Hi ladies
I was watching Nancy Grace about the Caylee Anthony case when I was reminded of another little girl who captured the nation over a decade ago. Images of a beautiful dancing ,singiing Jonbenet enthralled the nation. Who couldn't fall in love with the tap dancing little girl and were horrified by her heinous murder. What monster could do something to such a sweet little girl?. I fear her murderer will never be caught. The invesigation was bungled from the very beginning. I understand that in such cases the family is always looked at first but the police refusesd to even consider that an outsider could have commited the crime. Now finally after 12 years touch dna has finally cleared the Ramseys.
My heart goes out to John Ramsey. He has lost Pastsy and two daughters under the most tragic of circumstances.The Media practically crucified him going so far as incinuatiing that John abused Jonbenet.There was absolutly no evidence of this. I recently watched him on Oprah and he stated that he had found it in his heart to forgive the media. I don't know if I could be so forgiving.I've always believed that the Ramseys were inncocent and was happy to hear that they may one day have a lead with this new Dna.
I think that Jonbenet's involvement in pageants is what tarnished the Ramsey's image. I think that is sad. Whether you agree with pageants or not the Ramsey's were good parents and loved their children. Not everybody agrees with certain acitivities that parents put their children in but none were portrayed in such a disgusting light as the Ramsey's. I hope that John, Burke and the rest of the Ramsey family can one day find peace.
One final note Jonbenet would have been eighteen years old this year and I have no doubt she would have been a confident and self-assured young woman.
Full Version: Jonbenet Ramsey
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Okay, Tara, I'll jump in. I've always been a true crime afficianado...until I became embroiled with the legal system and on the receiving end of some very bad treatment...now I seem to have lost my taste for it.
Anyhoo...I read the book the Ramsey's wrote...while Patsy was still alive. And I was completely convinced of their innocence. The Boulder police botched that case so badly, and the DA was a joke. It was sick and disgusting what these people went through. Now...I don't approve of child pageants and I thought that the way Jon Benet was dolled up and sexualized was just wrong, wrong, wrong. But...I'm a Northeast girl...a feminist. And firmly middle class. The culture the Ramsey's lived in was very different than mine. One of my own friends got his baby son into modeling...I thought it was wrong, but it's not illegal. Did Jon Benet's strutting around the stage winking at the cameras provide easy fodder for some twisted person? Obviously, yes. Look at the whole John Mark Karr debacle (what a piece of work that guy is; I hope some law agency somewhere is keeping tabs on him. I wouldn't let him take care of my dog.)
The case was an awful twist of poor police investigation, hasty conclusions from the DA, a public outraged by nightly images of this angelic child and the knowledge of how horribly she died, and some very mysterious circumstances. The ransom note requested a sum of money that equaled the exact amount John Ramsey had received as a year-end bonus. There was a line about 'use your good old Southern sense;' a phrase Patsy used often. Jon Benet was killed with a small brush from her mother's paint box. She was removed from an upstairs bedroom, and ultimately ended up in the basement, without any of the family waking up or noticing anything. In a house supposedly secured by alarms and new windows, the basement had an open egress with no footprints or fingerprints.
Ultimately, I think someone close to the Ramseys (they were wealthy and unfortunately exposed to a wide circle of people) fixated on Jon Benet...for reasons I do not know. It was Christmas; there was a lot going on, and somehow, this person alluded capture. To think that whoever it is, is still out there, living and breathing and doing who knows what, scares me. I really hope the police don't let this case continue to grow cold. With modern forensics and trace evidence technology what it is, I really, really hope they ultimately find the killer. Or maybe I just watch too much CSI...
Anyhoo...I read the book the Ramsey's wrote...while Patsy was still alive. And I was completely convinced of their innocence. The Boulder police botched that case so badly, and the DA was a joke. It was sick and disgusting what these people went through. Now...I don't approve of child pageants and I thought that the way Jon Benet was dolled up and sexualized was just wrong, wrong, wrong. But...I'm a Northeast girl...a feminist. And firmly middle class. The culture the Ramsey's lived in was very different than mine. One of my own friends got his baby son into modeling...I thought it was wrong, but it's not illegal. Did Jon Benet's strutting around the stage winking at the cameras provide easy fodder for some twisted person? Obviously, yes. Look at the whole John Mark Karr debacle (what a piece of work that guy is; I hope some law agency somewhere is keeping tabs on him. I wouldn't let him take care of my dog.)
The case was an awful twist of poor police investigation, hasty conclusions from the DA, a public outraged by nightly images of this angelic child and the knowledge of how horribly she died, and some very mysterious circumstances. The ransom note requested a sum of money that equaled the exact amount John Ramsey had received as a year-end bonus. There was a line about 'use your good old Southern sense;' a phrase Patsy used often. Jon Benet was killed with a small brush from her mother's paint box. She was removed from an upstairs bedroom, and ultimately ended up in the basement, without any of the family waking up or noticing anything. In a house supposedly secured by alarms and new windows, the basement had an open egress with no footprints or fingerprints.
