Jonbenet Ramsey Case

On the morning of December 26, 1996, in Boulder, Colorado life as the Ramsey family knew it would be changed forever (Ng 1). When Patsy Ramsey woke, she found a rather long letter lying on the bottom step of her staircase informing her that her six-year-old daughter, JonBenet, had been kidnapped (JonBenet Ramsey Biography 1). The JonBenet case had the media turned against the Ramsey family in a time of grief, when in reality because of the media's impact on the exposure of JonBenet´s pageants, she was subjected to predators. JonBenet Ramsey was a six-year-old beauty pageant queen who was admired for her charming looks and dashing performances (Conrad 1). Her violent death had taken America by surprise and had an impact on the way people view pageants today. Once the police had arrived, the hunt for the young beauty queen began, the police suggested that Mr. Ramsey should search the house for any stolen items (JonBenet Ramsey Biography 1). When Mr. Ramsey had entered the basement and found JonBenet, he felt relieved until he realized there was a chance she could've been dead. He lifted her lifeless body off of the cold floor and brought her upstairs, completely unaware that …show more content…
The police began to question their first and main suspects, the Ramsey family. “ In June 1998, prosecutors interviewed the Ramseys for 3 days, separately, in videotaped interviews (Ng 354)” and three months later the grand jury convened and reviewed “more than 30,000 pages of reports, and hundreds of pieces of evidence, including the cord and paintbrush that were used to strangle JonBenet (Ng 354).” They had even received testimonies from Mr. Ramsey's oldest children, Melinda Ramsey and John Andrew Ramsey, from his first marriage (The Ramseys; John Bennett Ramsey 1). In October of 1999 Prosecutors stated there wasn’t enough evidence to charge anyone, therefore the case was dismissed (Ng