An Outside Intruder Did Not Kill JonBenet Ramsey

THE CASE: A short primer on the case: "Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found strangled in the basement of her Boulder home on Dec. 26, 1996. Since then, the murder has grown into one of the country's most notorious unsolved crimes, with competing suspicions focused on family members or an intruder. • 911 call: Patsy Ramsey calls 911 at 5:52 a.m. after discovering a handwritten ransom note demanding $118,000. • Securing the home: Police fail to secure the home as a crime scene and thoroughly search it themselves. Police tell John Ramsey to look through the home. • Crime scene: The crime scene is further compromised when Ramsey family friends arrive at the house and walk through it. • Body found: About seven hours later, John Ramsey, accompanied by family friend Fleet White, discovers JonBenet's body in the basement. She is found with duct tape over her mouth and a cord around her neck. • Body moved: JonBenet's body is moved twice, first by John Ramsey and then by Boulder Detective Linda Arndt, who then covers the body with a sweatshirt. All this occurs before the coroner's office can examine it. • Interviewing parents: Police fail to separate the parents and interview them individually. Instead they talk to them together throughout the day at the house, a failure of what critics say is conventional police procedure." [0] THE EVIDENCE:1.) The Ransom Note [1]A.) The circumstances of its writing.The note, detailing the supposed demands of the "kidnapper", "was drafted on paper taken from the middle of a pad of paper located at defendants' home and with a pen found at defendants' home. Additional sheets were missing from the pad and were never located at defendants' home. The pen used to write the Ransom Note was sourced to defendants' home and found placed back in its normal place by the phone. Finally, there was another page in the pad that had written on it "Mr. and Mrs. I," which many believe to have been an early "false start" of the Ransom Note." [2]The question is obvious: why write a ransom note for a child who would be killed either way? If JonBenet was going to die, why write a multi-page note at all? Moreover, why write the note using household supplies the night of? Surely an orchestrated, preplanned scheme would have prepared a note in advance and have had plans for any contingencies.Simply put, the note *makes no sense* when considered as part of a real kidnapping plot, but it *would* make sense as a coverup, a red herring, by someone who carried out a killing in passion and needed a way to avoid blame. Of course, it wasn't done *well*, but that is precisely what one would expect from, say, JonBenet's mother after a frenzy. B.) 118,000.The amount demanded in the note was $118,000. The significance? "In 1996, John Ramsey received a bonus of $118,117.50."[3] This clearly suggests that the writer of the note was very familiar with John's finances, which is unlikely to be true of anyone but the Ramsey's themselves. It is likely that the number was chosen just because of how familiar it was. 2.) The Pineapple"Pineapple was found in JBR's small intestine. A bowl of pineapple was found in the breakfast area off from the kitchen." [4]The Ramsey's claim that JonBenet was put immediately to bed when they arrived home. However, the pineapple must have been eaten that day, so, unless another outside source can be argued for, the Ramseys cannot be believed. They argued that they knew nothing about the pineapple - that they did not even know they had bought pineapple - yet there the bowl was, covered with the fingerprints of only Patsy and John. The answer is not that JonBenet found some way to eat pineapple before returning home; the answer is that she had her pineapple from the bowl on the table. Anything else runs in clear violation of Occam's Razor. What motive would the Ramseys have to lie about this if they were innocent? Why would it matter that JonBenet did not immediately go to bed? None. The lie makes sense only when one considers that the Ramseys were placed in the precarious position of having to construct a cohesive narrative immediately after the killing. It seems fair to say that they just did not anticipate the role of the pineapple when they were first speaking to police.The Lack of Evidence:No evidence whatsoever has been produced showing signs of a break-in; in fact, all possible points of entry show signs of not having been used. In addition, no unidentified footprints in the snow around the house were found. I ask my opponent to produce some explanation as to how a foreign intruder could have made their way into the house while leaving no evidence. Conclusion:Whatever their motives may have been, the evidence above establishes, clearly, that the Ramseys murdered JonBenet. They are pathological liars and cannot be trusted. [0] https://web.archive.org...[1] http://i2.wp.com...[2] http://jonbenetramsey.pbworks.com...;[3] http://jonbenetramsey.pbworks.com...[4] http://jonbenetramsey.pbworks.com...