Child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was strangled in her own home in December 1996. A new Netflix documentary series reexamines the gruesome killing.
A child beauty queen’s death, a botched investigation and decades of mystery: What we know about JonBenét Ramsey’s killingWhoever duct-taped JonBenét Ramsey’s mouth shut, bludgeoned the six-year-old Colorado girl and strangled the child beauty queen in her own home has evaded capture for almost 28 years.
The kindergartener was already wearing high heels and following the footsteps of her beauty queen mother, Patricia “Patsy” Ramsey, a former Miss West Virginia. The next day, JonBenét’s lifeless body was found in the family’s basement with a cord around her neck.The morning after Christmas, Patsy Ramsey went to the kitchen to make coffee. On her way down the spiral staircase, she found a lengthy, bizarre ransom note.
The coroner who performed JonBenét’s autopsy said the child died from suffocation in conjunction with forcible trauma to her skull. JonBenét had an 8.5-inch skull fracture. "We knew they were totally focused on Patsy and I, and we were aghast," he told CNN’s Kate Bolduan Tuesday."But I said to them, 'OK, great. Let’s work through that and then don’t stop there.' Well, they did stop there. And our big frustration with the police all along has been that they’ve refused help from the outside that could have helped.
"Additionally, it was the Boulder Police Department — not the Colorado Bureau of Investigation — who convened the Cold Case Review Panel in December 2023 as part of its investigation efforts."After two years of public fascination, rampant speculation and no suspect arrested, the Boulder County district attorney convened a grand jury in 1998.
The DNA of an unknown male was detected – but the DNA didn’t match anyone who had been near the scene or who had handled her body. The results excluded John, Patsy and Burke Ramsey. In 2006, teacher John Mark Karr was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand. The 41-year-old repeatedly said he loved JonBenét and was with her the night she died. He also insisted her death was an accident.
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