...JonBenét Patricia Ramsey was born in Atlanta, Georgia on August 6th, 1990. She was murdered in her home December 25, 1996 and her body was found December 26, 1996, in the basement of their 4-story home, located in Boulder, Colorado. JonBenét was the daughter of John and Patsy Ramsey. She was an American childhood beauty queen. Media coverage of the case has often focused on JonBenét's participation in child beauty pageants, her parents' affluence and the unusual evidence in the case. Reports have also questioned the police's overall handling of the case. Several defamation suits have been filed against several media organizations by Ramsey family members and their friends over reporting of the murder. JonBenét’s murder – particularly as the days went by and no arrests were forthcoming – quickly became a national obsession, featured day after day on network news, television tabloid programs, talk radio, newspapers and magazines. Her image flitted across television screens numerous times, often showing her in a fancy red cowgirl outfit, singing "I want to be a cowboy sweetheart," or dancing across the stage in a glittering Las Vegas showgirl outfit, complete with heavy makeup. Her unusual first name became so well known that like Cher and Madonna she no longer had need of a last name. The public’s shock at the murder soon began to share equal time with its growing hate at the Boulder police’s investigation, a hate fed by a steady stream of leaks from the Boulder County District...
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...JonBenet Ramsey was a six year old beauty pageant star who was found dead on December 26th, 1996, the day after Christmas. She lived her mother Patricia also known as Patsy, her dad John and her older brother Burke in Boulder, Colorado. On morning of December 26th, when Patsy was walking down the stairs she found a ransom note. On the note, addressed to John, it said that in exchange for his daughter's safe return he would have to pay the 'kidnappers' $118,000, the same amount of money he got recently as a bonus that year. Patsy then proceeded to call the police. Eight hours after she called 911 John was searching for his daughter and came across her in the basement. JonBenet was found with her wrists tied up, duct tape over her mouth and a cord around her neck. Later on when she was examined the medical examiner stated that the cause of death was because of...
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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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...JonBenet Ramsey was a very beautiful pageant girl who died December 25,1996. Her case was never solved and it has been twenty years. The belief of this case has been unsolved for multiple reasons.According to deep research she found in the wine cellar of the family house taped up with a fractured skull. They found a suppose it ransom note,but they couldn’t find any DNA on the note.Also in that ransom note they say it's similar to the mother’s handwriting in the note and the sharpie came from the house. They found the murder weapon to be a flashlight and she was battered with it. As well as seeing the evidence lead up to no clues on her murder,but they found the range of how she was hit and they believed it was a young child. Also in the intense they couldn’t find any true evidence if it was true. Her brother was most under investigation, because he had a pure hate it for his sister. They had to investigate 140 people who could be the actually suspect in the crime. The case took so long they had to move the case to the FBI,because the family thought the police wasn’t working hard enough. Her brother had a complex issues with himself and he wanted he sister gone. The evidence found couldn’t define it was him or not they felt a hunch that could have been him that night....
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...JonBenet Ramsey is a six year old girl who lived in Boulder, Colorado. She was reported missing on a cold Christmas morning by her mother Patsy Ramsey. That night a caller reported a scream and a hard clash against the concrete from the house. Police received the call around 5:30 A.M claiming the JonBenet was taken from their home and the kidnapper had left a ransom note stating that they needed $118,000 or they were going to kill the child. The note was found on the staircase closest to JonBenets room. The kidnapper wrote that they would call at exactly 8 A.M to 10P. M. The detective that was sent to the house arrived precisely at 8:10 A.M sharp to monitor the call. Time Elapsed as the detective and the two parents waited eagerly for the call, but...
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...JonBenet was a sweet and pretty girl who loved to be in pageants. JonBenet was six years, but she was in pageants since she was 3 or 4 years old. But, the day of christmas her mother and father were up packing because they were going on a trip. Mrs. Ramsey had went to her room to wake her up too pee and she wasn’t in her bed so, soon as she knew she was missing she went to call the police. They had found a ransom note on the stairs telling them about the killing and what they wanted from them. When the police arrived they asked questions and they told them to search the house top to bottom.How did the dad know to go check the basement first? Good questions i think he knew where the body was the whole time and it took them eight hours to find her. They brought body out of the basement up to the living room where everyone was and laid the body on the ground....
