The Tragic Murder Of JonBenét Ramsey

This week the combustion dissolved we discussed the death of JonBenet Ramsay a case that to this day still captivates the nation. I have to say, this one really gives me chills. It's not fun, no, it's not fun. A child died. I'm not excited. But. iPad. excited, but everyone seems to want to hear about it, so here we go, on the morning of December 26, 1996 in Boulder, Colorado, Patsy Ramsey claimed to have discovered a ransom note for her six-year-old daughter, JonBenet Ramsey, on the back staircase inside the house. she drove Patsy Ramsey to call the police at 5:52 a.m. m. to report that JonBenet had disappeared.

The people who were inside the house at the time were John Ramsey, her father, Patsy Ramsey, her mother, and Burke Ramsey, her nine-year-old brother. Interestingly, Jon Benet Ramsey's body was found less than eight hours later, someone even stranger, the body was found inside the Ramsey residence, in the basement utility room, the body was found by JonBenet's father, it was found with duct tape over her mouth and a soft cord around her neck. reported that the crime scene was severely compromised by the people who arrived at the scene, the police later claimed that they had not searched the house after Patsy's call because there was no reason to believe, according to the ransom note, that Jon Benet was in the house at the time of the crime. her death JonBenet Ramsey was a well-decorated beauty pageant competitor who had won at least five high-profile competitions her death was ruled a strange homicide, right, that's strange, peculiar, I mean, I'm trying to think like I've read a lot of these. cases I don't remember a case where the missing person was inside the house it's creepy in a creepy place check out the kids autopsy found Jon Benet was beaten to death while the county coroner ruled Jon Benet died of asphyxiation caused for being strangled a paintbrush from Patsy's hobby kit was used to tighten the rope that strangled JonBenet.

DNA was found on JonBenet's long boxers and underwear, both belonging to a single unidentified man who, when compared to the FBI's database of convicted violent felons in 2004, was not found among 1.5 million samples oh, it's not like that, okay, I don't know, just yeah, yeah, gross, we were getting here. Two sets of unidentified footprints were found at the scene. A rope was found near JonBenet's room which, however, did not belong to the Ramseys. As of 2006, the rope had never been tested. If someone broke into the house, they did so very cleanly, as there were no footsteps in the snow outside the house and no signs of forceful injuries.

This is Colorado, right, it's snowing. I mean, it's possible that maybe it will snow. It's covered but there's also snow that you don't know about because you're a lily from Southern California from your Chicago from the Windy City and I don't know anything about the weather so nice it's not that hard if it falls from the sky and hits the ground, there's some nuances, there is some complexity and if so, oh you don't even know, let's move on to the content of the ransom note, the note requested 118 thousand dollars in exchange for JonBenet Ramsay, even more strange why.

It's that weird number, well I guess it's very specific, in fact, let's address why it might be so specific. My detective brain tells you about this. I think it's all about numbers. I think it's up to you the first time. I did, but I think you're tooting your own horn, too much brain shaming. It is okay for the exchange to take place the next day between 8:00 and 10:00 am. m. The highly analyzed note begins with the quote from Mr. Ramsey listen carefully we are a group of people representing a small foreign faction we respect your business but not the country it served and a strange statement that would ultimately lead nowhere if they send someone a ransom note.

I imagine you would want to put as little detail as possible, I'm not going to say dear sir. Ramsay, it's me, tall guy, almost looks like a cartoon mm-hmm, almost like it's fake, let's move on, here's another excerpt from the quote. The two gentlemen who take care of your daughter don't particularly like you, so I advise you not to provoke them by talking to anyone about her situations, such as the police or the FBI, it will result in the beheading of her daughter. Jesus Christ, you may try to fool us, but keep in mind that we are familiar with police countermeasures and tactics.

He has a 99 percent chance of killing his daughter if he tries to outsmart her. Let's follow our instructions and you will have a 100% chance of recovering it. I know this guy has crunched the numbers. I've run the permutations on my little computer and everyone says you flooded my killer laptop. The letter was signed with the initials BTC. That still remains a mystery. A curious fact is that the sum of 118 thousand dollars was close to the amount that John Ramsey received as a bonus that year. Hmm, that's when you asked the question about the specificity of the number.

Yes, there it is. I connected the two documents, but I have connected them, however, the most chilling fact about the ransom note was that it was determined that the note was written with pencil and paper from inside the house, although this detail is absolutely horrible, too brought a lot of information. suspicion about the integrity of the note, this suggests that the killer somehow entered the house, wrote the note inside and for some reason Ben killed Jon Benet Ramsey after writing a ransom note, all of this occurred while the other three Members of the Ramsay family were inside the house.

