Jon Benet Ramsey essays

Jon Benet Ramsey essays The story was on every news station. A entire country watched as CNN reported the breaking news story about a 6-year-old beauty queen who was brutally murdered on Christmas night, 1996. As the days passed, the story developed. An investigation full of inconsistencies left the Ramsey family, along with the rest of the country, questioning the truth behind the murder of this young child. There are many versions to the story of what happened on that fateful Christmas night. According to 911 reports Patsy Ramsey (JonBenets mother) made an emergency call on December 26th at 5:45 a.m. According to the 911 recordings, Mrs. Ramsey reported that JonBenet was missing and she had found a ransom note. Once the police arrived, they conducted a courtesy search of the Ramsey home. Upon entering the basement, an officer found the dead body of JonBenet Ramsey (Maloney and OConnor). The release of the full transcripts of the emergency call show that the inconsistencies of this murder investigation started at the very beginning. In order to understand the 911 call better, the investigators asked the Aerospace Corporation to make the muffled noise that was heared before Patsy Ramsey could hang up the phone, clear enough to interpret. This is what was discovered: Patsy Ramsey: Help me, Jesus. Help me, Jesus. John Ramsey: Were not talking to you. Burke Ramsey: What did you find? This newly discovered part of the call may not seem like much, but investigator Steve Thomas states, The Ramseys would repeatedly tell us that their son [Burke] did not wake up at any point throughout the night of the crime, (Thomas and Davis 15). Investigators that first arrived at the Ramsey home also noted that there were no signs of forced entry, nor were there any footprints in the snow that surrounded the home. To further add to the suspicion of what actually occurred, cri...