Wednesday, August 16: Welcome, searchers. There’s been an arrest in this case. Read and discuss the latest.
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John Ramsey, father of the murdered JonBenet Ramsey, is running for a seat in the Michigan House of Representatives. Is he capitalizing on the publicity of his daughter’s unsolved murder, or does he really relish the thought of being a public servant? Check out his web site. The Republican is sure saying all the right things.
His wife Patsy said, “His heart has been so broken, and now it is mending….He is just passionate about making the rest of his life worth something.”
I see. What about spending his life, the rest of it if necessary, to find his daughter’s killer? He and O.J. Simpson could join in the hunt for the elusive killers who brutally murdered their loved ones. Instead, Simpson’s working on his swing and Ramsey wants to enter the bureaucratic fray of politics. I don’t have children, so I can only speculate. If my child were murdered and the killer were free, I’d spend the rest of my life hunting him/her down. That would be the all-consuming focus and obsession of my life. But again, I’m only speculating.
I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t offer my two cents about JonBenet’s murder. I believe Patsy Ramsey, at the very least, wrote the obviously fake ransom note, and at the most, killed her daughter. In between those two ideas is the possibility that Ramsey himself or his son did it. Somebody in that house killed the child.
What are the odds that an intruder entered a house with people in it to conduct a bizarre sexual ritual with one of its inhabitants, killing her, then looking for pad and pen to write a 3-page ransom note to fool everyone into believing the child had been kidnapped? After she was dead why not just…I don’t know…leave the house?
When I first heard about the murder of that precious child, I felt the same way I did when I heard O.J. Simpson’s wife had been killed. I didn’t know much about him, but my immediate thought was, He can’t be that stupid. He was.
Steve Thomas, a detective who’d been on the Ramsey murder investigation in Boulder, Colorado, wrote an excellent book called JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation. I couldn’t put it down. The blunders committed by the Boulder police are shocking. Thomas became so frustrated by the way the investigation was going that he turned in his badge. I highly recommend the book. I admit that going in, I was biased against the Ramseys. You know how “gut” feelings are, but after reading Thomas’s inside account, I’m more than convinced that either Patsy or John killed their daughter.
Can you imagine a crazed pedophile, who’d crawled through a tiny window in the basement while the family slept, roaming around that big house and writing an eerily polite 3-page ransom note? It defies logic. But then again, many things do.
Here’s my theory. The family had returned home from a Christmas party and was settling down for bed. Six-year-old JonBenet was probably in a cranky mood and didn’t want to go (I’ve got a hundred stories about my 5 year-old niece). The child also had a history of soiling herself, even at her age. John and Burke had gone to bed, and Patsy was probably cranky herself and frustrated by her daughter’s lack of control.
In her frustration, perhaps she hit the child too hard, rendering her unconscious. Maybe she even killed her. At this point she panicked. Scenario #1 — Patsy staged the kidnapping while her family was still asleep, wrapping a rope around the child’s neck and binding her arms to simulate some bizarre ritual. She then came up with the idea of a ransom note to throw off the cops and her husband. When she finally woke her husband, perhaps he suspected right away, sometime later or not at all.
A sub-theory is the possibility that JonBenet was unconcious but alive, and Patsy’s staging of the kidnapping (strangulation) is what actually killed her.
Scenario #2 — When she realized JonBenet was dead, Pasty woke her husband and together they staged the phony kidnapping. Either way, somebody in that house knew something.
Another reason I think she at least wrote the note and knows who killed her child is that at the crack of dawn when police arrived at the house, Patsy was wearing the same clothes she’d worn at the Christmas party the night before, including full make-up and hair. A former beauty queen, she told the police she’d gotten up that morning and put on the dirty clothes from the previous night to begin getting ready for the family’s trip that morning. Come on.
My theory (and Thomas’s) is that she never went to bed. Why? Because she was staging a kidnapping.
Based on the length and characteristics of the note (too long, “feminine” tone) and familiar references (John Ramsey’s “good, Southern common sense”), I think Patsy Ramsey wrote it. Here’s information on analysis of the handwriting, more on the fake note and the full text.
You should also check out the Crime Library, a great site. I found it a few years ago and read just about everything in it. It contains detailed information on high-profile murders and crimes.
John and Patsy Ramsey have not been charged with the murder of their daughter. If they’re innocent, I don’t understand why they aren’t hunting down the killer like a dog. Perhaps they are in their own quiet way. Doubtful, but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.