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er to do everything. these weird little things inside the house yes, notepad analysis you suggested that a practice letter was written and part of a practice note was found, there were spelling errors in the letter in words thought to be easy like possession, they wonder how words like a Tosh a with an accent on the E or spelled correctly, some believe this adds up to the letter being a hoax and when combined with the lack of evidence of a trespasser, this case becomes even More puzzling, perhaps the practice letter was simply something like that. when you write like a banner and you write with a big marker and then when you do it, maybe they have like three letters to squeeze at the end and it looks out of place, you know, I'm just saying maybe I was spacing it out.

Well, then I don't understand the practice. I don't understand the decapitation. What is it about?. With that, let's get into the suspects, starting with the Ramseys themselves. At the beginning of the case, the Ramsey family was under intense scrutiny given the suspicions. From the ransom notes, authenticity, and little evidence suggesting an intruder, the actual person responsible for the murder varies depending on who is theorizing. A recent television show claims that police theorized that Patsy accidentally killed Jon Benet. That same program also posited that Burke Ramsey JonBenet's nine. -year-old also accidentally killed Jon Benet, however, for Patsy Ur Burke to be the culprit not only would the note have to be staged but also the strangulation and that doesn't add up considering that the evidence suggests that John Pinette was still alive while being strangled, Additionally, handwriting analysis also ruled out John Ramsey enrolling Patsy Ramsey, as inconclusive experts believe the science is more consistent with child abduction and murder committed by an intruder.

Fascinatingly, in 2013 it came to light that in 1999 a grand jury had voted to indict the Japanese parents on charges of child abuse resulting in death; However, Boulder's district attorney at the time, Alex Hunter, did not sign the indictment believing there was insufficient evidence to support the charges, casting further doubt on this theory. Since the DNA evidence that turned up at the crime scene officially exonerated the entire Ramsey family, you could see why people would think it might be one of them in the family, because if it really was an accident, they would have to cover it up. write a note that leads us to our first non-Ramsey suspect, a local man named Bill McReynolds, who had visited the Ramsey house two days before JonBenet's murder, sometimes dressed up as Santa Claus, his own daughter had been kidnapped twenty-two years ago. before John Pinette. murder his wife had written a play about a boy who was abused and then murdered in a basement according to the Denver Post this man felt close to Jon Benet here is a quote from him citing his murder was harder on me than my operation she did a profound change At the end of the date, McReynolds even mentioned the bio-shine that Jon Benet gave him at heart surgery.

The gift had been meaningful to him since no child had ever given him a gift while he was playing Santa. He even asked his wife to mix the glitter with her ashes. If she died, I don't like this man, this could also just be the acts of a kind old man, until he wants glitter mixed with her ashes, there I tell you what murdered her, maybe it's not the glitter with your ashes, it's a strange thing. asking for it is absolutely very strange I don't like that at all no I wish I didn't know but now it's in my brain and now it's in all your brains with whoever is watching this deal However, beyond these sensational details that can also be interpreted as the acts of a friendly old man, there is nothing to suggest that McReynolds is the murderer.

The next suspect is Gary Oliva, a man who lived a few blocks from the Ramsey home at the time of the crime. The 2016 murder Oliva was arrested on child pornography charges in December 2011 was based on unrelated drug charges and it was discovered that he was carrying a photo of JonBenet in his backpack. He explained why he had the photo to the Denver Post. JonBenet's murder quote moved me. I felt very deeply that she was an exceptional child whose death was an exceptional loss. I felt the need to build a monument, a shrine to remember this girl.

I know everyone wanted to hear about this case touching the suspect. This guy is very suspicious. Yes, Ryan. It's and it's only going to get worse why a high school friend of Liva's named Michael Vale revealed in an interview with In Touch magazine that Oliva called him a day after the murder occurred and said, I heard a girl. I heard a girl and she joked. According to Vale, Oliva also revealed the location where he had hurt this girl in Boulder Colorado, after which Oliva hung up the phone. This is interesting if true because records show that no other girl other than Jon Benet was hurt in that area that night.

