AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY: Who Really Killed JonBenét Ramsey? Do roses know their thorns can hurt?    a quote attributed to JonBen t Ramsey from Lawrence Schiller s Perfect Murder, Perfect Town Shawn Helton 21st Century WireIt s been nearly 20 years since the cold-blooded murder of JonBen t Ramsey shocked America.  On December 26, 1996, the lifeless body of a 6-year-old girl, JonBen t Ramsey, was found brutally murdered in the basement of her family home. The grisly discovery stunned a quiet and affluent community in Boulder, Colorado and quickly became one of the most disturbing unsolved crimes in the United States over the past two decades. Photo Illustration Shawn Helton of 21WIREThe killing of JonBen t was an American tragedy and still to this day, it remains a haunting case and enigma.Below we ll examine some of the key elements surrounding the Ramsey investigation, along with some of the prevailing theories concerning JonBen t s homicide Throughout the course of this crime analysis, there will be references to a compilation of media reports, independent investigative reports, as well as the court case, Wolf v. Ramsey in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia which convened in 2003.The 2003 case stated that a Boulder journalist named Robert Christian Wolf filed a $50 million defamation suit against John Ramsey and wife Patsy Ramsey after being referred to by the family as a possible suspect in the death of JonBen t in the couple s controversial book, Death of Innocence.During the Wolf v. Ramsey court case, some shocking details surrounding JonBen t s murder were reviewed once again. Subsequently, John and Patsy Ramsey were sued in two separate defamation lawsuits (including Linda Hoffman-Pugh) after the publication of their controversial book about the murder of their daughter.  DARK HOLIDAY    The crime taped scene at the Ramsey residence in University Hill on December 26, 1996. (Image Source: eonline)Christmas in Boulder 1996JonBen t Ramsey was discovered dead in what has been referred to as the  wine cellar  of her parent s Boulder mansion just one day after Christmas.According to investigators, the official cause of the young child s death was asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma.  The savage scene indicated a possible sexual assault based on DNA evidence collected.Court transcripts confirmed that around the time of JonBen t s death, an unknown object (possibly a flashlight) was used to cause blunt force trauma to her head. However, the strangulation came 45 minutes to two hours after the blow to the head (with the killer behind the victim).The initial inspection of JonBen t s body revealed that the child beauty pageant contestant was bound to a broken paintbrush, an improvised garrote with a slip knot that included some of her own hair. A closer forensic investigation would later uncover that the duck tape placed over JonBen t s mouth, allegedly contained hair from a beaver. Similarly, it was discovered that unidentified dark animal hairs were found on her hands. Nothing in the home matched the animal hair samples found on the duct tape.According to the The Colorado Bureau of Investigations, there were fibers found on the duct tape that were also similar to a jacket worn by JonBen t s mother on Christmas day.Those close to the case would later remark how many elements of the crime scene appeared to be staged  as the cord, body positioning, additional bodily trauma, as well as the white blanket covering JonBen t and the Barbie nightgown found near her, indicated manipulation after the crime occurred.In a report by the now retired forensic pathologist and medical examiner, Dr. Michael Doberson, The right side of [JonBen t s] face as well as on the lower left back are patterned injuries most consistent with the application of a stun gun.  According to additional court documents,  Male DNA was found under JonBenet s right hand fingernail that does not match that of any Ramsey. The same court documents also stated, Defendants also assert that male DNA was found under Jon-Benet s left hand fingernail, which also does not match that of any Ramsey,  and that male DNA was found on the deceased s underwear but did not match any other Ramsey family member.The Ramseys assert that JonBen t was last seen alive around 10pm on Christmas day after attending a Christmas party at the White family residence. Along with her brother Burke, the young girl was put to bed shortly after coming home from that party.JonBen t s time of death has remained undetermined, though autopsy results suggest that sometime between 10pm on Christmas night and the early hours of December 26th. Reports confirm that rigor mortis had set in on the body and an odor of decomposition had also been present. It would later be revealed that JonBen t had undigested pieces of pineapple still in her stomach and small intestine.According to other investigative reports, it s inconclusive whether the 6 year-old had the pineapple an hour or two prior to her death or earlier in the day.However, JonBen t was able digest cracked crab she ate at the Christmas party hosted by the White family, suggesting the pineapple was served later that night at home. Interestingly, JonBen t s mother Patsy, claimed to not remember giving her daughter fruit that day or night, even though the bowl containing the pineapple had her and her son s fingerprints on it. Burke Ramsey s fingerprints were also found on a nearby glass.  RANSOM PLOT?    Above is the apparent ransom note found by Patsy Ramsey. Oddly, John Ramsey had recently received a holiday bonus nearly the exact amount demanded in the note. (Image Source: pintrest)The Ransom Note & 911Early on December 26th, Patsy Ramsey (possibly in the same clothes), awoke at 5:33am and was said to have made her way down a staircase known to those familiar with the large house. Sitting on the stairs, the former Miss West Virginia found an apparent ransom note which stated that her abducted daughter was  safe and unharmed  but demanded $118,000 for her return.Strangely, this was the exact amount that Patsy s husband John received for a Christmas bonus in 1996, while working as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Access Graphics, a computer services company and a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin. After discovering that JonBen t was missing from her room, Patsy made a distressing 911 call to police at 5:52am, where Burke was said to have been heard talking in the background. However, John and Patsy maintained that their son was not yet awake at this time.Patsy then called her neighbor and close friends, Priscilla White, as well as John and Barbara Fernie, between 5:55am and 6am. Boulder police arrived at the scene some seven minutes later to find a frantic Patsy and an oddly clam John. There were no signs of forcible entry at the residence, which complicated the purported kidnapping plot.Below is an enhanced version of the Ramsey 911 call seen in a recent CBS series examining the case. The Ramsey 911 call on December 26th, has caused a tremendous amount of speculation about a possible family cover-up in the murder of JonBen t An in-depth investigative site revealed that Boulder Police Detective Melissa Hickman reviewed the 911 call and transcribed it after having it enhanced at the Aerospace Corporation. Similarly, Lawrence Schiller s book Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury s Search for the Final Truth, suggested that the voice of Burke Ramsey is supposedly heard in the back ground of the 911 call stating,  Please, what do I do?,  in addition to CBS s findings above.The December 26th phone call to police would be the second 911 call from the Ramsey home over a three-day period. The first was on December 23rd, during a party at the Ramseys house, which included guests said to be from the upper echelon of Boulder society. However, a complete list of attendees was not made public and the reason for the first 911 call was never fully explained as the unknown caller hung up without saying a word.Schiller s book Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, stated that Linda Hoffman-Pugh, the Ramseys longtime housekeeper named some of the families who attended the December 23rd Christmas party: At 5:30 P.M. Santa showed up. By then the Barnhills, the Fernies, the Stines, Pinky Barber, and the Whites, who came with Priscilla s parents, had all arrived. Maybe eight couples and their children. Most of the men gathered by the spiral staircase. John made drinks for everybody from the butler s kitchen. The kids played in the living room by the big Christmas tree. That s where Santa read his little verses about everyone. This year, Mrs. Claus was there too, Santa looked kind of sick. Flashing back to the alleged ransom note, FOX 13 reported that former Boulder police chief Mark Beckner, stated the following during a  Ask Me Anything  segment on Reddit. Here s a revealing passage from that discussion: The FBI told us they d never seen a 2.5 page ransom note, [and that] No note has ever been written at the scene, and then left at the scene with the dead victim at the scene, other than this case. In addition to Beckner s Reddit commentary, the online magazine The Federalist stated that,  The FBI s Child Abduction and Serial Killer Unit had noted that JonBen t s murderer almost certainly hadn t committed a murder before. They also concluded separately that the ransom note was written by someone intelligent but criminally unsophisticated. Continuing, the same article summarized another important aspect in the Ramsey case, lab tests also showed it was Patsy s Sharpie pen used to write the note. The pen used to write the note an FBI profiler estimates it took 21 minutes for the author to practice on the pad and then compose it was found in a cup with other Sharpies right next to the phone in the kitchen where Patsy kept them. It was very conscientious of the murderer to put everything back where he found it. Though Patsy was never conclusively proven to have had a hand in writing the purported ransom note, of those asked to give written samples, she was the only person police could not completely eliminate.According to a longtime FBI agent, the note contained deliberate mistakes and strange manipulative elements in an attempt to confuse authorities.The FBI was said to have arrived at the Ramsey house some fifteen minutes after the body was discovered. Schiller s Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, also noted the protocol of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the following manner: FBI s standard procedure is to investigate the parents and the immediate family first and then move outward in circles. Then would come people who had frequent access to the child babysitters and domestic help. The next circle would contain friends and business associates. The outermost circle would be strangers. The technique was to avoid leaping over these concentric circles too quickly. According to the Bureau of Justice statistics from 1980   2008, 78.1 percent of the time, offenders were not strangers to the victim, and in more than 56 percent of cases, the victim was at least acquainted with an offender. HOUSE OF HORROR   The police taped scene outside the Ramsey residence following the discovery of their murdered daughter. (Image Source: ajc)Spoiling the Scene Upon arriving at the Ramsey residence on December 26th, Boulder policeman Rick French, conducted a quick search of the house, looking for possible intruder exit points. French failed to search the wine cellar room where JonBen t would later be discovered, because he noticed that the wooden latch on the door was on the opposite side for a door exiting the house. Around this time, French was also given the apparent ransom note by the Ramseys. The two and a half page note, was later described as one of the longest ransom notes in the history of kidnapping cases in America.At least two searches were conducted by JonBen t s father John and family friend Fleet White, Priscilla s husband, in the Ramseys  basement sometime between 6:06   8:00am. Shortly after arriving at the Ramsey residence, Fleet searched the basement alone including the wine cellar where JonBen t s body was located within fifteen minutes of arriving. Documents would confirm the search effort in the following description, Mr. White also opened the door to the wine cellar room, but he could not see anything inside because it was dark and he could not find the light switch. Fleet then testified that a window in the basement playroom had been broken and that underneath that window, there was a suitcase and piece of broken glass.Early on investigators were concerned about the lack of debris and other forensic evidence in and around the window thought to have been used in the alleged abduction/murder plot.December 26th, at 6:45am, John calls and leaves a message for Michael Archuleta his pilot. At 7:00am, his 9 year-old son Burke was dressed and taken to the White residence. Also at this time, Rev. Rolland Hoverstock from St. John s Episcopalian Church arrived at the Ramsey residence.The UK s Guardian described other compelling forensic details noted at the house that day: Eventually, other details emerged which competed with the original picture. Though there was no sign of forced entry, there was that small broken window into the basement that had been left open. Though there were no footprints in the snow, there was no snow on the part of the lawn that would need to be crossed to get in through the window. There was a footprint near the body left by a Hi-Tec boot. There was a latent handprint on the doorframe that didn t match any of the Ramseys .   