Two patrol officers attended and took basic information but did not treat the Ramsey house as a crime scene. The note demanded a ransom of $118,000 be paid in certain bills or JonBenet would die.īoulder Police recorded Patsy Ramsey’s report being phoned in at 5:51 am. The author directed the letter at John Ramsey and claimed to represent a group of individuals from a foreign faction who were “ in possession” of JonBenet. Patsy Ramsey claimed to have come downstairs to the kitchen at five o’clock on Boxing Day morning and found a two-and-a-half page, hand-written ransom note on the landing of their secondary staircase. Was it a lack of viable suspects? Lack of admissible evidence? A homicide investigation mishandled right from the start? Or was it failure to properly decipher the murder mystery’s most important clue -the ransom note? Here’s a look at what the case facts tell us about who really killed JonBenet Ramsey. The little girl became a cultural obsession and the person or persons guilty of JonBenet’s death were never prosecuted. Setting stupid conspiracy theories aside, the fact remains that someone viciously slaughtered JonBenet.
Now -twenty years later -the child beauty queen’s cold case has little new to offer except for the recent suggestion that JonBenet never really died and that she’s actually the current pop-star, Katy Perry. Immediately, police and media suspicion focused on her wealthy parents, John Bennet Ramsey and Patricia (Patsy) Ramsey, as being responsible. On December 26, 1996, the beaten and strangled body of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found hidden in the basement of her Boulder, Colorado, home.