The two immediately headed to search the basement, where they made the brutal discovery of JonBenét’s dead body. By one that afternoon, the family was understandably getting agitated and an officer suggested that John Ramsey search the house with a family friend to look for any possible evidence. While JonBenét’s room was closed off, the rest of the house was open for friends and family to go through, resulting in the crime scene being contaminated. Mistakes were made, however, in preserving he crime scene.
By six that morning the police had arrived reportedly they found no evidence of forced entry upon their arrival. The writer signed off the letter, S.B.C.T (CNN 2006).ĭespite what the letter said, Patsy Ramsey immediately called both the police and family friends to assist in the search for her younger daughter. If anyone was contacted or the money was marked in some way, JonBenét would die. They were instructed not to interact with the police or to tell anyone what was happening, including stray dogs and bank authorities. The men reportedly watching her apparently did not like John Ramsey, as warned by the letter writer. The letter writer claimed that, should they not follow their instructions to a T, JonBenét would be immediately executed and the family would never get her remains for a proper burial. They were instructed to put the money in a brown paper bag and wait for a phone call between eight and 10 AM the next day, and to rest well as the delivery would apparently be exhausting. According to the note, the group who kidnapped JonBenét was a “small foreign faction.” The note claimed she was in their possession and safe, but that they would require the Ramsey’s to follow their instructions in order for JonBenét to live to see 1997.
LENGTH OF THE JONBENET RANSOM NOTE FULL
The note was nearly three pages long and full of superfluous language that is unusual for a ransom note.
That morning, the Ramsey’s woke up to get ready for the day and Patsy found an unusually long ransom note on the staircase. JonBenét was well known, thanks to her mother, and her death caused a media frenzy. Patsy was a previous beauty queen, which was why she so excitedly got JonBenét involved in the child beauty pageant world (Mack, 2020).
John ran the computer systems company Access Graphics, which was later absorbed by Lockheed Martin. She was the daughter of John and Patsy Ramsey, and younger sister of Burke Ramsey. JonBenét Ramsey was 6-years old at the time of her unexpected death on December 26, 1996.