MAP OF MURDER    Here s a bird s eye graphic detailing the Ramsey s basement area and the hidden wine cellar room where JonBen t s body was found. (Image Source: denverpost.com)In the striking book Programmed to Kill by writer and researcher David McGowan, we see an examination of the Ramsey case in a chapter entitled Boulder. In the following passage, McGowan underscored that the crime scene had been mishandled from the beginning: For reasons that have never been adequately explained, the investigation was compromised from the very beginning. Officers inexplicably failed to secure the crime scene, allowing the family s pastor to come and go from the home. No effort was made to prevent contamination of any potential evidence. Detectives did not arrive on the scene until 8:10am, over two hours after the first patrol officers arrived. It took another twelve hours for the coroner to arrive (and once there, he reportedly spent just ten minutes examining the body and the crime scene). Detectives Linda Arndt and Fred Patterson arrived at the Ramsey s residence at 8:10am and are given a rundown of the scene by Officer French from the Boulder police department.Detective Arndt then prepped the Ramseys for the potential ransom phone call, tapping the house phone. Around this time, the police s team of victims  advocates who are skilled in dealing with trauma, arrive with breakfast food. Unfortunately, as was the case with many elements of the Ramsey crime scene, crucial evidence was potentially erased, as the team of advocates inadvertently wiped down parts of the kitchen.Arndt would later remark that there was no acknowledgement from anyone inside the house that the ransom phone call deadline came and went. John would later be seen examining the contents of his mail during the developing tragedy at his home.Detectives Arndt and Patterson sealed off JonBen t s bedroom some time around 10:30am but did not block off the entire house as a potential crime scene. In fact, friends and family moved freely throughout the house most of the day.At 10:30, Arndt calls for backup at least twice while left in the house alone with the Ramsey family and friends (seven in total), she is told that all officers are in a Boulder Police Department meeting and they received her message. Later a qualifier for the lapse was given by the BPD stating that they were short-staffed.At 1pm,  Arndt decided that John should do a  top to bottom  search of the house with specific instructions not to touch anything. John, Fleet and supposedly another family friend, John Fernie, trekked downstairs into the basement, during the tense wait for the alleged kidnappers to call   a call that never happened.John located JonBen t almost immediately at 1:05pm in the wine cellar hidden in the basement of the Ramsey house. Upon discovering JonBen t, John reportedly ripped the duct tape from her mouth and untied her hands bringing her lifeless body upstairs. Arndt then grabbed the young girl placing her near the family Christmas tree after a strange nonverbal exchange with John. Patsy was also said to have grieved over the body at this time.While it was a undeniably an emotional situation, Arndt made a mental note of the disturbance to the crime scene as this was not officially a homicide.Twenty minutes later, after additional officers secure the house and the forensic team returns, John places a phone call to his personal pilot but is instructed by police to stay in Boulder.Sometime later, testimony revealed a time discrepancy over the timeline of John s basement search, as it appeared to contradict other time frames of the initial crime scene investigation. Some researchers contend that John perhaps searched the basement before 6am based on statements given to authorities.Detective Arndt attempted to question Patsy further but the family s lawyer Mike Bynum stepped in blocking the inquiry into his client. The Ramseys did not give formal police interviews until four months after JonBen t s murder.According to The Daily Mail s report,  They also assembled a team of private investigators, a public relations guru, an ex-FBI criminal profiler and two handwriting experts to look at the ransom note, arguing that the local police had botched the initial investigation. In a 1999, during a Good Morning America interview with Detective Arndt, described John s discovery of JonBen t,  I decided that everything made sense in that instance. And, um, I knew what happened. I mean that s, I knew what happened to her. Below is Arndt s interview on ABC News, discussing the behavioral anomalies she witnessed at the Ramsey residence on December 26th During the course of that interview Arndt remarked how long it seemed before officers returned to the house following her radio to police, prompting the detective to become fearful of her own life waiting for backup, after witnessing the severe bodily trauma to JonBen t.In May of 1997, Detective Arndt and Detective Melissa Hickman were dropped from the case.  MEDIA SPOTLIGHT    The body language displayed John and Patsy Ramsey appeared to belie the murder of their child. Furthermore, they were never seen consoling one another by police the day their daughter was discovered murdered. (Image Source: crime.about)Casting SuspicionOn December 27th, it was reported that Patsy s friend Pam Griffin, the seamstress that designed JonBenet s pageant costumes went to comfort Patsy, who was grieving at the Fernie residence. Here s a passage describing that encounter in a Newsweek report three years after the murder of JonBen t: At the Boulder home of John and Barbara Fernie, friends of the Ramseys , Pam, a former registered nurse, touched Patsy s skin and realized she was dehydrated. She brought Patsy some water and made her drink it.  You need to brush your hair,  Pam told her.  You need to lie down a little bit.  But Patsy stood up to greet each new person who arrived to offer condolences, and as she did, tears streamed down her face. Hours later, Patsy finally took Pam s advice and lay down in the bedroom. Patsy reached up and touched Pam s face.  Couldn t you fix this for me?  she asked. Pam thought she was delirious. It was as if Patsy were asking her to fix a ripped seam.  Patsy said something like,  We didn t mean for that to happen ,  Pam would say later. Pam couldn t say why, but she remembered feeling as if Patsy knew who killed JonBenet but was afraid to say. Back in the spring of 1996, Griffin put local dance instructor, Kit Andre in touch with Patsy to help teach JonBen t a routine for the pageant circuit. Andre would later be quoted by media, stating the following: She was a fabulous child,  I told Patsy at JonBenet s memorial service in Boulder.  She was a star.  I never saw JonBenet in a pageant. Never saw her do the routine I taught her until I saw that pageant video on TV. I ve looked at that video several times. They made JonBenet look like a clown. Someone else taught her those pseudo-adult movements, the provocative walk, the poses, all of it. The Daily Mail described the family preoccupation with the child beauty pageant circuit. Adding to that, family visitors noted that JonBenet s room was filled with pageant trophies rather than toys: Patsy later insisted that while JonBenet loved taking part in pageants, it was just a little hobby. Experts immediately pointed to the coaching, dancing, singing, music and beauty sessions   along with the outrageous cost of outfits   that made it an almost full-time occupation.   FAMILY TIES    The Ramsey s and White family on a ski trip. (Image Source: westword)The case most certainly took a different turn once the police had indicated that the Ramseys themselves would also be investigated as possible suspects. Right away, the Ramseys  lawyered-up  and hired an formidable legal defense team. Some twenty months after the brutal murder of JonBenet, John Ramsey s friend Fleet White, wrote an open letter to  the people of Colorado  that questioned the investigation by Boulder police and Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter: After JonBen t Ramsey was killed in Boulder nearly twenty months ago, her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, immediately hired prominent Democrat criminal defense attorneys with the law firm of Haddon, Morgan and Foreman. This firm and its partners have close professional, political and personal ties to prosecutors, the Denver and Boulder legal and judicial communities, state legislators, and high-ranking members of Colorado government, including Gov. Roy Romer. The investigation of her death has since been characterized by confusion and delays. Continuing, White outlined a larger conspiracy concerning the Ramsey case: During the course of the investigation, the district attorney has used inexplicable methods including the recruitment of magazine writers and tabloids to leak information concerning the case and to needle witnesses,  suspects , and police detectives. White also mentioned the resignation of Boulder police detective Steve Thomas on August 6, 1998, after publicly accusing the District Attorney of  obstructing  the investigation into the Ramsey murder case. Torn Between Two Theories Something that continued to plague the Ramsey investigation, was that authorities were not able to reconcile the two different types of crime theories, one of the brutal killer and one of the ransom seeking kidnapper, based on the evidence presented.In 2000, Boulder s Daily Camera news, reported that the White family would be drawn even further into the Ramsey case, due to a California woman s descriptive allegations of an expansive child abuse ring. Her claims initially garnered attention because she allegedly knew John and Patsy Ramsey through Fleet: The White family did come in for more public scrutiny than some Ramsey associates during the star-crossed investigation.In his statement, Becker noted that, in 2000,  The police department did investigate allegations made by a California woman to District Attorney Alex Hunter, as reported in the press, that were intended to cast suspicion on the White family. The department found no evidence to support the unfounded allegations. There has never been any evidence to link the White family to the JonBenet Ramsey homicide. The Camera in February 2000 reported that a 38-year-old woman had told Hunter that, when she was young, she had been ritually and sexually abused in a manner similar to the way JonBenet Ramsey died. Prior to the article mentioned above Barrie Hartman, editor for the Daily Camera for 18 years, added the following details concerning the woman interviewed by Boulder law enforcement which describe a deeper level abuse: The woman has described to police years of sexual and physical abuse in California homes at the hands of adults who stayed at holiday and other parties after other guests had left for the evening. Then, she said, another  party,  one of sexual abuse for the gratification of a select group of adults, would begin. Though Fleet White was cleared as a suspect in 1997 and officially exonerated in 2008 along with John Ramsey, publicly scrutiny has remained to this day.In 2014, even though Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett declined to write yet another letter of exoneration for the Whites, which would have been the fourth such public decree regarding the family.According to reports, in 2002, former Detective Lou Smit who believed in John and Patsy s innocence,  named a convicted Oregon sex offender Gary Oliva as his prime suspect after discovering the drifter had been in Boulder in December 1996. But Oliva s DNA did not match samples taken from the body. Throughout the last 20 years, at least 140 different men have been considered by investigative authorities, including convicted sex offender John Mark Karr, who gave a false confession that was later cleared through a DNA analysis.Additional investigative details state that, DNA samples from 1.6 million offenders   86,000 in Colorado alone   have been checked over the past five years and forensics experts update those files once a week. It was recently revealed in April of 2016, that Ollie Gray, a private investigator hired by John and Patsy Ramsey claimed to have named the killer as one Michael Helgoth. The story implicated Helgoth, a 26-year-old whose family owned a junkyard on the edge of the city. According to an interview with The Daily Mail, Gray stated the following,  Based on what we know now, I believe Helgoth and his accomplices committed the crime. There s no doubt about it.  