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i was just wondering if anyone here thinks they think they know who actually killed her??
^^^ that is all from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JonBen%C3%A9t_RamseyLIFE
JonBenét Ramsey was born at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and moved with family to Colorado when she was a year old. Her first name is a combination of her father's first and middle names, John Bennett; her middle name is that of her mother, Patsy Ramsey, who enrolled her daughter in a variety of different beauty pageants in several states. In addition, she funded some of the contests in which Ramsey was involved. Patsy Ramsey was a former beauty queen, having held the title Miss West Virginia 1977; her sister was Miss West Virginia 1980. JonBenét Ramsey held a number of child beauty contest titles, including (in alphabetical order) America's Royal Miss, Colorado State All-Star Kids Cover Girl, Little Miss Charlevoix Michigan, Little Miss Colorado, Little Miss Merry Christmas, Little Miss Sunburst, and National Tiny Miss Beauty.
John Ramsey, JonBenét's father, had a net worth of $6.4 million as of May 1, 1996. Distinguished as a naval officer, he held a pilot's license and owned two planes.[1]. In 1989, late in his military career, he formed the Advanced Product Group, one of three companies that merged to become Access Graphics. After mandatory military retirement, he became president and chief executive officer of Access Graphics, a computer services company and a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin.[2] In 1996, Access Graphics grossed over $1 billion, and he was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" by the Boulder Chamber of Commerce. Immediately following the murder he was "temporarily replaced so the company did not have to bother him about business matters as he grieved", according to Lockheed spokesman Evan McCollum [3]. After losing his job at Access Graphics, which was sold to General Electric in 1997 | (proper citation needed), he moved to Atlanta to do consulting work.[4] In addition to their $800,000 residence in Boulder, the family had a $300,000 lakefront summer home in Charlevoix, Michigan.[5]
John Ramsey stated that he found his daughter's body in the basement of their 15-room home in Boulder on December 26, 1996.
JonBenét's grave lies in Saint James Episcopal Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia, next to the grave of her mother.
MURDER CASE
On December 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey (according to her own testimony) discovered that her daughter was missing after finding a two-and-a-half page ransom note demanding $118,000 inside the family residence. Despite specific instructions that the police and friends not be contacted, she telephoned the police and invited over family and friends. The local police conducted a cursory search of the house but did not find any obvious signs of a break-in or forced entry. The note suggested that the ransom collection would be monitored and JonBenét would be returned as soon as the money was obtained.
In the afternoon of the same day, Boulder Police Detective Linda Arndt asked Fleet White, a friend of the Ramseys, to take John Ramsey and search the house for "anything unusual". John Ramsey and two of his friends started their search in the basement first. There in the wine cellar John found his daughter's body covered in a white blanket. He carried her body up the stairs and placed her on the floor of the foyer. Arndt then moved the body to the base of the Christmas tree. Later that evening, the police authorized the removal of the body by issue of a search warrant. Typically, this procedure would be performed under consent of the parents.
The results of the autopsy revealed that JonBenét was killed by strangulation and a skull fracture. A garrote made from a length of nylon cord and the handle of a paintbrush had been used to strangle her; her skull had suffered severe blunt trauma; she may have been sexually assaulted. The official cause of death was asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma. The other half of the paint brush was found in a tub of Patsy Ramsey's art supplies.[3] It was noted by experts that the construction of the garrote required a special knowledge of knots. Autopsy also revealed that the child had eaten pineapple only a few hours before the murder, of which her mother claimed to be unaware.
Clues
Police investigations within and around the residence discovered the following clues which were, by some, interpreted as evidence of intrusion:
Ransom note
- Two dissimilar footprints in the wine cellar that did not match any of the shoes in the residence
- A third footprint of an unknown person on the outer part of the window of the room by the wine cellar (John Ramsey said the window was malfunctioning)
- A possible footprint on a suitcase, placed directly below the same window
- A rope that was foreign to the residence found on the bed of the guestroom near JonBenét's room
- Physical marks on JonBenét's body that suggested the use of a stun gun
- Blood sample on JonBenét's underwear that did not match any known suspect
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Investigators determined that the lengthy ransom note was written on a pad of paper that belonged to the Ramsey family. A Sharpie felt-tip pen similar to the one used to write the note was found in a container on the Ramseys' kitchen counter, along with other pens of the same type. [6] According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on the same pad of paper, a practice sheet of the ransom note was found. No fingerprints could be detected on the note. The text of the note had many odd features, including the fact that $118,000 was demanded - $100,000 in $100 bills and $18,000 in $20 bills.[7] Perhaps coincidentally, John Ramsey earned a bonus that year of $118,117.50. The police regarded the ransom price a suspiciously low amount of money in proportion to John Ramsey's income. The writer of the note claims "We are a group of individuals that represent a small foreign faction. We do respect your bussiness (sic) but not the country that it serves.".
