Or who did it?
I have always believed that J-B died accidentally, perhaps from engaging in horseplay with her brother. I remember reading about a stun gun that was found at the house. Her parents (or more specifically, her mother) panicked and tried to make it look like she was murdered.
The note also contained the ransom of $118,000 - which was the exact amount of John Ramsey's bonus that year.
Something only John and Patsy knew.
That was a really odd family.
Remember Patsy's aunt (Aunt Pam?) trying to “channel” JonBenet so she could say who the murderer was?
Famed FBI profiler John Douglas made a very convincing case in his best-seller The Cases That Haunt Us that the family had absolutely nothing to do with JBR's murder. I've since agreed with this assessment and have come to believe that the family was targeted after Boulder PD botched the investigation so poorly that they had no other suspects to look at.