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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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...Who Murdered JonBenet Ramsey? From researching the murder of JonBenet Ramsey and watching “The Case Of: JonBenet,” I believe that JonBenet’s brother, Burke killed her and their parents covered it up to protect their son. John and Patsy obviously succeeded because to this day, no one knows who killed JonBenet. I have many reasons behind why I think Burke Ramsey killed his six-year-old sister. One reason is because of the evidence at the crime scene. Another reason being the marks on JonBenet’s body. The last reason for me to believe Burke killed his sister is because of what he said and how he was acting when he was interviewed two weeks after JonBenet’s death. In my opinion, the evidence found in the Ramsey house after JonBenet’s death points...
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...Based on the Jon Benet Ramsey case some of the evidence that would help to solve the case would have been Fingerprints that may have been taken from the window that was supposedly broken from the previous summer. Written documents such as the ransom letter that was left at the crime scene. If the window was broken from the outside there should be footprints or smudge marks in the dirt from the intruder and also the broken glass from the window. John Ramsey stated that the glass in the basement was broken from the outside and in order for the investigators to determine if the glass was truly broken from the outside they can check to see if there is any glass outside of the house below the window just like john found pieces of glass inside the house. Also they can look at the different shapes of the glass, the edges of the glass will be different if it was broken on the outside rather than the inside. The glass evidence at the Ramsey house was a very important piece of evidence because the Ramsey’s stated that the house was broken into the previous summer but the question was why John felt the need to explain the fact that his window had been broken into that previous summer before they had even found his missing child, also why is it that this man of wealth left this window broken since the summer rather than getting it fixed. The glass that was found by the broken window if taken into evidence would have been a very important piece of evidence because it would help to determine...
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...The case of the disappearance and murder of Jon Benet Ramsey has yet to be solved. During the Christmas Season on the night of December 23rd, a Christmas party took place at the Ramsey home in Boulder, Colorado the person playing Santa Clause this night was a family friend named Professor Bill McReynolds (Camera Staff, 2012). At 1847hrs there was an accidental call to the Boulder 911 center. There was a responding Boulder Police Officer that responded to the Ramsey home where he was assured there was nothing wrong inside the home. On the night of the 24th, the Ramsey family attended twilight mass at the Episcopal Church in Boulder. That evening John Ramsey placed the children’s gifts from Santa Clause under the Christmas tree for Christmas...
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...Jonbenet Ramsey Jonbenet Ramsey, a 6 year old american beauty queen was murdered and found in her own home in Boulder, Colorado on December 26, 1996. A ransom note was found, and her father John Ramsey found Jonbenet Ramsey’s body in the basement about eight hours after she was reported missing. She carried a broken skull from a blow to the head and had been strangled, a garrote was tied around her neck. The police feel that the death of Jonbenet Ramsey was caused accidentally by Patsy or Burke, Jonbenet’s brother. They believe the ransom note was used to cover it up. It was strange that John led police right into the basement where Jonbenet was found, he picked up the body from off the floor and moved it to another location. John’s decision...
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...Phil." Dr Phil. N.p., 20 Sept. 2016. Web. 06 Mar. 2017. This past fall was the twentieth anniversary of the JonBenet Ramsey case. In spite of how the Ramseys get daily reminders of the tragic family affair and how they are able to handle it, the murder case has been thrown back into the limelight. Dr. Phil interviewed John Ramsey, father of JonBenet, about everything from how it was to sleep in the house to family secrets. Without any influence from his late wife, son or upcoming court case, John can speak freely about his thoughts. From this article, we can learn about some of his perspectives. "Jonbenet Ramsey Murder Documentary Uncovers Unheard Audio From 911 Call." ABC Premium News (n.d.): Points of View Reference Center. Web. 9 Feb....
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...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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...in a Spanish ship, sailing in Spanish waters. They only gave this ruling because the Africans didn’t speak English. Once the Africans found an interpreter and told their horrific story to the judge. After that, the judge ruled that the Amistad Africans were "born free and ever since have been and still of right are free and not slaves." The United States attorney filed an immediate appeal, and the case of the Amistad was destined for the United States Supreme Court. http://www.hlla.com/reference/lawinamerica.html Charles Manson Trial A: With the Charles Manson Trails, there were the four defendants of Charles Manson, Patricia Krenwinkel ("Katie"), Leslie Van Houten and Susan Atkins (aka Sadie Mae Glutz) http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/manson/mansondefendants.html B: Charles Manson, Patricia Krenwinkel ("Katie"), Leslie Van Houten and Susan Atkins (aka Sadie Mae Glutz) were all charged with the murders of the Tate/LaBiana Trial of Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Voytek Frykowski, Abigail Folger, and Steven Parent. Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were then the next two to be murdered....
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...Major 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...
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