JonBenet Ramsey was born on August 6, 1990, in Atlanta Georgia. The daughter of a fashion designer and a wealthy businessman. Her mom’s name was Patsy Ramsey and her dad’s name is John Bennett. She was the youngest of two children. She had a brother named Burke Ramsey who was born in 1987. In 1991 her and her family moved to Boulder, Colorado. She was a 6-year-old beauty pageant queen. (5)
On the morning after christmas in 1996, Patsy Ramsey called the police after finding a 3-page ransom note demanding $118,000 for her daughter to be returned safely. However, …show more content…
Police showed up at the Pugh's home the night after the murder and asked the 57-year-old housekeeper to write the number $180,000 on a piece of paper, and reportedly took her fingerprints and several strands of her hair.(1)
The Hoffman-Pugh theory insisted that the housekeeper led JonBenét down into the basement that night in an attempt to trick her employers into leaving money for her ransom. There was a possibility that she could have seen John Ramsey's pay for $180,000 as a holiday bonus. Being the housekeeper she was familiar with both the home and the family's schedule, Hoffman-Pugh makes a suitable suspect, and without an alibi. She was asleep in bed while her husband allegedly slept on the couch. So far, all evidence implicating her in the case is indirect.(1)
Bill McReynolds, now dead, was a friend of the Ramsey's who had dressed up as Santa Claus the week before JonBenét's murder to entertain the neighborhood children at one of Patsy's Christmas gatherings. The possibility that the now-deceased McReynolds had anything to do with JonBenét's death is extremely