Janu– JonBenét’s parents decline to participate in a second interview with detectives, saying that they won’t cooperate unless police allow them to review evidence in the case. Janu– Reports reveal that JonBenét’s skull had been fractured.Īp– Police conduct their first formal interviews with John and Patsy Ramsey.ĭecember 1997 – Boulder police say John and Patsy Ramsey remain under “an umbrella of suspicion.” JonBenét’s mother, Patsy, says she found a ransom note demanding $118,000 for JonBenét’s return. Her body is found in her basement that same day. She is buried in Marietta, Georgia, beside her mother, who died from ovarian cancer in 2006, and her half-sister Elizabeth Ramsey, who died in a car crash in 1992.ĭecem– JonBenét is murdered in her Boulder, Colorado, home. She won the following beauty pageants – Little Miss Colorado, Little Miss Charlevoix, Colorado State All-Star Kids Cover Girl, America’s Royale Miss, and National Tiny Miss Beauty. JonBenét was named after her father, John Bennett Ramsey, and her name is pronounced in a French style. Siblings: Burke Ramsey John Andrew Ramsey, (half-brother) Melinda Ramsey Long, (half-sister) Elizabeth Ramsey, (half-sister), died in 1992 at age 22 Parents: John and Patricia “Patsy” Ramsey Early suspicion fell on her parents, but they were exonerated after DNA at the scene was found to belong to a male unrelated to the Ramsey family. No one has ever been charged in the case and the investigation is still open.
The 6-year-old beauty pageant queen was found murdered in her Boulder, Colorado, home on December 26, 1996. Here is some background information about the JonBenét Ramsey murder investigation.