Summary: The Murder Of Jonbenet Ramsey

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December 26, 1996, Boulder Colorado, the day after Christmas, six-year JonBenet Ramsey is found dead in her basement with a three-page handwritten ransom note demanding $118,000, from someone claiming they kidnapped JonBenet and they would receive a call the next morning at at 10am, the note was addressed to John Ramsey and asked for the exact amount of John's Christmas bonus that year (Casarez). She died of a skull fracture and strangulation and nobody knows who killed her; her mom parents, John and Patricia Ramsey, were under much suspicion for her murder and to some people still are today. JonBenet had a big brother named Burke, and he’s one of the most suspected people; he was only 9 years old at the time of her death so it’s very unlikely he killed his little sister. Burke stayed quiet about her death for a long time but 20 years later in 2016 he spoke for the first time to CBS. Burke and John filed a $750 Million lawsuit against the company for a documentary accusing Burke of his sisters murder and his father of a cover-up even though at the time the two of them had already been exhaunterated by that point due to DNA testing (Roberts). JonBenet was a sweet little girl, and she participated in and …show more content…

In 2016 Burke went on Dr.Phil and explained that the reason for his silence was that he wanted a somewhat normal childhood and not to spend his life flooded by cameras and accusations. Burke and JonBenet were very close and got along very well. Burke has his own theory of what happened to his little sister and why she was murdered: Burke believes that JonBenet was killed by a phedophile who was in the auidence of one of her pageants. This theory is backed by the fact that there was DNA from an unidentified male was found at the crime scene and all over JonBenet's clothes and

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