we were kidnapping all right please explain to me what's going on okay frantic voice belonged to Patsy Ramsey the mother of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey from Boulder Colorado Patsy discovered her daughter's disappearance after finding a ransom note as she walked down her steps the day after Christmas she immediately called the police for help in a tragic turn of events the lifeless body of Jon Benet would be found in the basement of the home later that day keep your babies close to you there's someone out there was it an abduction gone wrong or was jonbenet's murder the goal all along what really happened in that basement on that cold Christmas night in 1996 welcome back to mysterious 7 where we shed light on mysterious cases from across the globe today we're looking into the 26 year old bizarre case of JonBenet Ramsey if you still haven't subscribed to our Channel please hit the Subscribe button and press the notification Bell below let's Dive Right into this mystery without any further ado in 1979 former beauty queen Patsy was only 22 when she met a 14-year senior businessman John Ramsey the couple were married the following year on November 5th 1980. John was divorced from his first wife with whom he had three children after seven years of marriage Patsy gave birth to their first son Burke Ramsey who was born on January 27 1987. with his Keen interest in business and a master's degree in Business Administration in 1989 John formed the advanced product group one of three companies that later merged to become access graphics the following year on August 6 1990 Patsy gave birth to their second child a daughter in Atlanta naming her JonBenet Patricia Ramsey her first name an homage to her father and her middle name to her mother shortly after her birth in 1991 the family moved to Boulder Colorado for the business moving into a mansion in Boulder the Ramses were one of the wealthiest families in Boulder alongside the 15-bedroom Mansion the family owned two private jets One yacht and one holiday home in Michigan John was at that time the CEO of access Graphics which would go on to become a billion dollar Company by selling unix-based computer systems his net worth was estimated at 6.
4 million dollars by 1996. while John took care of the finances socialite Patsy devoted most of her time at home looking after her two children Burke was a shy and quiet kid but JonBenet was very well spoken and outgoing she was a spark plug she she was very extroverted and always so she showed up and live was like ta-da I'm here you know starting from when JonBenet was very young Patsy entered her in children's Beauty contests and she was tremendous in her performances with her poised smile bouncy blonde hair and glittery costumes with her mother's training who was a pageant girl herself JonBenet won the first pageant she was ever entered into and would go on to win many more trophies in her short life she attended High Peaks Elementary School by the time she turned six in 1996. the Christmas celebrations in 1996 began like any other Christmas little JonBenet got a bike as a Christmas gift that year the Ramsey family spent the evening at a Christmas party hosted by family friend Fleet White according to statements while returning home JonBenet had fallen asleep in the car so John carried her up the stairs to her room and put her to bed at around 9 30 pm shortly after Patsy and John went to bed as they planned to get up early to prepare for a trip to their holiday home on Lake Michigan the following day on December 26 1996 Patsy woke just after 5am as she was walking down the stairs to the kitchen she found a two and a half page Ransom note the note said that JonBenet had been kidnapped by a small foreign faction and was being held for a ransom of 118 thousand dollars which needed to be exchanged the next day for her safe return the letter also warned that if the money was not delivered or the police contacted the child would be killed a hysterical Patsy yelled to John as she ran back up the stairs and opened the door to jonbenet's room discovering that she wasn't there they made the decision to call the police [Applause] how old is your daughter too frogs six years old it was at 5 25 am when the 9-1-1 call was dispatched deputies from the Boulder Police Department arrived at the Ramsey family home just seven minutes after the call came in meanwhile the Ramses called several friends and family members over to their home the officers conducted a quick search of the house and reported no obvious signs of forced entry or any struggle the only room sectioned off was jonbenet's room which they believed was the kidnapping scene upon finding no evidence in the ransom letter at first glance detectives had no other option but to wait for the ransom call That was supposed to come in between 8 and 10 am based on the note when you get home you'll put the money in a brown paper bag I will call you between 8 and 10 a.
