Analyzing Patsey Ramsey's Murder

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On December 6, 1996 Patsey Ramsey made her way down to the kitchen. Little did she know that her life would change forever. On the third step, she found a ransom note. The note said that “a small foreign faction” had kidnapped her daughter and planned on killing her if the family alerted the police and didn’t withdraw 118,000 dollars from Mr. Ramsey’s bank account. Oddly specific right? Yeah that’s what I was thinking.
My original hypothesis was that the murder was an inside job. To me it didn’t seem plausible that an intruder could climb through a window, go all the way upstairs, us a stun gun on JonBenet and Take her down to the basement and kill her without making a sound or alerting the three people sleeping in the Ramsey household. Watching the CBS television special was vital in proving my hypothesis.
The first thing I want to analyze is the 911 call. During the call Patsey seemed panicked as she frantically begged the 911 operator to send the police but then she stopped abruptly. A few distorted sounds can be heard in the background and when analyzed by the crew of the show three distinct voices can be heard; one of a woman, a man and a small child. The only people in the house at that time were Patsey, John and Burke but in testimonies with the police the Ramsey’s claimed that Burke was …show more content…

Not only did the police officers fail to secure the scene, the Ramsey’s invited two family friends to the house before they got there so the crime scene was contaminated. The police asked John to help them search the house top to bottom but again he oddly started in the basement. Normally this wouldn’t be taken as odd but when they went downstairs they found the body of JonBenet wrapped in a blanket. The officer with John said it was like he walked straight to the body. Also after being asked by boulder police to stay in the line of sight John was M.I.A for at least an hour and a

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