...JonBenét Ramsey, a young beauty queen. She was very well know for her incredible pageant work. On December 25th 1996, she was found murdered in her parents basement. The possible suspects were her parents who were proven innocent, or her brother, many also believe the family had nothing to do with the death of their 6 year old child. So who is really responsible? The brother who has just recently spoken out about his sister or was it a family friend that was never caught? Burke Ramsey, brother of JonBenét, after 20 years finally spoke out on why he hasn’t spoken on the death of his sister. He claims “I wanted to grow up as a normal kid, which does not include going in front of TV cameras”(ABC News). Burke was originally taken off the suspect list when the DNA tests first happened, but later he was put back on after forensics specialists noticed there was multiple different DNA samples. Murder specialists think that is why Burke is just now speaking out. “Seemed like it would rouse it all up again”(ABC News), says Burke on why he waited so long to be interviewed. Burke was the number one suspect on CBS’ The Case of JonBenét ramsey. At the end of the special they revealed...
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...JonBenet Ramsey was born on August 6, 1990. Her father, John Ramsey, was a wealthy businessman and her mother, Patsy Ramsey, was a socialite. Patsy Ramsey won Miss West Virginia in 1977 and had been in many pageants when she was young. JonBenet had an older brother, Burke Ramsey who was soon to be 10 years old. It appears to many people that Patsy lived vicariously through her daughter; JonBenet had been in many beauty pageants by only the mere age of six. The Ramsey family was very wealthy and lived in a large house in a relatively nice area in Boulder, Colorado. On December 26, 1996, there was a 911 call at 5:52 am from a frantic Patsy Ramsey claiming her daughter was missing and kidnapped, along with receiving a ransom note; police raced to the scene. Hours later, John Ramsey found his daughter JonBenet in the wine cellar of their basement, wrapped in a blanket, dead and appearing to be strangled. In the 911 call made by Patsy Ramsey, you can hear that she seems...
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...approx. 10pm- JonBenet last scene alive by Patsy Ramsey. 12/26/1996- Ramsey parents say they were not awaken at any point during the night. 12/26/1996, approx. 12am- Neighbor says he saw people creeping around in the kitchen of the Ramsey household. 12/26/1996, approx. 2am- Neighbor, Melody Stanton, said she heard a scream. 12/26/1996, approx. 5:30am- Ramsey parents wake up, take showers, get dressed, and Patsy goes down the back stairs to the kitchen. 12/26/1996, approx. 5:45am- Patsy finds the ransom note on the back staircase. She reads the first few lines and figures out that JonBenet has been “kidnapped”. She runs up to JonBenet’s bedroom and screams. 12/26/1996, approx. 5:50am- Patsy and John go to Burke’s bedroom and see that he is still sleeping. 12/26/1996, 5:52am- Patsy calls 911 while John reads the ransom note. 12/26/1996, approx. 6am- Officers arrive at the Ramsey home, regarding a kidnapping. They search the home, including the basement, but don’t find anything. Officer French says he went down to the basement to search it but decided to not search the wine cellar, the room where JonBenet’s body was. 12/26/1996, 6:06am- Fleet White and his wife (family friends) arrive at the house. Fleet decides to search the basement. He says he went to the wine...
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...Instrumental-coerced confessions mean that long hours of intense interrogations without any break can lead a suspect to confess to a crime they did not commit. Even if a suspect knows they are innocent they end up confessing due to mental and emotional exhaustion caused by intense interrogation. This is evident in the case of the Central Park Jogger case where five suspects were exonerated years after they had falsely confessed to raping and beating a woman who was jogging through Central Park. Four of the five defendants had videotaped their confessions sharing gruesome details of the crime. Nevertheless, no physical or DNA evidence convicted them of the crime. Years later the perpetrator Matias Reyes, a convicted serial rapist, and murderer,...
