JonBenet Ramsey
P1 Avery Holt
What and when was the crime?
JonBenet was found in the basement of her home dead on December of 1996, it was later found that she had died from blunt force trauma. A rope was found around JonBenet’s neck which had been tightened by a homemade garrote determined to have been fashioned out of a paintbrush taken from Patsy’s paint kit that was nearby. According to the report summary posted on the Rolling Stone. Also found was a two and a half page ransom note that Patsy allegedly found on the staircase leading into the basement where she found her dead daughter. The letter stated that a ransom of $118,000 (the exact same amount of John’s Christmas bonus) wound need to be put into a foreign account by 10 A.M. the next morning.
What was said to have happened and what was theorized?
Suspects
Patsy Ramsey (mother)
John Ramsey (father)
Burke Ramsey (brother)
What evidence was collected?
How was the crime scene botched, and what was done incorrectly?
The first officer searched the scene as a home invasion but nothing pointed to that, not even footprints in the snow. She told John and his neighbor Fleet White to look around the house for anything unusual and John immediately walked straight to the basement where he found Jonbenet's body. He had been told not to touch anything but yet he picked up the body, removed a piece of tape from her mouth, carried the body upstairs, put her back on the floor upstairs, and even covered her with a blanket destroying all availability of vital physical evidence being retrieved.