The Murder of JonBenet Ramsey, 1996
Wow, I remember this as if it were yesterday. The headlines, the investigations, the intrigue of it all. And I still think the Ramsey's did it. The child's mother, Patsy died ten years later, and the father unsuccessfully campaigned for a seat in Michigan's House of Representatives. While the article by TIME (below) gives insight into the crime, you may want to go here to read the drama as it unfolded on that awful day after Christmas.
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Two corollary developments distinguish this terrible unsolved killing of
a beautiful six-year-old girl in Boulder, Colo. The first was the
suddenly widespread revelation of the existence of children's beauty
pageants — in which JonBenet was entered time and again by her former
beauty queen mother, Patsy. Public fascination and repulsion over the
makeup, costumes and prepubescent swimsuit competitions at times
overshadowed the crime of child murder itself. The second development
was the tenacity with which observers and large segments of the public
held on to suspicions that JonBenet's wealthy family had something to do
with her death. The murder was discovered the day after Christmas 1996
and to this day no credible suspect has been arrested, despite the
high-profile false confession of teacher John Mark Karr. In the
meantime, Patsy Ramsey has died of cancer. But those who view her with
suspicion have not relented.
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TIME Magazine posted this article online several years ago, along with a list of 24 additional notorious crimes that I have been posting and will continue to post every Saturday on my blog. Hope you enjoy.
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1 comment:
It's another case that I remember hearing about over and over again but was too young to fully know the details behind it. All I just recall people saying was that the parents killed her and that they got away with it.
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