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...Diana Aldana Eng. 1301 Sanchez-Hatch 2/12/14 Beauty is Pain John Ramsey and his family made the top on national prominence in 1996, when Ramsey's 6-year-old daughter JonBenet, a frequent child pageant contestant, was found murdered. John now regret putting his child in pageants and says they are bad for young girls. Beauty pageants are beautiful but they can cause pain in different ways. Children beauty pageants are bad because they are sexualize young girls, wear high heels, cause cognitive and emotional problems. French lawmakers want an all-out ban on child pageants. They are accusing the media and reality TV of promoting stereotypes that transform young girls into sexual morsels. Look at the growing number of schoolgirls as young as 8 who wear padded bras, high heels, or makeup, and strike suggestive poses. What is that telling the children about how they present themselves to society? In the other hand, children in pageants can carry over into a multitude of other activities, like dance, drama, music recitals, and future public speaking. A pageant girl usually learns to be comfortable in front of strangers, giving her self-confidence a big boost When little pageant contestants wear heels it unnecessarily pushes their weight forward, causing lower back pain and hindering proper development of the feet. In some cases, these girls are forced to continue wearing heels outside of pageants because their feet have grown in a way that makes wearing other kinds of shoes...
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...Crime Unit : NH State Police Summer Internship | Heating up: Cold Cases | Meredythe Leonard | | Heating Up: Cold Cases Countless developments in police science have occurred in the past decade or so. Many of these improvements can be seen as small, but imagine the challenges faced by crime scene investigators 50 or more years ago. The law enforcement agencies of the past did not have routine access to the amount information that officials today can gather and analyze from a crime scene. Current day crime scene investigation can range from the downright tedious to the technologically astounding, but they have all greatly impacted how evidence is collected, documented, and analyzed. There are around one hundred unsolved homicides in New Hampshire alone, dating back to the early 1960’s. (Department of Justice, 2015). Evidence from those crimes could quite possibly be the golden ticket in solving the wrongdoing, but with outdated techniques and capabilities, the answer will remain a mystery. If the state makes older evidence testing a priority, cold cases could finally find the justice deserved with the help of current day technology. Throughout the rest of this discussion, the call for new evidence testing in cold cases is examined while highlighting the need and importance for skilled investigators. Determination and patience, in the advancing field of forensic testing, have unlocked numerous cases not only in New Hampshire, but also across the country. One of...
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...Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 BRAIN POWER Myth #1 Most People Use Only 10% of Their Brain Power Myth #2 Some People Are Left-Brained, Others Are Right-Brained Myth #3 Extrasensory Perception (ESP) Is a Well-Established Scientific Phenomenon Myth #4 Visual Perceptions Are Accompanied by Tiny Emissions from the Eyes Myth #5 Subliminal Messages Can Persuade People to Purchase Products 2 FROM WOMB TO TOMB Myth #6 Playing Mozart’s Music to Infants Boosts Their Intelligence Myth #7 Adolescence Is Inevitably a Time of Psychological Turmoil Myth #8 Most People Experience a Midlife Crisis in | 8 Their 40s or Early 50s Myth #9 Old Age Is Typically Associated with Increased Dissatisfaction and Senility Myth #10 When Dying, People Pass through a Universal Series of Psychological Stages 3 A REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST Myth #11 Human Memory Works like a Tape Recorder or Video Camera, and Accurate Events We’ve Experienced Myth #12 Hypnosis Is Useful for Retrieving Memories of Forgotten Events Myth #13 Individuals Commonly Repress the Memories of Traumatic Experiences Myth #14 Most People with Amnesia Forget All Details of Their Earlier Lives 4 TEACHING OLD DOGS NEW TRICKS Myth #15 Intelligence (IQ) Tests Are Biased against Certain Groups of People My th #16 If You’re Unsure of Your Answer When Taking a Test, It’s Best to Stick with Your Initial Hunch Myth #17 The Defining Feature of Dyslexia Is Reversing Letters Myth #18 Students Learn Best When Teaching Styles Are Matched to...
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