Vale also revealed that the strangulation method used on Jon Benet was also allegedly used by Oliva when Oliva tried to strangle his own mother with a genius line, why would anyone make that up? I don't know, you have to imagine these people, it's such a sensational story. They would get paid to do an exclusive interview because it's exclusive when we're in touch, which we all know is the leading true crime publication in the United States. However, Gary Oliva also did not match the DNA evidence. The final suspect is John. Mark Karr I remember this guy, a divorced father and card-carrying elementary school teacher, hadn't become a suspect until almost 10 years after the murder, when he confessed to the murder via email to a journalism professor named Michael Tracy.

Tracy had been emailing back and forth with the car for four years to gain her trust, that's good journalism, that's good journalism, but you have to imagine it takes a toll on you emotionally, yeah, they have a weird pen like that and they fall off, yeah , that's a good way to put it. I just don't know what you say to someone for four years. No one has asked me if I murdered anyone. Maybe they are not asking the right questions. Tracy had this to say about the experience. He cites that you are reading and listening to a truly dark side of the human psyche. having to pretend it's okay that I wasn't going to judge because otherwise communication would have stopped this is by far the worst experience of my life, it was a horrible end to the date, was he pretending to be a weirdo too?

It had to be. Like man, I'm a journalist but I'm sick, trust me, trust me. I've been sick for four years, trust me. I am a sick man, write to me judging by this fellow's character which you will learn later, John. Mark Karr I don't think it takes much to outsmart him, to be honest, yes, I remember this fool in his emails using words similar to those in the ransom note, at one point he used his mother's nickname. Patsy in an email and it was It's strange that he even knew that the car would eventually clarify that he was in love with JonBenet and what he later confessed was that JonBenet hit him in the head with a flashlight.

Here are some of the quotes from the email. She, of course, was asleep from the momentwhich was. he took her out of her bed and took her to the basement her first reaction was where am I and I said you're in your basement she wasn't in that little room to be disgraced and I would never disgrace her or disgrace her she was there temporarily and what really What hurts me is that she stayed there and that's where her father found her and it's a horrible thing, end of quote, but we will still be here on August 16, 2008 with the help of British Intelligence, Royal Thai Authorities and the US The US Department of Homeland Security was able to locate the car in Bangkok, Thailand, where it had traveled from the United States. to escape child pornography charges in California a few months after this confession, Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy formally apologized to John Ramsay for the suspicion his family had lived with and said that no one in The Ramsey family is considered suspects.

Carr's DNA did it. did not match the DNA found at the scene and he was not charged with the murder, however, the US Department of Homeland Security continued to investigate John Mark Karr, who had always maintained that he had not acted alone, if you remember, they were found two sets of unidentified footprints at the scene, it's worth mentioning that former Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner and lead investigator on the case JonBenet Ramsey for a time said in a reddit AMA regarding John Mark Karr that quote from his confession once they shared it with us it didn't match the evidence at the scene we knew within about 18 hours he wasn't the guy we were able to confirm he wasn't even in Colorado at the time just by doing some routine checks and then I got pictures of him in Georgia at that time, end of quote.

I get it, in all these cases you just want justice so badly that you just wanted us to plug the holes in this one, even though I almost didn't. I don't want him like you know if he's just lying I didn't want to get what he wants yeah sure if you're the kind of person that wants to take credit for murdering a child yeah I don't know if we want to give it to him. him that satisfaction if you didn't do it no, you won't go to prison, you're a weirdo now that we've analyzed the suspects.

I would like to point out that on a recent CBS program, a DNA expert, dr. Henry Lee, best known for the OJ Simpson case, studied DNA from the scene of Jon Benet, dr. Lee discovered that Japanese underwear may have contained DNA transferred from the manufacturing process and demonstrated this by analyzing an unopened bag of underwear that also had foreign DNA. The CBS show concluded that the DNA from the crime scene was therefore fallacious, meaning that possibly any of the suspects listed could possibly be the killer, so it's basically making the case even more open-ended than it was. which we already thought, yeah, because the DNA was ruling out a bunch of other people, yeah, so it could possibly be anyone, what are we doing here? that's why it's inside the wife there's a reason it's not solved in the end no one really knows what happened to Jon Benet Ramsey the strange details of the case will likely forever cloud the truth and the case

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ally remains unsolved, no I can tell.

Who do I think did it? Our legal team informed me that I cannot intervene in that, but now I will blink in Morse code. Who do I think did it? You don't know Morse code well. Everyone who knows Morse code knows who. I thought I did it, so it didn't get resolved, well we didn't do anything here again, oh this was the worst, it was great, thanks Ryan, same time next week, no, okay, that's it my chair, that's why there is no one way to treat people.