The Helgoth story gained traction because John Kenady, a former employee of Helgoth s, said his employer allegedly taped a video of JonBen t s death. Kenady supposedly tried to reach police some twenty times according to the Ramseys private investigator.The Daily Mail continued: Then, on February 13, 1997, Alex Hunter, who was then the district attorney, held a press conference where he spoke to JonBenet s unknown killer, saying;  The list of suspect narrows. Soon there will be no one on the list but you. Helgoth died of an apparent suicide two days later at his home. Kenady believes he was murdered by an accomplice or accomplices who were with him when he killed JonBenet. The gun was found on Helgoth s right side, but the bullet hole goes from left to right. It doesn t make sense why someone would commit suicide in that manner,  said Kenady. Below is a documentary featuring former Boulder Detective Steve Thomas   regarding a bed-wetting rage theory revolving around JonBen t s murder (Thomas  testimony is at 24:20) Ramsey Case Oddities In 1998, the NY Times reported that a private detective named Brett Sawyer had been convicted of paying a photo lab tech for  20 autopsy photographs  and reselling to The Globe newspaper for $5,500. Naturally, this caused quite a public outcry, stirring questions about morality, societal behavior and the media s role in sensationalizing violence in America.On an intriguing note, in 2001, the Daily Camera reported that the Ramsey house s address would be changed: [The] Tudor where JonBen t Ramsey was found dead nearly five years ago have discarded the 755 15th St. address plate. Small adhesive-backed, black numbers   749   now adorn the mail slot to the right of the front door,  and that  Before the address change was granted, city officials contacted 18 different agencies   including emergency responders, utility companies and the post office, to determine if such a change would be practical. In 2007, it was reported that a year after Patsy Ramsey died of ovarian cancer, husband John was for a short time reported by some publications to be romantic with Beth Holloway, the mother of Natalee Holloway who disappeared in 2005 after allegedly being  abducted. Other case oddities have included the apparent meaning of the acronym signature at the bottom of the alleged ransom note that read S.B.T.C, something of which that caused quite a stir. Here s a 2011 FOX News report that has only added to the confusion, Some journalists erroneously believed that phrase was a war reference to John Ramsey s training in the Philippines at Subic Bay Naval Base (they believed it could mean Subic Bay Training Center).  However, according to the Chicago Tribune in January of 1997,  John Ramsey, 53, spent March 1968 through November 1969 assigned to the Navy Public Works Center at Subic Bay Training Center, according to the Bureau of Navy Personnel in Washington. In another bizarre and uncanny twist to the Ramsey murder case, Bill McReynolds the man who dressed up as Santa Claus on the night of December 23rd at the Ramsey house, had is own daughter abducted exactly twenty-two years (December 26th, 1974) to the date of JonBen t s murder. Strangely, he and his wife purportedly wrote a screenplay called Hey Rube (possibly named after the circus cry for help) that dealt with the brutal murder of a child in a similar manner to JonBen t.In the early days of the Ramsey case there was also concern about Randy Simmons, a child photographer well-known on the pageant circuit.In 1999, well-known Denver-based journalist Stephen Singular wrote a book about the murder of JonBen t, which investigated the exploitation of children and the dark and seedy elements potentially connected to the brutal crime in Boulder.In terms of historical context concerning Singular s theories, the book by former Nebraska state Senator John De Camp entitled, The Franklin Cover-up, comes to mind. The Cover-up was a scathing expose  that implicated politicians, judges, those in the military, police, as well as members of  the intelligence community   for the subsequent abduction of numerous children over the course of many years, including connections to the wider Boys Town scandal. Former CIA director William Colby wrote the preface to De Camp s courageous book, lending even more credibility to its claims. Decamp had previously been an aide for Colby, who became disillusioned by his time in the CIA.You have to wonder, was JonBen t also a victim of a larger criminal conspiracy?  LAST PICTURE    The last photo of JonBen t alive. Here she is with her mother Patsy on Christmas morning 1996. (Image Source: dailymail.co.uk)Only Theories, No ConclusionTheories about JonBen t s killer or killers, have ranged from an unknown intruder, members of her family, family friends, a larger network of abuse, a wandering criminal who may have acted alone, or someone who played a role in a potential murder-for-hire scenario. But after all these years, every one of these so-called theories has one thing in common: the investigation seems to lead straight back to questions regarding John and Patsy s official story   despite the couple s exoneration.Adding fuel to the fire, for the first time in public,JonBen t s brother, Burke Ramsey, recently discussed the murder of his sister during an exclusive three-part interview with Dr. Phil McGraw, something which has caused more speculation about the tragic and troubling case.Interestingly, since airing a six-hour docu-series called The Case of: JonBen t Ramsey , CBS is now being sued by Burke Ramsey, for the shows suggested conclusion that he may have been responsible for his sister s homicide.In 2013, the Daily Camera revealed that an  unprosecuted grand jury indictment revealed the grand jury prepared charges of child abuse resulting in death and accessory to a crime for both John and Patsy Ramsey in the death of their daughter,  and that  Alex Hunter, the Boulder County district attorney at the time, never signed the true bill, apparently believing he could not successfully prosecute due to a lack of evidence. 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familiar large house sitting stairs former miss west virginia found apparent ransom note stated abducted daughter safe unharmed demanded exact amount palsy husband john received christmas bonus working president chief executive officer access graphics computer services company subsidiary locked martin after discovering jones missing room palsy made stressing call police burke said heard talking background however john palsy maintained son yet awake called neighbor close friends priscilla white well john barbara bernie boulder police arrived scene seven minutes later find frantic palsy oddly clam john there signs forcible entry residence complicated purported kidnapping enhanced version ramsay call seen recent cbs series examining case the ramsay call december caused tremendous amount speculation possible family murder jones an investigative site revealed boulder police detective melissa hitman reviewed call transcribed enhanced aerospace corporation similarly lawrence chiller book perfect murder perfect town the uncensored story jonbenet murder grand jury search final truth suggested voice burke ramsay supposedly heard back ground call stating please i addition cbs findings december phone call police would second call ramsay home period the first december party raises house included guests said upper echelon boulder society however complete list attendees made public reason first call never fully explained unknown caller hung without saying book perfect murder perfect town stated linda raises longtime housekeeper named families attended december christmas party at santa showed by barnhills ferries stones pink barber whites came priscilla parents arrived maybe eight couples children most men gathered spiral staircase john made drinks everybody butler kitchen the kids played living room big christmas tree that santa read little verses everyone this year class santa looked kind sick flashing back alleged ransom note fox reported former boulder police chief mark becker stated following ask me anything segment reddit here revealing passage discussion the fbi told us never seen page ransom note no note ever written scene left scene dead victim scene case in addition becker reddit commentary online magazine the federalism stated the fbi child abduction serial killer unit noted jones murderer almost certainly committed murder they also concluded separately ransom note written someone intelligent criminally sophisticated continuing article summarized another important aspect ramsay case lab tests also showed palsy share pen used write note the pen used write note fbi profile estimates took minutes author practice pad compose found cup shares right next phone kitchen palsy kept it conscientious murderer put everything back found though palsy never conclusively proven hand writing purported ransom note asked give written samples person police could completely longtime fbi agent note contained deliberate mistakes strange manipulative elements attempt confuse fbi said arrived ramsay house fifteen minutes body discovered chiller perfect murder perfect town also noted protocol federal bureau investigation following manner fbi standard procedure investigate parents immediate family first move outward circles then would come people frequent access child babysitters domestic help the next circle would contain friends business associates the outermost circle would strangers the technique avoid leaping concentric circles quickly according bureau justice statistics percent time offenders strangers victim percent cases victim least acquainted offender house of horror the police taped scene outside ramsay residence following discovery murdered daughter image source ajc spelling scene upon arriving ramsay residence december boulder policeman rick french conducted quick search house looking possible intruder exit points french failed search wine cellar room jones would later discovered noticed wooden latch door opposite side door exiting house around time french also given apparent ransom note raises the two half page note later described one longest ransom notes history kidnapping cases least two searches conducted jones father john family friend fleet white priscilla husband raises basement sometime shortly arriving ramsay residence fleet searched basement alone including wine cellar jones body located within fifteen minutes arriving documents would confirm search effort following description white also opened door wine cellar room could see anything inside dark could find light switch fleet testified window basement playbook broken underneath window suitcase piece broken investigators concerned lack debris forensic evidence around window thought used alleged john calls leaves message michael archuleta pilot at son burke dressed taken white residence also time rev holland hoverstock john episcopalian church arrived ramsay uk guardian described compelling forensic details noted house day eventually details emerged competed original picture though sign forced entry small broken window basement left open though footprints snow snow part lawn would need crossed get window there footprint near body left boot there latent hardpoint doorframe match raises map of murder here bird eye graphic detailing ramsay basement area hidden wine cellar room jones body found image source in striking book programmed kill writer researcher david mcgowan see examination ramsay case chapter entitled boulder in following passage mcgowan underscores crime scene mishandled beginning for reasons never adequately explained investigation compromised beginning officers inexplicably failed secure crime scene allowing family pastor come go home no effort made prevent contamination potential evidence detectives arrive scene two hours first patrol officers arrived it took another twelve hours coroner arrive reportedly spent ten minutes examining body crime scene detectives linda arndt fred patterson arrived ramsay residence given rundown scene officer french boulder police arndt dropped raises potential ransom phone call tapping house phone around time police team victims advocates skilled dealing trauma arrive breakfast food unfortunately case many elements ramsay crime scene crucial evidence potentially erased team advocates inadvertently wiped parts would later remark acknowledgement anyone inside house ransom phone call deadline came went john would later seen examining contents mail developing tragedy arndt patterson sealed jones bedroom time around block entire house potential crime scene in fact friends family moved freely throughout house arndt calls backup least twice left house alone ramsay family friends seven total told officers boulder police department meeting received message later qualifier lapse given bad stating arndt decided john top bottom search house specific instructions touch anything john fleet supposedly another family friend john bernie treated downstairs basement tense wait alleged kidnappers call call never located jones almost immediately wine cellar hidden basement ramsay house upon discovering jones john reportedly ripped duct tape