So, lets delve deeper, what really happened to JonBenet?
Countless theorists have come up with crazy ideas on what really happened to her, did Burke do it? Was it her father? Did the mother cover something up?
Well, what we do know is-
JonBenét Patricia Ramsey (August 6, 1990 – December 26, 1996) was an American child beauty pageant winner who was killed at the age of six in her family's home in Boulder, Colorado. A long handwritten ransom note was found in the home. Her father, John, found the girl's body in the basement of their house about seven hours after she had been reported missing. She had sustained a broken skull from a blow to the head and had been strangled; a garrotte was found tied around her neck. The autopsy report stated that JonBenét's official cause of death was "asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma". Her death was ruled a homicide. The case generated nationwide public and media interest, in part because her mother Patsy Ramsey (herself a former beauty pageant winner) had entered JonBenét into a series of child beauty pageants. The crime is still unsolved and is still an open investigation with the Boulder Police Department.
Let’s start with the facts, on Christmas day 1996 the family had hosted a family get together, they put JonBenet to bed at around 9pm, maybe if the family knew what would happen just 6 hours later things may have been different.
Around 5am on 26th December 1996, Patsy woke up to find a 3 page ransom note on the bottom of the staircase, the note portrayed that someone had kidnapped JonBenet, obviously Patsy checked the bedroom of JonBenet and found she was missing.
The police were called and JonBenet was reported missing, the Ramsey’s explained there was a ransom note found that morning, the police came to investigate.
The ransom note was addressed to Mr Ramsey, they were apparently a “Small Foreign Faction” they explained that they “respected the business, just not the country they served” they requested $118,000 in cash, to be paid $100,000 in $100’s and the remaining $18,000 in $200’s, the reasoning behind this is unknown.
With JonBenét still missing, John planned to pay the ransom. A forensics team was dispatched to the house. The team initially believed that the child had been kidnapped, and JonBenét's bedroom was the only room in the house that was cordoned off to prevent contamination of evidence. No precautions were taken to prevent contamination of evidence in the rest of the house. Meanwhile, friends, victim advocates, and the Ramsey family's minister arrived at the home to show support. Visitors picked up and cleaned surfaces in the kitchen, possibly destroying evidence. Boulder detective Linda Arndt arrived at about 08:00, in anticipation of receiving further instructions by the kidnapper(s), but there was never an attempt by anyone to claim the money.
Later that afternoon, the Boulder PD asked the family to have a look around the house to see if anything seemed “a miss” John Ramsey (JonBenet Father) headed down to the basement, John opened the latched door which Officer French had overlooked and found his daughter's body in one of the rooms. JonBenét's mouth was covered with duct tape, a nylon cord was found around her wrists and neck, and her torso was covered by a white blanket. John picked up the child's body and took it upstairs. When JonBenét was moved, the crime scene was further contaminated, and critical forensic evidence was disturbed. The body was then taken to the hospital where an autopsy was later preformed.
The autopsy revealed that JonBenet had been killed by strangulation and a skull fracture. The official cause of death was "asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma." There was no evidence of rape, but sexual assault could not be ruled out. Although no semen was found, there was evidence that there had been a vaginal injury. At the time of the autopsy, the pathologist recorded that it appeared her vaginal area had been wiped with a cloth. Her death was ruled a homicide.
A garrotte that was made from a length of nylon cord and the broken handle of a paintbrush was tied around JonBenét's neck and had apparently been used to strangle her. Part of the bristle end of the paintbrush was found in a tub holding Patsy's art supplies, but the bottom third of it was never found despite extensive searching of the house by the police in subsequent days.
The autopsy revealed a "vegetable or fruit material which may represent pineapple," which JonBenét had eaten a few hours before her death. Photographs of the home taken on the day when JonBenét's body was found show a bowl of pineapple on the kitchen table with a spoon in it. However, neither John nor Patsy said they remembered putting the bowl on the table or feeding pineapple to JonBenet. Police reported that they found JonBenét's nine-year-old brother Burke Ramsey's fingerprints on the bowl. The Ramsey’s have always said that Burke slept through the entire night until he was awakened several hours after the police arrived, obviously this was contrary to the evidence, as there were Burkes fingerprints on the bowl, it is rumoured that once the adults had gone to bed the kids woke up for a kind of “mid-night snack” which would have been the party leftovers, so potentially the pineapple that was in her stomach, wasn’t cheese and pineapple a party staple back then?
Anyway, Errors that were made in the preliminary investigation complicated the resolution of the investigation and applicable theory. Those errors included loss and contamination of evidence, lack of experienced and technical staff on the investigation, evidence shared with the Ramsey’s, and delayed informal interviews with the parents, Lou Smit was a detective who came out of retirement in early 1997 to aid the Boulder County District Attorney's office with the case. In May 1998, he presented his findings to the Boulder police with other staff members of the DA's Office, concluding that the evidence pointed away from the Ramsey’s. They were unable to successfully challenge the police department's belief that the Ramsey’s were guilty.
However, Mary Lacy, the next Boulder County District Attorney, took over the investigation from the police on December 26, 2002. In April 2003, she agreed with a federal judge who sat on a 2002 libel case that evidence in the suit is "more consistent with a theory that an intruder murdered JonBenét than it was with a theory that Mrs. Ramsey did". On July 9, 2008, the Boulder District Attorney's office announced that, as a result of newly developed DNA sampling and testing techniques (touch DNA analysis), the Ramsey family members were excluded as suspects in the case. Lacy publicly exonerated the Ramseys.
Now, my theory is that John Ramsey was in on this, I think he staged the entire thing to get some fame and to do somethings for his currently failing company, I believe he got someone to abduct her early hours in the morning, take her and just kept her hid away for a while, but they killed her while trying to silence her as she was screaming to loudly, so they banged her on the head. I fully believe that she was in fact accidentally murdered and then when she was dead they just thought, why not and abused her dead body. Then proceeding to wash her and put her in the basement before the area was searched, anyone of the friends and family could have put her down there before the police had arrived, I fully believe patsy only hung the phone up to the police because there was someone at the door, John obviously answered the door and then had to tell Patsy she was dead, instead of being just taken as planned.
What do you think?!