When the morning of December 26th came, something happened that would change not only the Ramsey's life, but also the city of Boulder as well as all of America forever.

As Patsy Ramsey headed down the stairs of her 15 room Tudor home just after 5:00 am, she came upon 3 pieces of paper sitting at the bottom of the stairs. The 3 pieces of paper were a ransom note warning the Ramsey's that if they didn't come up with $118,000 dollars, their precious 6-year-old daughter, Jonbenet would die. They went on to say that if the Ramsey's notified authorities, she would also die. A call would come in at approximately 8-10 am that morning, and they would be informed of the whereabouts to exchange their daughter for the money. However, that call never came.

Patsy screamed up to John. They both re read the ransom note again. The police were dispatched to the Ramsey home at 5:25am.

It was within this most critical time period that the police made the biggest mistakes, which may be the reason

why the case has yet to be solved and probably never will.

There has been much finger pointing throughout the year of suspects. The Boulder Police department were highly suspicious of the parents from he start as was much of the country, but the parents named their own list of suspects in their book titled The death of Innocence. Among these people were a former housekeeper, a former nanny, and many angry former business associates of John Ramsey. Nothing has ever come out of this.

Jonbenet Ramsey was found in the basement of her home wrapped in a blanket. There was duct tape across her mouth, arms over her head, a white cord tied around her wrists. There was a piece of a broken paintbrush looped through the cord.

First off, the ransom note was written with a pad and pen found in the Ramsey home. Secondly, it just so happened that the amount of the ransom was the same amount that John Ramsey had received for a Christmas bonus. Next, the body was found in a small room that described as almost impossible to find if you hadn't known the house. Also, the ground had 2 inches of snow, yet there were no footprints on the ground by the basement window was open. The Ramsey's virtually never left their doors unlocked, and they also had an alarm system. But "coincidentally" the alarms were not on that evening, and the doors were unlocked.

The Ramsey's were interrogated and gave blood and hair samples along with fingerprinting and a few handwriting samples also. But the police had already given the Ramsey's a copy of the ransom note, which gave them plenty of time to perfect their handwriting, and they also only had to write 5-7 samples when they should have had to submit 15-20.

Police secured a search warrant for the Ramsey home, and seized virtually everything. Even things that were of little importance

Another important factor in this case is the time of death. Jonbenet was last seen alive at approximately 10:00 pm December 25th and her body was found at 1:05pm December 26th. Police reported the smell of decomposition of the body. The rate of decomposition is determined by room temperature and the body's enzyme activity. They also noticed the body was in an advanced state of rigor mortis. The onset of rigor mortis begins approximately 2-4 hours after death and takes 6-12 hours for the body to be fully affected, 24-36 hours for rigor mortis to go away. The fact that her whole body was set with rigor mortis proves that she must have dies shortly after 10:00 seeing as she was last seen at 10 and first noticed missing at 5:00 am.

An FBI criminal profiler concluded that Jonbent knew her killer, and that the killer was from small circle of family or friends.

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