Posted on 08/18/2006 11:10:04 AM PDT by delacoert
(CNN) -- JonBenet Ramsey's body was discovered on December 26, 1996, in a storage room in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.
A three-page hand-written ransom note demanding $118,000 was found on a back staircase leading down from the home's bedroom areas, according to the late Patsy Ramsey.
JonBenet's autopsy report, released by the Boulder County coroner in August 1997, is the main source of what is publicly known about the crime scene. The report included the following details:
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A Boulder Country judge ordered the autopsy report released over the objections of investigators, who contended it should not be released because it contained information that only the killer or killers would know.
Since this terrible event happened, several thousand other children have been murdered. Wars have taken place and are still currently.
More problems then GOD knows and still we obsess with this? I just don't understand.
I feel badly that this ever occured but come on, there are serious other events.
Please post more about them.
>>>Since this terrible event happened, several thousand other children have been murdered. Wars have taken place and are still currently.
More problems then GOD knows and still we obsess with this? I just don't understand.
I feel badly that this ever occured but come on, there are serious other events.>>>
If this were YOUR daughter, none of those others issues would be more important. You are callous and should be ashamed.
That's a lot of info - thanks for putting it out. I continue to be suspicious of the claims that this freaky guy knew secret details of the crime scene. Everything he has directly said, and his attempts to contact Patsy Ramsey and have a poem read at the child's grave, are signs of pathetic, delusional behavoir. Not what I would expect from a diabolical kidnapper/child killer/rapist.
IMHO, these ultra-weirdo-creepy Ramsays rented the kid out in some semblance of a "Eyes Wide Shut" cult.
You make some very good points and I don't entirely side with those who say you're callous or whatever. To answer your question, I think the fascination with this case as opposed to the others you cite has to do with humans' sense of justice or, in this case, justice denied. In this case, she has meaning for us that the others don't yet. We could all imagine it, so it is more real. There has been no closure (apologies for the pop psychobabble), so we are unable to let it go. We, especially those with kids, wait for justice and answers as to who did it and why.
well just sit there and obsess there slick.
Did the Ramsey's go to Georgia the day she was found dead?? Wendy Murphy said they did.
>>>well just sit there and obsess there slick.>>>
Noone is obsessing, but don't make fun of people for keeping it in the forefront.
The tried to go. I don't think they actually were able to leave. The police were stunned that they actually thought that they could leave. The Ramseys were outraged that they weren't allowed to leave town, John was making arrangements less than an hour after finding his daughter's body.
Yeah, you are reight. I just got a couple of notes like that and it seems rediculous.
This is "The Sam Shepard Case" of these times. Every period of history has a murder that grabs the public's attention and holds it for a period of years. "The Lindbergh Baby" is just such an incident as is "OJ" and the girl that disappeared in Aruba. These types of sensationalistic crimes go way way back to the Middle Ages or the invention of the printing press, at least. If you want to blame someone for this obstraction, it's the MSM..........
What are you talking about?
Wendy said they went....are you sure??
All true. And the story continues...
I agree.
I've gone back and forth on whether or not I think Patsy was complicit (author of ransom note). I decided years ago that I couldn't really tell. This new "suspect" may or may not shed any light on the case. If Patsy Ramsey is innocent, I sure would like to see her completely vindicated (and vice versa).
There was also an unknown stuffed animal found with her.
I recall this because when the story broke back in early 1997 the Boulder cops released a photo of it to see if anyone in the public knew about it. It was an awful photo taken under tungsten lighting that casued a yellow-ish color shift.
Since I had just acquired Photoshop at the time, I downloaded the photo and fixed the color and emailed it back to them. The investigator thanked me and mentioned it in a story a couple of days later.
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