The note suggested that the ransom collection would be monitored and that JonBenét would be returned as soon as the ransom was paid. Patsy Ramsey died of ovarian cancer on June 24, 2006, at the age of 49.ĭiscovery of the ransom letter: According to the testimony of Patsy Ramsey, given on December 26, 1996, she discovered her daughter was missing after finding on the kitchen staircase a two-and-a-half-page ransom letter demanding $118,000 for her safe return-almost the exact value of a bonus her husband had received earlier that year.
It was there that Patsy Ramsey began enrolling her daughter in various child beauty pageants in several states. The family had relocated to Boulder, Colorado in 1991, where Access Graphics' headquarters was located. John Bennett Ramsey was the president of Access Graphics, a business computer system company which later became a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin. JonBenét had won the titles of America's Royale Miss, Little Miss Charlevoix, Little Miss Colorado, Colorado State All-Star Kids Cover Girl, and National Tiny Miss Beauty. Parents: JonBenét's active role in child beauty pageants and Patsy Ramsey's reported "pageant mother" behavior were closely scrutinized by the media after the murder. Her grave is next to that of her mother, who died of ovarian cancer in 2006, and that of her half-sister Elizabeth Pasch Ramsey, daughter of John Ramsey and his first wife, Lucinda Pasch. James Episcopal Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia. At the time of her death, JonBenét was enrolled in kindergarten at High Peaks Elementary School in Boulder, Colorado. Her first name is a portmanteau of her father's first and middle names. She had an older brother, Burke Ramsey (born 1987). Life: JonBenét Ramsey was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the younger of the two children of Patricia Ann "Patsy" and John Bennett Ramsey. Ramsey family members and their friends have filed defamation suits against several media organizations. Media reports have also questioned the police's handling of the case. Media coverage of the case has often focused on JonBenét's participation in child beauty pageants, her parents' wealth, and the unusual evidence found in the case. In February 2009, the Boulder Police Department took the case back from the district attorney and reopened the investigation. However, in 2008, DNA taken from the victim's clothes completely cleared her family. Boulder law enforcement agencies initially suspected JonBenét's parents, and her nine year old brother, Burke. The case remains unsolved, even after several grand jury hearings, and continues to generate public and media interest. She had been struck on the head and strangled. Her father, John Ramsey, found her body in the basement of the family home about eight hours after she was reported missing. JonBenét Patricia Ramsey was a six-year-old American child beauty queen who was murdered in her home in Boulder, Colorado, in 1996.
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