Several handwriting samples were taken from a number of suspects who might have written the ransom note. Forensic analysis cleared everyone except for Patsy Ramsey, whose writing style bore some resemblance to the ransom note.
Later developments
In December 2003, forensic investigators extracted enough material from a mixed blood sample found on JonBenét's underwear to establish a DNA profile. The DNA belongs to an unknown caucasian male. The DNA was submitted to the FBI's Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), a database containing more than 1.6 million DNA profiles, mainly from convicted felons. The sample has yet to find a match in the database, although it continues to be checked for partial matches on a weekly basis.
Later investigations also discovered that there were more than 100 burglaries in the Ramseys' neighborhood in the months before JonBenét's murder, and that 38 registered sex offenders were living within a two-mile radius of the Ramsey's home.[4]
JonBenét's mother, Patsy Ramsey, died of ovarian cancer on June 24, 2006,[5] at the age of 49. She had been battling cancer off and on after first being diagnosed in 1993. She had a recurrence in 2003. She was aware at the time of her death that the Boulder County (Colorado) District Attorney's Office was investigating a suspect in Bangkok, Thailand.
John Mark Karr
On August 16, 2006, 41-year-old John Mark Karr, a former school teacher, was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand on five-year-old child pornography charges from Sonoma County, California. Authorities reportedly tracked him down using the Internet after he sent emails regarding the Ramsey case to Michael Tracey, a journalism professor at the University of Colorado.[6] Once apprehended, he confessed to being with JonBenét when she died, stating that her death was an accident. When asked if he was innocent, he responded, "No". Experts have said that it is unlikely that the way in which JonBenét was killed was an accident.[7] [8]
According to Lt-Gen Suwat Tumrongsiskul of the Thai immigration police, Karr claims he was the one who wrote and left in the Ramsey home the ransom note demanding $118,000, the amount reportedly received by John Ramsey as a Christmas bonus. On Sunday, August 20, 2006 Karr was taken to Los Angeles and is currently awaiting extradition to Colorado, where he will face charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping, and child sexual assault, along with the unrelated child pornography charges.
Some reports indicate that Karr's confession may be false. Early news reports concerning Karr's communications with authorities relied heavily on quotations from Tumrongsiskul. It has since been reported that those statements may have been inaccurate. It was reported that Karr said he drugged JonBenét before killing her. Tumrongsiskul has now said that was not the case.[9] He also reported that Karr said he picked JonBenét up after school the day of the murder but has since recanted, saying he based that on a documentary about the Ramsey case not on Karr's interrogation.[10] In addition to this, Karr's ex-wife, Lara Karr, offered an alibi, claiming the couple spent that Christmas season together in Alabama. Authorites are awaiting testing results attempting to match Karr's DNA with that found under JonBenét's fingernails when she died.
Defamation lawsuits
Several defamation lawsuits have ensued since JonBenét's murder. Lin Wood was the attorney for John and Patsy Ramsey and has prosecuted defamation claims on their behalf against St. Martin's Press, Time, Inc., The Fox News Channel, American Media, Inc., Star, The Globe, Court TV and The New York Post.
Speculation
In 1999, the Governor of Colorado, Bill Owens, told the parents of JonBenét Ramsey to "quit hiding behind their attorneys, quit hiding behind their PR firm" — an allegation for which he has never made a public apology.[10]
Case speculation by experts, media and the parents has supported different theories. For a long time, the local police supported the theory that her mother had accidentally killed JonBenét in a fit of rage after the girl had wet her bed on the same night. Another theory was that John Ramsey had been sexually abusing his daughter and murdered her as a cover. John Ramsey's son Burke Ramsey was also targeted by speculation, and asked to testify at the grand jury[11] . He is currently attending Purdue University.
The Ramseys have invariably held that the crime was committed by an intruder, and hired John Douglas, former head of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, to examine the case. While being paid by the Ramsey family he concluded that the Ramseys were not involved in the murder. He also concluded that it was unlikely that anyone would resolve the case. He detailed his arguments in his 2001 book, The Cases That Haunt Us.
Due to the lack of evidence, a grand jury did not indict the Ramseys for any crime. Seven months after the murder, the family moved back to Atlanta.
i was just wondering if anyone here thinks they think they know who actually killed her??
