JonBenet Ramsey was a six-year old pageant queen who was brutally murdered in her own home. She was found in her basement by her father in Boulder, Colorado (The Denver Post). There are to be three conspiracy theories that the Ramsey’s plotted their own daughter’s death.
· Parents responsible for her death
· Sexually assaulted by her brother
· Killed by a Santa Claus impersonator
We are going to further examine the death of JonBenet Ramsey and to discover how she was brutally murder in her home in Colorado
JonBenet Ramsey, a young blonde haired, blue eyed pageant queen, was an ambitious six-year-old. After being crowned in five prestigious pageants, JonBenet also took first place in “Little Miss Colorado, America’s Royale Miss, and National Tiny Miss Beauty” (Lee). JonBenet was very “spunk” during her pageant times. She always had a smile on her face when she was competing during her pageants ( 20 Years After JonBenet Ramsey’s Death). During her pageant days, she competed against many girls from all over the world. While performing, she made many friends. Breanne Griego, Brandi Vigil and Thumper Gosney. These four friends always stayed so close to each other during pageants and spoke highly of each other, Breanne and JonBenet both won the “Little Miss Colorado crown” together and both of them were very excited about being crowned (1).
JonBenet Ramsey, being a very mature six-year-old, competed competitively during all of her pageant era. In JonBenet six years, she finally reached the status where she wanted to be. She earned the queen status in the world of beauty pageants (Lee 1). Others said a lot about her having a very flashy personality. She always had a smile on her face. While Ramsey was present, or competing, there was never a dull moment (20 Years After JonBenet Ramsey’s Death). JonBenet had a very charming attitude towards life, whether it was competing or just being with all of her friends during competitions.
In the mysterious murder of JonBenet Ramsey, there are three conspiracy theories that are: parents responsible for her death, her brother sexually assaulted her, or she was killed by a Santa Claus impersonator. These conspiracy theories didn’t line up and had major red flags.
The first conspiracy theory shows that JonBenet’s parents are responsible for her death in her home in Boulder, Colorado. You could see on the news and hear on the radio stations that the parents are covering up the murder of their daughter. Tampering with evidence to make it look like it was an accident (Walters). John Ramsey was accused for tampering with the evidence of his daughter, the morning of JonBenet’s disappearance during this tragedy, her was the only one that knew where her body may have been hidden (Four Pieces of evidence… JonBenet Ramsey case... don’t fit). In the articular of “Rolling Stone”, “John Bennett Ramsey found his daughter’s body in the basement wine cellar and carried her upstairs. He removed the tape from her mouth, and covered her body in a blanket, which could have destroyed important evidence.” (Reuters). A ransom note was left on the staircase of the Ramsey’s home, investigators said the ransom note was well written by a female; state investigators have voiced suspicion that Pasty, her mother, wrote the note, but she denied that allegation, and no one has ever been definitively identified as the writer (Jacobs, CBS).
The second conspiracy theory that the brother of JonBenet Ramsey, Burke Ramsey, sexually assaulted his little sister before she was murder. Burke was accused for this crime of his sister, and he was taken to court because of all the media pointing their fingers at him for this accusations (Belcher). Burke had many interviews with investigators and child specialist, as well (Dr.Phil). During one of his interviews, Burke was playful and light-hearted, then exactly two weeks after his sister’s death he became dull and told the specialist “I’m basically just going on with my life” (Jensen). A family friend was taking pictures of the Ramsey’s, and Burke had a bad temper and struck JonBenet in the face with a gold club (1). Also, investigators say that JonBenet made her brother mad by stealing a piece of his pineapple that Burke made for himself. In reaction, Burke hit JonBenet in the head with a flashlight not meaning to kill her just striking her out of anger (1). Burke Ramsey was falsely accused for sexually assaulting JonBenet. Investigators had DNA specialist run a rape test on JonBenet’s underwear, and John Karr, a schoolteacher, name came back. Later, prosecutors dropped the charge with John Karr. The test shows that the sample on her underwear was connected to a male but, the name of the male has not been identified (JonBenet Ramsey Murder fast facts).
The last and final conspiracy theory points out that the Ramsey’s hired a Santa Claus impersonator to play Santa Claus at their Christmas party. Bill McReynolds dressed up as Santa a week before the murder of JonBenet. The Ramsey’s throw their famous Christmas parties family and friends gather around for this special night (Lovitt). There was a rumor going around that McReynolds paid a little too much attention to JonBenet, and he would arrange secret visits from Santa on Christmas. Investigators supposedly said that McReynolds picked JonBenet as his “special friend” (1). As he dressed as Santa Claus, he made a good perp in a sexualized child murder. McReynolds brought a small tube of glitter that JonBenet gave him into his heart surgery (1). He became very strange while he was dying he asked his wife to mix the glitter that JonBenet gave him with his ashes. The wife became concerned with her husband and when he passed we have no evidence if his wife mixed his ashes with the glitter as he requested before he passed away.
A survey was taken at College of the Mainland asking twenty peers around the campus, ages between six-teen through fifty years old. The questions that were asked are “Do you believe JonBenet Ramsey was murder by a Santa Claus impersonator?” Or “ Do you believe JonBenet Ramsey was sexually assaulted by a Santa Claus impersonator?” Almost 95% of the peers said “No” to the first question which was very shocking. But, when asked the second question the comebacks of answers were outstanding: 25% of the peers said “Yes” and 75% of the rest of the peers said “No”. After hearing the answers, the peers were shocked not knowing a Santa Claus impersonator was accused for the murder of JonBenet Ramsey.
However, the case still carries on with the mysterious murder of the six-year-old pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey.
After further examination with the JonBenet Ramsey case, the three conspiracy theories still remain unsolved:
· Parents responsible for her death
· Sexually assaulted by her brother
· Killed by a Santa Claus impersonator
Even though this case has been going on for twenty years, evidence is still saying the parents had everything under control and killed their daughter. However, it is possible the Santa Claus impersonator killed JonBenet Ramsey.
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