Ultimately, I think someone close to the Ramseys (they were wealthy and unfortunately exposed to a wide circle of people) fixated on Jon Benet...for reasons I do not know. It was Christmas; there was a lot going on, and somehow, this person alluded capture. To think that whoever it is, is still out there, living and breathing and doing who knows what, scares me. I really hope the police don't let this case continue to grow cold. With modern forensics and trace evidence technology what it is, I really, really hope they ultimately find the killer. Or maybe I just watch too much CSI...
QUOTE (RoundRobin @ Nov 16 2008, 08:16 AM) 
Okay, Tara, I'll jump in. I've always been a true crime afficianado...until I became embroiled with the legal system and on the receiving end of some very bad treatment...now I seem to have lost my taste for it.
Anyhoo...I read the book the Ramsey's wrote...while Patsy was still alive. And I was completely convinced of their innocence. The Boulder police botched that case so badly, and the DA was a joke. It was sick and disgusting what these people went through. Now...I don't approve of child pageants and I thought that the way Jon Benet was dolled up and sexualized was just wrong, wrong, wrong. But...I'm a Northeast girl...a feminist. And firmly middle class. The culture the Ramsey's lived in was very different than mine. One of my own friends got his baby son into modeling...I thought it was wrong, but it's not illegal. Did Jon Benet's strutting around the stage winking at the cameras provide easy fodder for some twisted person? Obviously, yes. Look at the whole John Mark Karr debacle (what a piece of work that guy is; I hope some law agency somewhere is keeping tabs on him. I wouldn't let him take care of my dog.)
The case was an awful twist of poor police investigation, hasty conclusions from the DA, a public outraged by nightly images of this angelic child and the knowledge of how horribly she died, and some very mysterious circumstances. The ransom note requested a sum of money that equaled the exact amount John Ramsey had received as a year-end bonus. There was a line about 'use your good old Southern sense;' a phrase Patsy used often. Jon Benet was killed with a small brush from her mother's paint box. She was removed from an upstairs bedroom, and ultimately ended up in the basement, without any of the family waking up or noticing anything. In a house supposedly secured by alarms and new windows, the basement had an open egress with no footprints or fingerprints.
Ultimately, I think someone close to the Ramseys (they were wealthy and unfortunately exposed to a wide circle of people) fixated on Jon Benet...for reasons I do not know. It was Christmas; there was a lot going on, and somehow, this person alluded capture. To think that whoever it is, is still out there, living and breathing and doing who knows what, scares me. I really hope the police don't let this case continue to grow cold. With modern forensics and trace evidence technology what it is, I really, really hope they ultimately find the killer. Or maybe I just watch too much CSI...
Anyhoo...I read the book the Ramsey's wrote...while Patsy was still alive. And I was completely convinced of their innocence. The Boulder police botched that case so badly, and the DA was a joke. It was sick and disgusting what these people went through. Now...I don't approve of child pageants and I thought that the way Jon Benet was dolled up and sexualized was just wrong, wrong, wrong. But...I'm a Northeast girl...a feminist. And firmly middle class. The culture the Ramsey's lived in was very different than mine. One of my own friends got his baby son into modeling...I thought it was wrong, but it's not illegal. Did Jon Benet's strutting around the stage winking at the cameras provide easy fodder for some twisted person? Obviously, yes. Look at the whole John Mark Karr debacle (what a piece of work that guy is; I hope some law agency somewhere is keeping tabs on him. I wouldn't let him take care of my dog.)
The case was an awful twist of poor police investigation, hasty conclusions from the DA, a public outraged by nightly images of this angelic child and the knowledge of how horribly she died, and some very mysterious circumstances. The ransom note requested a sum of money that equaled the exact amount John Ramsey had received as a year-end bonus. There was a line about 'use your good old Southern sense;' a phrase Patsy used often. Jon Benet was killed with a small brush from her mother's paint box. She was removed from an upstairs bedroom, and ultimately ended up in the basement, without any of the family waking up or noticing anything. In a house supposedly secured by alarms and new windows, the basement had an open egress with no footprints or fingerprints.
Ultimately, I think someone close to the Ramseys (they were wealthy and unfortunately exposed to a wide circle of people) fixated on Jon Benet...for reasons I do not know. It was Christmas; there was a lot going on, and somehow, this person alluded capture. To think that whoever it is, is still out there, living and breathing and doing who knows what, scares me. I really hope the police don't let this case continue to grow cold. With modern forensics and trace evidence technology what it is, I really, really hope they ultimately find the killer. Or maybe I just watch too much CSI...
Robin,you don't watch too much csi. With the wonders of new dna and forensics cases that are decades old are being solved everyday. One of my favorite programs isAandE's cold case. It's still possible this monster may one day be caught and brought to justice at least I certainly hope so.
Surely there must be some other opinions on JonBenet???
This is a "lo-fi" version of our main content. To view the full version with more information, formatting and images, please click here.