How would you feel knowing that your child went “missing” and ended up dead in your own home, a day after Christmas? Well, this is what happened in the unsolved murdered case of Jon Banet Ramsey, a six-year-old girl who participated in many beauty pageants. Many argue that the brother was the one who murdered his own sister, and the parents are covering it up. Others say that John Mark Karr did it since he confessed to “[being] in the Ramsey house the night of the murder and saw Jon Benet die” (Wittmer 1). Despite the conspiracy theories behind this case, the most likely one is that the brother was at fault and the family is covering everything up.
JonBenet Ramsey was a talented little girl. Following in her mother’s footsteps, who won Miss West Virginia 1977, she participated in many beauty pageants at a young age (Suglia, 2). The little “kindergartener’s sparkling smile, glowing blonde hair” and green eyes was the center of attention from the public (Worthen, 3). With her just being six years old of age, she participated in a lot of beauty pageants. With so much beauty in her, she has “[gained] five pageantry titles: Little Miss Colorado, Little Miss Charlevoix, Colorado State All-Star Kids Cover Girl, America's Royale Miss, and National Tiny Miss Beauty” (3).
Some of her beauty pageant competitors like Thumper Gosney, remember participating in the contest with JonBenet. She recalls her by “the spunk she had on stage”, who was competing for the Little Miss Sunburst 1996 along with JonBenet (“20 Years After JonBenet Ramsey's Death…,10”). Jon Benet can be described as a playful little girl as well due to her playing with Barbie’s with her competitors like Thumper Gosney during breaks in the competitions. When Gosney would disappear, she remembers her mother looking for her. When she found Gosney, Gosney responded with “I was playing Barbies with JonBenet” (10) meaning that JonBenet was a jolly girl.
In the JonBenet Ramsey case, a lot of conspiracies theories came up into how she was murdered. In the first conspiracy theory, they found fingerprints of JonBenet brother, Burke Ramsey, in a bowl in the kitchen with pineapple (Walsh). When performing the autopsy on JonBenet, they found pieces of undigested pineapple in her stomach which meant she had to have eaten it before getting murdered. It was mostly described in the autopsy as “the small intestine contains fragmented pieces of yellow to light green-tan apparent vegetable or fruit material which may represent fragments of pineapple” (“Autopsy Report.”).
With more added to this conspiracy, JonBenet also had a severe blunt force trauma to the head. At the scene, there is a picture of the kitchen, where the bowl of pineapple is along with a flashlight in the counter (CBS,3). This flashlight could have been used by Burke to hit JonBenet and gave her the outrageously huge indentation in the skull. Even a boy that were the same age as Burke at the time of the murder, gave a massive hit to the head of a skull and were surprised that the crack was “very similar to the type of break [they] saw on JonBenet” by the experiment performed (3). He might have thrown a fit due to JonBenet getting one of his pineapple slices which made him hit her with the flashlight. Also looking at interviews of Burke Ramsey make him a suspect. When interviewed as a kid, he says “whoops” in the video as if the killer accidentally hit her when kids will mostly say “bam, bang, bop” etc.… (Eery Burk Ramey Interview!). He was basically describing the murder scene. Very cold and unnatural. Also, nobody grins or smirks when talking about their sister’s death as he does in a Dr. Phil interview. He even describes JonBenet in the casket while smiling ear to ear “I remember the casket was small and her eyes were closed. I think one of her eyes was little bit like droopy or something? I thought that was weird.” (ABCNews). Only people who have murdered someone will show no emotion no matter what the age is. If he states that he did not kill his sister, why wont he show any sentiment while talking about her? Nobody should be smiling while talking about the death of a loved one and especially knowing that if you had nothing to do with it, to prove the public wrong and to question them who might have done such horrible thing. To still ask for help in helping solve this case so his sister (JonBenet) can rest in peace.
