanted them so Patsy kept them for her.
Officer Barry Harkopp interviewed next door neighbors and reported that Scott Gibbons saw strange lights and movements coming from the kitchen area around midnight.
Melody Stanton awoke her husband around midnight after hearing a scream, and he stated he heard “the sound of metal clashing against cement.”
The Ramseys say they heard none of this.
Police found a Ramsey family flashlight on the kitchen counter.
On Dec. 27, 1996 Patsy Ramsey was being exhausted and lying down, she told her friend, Pam Griffin,
“We didn’t mean for this to happen”
Griffin got the definite feeling that Patsy had revealed that she knew who the killer was.
Did you know investigators believe Patsy probably wrote the ransom note?
On March 5, 1997, police and handwriting experts clear John Ramsey and Burke as writers of the ransom note.
On April 14, 1997, they request from her a fifth handwriting sample.
Some of over 200 similarities were found, including surprising idiosyncrasies, between Patsy's handwriting, with those in the ransom note.
On Feb. 19, 1997 the Ramseys refused to allow police to interview John’s oldest son, John Andrew.
A known feud developed early on between the detectives and District Attorney Alex Hunter’s office.
The duct tape roll and any remainder of the cord used were never found in the Ramsey mansion.
A footprint one foot from the body made in concrete dust from a High-Tec brand boot could not be linked to any shoe in the house.
The stick used in the ligature strangulation came from one of Mrs. Ramsey’s paintbrushes.
Part of the rest of the broken paintbrush was found in the basement among Patsy's art supplies.
Did you know that fibers found on the duct tape have been linked to the jacket that Patsy wore the night before.
When Patsy greeted an officer at 5:55 a.m. she was wearing the same velvet black pants and jacket she had just worn to the Christmas party and her make-up was still on and her hair was still done.
Patsy maintains that she dressed that morning prior to finding out that JonBenet was missing.
It took the police more than a year to get the clothing the Ramseys were wearing the night before.
Patsy did not change her outfit from one day to the next on two days of TV interviews.
Police interpreted this as an effort to manipulate people into thinking that such was her common practice.
Police chief Beckner, who had headed up the Ramsey investigation, described the possible sources of the DNA found on JonBenet to include "Intentional placement".
Did you know that allegedly there was a book found in the Ramsey's bedroom that could possibly link them to their daughter's murder?
Book author and FBI criminal profiler John Douglas wrote Mind Hunter, which reads in part like the JonBenet case in the use of duct tape, ligatures, and similar phrases in its ransom note.
Investigators found that book in the Ramsey’s bedroom.
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