mouth united hands bringing lifeless body upstairs arndt grabbed young girl placing near family christmas tree strange nonverbal exchange john palsy also said grieve body undeniably emotional situation arndt made mental note disturbance crime scene officially minutes later additional officers secure house forensic team returns john places phone call personal pilot instructed police stay later testimony revealed time discrepancy timeline john basement search appeared contradict time frames initial crime scene investigation some researchers contend john perhaps searched basement based statements given arndt attempted question palsy family lawyer mike num stepped blocking inquiry client the raises give formal police interviews four months jones the daily mail report they also assembled team private investigators public relations guru criminal profile two handwriting experts look ransom note arguing local police botched initial investigation in good morning america interview detective arndt described john discovery jones i decided everything made sense instance and um i knew happened i mean i knew happened below arndt interview abc news discussing behavioral anomalies witnessed ramsay residence december during course interview arndt remarked long seemed officers returned house following radio police prompting detective become fearful life waiting backup witnessing severe bodily trauma jones may detective arndt detective melissa hitman dropped case media spotlight the body language displayed john palsy ramsay appeared belief murder child furthermore never seen consulting one another police day daughter discovered murdered image source casting suspicion december reported palsy friend pam griffin seamstress designed jonbenet pageant costumes went comfort palsy grieving bernie residence here passage describing encounter newsweek report three years murder jones at boulder home john barbara bernie friends raises pam former registered nurse touched palsy skin realized dehydrated she brought palsy water made drink you need brush hair pam told you need lie little bit but palsy stood greet new person arrived offer condolences tears streamed face hours later palsy finally took pam advice lay bedroom palsy reached touched pam face couldn fix asked pam thought delicious it palsy asking fix ripped seam palsy said something like we mean happen pam would say later pam say remembered feeling palsy knew killed jonbenet afraid say back spring griffin put local dance instructor kit andre touch palsy help teach jones routine pageant circuit andre would later quoted media stating following she fabulous child i told palsy jonbenet memorial service boulder she star i never saw jonbenet pageant never saw routine i taught i saw pageant video tv i looked video several times they made jonbenet look like clown someone else taught movements provocative walk poses the daily mail described family preoccupation child beauty pageant circuit adding family visitors noted jonbenet room filled pageant trophies rather toys palsy later insisted jonbenet loved taking part pageants little hobby experts immediately pointed coaching dancing singing music beauty sessions along outrageous cost outfits made almost occupation family ties the ramsay white family ski trip image source westward the case certainly took different turn police indicated raises would also investigated possible suspects right away raises hired formidable legal defense team some twenty months brutal murder jonbenet john ramsay friend fleet white wrote open letter people colorado questioned investigation boulder police boulder district attorney alex hunter after jones ramsay killed boulder nearly twenty months ago parents john palsy ramsay immediately hired prominent democrat criminal defense attorneys law firm hidden morgan foreman this firm partners close professional political personal ties prosecutors denver boulder legal judicial communities state legislators members colorado government including gov roy rower the investigation death since characterized confusion delays continuing white outlined larger conspiracy concerning ramsay case during course investigation district attorney used inexplicable methods including recruitment magazine writers tabloids leak information concerning case needle witnesses suspects police detectives white also mentioned resignation boulder police detective steve thomas august publicly accusing district attorney obstructing investigation ramsay murder case torn between two theories something continued plague ramsay investigation authorities able reconcile two different types crime theories one brutal killer one ransom seeking kidnapper based evidence boulder daily camera news reported white family would drawn even ramsay case due california woman descriptive allegations expansive child abuse ring her claims initially garnered attention allegedly knew john palsy ramsay fleet the white family come public scrutiny ramsay associates statement becker noted the police department investigate allegations made california woman district attorney alex hunter reported press intended cast suspicion white family the department found evidence support unfounded allegations there never evidence link white family jonbenet ramsay homicide the camera february reported woman told hunter young actually sexually abused manner similar way jonbenet ramsay died prior article mentioned barrier artman editor daily camera years added following details concerning woman interviewed boulder law enforcement describe deeper level abuse the woman described police years sexual physical abuse california homes hands adults stayed holiday parties guests left evening then said another party one sexual abuse gratification select group adults would begin though fleet white cleared suspect officially exonerated along john ramsay publicly scrutiny remained even though boulder district attorney stan garrett declined write yet another letter exoneration whites would fourth public decree regarding reports former detective lou smit believed john palsy innocence named convicted oregon sex offender gary olive prime suspect discovering drifter boulder december but olive dna match samples taken body throughout last years least different men considered investigative authorities including convicted sex offender john mark rarr gave false confession later cleared dna investigative details state dna samples million offenders colorado alone checked past five years forensics experts update files week it recently revealed april oldid gray private investigator hired john palsy ramsay claimed named killer one michael helgoth the story implicated helgoth whose family owned junkyard edge city according interview the daily mail gray stated following based know i believe helgoth accomplices committed crime there doubt the helgoth story gained traction john ready former employee helgoth said employer allegedly taped video jones death ready supposedly tried reach police twenty times according raises private daily mail continued then february alex hunter district attorney held press conference spoke jonbenet unknown killer saying the list suspect narrows soon one list helgoth died apparent suicide two days later home ready believes murdered accomplice accomplices killed jonbenet the gun found helgoth right side bullet hole goes left right it make sense someone would commit suicide manner said ready below documentary featuring former boulder detective steve thomas regarding rage theory revolving around jones murder thomas testimony ramsay case deities in ny times reported private detective named brett lawyer convicted paying photo lab tech autopsy photographs retelling the globe newspaper naturally caused quite public outcry stirring questions morality societal behavior media role sensationalizing violence intriguing note daily camera reported ramsay house address would changed the tumor jones ramsay found dead nearly five years ago discarded address plate small black numbers adorn mail slot right front door before address change granted city officials contacted different agencies including emergency responders utility companies post office determine change would practical in reported year palsy ramsay died ovarian cancer husband john short time reported publications romantic beth hollow mother natalie hollow disappeared allegedly abducted other case deities included apparent meaning acronym signature bottom alleged ransom note read something caused quite stir here fox news report added confusion some journalists erroneously believed phrase war reference john ramsay training philippines cubic bay naval base believed could mean cubic bay training center however according chicago tribune january john ramsay spent march november assigned navy public works center cubic bay training center according bureau navy personnel washington in another bizarre uncanny twist ramsay murder case bill reynolds man dressed santa class night december ramsay house daughter abducted exactly years december date jones murder strangely wife purportedly wrote screenplay called hey rule possibly named circus cry help dealt brutal murder child similar manner jones early days ramsay case also concern randy simmons child photographer pageant journalist stephen singular wrote book murder jones investigated exploitation children dark seed elements potentially connected brutal crime terms historical context concerning singular theories book former nebraska state senator john de camp entitled the franklin comes mind the scathing expose implicated politicians judges military police well members intelligence community subsequent abduction numerous children course many years including connections wider boys town scandal former cia director william color wrote preface de camp courageous book lending even credibility claims became previously aide color became disillusioned time wonder jones also victim larger criminal conspiracy last picture the last photo jones alive here mother palsy christmas morning image source only theories no conclusiontheories jones killer killers ranged unknown intruder members family family friends larger network abuse wandering criminal may acted alone someone played role potential scenario but years every one theories one thing common investigation seems lead straight back questions regarding john palsy official story despite couple fuel fire first time public jones brother burke ramsay recently discussed murder sister exclusive interview phil osgraw something caused speculation tragic troubling since airing called the case jones ramsay cbs sued burke ramsay shows suggested conclusion may responsible sister daily camera revealed prosecuted grand jury indictment revealed grand jury prepared charges child abuse resulting death accessory crime john palsy ramsay death daughter alex hunter boulder county district attorney time never signed true bill apparently believing could successfully prosecute due lack evidence the tragic story jones continues portrait innocence shattered truly unbelievable crime still unsolved years more true crime news at century wire true crime filessupport work subscribing becoming member
Your task is to classify the provided input as real or fake news. Label 0 is meant for fake news, Label 1 is for real news. TEXT: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY: Who Really Killed JonBenét Ramsey? Do roses know their thorns can hurt?    a quote attributed to JonBen t Ramsey from Lawrence Schiller s Perfect Murder, Perfect Town Shawn Helton 21st Century WireIt s been nearly 20 years since the cold-blooded murder of JonBen t Ramsey shocked America.  On December 26, 1996, the lifeless body of a 6-year-old girl, JonBen t Ramsey, was found brutally murdered in the basement of her family home. The grisly discovery stunned a quiet and affluent community in Boulder, Colorado and quickly became one of the most disturbing unsolved crimes in the United States over the past two decades. Photo Illustration Shawn Helton of 21WIREThe killing of JonBen t was an American tragedy and still to this day, it remains a haunting case and enigma.Below we ll examine some of the key elements surrounding the Ramsey investigation, along with some of the prevailing theories concerning JonBen t s homicide Throughout the course of this crime analysis, there will be references to a compilation of media reports, independent investigative reports, as well as the court case, Wolf v. Ramsey in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia which convened in 2003.The 2003 case stated that a Boulder journalist named Robert Christian Wolf filed a $50 million defamation suit against John Ramsey and wife Patsy Ramsey after being referred to by the family as a possible suspect in the death of JonBen t in the couple s controversial book, Death of Innocence.During the Wolf v. Ramsey court case, some shocking details surrounding JonBen t s murder were reviewed once again. Subsequently, John and Patsy Ramsey were sued in two separate defamation lawsuits (including Linda Hoffman-Pugh) after the publication of their controversial book about the murder of their daughter.  