JonBenet Ramsey Biography

JonBenet Ramsey was the daughter of Patsy and John Ramsey. Her father was a multi-millionaire businessman and her mother was a former Miss West Virginia. She was raised in luxury and comfort by her parents in Boulder, Colorado. She was an extrovert and had won several child pageant titles. She was six years old when her mother found a ransom note one morning, and immediately informed the police. Her body was found in the basement of the house with a fractured skull by her father that afternoon. She had been sexually assaulted and strangulated with a garrotte. The official cause of death was stated as ‘asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma’ and classified as homicide. The police made several mistakes in the initial investigation that compromised evidence in the case. Though there were several indicators to implicate her parents in the case, no conclusive evidence could be established. The District Attorney stated that the DNA analysis did not implicate the immediate family. After the case was dropped, her parents relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, and kept away from the media glare. Her father released a book titled ‘The Death of Innocence,’ a memoir of the experience that the family went through. He claimed to have lost his entire earnings due the turmoil that the family went through. The case remains a mystery till today.