JonBenet Ramsey, a six - year old pageant queen, was found murdered in her own basement with a ransom note in her mother’s handwriting. The truth of whether JonBenet was murdered by her family or an intruder needs to be told. Was JonBenet really murdered by an intruder or was her family behind it all? A few conspiracies out there are the parents, John and Patsy, killed their daughter, Burke, JonBenet’s brother, killed her or the mother wrote the ransom letter to cover up the murder of the six - year old pageant queen murdered in the basement of her own home. We are going to explore whether JonBenet was murdered by her family or whether it was an actual intruder behind it all.
JonBenet Ramsey was not only a lovable, beautiful six - year old girl, but she was a pageant queen (JonBenet Ramsey Biography). At the age of six she had accomplished more than some competitors would ever accomplish, which caused more enemies than friends, as it should, considering she was so very talented. “Many people, though, are made viscerally uncomfortable by the sight of prepubescent girls, or for that matter preschoolers, showing off their bodies as a competitive activity.” (Adler). She was a mature young lady, with a bright future ahead of her with competing. JonBenet did not have the typical life of a six - year old. Instead of getting to play outside, have a social life with other children, she had to wear a face of makeup and fancy gowns, with a ton of pageant practice. Although, she looked very happy, nobody will ever know if she was truly happy or if she did pageants just to please her mother.
From the outside in JonBenet looked like the happiest of girls, but from the inside out there is much more to it. The six - year old was a beautiful young lady, but looks are not everything. At six – years old JonBenet had accomplished more than most pageant competitors would ever accomplish in their life doing pageants. She worked hard and pushed her hardest to win, but was competing really what the young girl wanted to do or was it her mother’s dream. Nobody will ever truly know if JonBenet was truly happy because she was so young and was murdered at such a young age (Bennett). The smile she always kept on her face is very applaudable though. Through all the pictures of the young lady, she seems to have always kept a smile on her face. “JR: She was a spark-plug in our family. She was a ball of energy. That's just something you can't not remember.” (The Documentary Transcript). Winning pageants was no surprise, the beautiful young girl had blonde hair and blue eyes, there is just something that is not right with her murder (Jonbenet Ramsey - Height Birthday Zodiac Filmography Education Biography). JonBenet was only a child, a young girl, trying to live her life.
In the unsolved murder of JonBenet Ramsey, there are three conspiracy theories that could all match up to be true. One being that an intruder came in and attacked her, due to them having a rather large Christmas party just days before (Reynolds). The other two theories both have to do with the Ramsey family, due to the suspicion of how the family acted towards the death of JonBenet.
The first conspiracy theory points to an intruder: “DNA found in 2008 suggested that a man who wasn't related to the Ramseys was involved in the murder, and an analysis of the ransom note suggested that, contrary to popular opinion, none of the Ramsey family members wrote it” (Carrejo). An intruder being behind the murder could be possible due to the Ramsey family having a Christmas party just days before the incident (Reynolds). Some evidence points to an intruder, but since the DNA was inconclusive there was absolutely no proof that an intruder murdered JonBenet. To this day, the theories are only just theories though, there was no actual proof of who killed the innocent young girl.
The second conspiracy allows people to think that the parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, murdered their little girl:
After Mrs Ramsey’s Boxing Day call, police found a strange, three-page ransom note apparently from a “small foreign faction” who demanded £95,000 for JonBenet’s return — the exact figure of her successful businessman father’s bonus. The note was written on Mrs. Ramsey’s pad (along with some practice drafts) and police repeatedly compared it to her writing, but could not draw a conclusive answer about whether they matched.” (Reynolds)
The ransom note was supposedly in Mrs. Ramsey’s hand-writing. Therefore, the parents could have murdered her and in a freak out decided to stage the entire incident as if an intruder had done it all. The body of young JonBenet was moved before the cops could even see, “It wasn’t until later that day that John Ramsey would open the door to the room and carry the body, which was under a white blanket, upstairs” (Newsweek). John Ramsey moved the body, disturbing any evidence on her and doing that not only messed the case up, but destroyed evidence that could have led to finding the murder of his young daughter JonBenet: “In doing so, he contaminated the crime scene and may have disturbed critical forensic evidence the police could have used to help identify the killer” (Newsweek). All of the parents’ actions were suspicious, leading the police and the public to believe that they could have been behind the whole murder.
The last conspiracy theory is that JonBenet’s brother, Burke Ramsey, murdered her.
The older brother had seemed jealous of JonBenet always getting the attention. She was a pageant queen that received all the attention (The Forensic Outreach Library). JonBenet and her brother Burke had a late night snack of pineapple: “Most incriminatingly, the fingerprints of Burke (JonBenét’s brother) were found on a bowl of pineapple discovered in the kitchen after the murder”(1). JonBenet had pineapple in her stomach in her autopsy, that being the last thing she ate before her death (The Forensic Outreach Library): “Another interesting, and unusual find, that came to light during the autopsy was the undigested remnants of pineapple in JonBenét’s stomach suggesting she’d eaten shortly before her death. Both Patsy and John deny giving her this fruit” (1). Again though, this is just yet another theory about the murder of a young pageant queen.
Over the years the three conspiracies stay the same: an intruder murdering her, John and Patsy Ramsey, (her parents) being behind the murder and her older brother Burke killing her out of pure jealousy and hate. The JonBenet Ramsey case still remains unsolved to this day. The young, beautiful pageant queen never got justice over her drastic murder.
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Carrejo, Cate. “The JonBenet Ramsey Intruder Theory Is Compelling.” Bustle, Bustle, 20 Mar. 2018, www.bustle.com/articles/182286-what-is-the-intruder-theory-the-jonbenet-ramsey-case-has-numerous-plot-holes.
“Four Pieces of Evidence in the JonBenét Ramsey Case That Just Don't Fit.” The Forensic Outreach Library, 1 Apr. 2018, forensicoutreach.com/library/four-pieces-of-evidence-in-the-jonbenet-ramsey-case-that-just-dont-fit/.
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