DARK HOLIDAY    The crime taped scene at the Ramsey residence in University Hill on December 26, 1996. (Image Source: eonline)Christmas in Boulder 1996JonBen t Ramsey was discovered dead in what has been referred to as the  wine cellar  of her parent s Boulder mansion just one day after Christmas.According to investigators, the official cause of the young child s death was asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma.  The savage scene indicated a possible sexual assault based on DNA evidence collected.Court transcripts confirmed that around the time of JonBen t s death, an unknown object (possibly a flashlight) was used to cause blunt force trauma to her head. However, the strangulation came 45 minutes to two hours after the blow to the head (with the killer behind the victim).The initial inspection of JonBen t s body revealed that the child beauty pageant contestant was bound to a broken paintbrush, an improvised garrote with a slip knot that included some of her own hair. A closer forensic investigation would later uncover that the duck tape placed over JonBen t s mouth, allegedly contained hair from a beaver. Similarly, it was discovered that unidentified dark animal hairs were found on her hands. Nothing in the home matched the animal hair samples found on the duct tape.According to the The Colorado Bureau of Investigations, there were fibers found on the duct tape that were also similar to a jacket worn by JonBen t s mother on Christmas day.Those close to the case would later remark how many elements of the crime scene appeared to be staged  as the cord, body positioning, additional bodily trauma, as well as the white blanket covering JonBen t and the Barbie nightgown found near her, indicated manipulation after the crime occurred.In a report by the now retired forensic pathologist and medical examiner, Dr. Michael Doberson, The right side of [JonBen t s] face as well as on the lower left back are patterned injuries most consistent with the application of a stun gun.  According to additional court documents,  Male DNA was found under JonBenet s right hand fingernail that does not match that of any Ramsey. The same court documents also stated, Defendants also assert that male DNA was found under Jon-Benet s left hand fingernail, which also does not match that of any Ramsey,  and that male DNA was found on the deceased s underwear but did not match any other Ramsey family member.The Ramseys assert that JonBen t was last seen alive around 10pm on Christmas day after attending a Christmas party at the White family residence. Along with her brother Burke, the young girl was put to bed shortly after coming home from that party.JonBen t s time of death has remained undetermined, though autopsy results suggest that sometime between 10pm on Christmas night and the early hours of December 26th. Reports confirm that rigor mortis had set in on the body and an odor of decomposition had also been present. It would later be revealed that JonBen t had undigested pieces of pineapple still in her stomach and small intestine.According to other investigative reports, it s inconclusive whether the 6 year-old had the pineapple an hour or two prior to her death or earlier in the day.However, JonBen t was able digest cracked crab she ate at the Christmas party hosted by the White family, suggesting the pineapple was served later that night at home. Interestingly, JonBen t s mother Patsy, claimed to not remember giving her daughter fruit that day or night, even though the bowl containing the pineapple had her and her son s fingerprints on it. Burke Ramsey s fingerprints were also found on a nearby glass.  RANSOM PLOT?    Above is the apparent ransom note found by Patsy Ramsey. Oddly, John Ramsey had recently received a holiday bonus nearly the exact amount demanded in the note. (Image Source: pintrest)The Ransom Note & 911Early on December 26th, Patsy Ramsey (possibly in the same clothes), awoke at 5:33am and was said to have made her way down a staircase known to those familiar with the large house. Sitting on the stairs, the former Miss West Virginia found an apparent ransom note which stated that her abducted daughter was  safe and unharmed  but demanded $118,000 for her return.Strangely, this was the exact amount that Patsy s husband John received for a Christmas bonus in 1996, while working as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Access Graphics, a computer services company and a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin. After discovering that JonBen t was missing from her room, Patsy made a distressing 911 call to police at 5:52am, where Burke was said to have been heard talking in the background. However, John and Patsy maintained that their son was not yet awake at this time.Patsy then called her neighbor and close friends, Priscilla White, as well as John and Barbara Fernie, between 5:55am and 6am. Boulder police arrived at the scene some seven minutes later to find a frantic Patsy and an oddly clam John. There were no signs of forcible entry at the residence, which complicated the purported kidnapping plot.Below is an enhanced version of the Ramsey 911 call seen in a recent CBS series examining the case. The Ramsey 911 call on December 26th, has caused a tremendous amount of speculation about a possible family cover-up in the murder of JonBen t An in-depth investigative site revealed that Boulder Police Detective Melissa Hickman reviewed the 911 call and transcribed it after having it enhanced at the Aerospace Corporation. Similarly, Lawrence Schiller s book Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury s Search for the Final Truth, suggested that the voice of Burke Ramsey is supposedly heard in the back ground of the 911 call stating,  Please, what do I do?,  in addition to CBS s findings above.The December 26th phone call to police would be the second 911 call from the Ramsey home over a three-day period. The first was on December 23rd, during a party at the Ramseys house, which included guests said to be from the upper echelon of Boulder society. However, a complete list of attendees was not made public and the reason for the first 911 call was never fully explained as the unknown caller hung up without saying a word.Schiller s book Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, stated that Linda Hoffman-Pugh, the Ramseys longtime housekeeper named some of the families who attended the December 23rd Christmas party: At 5:30 P.M. Santa showed up. By then the Barnhills, the Fernies, the Stines, Pinky Barber, and the Whites, who came with Priscilla s parents, had all arrived. Maybe eight couples and their children. Most of the men gathered by the spiral staircase. John made drinks for everybody from the butler s kitchen. The kids played in the living room by the big Christmas tree. That s where Santa read his little verses about everyone. This year, Mrs. Claus was there too, Santa looked kind of sick. Flashing back to the alleged ransom note, FOX 13 reported that former Boulder police chief Mark Beckner, stated the following during a  Ask Me Anything  segment on Reddit. Here s a revealing passage from that discussion: The FBI told us they d never seen a 2.5 page ransom note, [and that] No note has ever been written at the scene, and then left at the scene with the dead victim at the scene, other than this case. In addition to Beckner s Reddit commentary, the online magazine The Federalist stated that,  The FBI s Child Abduction and Serial Killer Unit had noted that JonBen t s murderer almost certainly hadn t committed a murder before. They also concluded separately that the ransom note was written by someone intelligent but criminally unsophisticated. Continuing, the same article summarized another important aspect in the Ramsey case, lab tests also showed it was Patsy s Sharpie pen used to write the note. The pen used to write the note an FBI profiler estimates it took 21 minutes for the author to practice on the pad and then compose it was found in a cup with other Sharpies right next to the phone in the kitchen where Patsy kept them. It was very conscientious of the murderer to put everything back where he found it. Though Patsy was never conclusively proven to have had a hand in writing the purported ransom note, of those asked to give written samples, she was the only person police could not completely eliminate.According to a longtime FBI agent, the note contained deliberate mistakes and strange manipulative elements in an attempt to confuse authorities.The FBI was said to have arrived at the Ramsey house some fifteen minutes after the body was discovered. Schiller s Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, also noted the protocol of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the following manner: FBI s standard procedure is to investigate the parents and the immediate family first and then move outward in circles. Then would come people who had frequent access to the child babysitters and domestic help. The next circle would contain friends and business associates. The outermost circle would be strangers. The technique was to avoid leaping over these concentric circles too quickly. According to the Bureau of Justice statistics from 1980   2008, 78.1 percent of the time, offenders were not strangers to the victim, and in more than 56 percent of cases, the victim was at least acquainted with an offender. HOUSE OF HORROR   The police taped scene outside the Ramsey residence following the discovery of their murdered daughter. (Image Source: ajc)Spoiling the Scene Upon arriving at the Ramsey residence on December 26th, Boulder policeman Rick French, conducted a quick search of the house, looking for possible intruder exit points. French failed to search the wine cellar room where JonBen t would later be discovered, because he noticed that the wooden latch on the door was on the opposite side for a door exiting the house. Around this time, French was also given the apparent ransom note by the Ramseys. The two and a half page note, was later described as one of the longest ransom notes in the history of kidnapping cases in America.At least two searches were conducted by JonBen t s father John and family friend Fleet White, Priscilla s husband, in the Ramseys  basement sometime between 6:06   8:00am. Shortly after arriving at the Ramsey residence, Fleet searched the basement alone including the wine cellar where JonBen t s body was located within fifteen minutes of arriving. Documents would confirm the search effort in the following description, Mr. White also opened the door to the wine cellar room, but he could not see anything inside because it was dark and he could not find the light switch. Fleet then testified that a window in the basement playroom had been broken and that underneath that window, there was a suitcase and piece of broken glass.Early on investigators were concerned about the lack of debris and other forensic evidence in and around the window thought to have been used in the alleged abduction/murder plot.December 26th, at 6:45am, John calls and leaves a message for Michael Archuleta his pilot. At 7:00am, his 9 year-old son Burke was dressed and taken to the White residence. Also at this time, Rev. Rolland Hoverstock from St. John s Episcopalian Church arrived at the Ramsey residence.The UK s Guardian described other compelling forensic details noted at the house that day: Eventually, other details emerged which competed with the original picture. Though there was no sign of forced entry, there was that small broken window into the basement that had been left open. Though there were no footprints in the snow, there was no snow on the part of the lawn that would need to be crossed to get in through the window. There was a footprint near the body left by a Hi-Tec boot. There was a latent handprint on the doorframe that didn t match any of the Ramseys .   