Although when he is describing how he saw her on the casket, we can recall back on the day of the murder, how Patsy Ramsey (the mother of JonBenet and Burke) called the police and in the 911 call, we can hear her saying “what did you do? Help me Jesus” and a child saying, “ what did you find?” implying that it could be Burke since he was the only kid in the house. And with the staged ransom note that his mother made stating that JonBenet was “kidnapped” and that the “kidnappers” wanted something in return makes it fishy (CBS). That ransom note even matched the same paper as the notepad in the Ramsey’s home. This was all planned in such short time so she can protect the identity of her son, Burke, since he was his only live child left. As well, Nobody that calls the police says they’ve got a kidnapping because in general, that is what the police say, not a mother. It was a maternal thing to do though of her knowing well that Burke killed his sister and she was doing a bad thing covering him up. Patsy should have done the right thing to be her son could be held accountable of his mistake even if the would call it an “accidental” thing.
Second conspiracy theory was about John Mark Karr confessing ten years later about how he supposedly was there at the time of the murder. Was he though? Well, ten years later, John was living in Thailand in 2006 when he “…initially brought himself into the mess by reaching out to a University of Colorado Boulder professor named Michael Tracey over email regarding a documentary Tracey was making on the case. Once those e-mails took a disturbing turn – revealing the grown man's sexual fascination with JonBenét – Tracey reported Karr to the police who arrested him in Bangkok as a possible suspect. He was immediately flown to Boulder for questioning…” (Lovitt). He also states in a bizarre description how he “recalls strangling JonBenét in a "love game" gone wrong. "Close your pretty eyes, sweetheart," reads the excerpt, in which Karr repeatedly refers to himself as "Daxis." "Daxis loves you so much. Oh God, I love you, JonBenét. And my lover's eyes are slowly closing …" (Lovitt). But then he also vaguely states "her death was an accident. I was with her when she died. But I was not the person who caused it." (1). Was he really the one who murdered JonBenet Ramsey since he kind of contradicts himself too when he says he still knows the identity of the murderer, but he staged the crime scene to confuse the police at the time of the investigation (1).
1. The brother (Burke Ramsey) murdered his own sister and the parents are covering it up
2. John Mark Karr did it
In 2018, the twenty-second-year anniversary of the unsolved murder case remains a mystery. Burke Ramsey remains as the top suspect in his sister’s death.
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“Autopsy Report.” The Office of The Boulder County Coroner, 27 Dec. 1996, pp. 1–9., hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_national/jonbenet_ramsey/jonbenet_ramsey_autopsy.pdf.
CBS. “The Case Of: JonBenet Ramsey - Blunt Force Trauma.” YouTube, YouTube, 18 Sept. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=72p_NjCl4pE.
CBS. “The Case Of: JonBenet Ramsey - A Tipping Point?” YouTube, YouTube, 19 Sept. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX-HQmRauxA.
“Eery Burke Ramsey Interview! (January 1997).” YouTube, YouTube, 14 Sept. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6iy6ZhMjTs.
Lovitt, Bryn. “Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey? 8 Possible Suspects.” Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2016, www.rollingstone.com/culture/lists/who-killed-jonbenet-ramsey-8-possible-suspects-w443881/the-schoolteacher-w444379.
Suglia, Casey. “What Was Patsy Ramsey's Job? JonBenet's Mother Dedicated Her Time To Her Kids.” Romper, Romper, 22 Feb. 2018, www.romper.com/p/what-was-patsy-ramseys-job-jonbenets-mother-dedicated-her-time-to-her-kids-17609.
Walsh, Megan. “What Was The JonBenet Ramsey Pineapple Evidence? It's Crucial To The Timeline Of The Case.” Romper, Romper, 20 Mar. 2018, www.romper.com/p/what-was-the-jonbenet-ramsey-pineapple-evidence-its-crucial-to-the-timeline-of-the-case-16982.
Wittmer, Carrie. “All the Theories about Who Really Killed JonBenét Ramsey.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 3 May 2017, www.businessinsider.com/who-killed-jonbenet-ramsey-theories-2017-4/#patsy-ramsey-the-mother-1.
Worthen, Meredith. “JonBenét Ramsey.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 22 May 2017, www.biography.com/people/jonbenet-ramsey-12986606.
“20 Years After JonBenet Ramsey's Death, Her Pageant Friends Remember 'Fun-Loving Kid'.” Inside Edition, Inside Edition, 12 Sept. 2016, www.insideedition.com/headlines/18595-20-years-after-jonbenet-ramseys-death-her-pageant-friends-remember-fun-loving-kid.
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