John Ramsey shares home video of their family out sledding and JonBenet celebrating her summer birthday early with her preschool class.

Born in August 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia, her name was a combination of the names of her parents, John and Patricia, who died in 2006. She became known for being "a little beauty queen", as her mother had enrolled her in various children's beauty pageants. Her father was a millionaire businessman and her own mother had also participated in beauty pageants, having been Miss West Virginia 1977.

She had an older brother, Burke, aged nine at the time of the crime.


JonBenét's Tomb in Marietta, Georgia
The case of the death of JonBenét
On the morning of December 26, 1996, a ransom note was found in JonBenét's home and her mother called the police. In the afternoon, however, her father found the girl's body in the basement of his house. JonBenét suffered a blow to the head and was strangled. A garrote was found tied around her neck. The autopsy report also indicated “abrasion and vascular congestion of the vaginal mucosa”. The official cause of death, as reported by the autopsy, was asphyxia from strangulation, associated with traumatic brain injury.

The case gained national notoriety and was of great public and media interest, in part because her mother, Patsy Ramsey, had entered JonBenét in a series of children's beauty pageants.

In late 1998, Boulder County District Attorney Alex Hunter presented the case to a grand jury of eight women and four men. The jurors are among the few people who have seen all of the evidence presented by prosecutors in the case against John and Patsy Ramsey. The jury recommended charges against John and Patsy Ramsey, indicating that jurors believed the parents placed JonBenét in a situation that resulted in her death, but the district attorney overturned the charges, saying he and his prosecution task force believed there was no sufficient evidence to justify bringing charges against anyone who has been investigated up to that point.

"The case is full of strange facts, such as a note with a ransom demand - with exactly the same value as the money won by the girl's father - a clue that triggered a search that involved not only the family, but also the community where the family lived. lives. lived. People who entered the house after other evidence ended up contaminating the crime scene, making it difficult to search not only for the girl but also for the criminal. The ransom demand was written with the paper of a pad belonging to the family, something strange, as a kidnapper would not have time to leave a three-page message while kidnapping his victim. When the girl's father found her, he moved her body, further disrupting the investigators' work. These and other mismatched actions ended up transforming the crime involving the girl's death into a true legend", wrote Monet Magazine in 2019.

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