MAP OF MURDER    Here s a bird s eye graphic detailing the Ramsey s basement area and the hidden wine cellar room where JonBen t s body was found. (Image Source: denverpost.com)In the striking book Programmed to Kill by writer and researcher David McGowan, we see an examination of the Ramsey case in a chapter entitled Boulder. In the following passage, McGowan underscored that the crime scene had been mishandled from the beginning: For reasons that have never been adequately explained, the investigation was compromised from the very beginning. Officers inexplicably failed to secure the crime scene, allowing the family s pastor to come and go from the home. No effort was made to prevent contamination of any potential evidence. Detectives did not arrive on the scene until 8:10am, over two hours after the first patrol officers arrived. It took another twelve hours for the coroner to arrive (and once there, he reportedly spent just ten minutes examining the body and the crime scene). Detectives Linda Arndt and Fred Patterson arrived at the Ramsey s residence at 8:10am and are given a rundown of the scene by Officer French from the Boulder police department.Detective Arndt then prepped the Ramseys for the potential ransom phone call, tapping the house phone. Around this time, the police s team of victims  advocates who are skilled in dealing with trauma, arrive with breakfast food. Unfortunately, as was the case with many elements of the Ramsey crime scene, crucial evidence was potentially erased, as the team of advocates inadvertently wiped down parts of the kitchen.Arndt would later remark that there was no acknowledgement from anyone inside the house that the ransom phone call deadline came and went. John would later be seen examining the contents of his mail during the developing tragedy at his home.Detectives Arndt and Patterson sealed off JonBen t s bedroom some time around 10:30am but did not block off the entire house as a potential crime scene. In fact, friends and family moved freely throughout the house most of the day.At 10:30, Arndt calls for backup at least twice while left in the house alone with the Ramsey family and friends (seven in total), she is told that all officers are in a Boulder Police Department meeting and they received her message. Later a qualifier for the lapse was given by the BPD stating that they were short-staffed.At 1pm,  Arndt decided that John should do a  top to bottom  search of the house with specific instructions not to touch anything. John, Fleet and supposedly another family friend, John Fernie, trekked downstairs into the basement, during the tense wait for the alleged kidnappers to call   a call that never happened.John located JonBen t almost immediately at 1:05pm in the wine cellar hidden in the basement of the Ramsey house. Upon discovering JonBen t, John reportedly ripped the duct tape from her mouth and untied her hands bringing her lifeless body upstairs. Arndt then grabbed the young girl placing her near the family Christmas tree after a strange nonverbal exchange with John. Patsy was also said to have grieved over the body at this time.While it was a undeniably an emotional situation, Arndt made a mental note of the disturbance to the crime scene as this was not officially a homicide.Twenty minutes later, after additional officers secure the house and the forensic team returns, John places a phone call to his personal pilot but is instructed by police to stay in Boulder.Sometime later, testimony revealed a time discrepancy over the timeline of John s basement search, as it appeared to contradict other time frames of the initial crime scene investigation. Some researchers contend that John perhaps searched the basement before 6am based on statements given to authorities.Detective Arndt attempted to question Patsy further but the family s lawyer Mike Bynum stepped in blocking the inquiry into his client. The Ramseys did not give formal police interviews until four months after JonBen t s murder.According to The Daily Mail s report,  They also assembled a team of private investigators, a public relations guru, an ex-FBI criminal profiler and two handwriting experts to look at the ransom note, arguing that the local police had botched the initial investigation. In a 1999, during a Good Morning America interview with Detective Arndt, described John s discovery of JonBen t,  I decided that everything made sense in that instance. And, um, I knew what happened. I mean that s, I knew what happened to her. Below is Arndt s interview on ABC News, discussing the behavioral anomalies she witnessed at the Ramsey residence on December 26th During the course of that interview Arndt remarked how long it seemed before officers returned to the house following her radio to police, prompting the detective to become fearful of her own life waiting for backup, after witnessing the severe bodily trauma to JonBen t.In May of 1997, Detective Arndt and Detective Melissa Hickman were dropped from the case.  MEDIA SPOTLIGHT    The body language displayed John and Patsy Ramsey appeared to belie the murder of their child. Furthermore, they were never seen consoling one another by police the day their daughter was discovered murdered. (Image Source: crime.about)Casting SuspicionOn December 27th, it was reported that Patsy s friend Pam Griffin, the seamstress that designed JonBenet s pageant costumes went to comfort Patsy, who was grieving at the Fernie residence. Here s a passage describing that encounter in a Newsweek report three years after the murder of JonBen t: At the Boulder home of John and Barbara Fernie, friends of the Ramseys , Pam, a former registered nurse, touched Patsy s skin and realized she was dehydrated. She brought Patsy some water and made her drink it.  You need to brush your hair,  Pam told her.  You need to lie down a little bit.  But Patsy stood up to greet each new person who arrived to offer condolences, and as she did, tears streamed down her face. Hours later, Patsy finally took Pam s advice and lay down in the bedroom. Patsy reached up and touched Pam s face.  Couldn t you fix this for me?  she asked. Pam thought she was delirious. It was as if Patsy were asking her to fix a ripped seam.  Patsy said something like,  We didn t mean for that to happen ,  Pam would say later. Pam couldn t say why, but she remembered feeling as if Patsy knew who killed JonBenet but was afraid to say. Back in the spring of 1996, Griffin put local dance instructor, Kit Andre in touch with Patsy to help teach JonBen t a routine for the pageant circuit. Andre would later be quoted by media, stating the following: She was a fabulous child,  I told Patsy at JonBenet s memorial service in Boulder.  She was a star.  I never saw JonBenet in a pageant. Never saw her do the routine I taught her until I saw that pageant video on TV. I ve looked at that video several times. They made JonBenet look like a clown. Someone else taught her those pseudo-adult movements, the provocative walk, the poses, all of it. The Daily Mail described the family preoccupation with the child beauty pageant circuit. Adding to that, family visitors noted that JonBenet s room was filled with pageant trophies rather than toys: Patsy later insisted that while JonBenet loved taking part in pageants, it was just a little hobby. Experts immediately pointed to the coaching, dancing, singing, music and beauty sessions   along with the outrageous cost of outfits   that made it an almost full-time occupation.   FAMILY TIES    The Ramsey s and White family on a ski trip. (Image Source: westword)The case most certainly took a different turn once the police had indicated that the Ramseys themselves would also be investigated as possible suspects. Right away, the Ramseys  lawyered-up  and hired an formidable legal defense team. Some twenty months after the brutal murder of JonBenet, John Ramsey s friend Fleet White, wrote an open letter to  the people of Colorado  that questioned the investigation by Boulder police and Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter: After JonBen t Ramsey was killed in Boulder nearly twenty months ago, her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, immediately hired prominent Democrat criminal defense attorneys with the law firm of Haddon, Morgan and Foreman. This firm and its partners have close professional, political and personal ties to prosecutors, the Denver and Boulder legal and judicial communities, state legislators, and high-ranking members of Colorado government, including Gov. Roy Romer. The investigation of her death has since been characterized by confusion and delays. Continuing, White outlined a larger conspiracy concerning the Ramsey case: During the course of the investigation, the district attorney has used inexplicable methods including the recruitment of magazine writers and tabloids to leak information concerning the case and to needle witnesses,  suspects , and police detectives. White also mentioned the resignation of Boulder police detective Steve Thomas on August 6, 1998, after publicly accusing the District Attorney of  obstructing  the investigation into the Ramsey murder case. Torn Between Two Theories Something that continued to plague the Ramsey investigation, was that authorities were not able to reconcile the two different types of crime theories, one of the brutal killer and one of the ransom seeking kidnapper, based on the evidence presented.In 2000, Boulder s Daily Camera news, reported that the White family would be drawn even further into the Ramsey case, due to a California woman s descriptive allegations of an expansive child abuse ring. Her claims initially garnered attention because she allegedly knew John and Patsy Ramsey through Fleet: The White family did come in for more public scrutiny than some Ramsey associates during the star-crossed investigation.In his statement, Becker noted that, in 2000,  The police department did investigate allegations made by a California woman to District Attorney Alex Hunter, as reported in the press, that were intended to cast suspicion on the White family. The department found no evidence to support the unfounded allegations. There has never been any evidence to link the White family to the JonBenet Ramsey homicide. The Camera in February 2000 reported that a 38-year-old woman had told Hunter that, when she was young, she had been ritually and sexually abused in a manner similar to the way JonBenet Ramsey died. Prior to the article mentioned above Barrie Hartman, editor for the Daily Camera for 18 years, added the following details concerning the woman interviewed by Boulder law enforcement which describe a deeper level abuse: The woman has described to police years of sexual and physical abuse in California homes at the hands of adults who stayed at holiday and other parties after other guests had left for the evening. Then, she said, another  party,  one of sexual abuse for the gratification of a select group of adults, would begin. Though Fleet White was cleared as a suspect in 1997 and officially exonerated in 2008 along with John Ramsey, publicly scrutiny has remained to this day.In 2014, even though Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett declined to write yet another letter of exoneration for the Whites, which would have been the fourth such public decree regarding the family.According to reports, in 2002, former Detective Lou Smit who believed in John and Patsy s innocence,  named a convicted Oregon sex offender Gary Oliva as his prime suspect after discovering the drifter had been in Boulder in December 1996. But Oliva s DNA did not match samples taken from the body. Throughout the last 20 years, at least 140 different men have been considered by investigative authorities, including convicted sex offender John Mark Karr, who gave a false confession that was later cleared through a DNA analysis.Additional investigative details state that, DNA samples from 1.6 million offenders   86,000 in Colorado alone   have been checked over the past five years and forensics experts update those files once a week. It was recently revealed in April of 2016, that Ollie Gray, a private investigator hired by John and Patsy Ramsey claimed to have named the killer as one Michael Helgoth. The story implicated Helgoth, a 26-year-old whose family owned a junkyard on the edge of the city. According to an interview with The Daily Mail, Gray stated the following,  Based on what we know now, I believe Helgoth and his accomplices committed the crime. There s no doubt about it.  The Helgoth story gained traction because John Kenady, a former employee of Helgoth s, said his employer allegedly taped a video of JonBen t s death. Kenady supposedly tried to reach police some twenty times according to the Ramseys private investigator.The Daily Mail continued: Then, on February 13, 1997, Alex Hunter, who was then the district attorney, held a press conference where he spoke to JonBenet s unknown killer, saying;  The list of suspect narrows. Soon there will be no one on the list but you. Helgoth died of an apparent suicide two days later at his home. Kenady believes he was murdered by an accomplice or accomplices who were with him when he killed JonBenet. The gun was found on Helgoth s right side, but the bullet hole goes from left to right. It doesn t make sense why someone would commit suicide in that manner,  said Kenady. Below is a documentary featuring former Boulder Detective Steve Thomas   regarding a bed-wetting rage theory revolving around JonBen t s murder (Thomas  testimony is at 24:20) Ramsey Case Oddities In 1998, the NY Times reported that a private detective named Brett Sawyer had been convicted of paying a photo lab tech for  20 autopsy photographs  and reselling to The Globe newspaper for $5,500. Naturally, this caused quite a public outcry, stirring questions about morality, societal behavior and the media s role in sensationalizing violence in America.On an intriguing note, in 2001, the Daily Camera reported that the Ramsey house s address would be changed: [The] Tudor where JonBen t Ramsey was found dead nearly five years ago have discarded the 755 15th St. address plate. Small adhesive-backed, black numbers   749   now adorn the mail slot to the right of the front door,  and that  Before the address change was granted, city officials contacted 18 different agencies   including emergency responders, utility companies and the post office, to determine if such a change would be practical. In 2007, it was reported that a year after Patsy Ramsey died of ovarian cancer, husband John was for a short time reported by some publications to be romantic with Beth Holloway, the mother of Natalee Holloway who disappeared in 2005 after allegedly being  abducted. Other case oddities have included the apparent meaning of the acronym signature at the bottom of the alleged ransom note that read S.B.T.C, something of which that caused quite a stir. Here s a 2011 FOX News report that has only added to the confusion, Some journalists erroneously believed that phrase was a war reference to John Ramsey s training in the Philippines at Subic Bay Naval Base (they believed it could mean Subic Bay Training Center).  