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The murder of JonBenét Ramsey quickly became a media sensation and several theories began to circulate. The official cause of death was ruled as asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma. There were also clear signs of blunt force trauma to the head, signs of possible sexual assault, and (according to a theory developed by detective Lou Smit) electrical burns on the cheek, suggesting that she may also have been tasered. The postmortem examination and autopsy of the body revealed that Ramsey had been strangled twice with a nylon cord, which had been tied to a piece of a paintbrush from the basement, presumably for leverage, in the guise of a rudimentary garrote. Ramsey quickly picked her up, loosened her bonds and carried her into the living room, but she was already long since dead. The little girl's white blanket was wrapped around her torso her right hand was bound with a piece of rope, which also made up a handcrafted garrote surrounding her neck and her mouth was taped over with black duct tape. Ramsey and one of the family friends, Fleet White, who were searching the house for clues on the advice of one of the detectives: Linda Arndt.

In the afternoon of the same day, the body of JonBenét was found in the house's wine cellar by Mr.

In the meantime, some family friends and a local minister arrived, and the Ramseys made preparations to pay the ransom.

Ramsey called the police, who came and searched the house finding no obvious signs of forced entry, with the exception of a broken window in the basement, which was said by John Ramsey to have been broken by him months earlier, when he got locked out without his keys. It ended with the word "Victory!", and was signed "S.B.T.C.". Ramsey received as a Christmas bonus from his company), with very specific instructions about the bills' denomination and how they were to be delivered. It demanded a ransom of $118.000 (almost exactly the very same amount Mr. Ramsey, claiming that their daughter had been kidnapped by "a group of individuals representing a small foreign faction". She was also a frequent competitor in children's beauty pageants (it was later argued that this was one of the main reasons why the case became so famous), winning her first one, the Colorado State All-Star pageant of 1994, at the age of four.Īrtist's recreation of the state of the body when it was found.Įarly in the morning of December 26, 1996, around 5:45 a.m., Patricia Ramsey woke up, discovered that JonBenét was missing, and found a two-and-a-half-page-long hand-written ransom note addressed to Mr. JonBenét attended High Peaks Elementary School and was a member of St. Ramsey took on as the chief executive of a computer company who recently merged with his own. In 1991, the family moved to Boulder, Colorado, where Mr. She had an older brother, Burke Ramsey, and two half-sisters from her father's first marriage: Melinda and Elizabeth Ramsey, the latter of whom died in an automobile accident when JonBenét was two years old. She was named after her parents, John Bennett Ramsey, a businessman, and Patricia "Patsy" Ramsey, a socialite and the Miss West Virginia of 1977. The decision to re-test DNA evidence from the case comes following the 20 year anniversary of the unsolved murder and a number of documentaries that reinvestigated the many anomalies of the case.īurke Ramsey also broke his silence, speaking exclusively to Dr Phil and maintaining his innocence in the murder of his younger sister.īoulder Police is yet to release a timeline for the testing of JonBenet's garments.JonBenét was born on August 6, 1990, in Atlanta, Georgia. The family, however, have always maintained their innocence and suggested the murder was the work of an intruder or a deranged pageant fan.īurke and JonBenet Ramsey. JonBenet Ramsey was first discovered missing from her bed in the early hours of Boxing Day in 1996 by her mother, Patsy Ramsey, who later discovered a ransom note and called the Boulder police. Her body was discovered later that day by her father, John Ramsey, in the basement of their house, having been strangled to death.ĭue to a number of major inconsistencies within the case, many have suspected John, Patsy and JonBenet's older brother Burke Ramsey guilty of the murder for the past two decades.