Jonbenets Ramsey: A Devastating Unsolved Case

Jonbenets Ramsey is one of the most well-known victims and devastating unsolved case in American history. Jonbenets was a beautiful little girl with her whole life ahead of her, a pageant queen, who had her life taken away on Christmas. JonBenets body was found in the basement of her home in Boulder Colorado, December 26th, 1996, after her mother had not seen her in her bed that morning and found a ransom note demanding $118,000 for Jonbenets to come home safely. She had suffered a skull fracture which the medical examiner concluded that the fracture would have killed her eventually, but the strangulation with the chord is what ultimately killed her (Bio.com). This case took place in Boulder Colorado they have jurisdiction over the case and their police department conducted the investigation at the time and over the years. They have looked into the case again for new evidence, going back to the crime scene, and trying to talk to family and friends about what happened that day. The Colorado police departments and district attorney’s offices suspected JonBenét 's parents first along with her older brother, Burke. However in 2003 the family was somewhat exonerated when DNA taken from JonBenets clothes showed they were not involved. JonBenets parents were not fully cleared of the crime until …show more content…
“Yes, the crime scene was not handled properly and this later affected the investigation. [The Ramsey 's’] position in the community may have had something to do with decisions made that day, but I think the primary reason was a perfect storm-type scenario. It was the Christmas holiday and we were short staffed, we faced a situation as I said earlier that no one in the country had ever seen before or since, and there was confusion at the scene… As a result, some evidence was