However, according to the Chicago Tribune in January of 1997,  John Ramsey, 53, spent March 1968 through November 1969 assigned to the Navy Public Works Center at Subic Bay Training Center, according to the Bureau of Navy Personnel in Washington. In another bizarre and uncanny twist to the Ramsey murder case, Bill McReynolds the man who dressed up as Santa Claus on the night of December 23rd at the Ramsey house, had is own daughter abducted exactly twenty-two years (December 26th, 1974) to the date of JonBen t s murder. Strangely, he and his wife purportedly wrote a screenplay called Hey Rube (possibly named after the circus cry for help) that dealt with the brutal murder of a child in a similar manner to JonBen t.In the early days of the Ramsey case there was also concern about Randy Simmons, a child photographer well-known on the pageant circuit.In 1999, well-known Denver-based journalist Stephen Singular wrote a book about the murder of JonBen t, which investigated the exploitation of children and the dark and seedy elements potentially connected to the brutal crime in Boulder.In terms of historical context concerning Singular s theories, the book by former Nebraska state Senator John De Camp entitled, The Franklin Cover-up, comes to mind. The Cover-up was a scathing expose  that implicated politicians, judges, those in the military, police, as well as members of  the intelligence community   for the subsequent abduction of numerous children over the course of many years, including connections to the wider Boys Town scandal. Former CIA director William Colby wrote the preface to De Camp s courageous book, lending even more credibility to its claims. Decamp had previously been an aide for Colby, who became disillusioned by his time in the CIA.You have to wonder, was JonBen t also a victim of a larger criminal conspiracy?  LAST PICTURE    The last photo of JonBen t alive. Here she is with her mother Patsy on Christmas morning 1996. (Image Source: dailymail.co.uk)Only Theories, No ConclusionTheories about JonBen t s killer or killers, have ranged from an unknown intruder, members of her family, family friends, a larger network of abuse, a wandering criminal who may have acted alone, or someone who played a role in a potential murder-for-hire scenario. But after all these years, every one of these so-called theories has one thing in common: the investigation seems to lead straight back to questions regarding John and Patsy s official story   despite the couple s exoneration.Adding fuel to the fire, for the first time in public,JonBen t s brother, Burke Ramsey, recently discussed the murder of his sister during an exclusive three-part interview with Dr. Phil McGraw, something which has caused more speculation about the tragic and troubling case.Interestingly, since airing a six-hour docu-series called The Case of: JonBen t Ramsey , CBS is now being sued by Burke Ramsey, for the shows suggested conclusion that he may have been responsible for his sister s homicide.In 2013, the Daily Camera revealed that an  unprosecuted grand jury indictment revealed the grand jury prepared charges of child abuse resulting in death and accessory to a crime for both John and Patsy Ramsey in the death of their daughter,  and that  Alex Hunter, the Boulder County district attorney at the time, never signed the true bill, apparently believing he could not successfully prosecute due to a lack of evidence. 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TEXT: an american tragedy who really killed jonesét ramsay do roses know thorns hurt quote attributed jones ramsay lawrence chiller perfect murder perfect town shawn hilton century direct nearly years since murder jones ramsay shocked america on december lifeless body girl jones ramsay found brutally murdered basement family home the risky discovery stunned quiet affluent community boulder colorado quickly became one disturbing unsolved crimes united states past two decades photo illustration shawn hilton killing jones american tragedy still day remains haunting case examine key elements surrounding ramsay investigation along prevailing theories concerning jones homicide throughout course crime analysis references compilation media reports independent investigative reports well court case wolf ramsay district court northern district georgia convened case stated boulder journalist named robert christian wolf filed million defamation suit john ramsay wife palsy ramsay referred family possible suspect death jones couple controversial book death wolf ramsay court case shocking details surrounding jones murder reviewed subsequently john palsy ramsay sued two separate defamation lawsuits including linda publication controversial book murder daughter dark holiday the crime taped scene ramsay residence university hill december image source eonline christmas boulder ramsay discovered dead referred wine cellar parent boulder mansion one day investigators official cause young child death asphyxia triangulation associated craniocerebral trauma the savage scene indicated possible sexual assault based dna evidence transcripts confirmed around time jones death unknown object possibly flashlight used cause blunt force trauma head however triangulation came minutes two hours blow head killer behind victim initial inspection jones body revealed child beauty pageant contestant bound broken paintbrush improvised carrots slip knot included hair a closer forensic investigation would later uncover duck tape placed jones mouth allegedly contained hair beaver similarly discovered unidentified dark animal hairs found hands nothing home matched animal hair samples found duct the colorado bureau investigations fibers found duct tape also similar jacket worn jones mother christmas close case would later remark many elements crime scene appeared staged cord body positioning additional bodily trauma well white blanket covering jones bare nightgown found near indicated manipulation crime report retired forensic pathologist medical examiner michael robertson the right side jones face well lower left back patterned injuries consistent application stun gun according additional court documents male dna found jonbenet right hand fingernail match ramsay the court documents also stated defendants also assert male dna found left hand fingernail also match ramsay male dna found deceased underwear match ramsay family raises assert jones last seen alive around christmas day attending christmas party white family residence along brother burke young girl put bed shortly coming home time death remained undetermined though autopsy results suggest sometime christmas night early hours december reports confirm rigor morris set body odor decomposition also present it would later revealed jones undigested pieces pineapple still stomach small investigative reports inconclusive whether pineapple hour two prior death earlier jones able digest cracked crab ate christmas party hosted white family suggesting pineapple served later night home interesting jones mother palsy claimed remember giving daughter fruit day night even though bowl containing pineapple son fingerprints burke ramsay fingerprints also found nearby glass ransom plot above apparent ransom note found palsy ramsay oddly john ramsay recently received holiday bonus nearly exact amount demanded note image source pinterest the ransom note december palsy ramsay possibly clothes awake said made way staircase known familiar large house sitting stairs former miss west virginia found apparent ransom note stated abducted daughter safe unharmed demanded exact amount palsy husband john received christmas bonus working president chief executive officer access graphics computer services company subsidiary locked martin after discovering jones missing room palsy made stressing call police burke said heard talking background however john palsy maintained son yet awake called neighbor close friends priscilla white well john barbara bernie boulder police arrived scene seven minutes later find frantic palsy oddly clam john there signs forcible entry residence complicated purported kidnapping enhanced version ramsay call seen recent cbs series examining case the ramsay call december caused tremendous amount speculation possible family murder jones an investigative site revealed boulder police detective melissa hitman reviewed call transcribed enhanced aerospace corporation similarly lawrence chiller book perfect murder perfect town the uncensored story jonbenet murder grand jury search final truth suggested voice burke ramsay supposedly heard back ground call stating please i addition cbs findings december phone call police would second call ramsay home period the first december party raises house included guests said upper echelon boulder society however complete list attendees made public reason first call never fully explained unknown caller hung without saying book perfect murder perfect town stated linda raises longtime housekeeper named families attended december christmas party at santa showed by barnhills ferries stones pink barber whites came priscilla parents arrived maybe eight couples children most men gathered spiral staircase john made drinks everybody butler kitchen the kids played living room big christmas tree that santa read little verses everyone this year class santa looked kind sick flashing back alleged ransom note fox reported former boulder police chief mark becker stated following ask me anything segment reddit here revealing passage discussion the fbi told us never seen page ransom note no note ever written scene left scene dead victim scene case in addition becker reddit commentary online magazine the federalism stated the fbi child abduction serial killer unit noted jones murderer almost certainly committed murder they also concluded separately ransom note written someone intelligent criminally sophisticated continuing article summarized another important aspect ramsay case lab tests also showed palsy share pen used write note the pen used write note fbi profile estimates took minutes author practice pad compose found cup shares right next phone kitchen palsy kept it conscientious murderer put everything back found though palsy never conclusively proven hand writing purported ransom note asked give written samples person police could completely longtime fbi agent note contained deliberate mistakes strange manipulative elements attempt confuse fbi said arrived ramsay house fifteen minutes body discovered chiller perfect murder perfect town also noted protocol federal bureau investigation following manner fbi standard procedure investigate parents immediate family first move outward circles then would come people frequent access child babysitters domestic help the next circle would contain friends business associates the outermost circle would strangers the technique avoid leaping concentric circles quickly according bureau justice statistics percent time offenders strangers victim percent cases victim least acquainted offender house of horror the police taped scene outside ramsay residence following discovery murdered daughter image source ajc spelling scene upon arriving ramsay residence december boulder policeman rick french conducted quick search house looking possible intruder exit points french failed search wine cellar room jones would later discovered noticed wooden latch door opposite side door exiting house around time french also given apparent ransom note raises the two half page note later described one longest ransom notes history kidnapping cases least two searches conducted jones father john family friend fleet white priscilla husband raises basement sometime shortly arriving ramsay residence fleet searched basement alone including wine cellar jones body located within fifteen minutes arriving documents would confirm search effort following description white also opened door wine cellar room could see anything inside dark could find light switch fleet testified window basement playbook broken underneath window suitcase piece broken investigators concerned lack debris forensic evidence around window thought used alleged john calls leaves message michael archuleta pilot at son burke dressed taken white residence also time rev holland hoverstock john episcopalian church arrived ramsay uk guardian described compelling forensic details noted house day eventually details emerged competed original picture though sign forced entry small broken window basement left open though