JonBenet RAMSEY, Chart
born August 6, 1990 at 1:36 AM in Atlanta (GA) (USA)
JonBenét Patricia Ramsey (August 6, 1990 – December 26, 1996) was a six-year-old girl found murdered in the basement of her parents' home in Boulder, Colorado, nearly eight hours after she was reported missing. The case drew attention throughout 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. Many details of the case, including her parents' wealth, her apparently violent death, and the fact that JonBenét had frequently been entered in beauty contests, enhanced public interest in the case.On August 16, 2006, the case returned to the news when John Mark Karr, a 41-year-old school teacher, reportedly confessed to her murder. (On August 28, 2006, the district attorney, Mary Keenan Lacy, announced that Karr's DNA did not match that found at the scene, and no charges would be brought against him).JonBenét Ramsey was born in Atlanta, Georgia, but the family relocated when JonBenét was one 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 also later became Miss West Virginia 1980. JonBenét Ramsey held a number of child beauty contest titles, including: America's Royal Miss, Colorado State All-Star Kids Cover Girl, Little Miss Charlevoix Michigan, Little Miss Merry Christmas, Little Miss Sunburst, and National Tiny Miss Beauty. John Ramsey, JonBenét's father, is a wealthy businessman, and former president and chief executive officer of Access Graphics, a computer services company.JonBenét's grave is in Saint James Episcopal Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia, beside the grave of her mother.
Murder case
According to the testimony of Patsy Ramsey, on December 26, 1996, she discovered her daughter missing after finding a two and a half-page ransom note on the kitchen staircase, demanding US$118,000. Despite specific instructions in the ransom note that police and friends not be contacted, she telephoned the police and called 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. John Ramsey made some arrangements for the availability of the ransom, which a friend, John Fernie, picked up that morning from a local bank.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. After first searching the bathroom and "train room," the two went to a "wine cellar" room (not actually used for that purpose) where John found his daughter's body covered in a white blanket. Later that evening, a search warrant was issued that authorized the police to remove the body. Normally 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 garrotte 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 likely was sexually assaulted either digitally or with a paintbrush, but there was no evidence of rape. The official cause of death was asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma. The brush end of the paint brush was found in a tub of Patsy Ramsey's art supplies, but the top third never was located despite extensive searching of the house by law enforcement in subsequent days. Experts noted that the construction of the garrotte 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; some medical experts believe this could have happened in the afternoon before the Ramseys went to a party given by their close friends, Fleet and Priscilla White, whereas others say it must have been after the Ramseys came home (even though the parents claimed she had fallen asleep in the car and remained asleep while put to bed). The latter theory is most plausible, since photographs of the home taken the day JonBenét's body was found show a bowl of pineapple on the kitchen table with a spoon in it. Neither Patsy nor John remembers putting this bowl in the table nor feeding it to JonBenét.
Clues
All blood evidence, including blood found in underwear worn by the victim, blood on a Barbie nightgown found on the floor next to the body, and blood on a white blanket, was sourced to JonBenét. However, police investigations within and around the residence discovered the following clues which can be 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 guest room near JonBenét's room
Physical marks on JonBenét's body that suggested the use of a stun gun. There is, however, only one mark on her neck and the use of a stun gun is inconsistent with the mark.
A DNA sample on JonBenét's underwear (believed to be saliva) that did not match any known suspect
A DNA sample found under JonBenét's fingernails that also did not match any known suspectRansom note
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. A practice sheet of the ransom note was found on the same pad of paper, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 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., a figure that closely matched a $118,117.50 company bonus that John Ramsey recently received., and his financial liabilities, recorded on a home computer, of $1,118,000. The police regarded the ransom price as a suspiciously low amount of money in proportion to John Ramsey's income and net worth (in excess of $6 million, also reported on the home computer). The writer of the note claims "We are a group of individuals that represent a small foreign faction. We respect your bussiness (sic) but not the country that it serves." The parents have always maintained that the crime was committed by an intruder, and a group of investigators in the employ of the Ramsey family favor that theory.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.

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