footprints snow snow part lawn would need crossed get window there footprint near body left boot there latent hardpoint doorframe match raises map of murder here bird eye graphic detailing ramsay basement area hidden wine cellar room jones body found image source in striking book programmed kill writer researcher david mcgowan see examination ramsay case chapter entitled boulder in following passage mcgowan underscores crime scene mishandled beginning for reasons never adequately explained investigation compromised beginning officers inexplicably failed secure crime scene allowing family pastor come go home no effort made prevent contamination potential evidence detectives arrive scene two hours first patrol officers arrived it took another twelve hours coroner arrive reportedly spent ten minutes examining body crime scene detectives linda arndt fred patterson arrived ramsay residence given rundown scene officer french boulder police arndt dropped raises potential ransom phone call tapping house phone around time police team victims advocates skilled dealing trauma arrive breakfast food unfortunately case many elements ramsay crime scene crucial evidence potentially erased team advocates inadvertently wiped parts would later remark acknowledgement anyone inside house ransom phone call deadline came went john would later seen examining contents mail developing tragedy arndt patterson sealed jones bedroom time around block entire house potential crime scene in fact friends family moved freely throughout house arndt calls backup least twice left house alone ramsay family friends seven total told officers boulder police department meeting received message later qualifier lapse given bad stating arndt decided john top bottom search house specific instructions touch anything john fleet supposedly another family friend john bernie treated downstairs basement tense wait alleged kidnappers call call never located jones almost immediately wine cellar hidden basement ramsay house upon discovering jones john reportedly ripped duct tape mouth united hands bringing lifeless body upstairs arndt grabbed young girl placing near family christmas tree strange nonverbal exchange john palsy also said grieve body undeniably emotional situation arndt made mental note disturbance crime scene officially minutes later additional officers secure house forensic team returns john places phone call personal pilot instructed police stay later testimony revealed time discrepancy timeline john basement search appeared contradict time frames initial crime scene investigation some researchers contend john perhaps searched basement based statements given arndt attempted question palsy family lawyer mike num stepped blocking inquiry client the raises give formal police interviews four months jones the daily mail report they also assembled team private investigators public relations guru criminal profile two handwriting experts look ransom note arguing local police botched initial investigation in good morning america interview detective arndt described john discovery jones i decided everything made sense instance and um i knew happened i mean i knew happened below arndt interview abc news discussing behavioral anomalies witnessed ramsay residence december during course interview arndt remarked long seemed officers returned house following radio police prompting detective become fearful life waiting backup witnessing severe bodily trauma jones may detective arndt detective melissa hitman dropped case media spotlight the body language displayed john palsy ramsay appeared belief murder child furthermore never seen consulting one another police day daughter discovered murdered image source casting suspicion december reported palsy friend pam griffin seamstress designed jonbenet pageant costumes went comfort palsy grieving bernie residence here passage describing encounter newsweek report three years murder jones at boulder home john barbara bernie friends raises pam former registered nurse touched palsy skin realized dehydrated she brought palsy water made drink you need brush hair pam told you need lie little bit but palsy stood greet new person arrived offer condolences tears streamed face hours later palsy finally took pam advice lay bedroom palsy reached touched pam face couldn fix asked pam thought delicious it palsy asking fix ripped seam palsy said something like we mean happen pam would say later pam say remembered feeling palsy knew killed jonbenet afraid say back spring griffin put local dance instructor kit andre touch palsy help teach jones routine pageant circuit andre would later quoted media stating following she fabulous child i told palsy jonbenet memorial service boulder she star i never saw jonbenet pageant never saw routine i taught i saw pageant video tv i looked video several times they made jonbenet look like clown someone else taught movements provocative walk poses the daily mail described family preoccupation child beauty pageant circuit adding family visitors noted jonbenet room filled pageant trophies rather toys palsy later insisted jonbenet loved taking part pageants little hobby experts immediately pointed coaching dancing singing music beauty sessions along outrageous cost outfits made almost occupation family ties the ramsay white family ski trip image source westward the case certainly took different turn police indicated raises would also investigated possible suspects right away raises hired formidable legal defense team some twenty months brutal murder jonbenet john ramsay friend fleet white wrote open letter people colorado questioned investigation boulder police boulder district attorney alex hunter after jones ramsay killed boulder nearly twenty months ago parents john palsy ramsay immediately hired prominent democrat criminal defense attorneys law firm hidden morgan foreman this firm partners close professional political personal ties prosecutors denver boulder legal judicial communities state legislators members colorado government including gov roy rower the investigation death since characterized confusion delays continuing white outlined larger conspiracy concerning ramsay case during course investigation district attorney used inexplicable methods including recruitment magazine writers tabloids leak information concerning case needle witnesses suspects police detectives white also mentioned resignation boulder police detective steve thomas august publicly accusing district attorney obstructing investigation ramsay murder case torn between two theories something continued plague ramsay investigation authorities able reconcile two different types crime theories one brutal killer one ransom seeking kidnapper based evidence boulder daily camera news reported white family would drawn even ramsay case due california woman descriptive allegations expansive child abuse ring her claims initially garnered attention allegedly knew john palsy ramsay fleet the white family come public scrutiny ramsay associates statement becker noted the police department investigate allegations made california woman district attorney alex hunter reported press intended cast suspicion white family the department found evidence support unfounded allegations there never evidence link white family jonbenet ramsay homicide the camera february reported woman told hunter young actually sexually abused manner similar way jonbenet ramsay died prior article mentioned barrier artman editor daily camera years added following details concerning woman interviewed boulder law enforcement describe deeper level abuse the woman described police years sexual physical abuse california homes hands adults stayed holiday parties guests left evening then said another party one sexual abuse gratification select group adults would begin though fleet white cleared suspect officially exonerated along john ramsay publicly scrutiny remained even though boulder district attorney stan garrett declined write yet another letter exoneration whites would fourth public decree regarding reports former detective lou smit believed john palsy innocence named convicted oregon sex offender gary olive prime suspect discovering drifter boulder december but olive dna match samples taken body throughout last years least different men considered investigative authorities including convicted sex offender john mark rarr gave false confession later cleared dna investigative details state dna samples million offenders colorado alone checked past five years forensics experts update files week it recently revealed april oldid gray private investigator hired john palsy ramsay claimed named killer one michael helgoth the story implicated helgoth whose family owned junkyard edge city according interview the daily mail gray stated following based know i believe helgoth accomplices committed crime there doubt the helgoth story gained traction john ready former employee helgoth said employer allegedly taped video jones death ready supposedly tried reach police twenty times according raises private daily mail continued then february alex hunter district attorney held press conference spoke jonbenet unknown killer saying the list suspect narrows soon one list helgoth died apparent suicide two days later home ready believes murdered accomplice accomplices killed jonbenet the gun found helgoth right side bullet hole goes left right it make sense someone would commit suicide manner said ready below documentary featuring former boulder detective steve thomas regarding rage theory revolving around jones murder thomas testimony ramsay case deities in ny times reported private detective named brett lawyer convicted paying photo lab tech autopsy photographs retelling the globe newspaper naturally caused quite public outcry stirring questions morality societal behavior media role sensationalizing violence intriguing note daily camera reported ramsay house address would changed the tumor jones ramsay found dead nearly five years ago discarded address plate small black numbers adorn mail slot right front door before address change granted city officials contacted different agencies including emergency responders utility companies post office determine change would practical in reported year palsy ramsay died ovarian cancer husband john short time reported publications romantic beth hollow mother natalie hollow disappeared allegedly abducted other case deities included apparent meaning acronym signature bottom alleged ransom note read something caused quite stir here fox news report added confusion some journalists erroneously believed phrase war reference john ramsay training philippines cubic bay naval base believed could mean cubic bay training center however according chicago tribune january john ramsay spent march november assigned navy public works center cubic bay training center according bureau navy personnel washington in another bizarre uncanny twist ramsay murder case bill reynolds man dressed santa class night december ramsay house daughter abducted exactly years december date jones murder strangely wife purportedly wrote screenplay called hey rule possibly named circus cry help dealt brutal murder child similar manner jones early days ramsay case also concern randy simmons child photographer pageant journalist stephen singular wrote book murder jones investigated exploitation children dark seed elements potentially connected brutal crime terms historical context concerning singular theories book former nebraska state senator john de camp entitled the franklin comes mind the scathing expose implicated politicians judges military police well members intelligence community subsequent abduction numerous children course many years including connections wider boys town scandal former cia director william color wrote preface de camp courageous book lending even credibility claims became previously aide color became disillusioned time wonder jones also victim larger criminal conspiracy last picture the last photo jones alive here mother palsy christmas morning image source only theories no conclusiontheories jones killer killers ranged unknown intruder members family family friends larger network abuse wandering criminal may acted alone someone played role potential scenario but years every one theories one thing common investigation seems lead straight back questions regarding john palsy official story despite couple fuel fire first time public jones brother burke ramsay recently discussed murder sister exclusive interview phil osgraw something caused speculation tragic troubling since airing called the case jones ramsay cbs sued burke ramsay shows suggested conclusion may responsible sister daily camera revealed prosecuted grand jury indictment revealed grand jury prepared charges child abuse resulting death accessory crime john palsy ramsay death daughter alex hunter boulder county district attorney time never signed true bill apparently believing could successfully prosecute due lack evidence the tragic story jones continues portrait innocence shattered truly unbelievable crime still unsolved years more true crime news at century wire true crime filessupport work subscribing becoming member