m tomorrow to instruct you on delivery however even after waiting for several hours no such call came in at around 1pm John was asked by detectives to search the whole house top to bottom to check if anything was missing John's friend Fleet white decided to join him in the search and together they decided to start from the bottom of the house which is the basement as John and Fleet were walking through the basement they opened the door to a disused wine cellar that had been overlooked by investigators during the initial search there they were confronted with a gruesome scene inside the darkened basement room in a corner little JonBenet was lying lifeless wrapped in a white blanket and a sweatshirt her eyes were closed her mouth was covered with black duct tape and a nylon rope was wrapped tightly around her neck her right hand was bound with a piece of rope which was also used to Fashion a handcrafted garage used to strangle her JonBenet was wearing a white knit shirt with a sequin decorated star in its chest and her white underwear was stained with urine John immediately picked up his daughter's body loosened up the ropes tore the tape off her mouth and brought her to the upstairs living room potentially destroying crucial evidence in the process well what I first found her was it was just a rush of you know thank God I found her and that it was a relief like a overwhelming relief that I'd found her and then I realized pretty quickly that she wasn't alive as soon as John put his daughter on the floor Patsy collapsed right on top of the body while crying and screaming at the top of her lungs as friends and family began to console the griefs-stricken parents police began to investigate the crime scene as police headed to the basement to inspect the crime scene they noticed that the basement was partitioned into several smaller rooms the old wine cellar where the body had been found was also used for storage it was filled with various arts and crafts decorations and old paint cans there was a room to the Northwest in the basement where a storm window with a broken window pane was discovered first thing I noticed obviously was the three sets of windows in the wall up there and I noticed the broken window and the suitcase when I see a blue suitcase below a window the first thing that I'm thinking was the intent eventually by the the perpetrator to put the body in a suitcase and remove the body from the crime scene John claimed that he broke it last summer after locking himself out of the house and because they lived in a safe neighborhood he never bothered to fix it the window is how police believe the killer gained entry to the property a suitcase was positioned under the window in the basement which was believed to have helped the Intruder get back out of the window at the crime scene near where the body was found investigators found a partial footprint and a palm print on the door of the Wine Cellar in the basement both of which could not be identified the autopsy report of JonBenet Ramsey revealed many Grim details about her death the child had several minor injuries including an abrasion on her cheek and Tiny hemorrhages around her eyelids the back of her ankles also had minor abrasions her skull was fractured as a result of blunt force trauma to her head however the official cause of her death was ruled as asphyxia by strangulation she'd been strangled twice with a nylon cord which had been tied to a makeshift garage which was made from a broken piece of one of Patsy's paint brushes no alcohol or medications were discovered in her system however the coroner found traces of pineapple and jonbenet's stomach later her parents claimed they did not remember giving her any pineapple the night before she died but there was a bowl of pineapple in the kitchen which had her nine-year-old brother Burke's fingerprints on it foreign as well as her leggings were consistent with urine stains her area was wiped clean and the underwear did not contain any however it had DNA from an unknown male even with all this evidence investigators were not able to link anyone to the crime but later in the investigation all these pieces of evidence separately gave birth to many theories although JonBenet was strangled by a nylon cord the object that was used to hit her in the head was never identified despite a few objects haven't been called Up For Debate a metal baseball bat was found by The Wine Cellar Door later on in the search but this could have been placed there by one of the staff on the property another object in question is the flashlight found on the kitchen counter the head of which was consistent with the shape of the injury found on jonbenet's head needless to say the Boulder Police Department failed to properly secure the crime scene and protect evidence they not only let the family and friends roam around the house with some of them even cleaning up but they also sent John to search the house instead of doing it themselves their negligence compromised potential evidence which might have been left at the crime scene as well as on the victim's body after their initial fumble the investigation took a different direction investigators started with a theory of intruders but soon they zeroed in on the Ramses due to some concerning evidence apparently investigators discovered that not only the ransom note was written on one of Patsy's notepads using her pen but handwriting experts from CBI who had eliminated John Ramsey as the notes author couldn't do the same for Patsy comparing the ransom note with patsu's handwriting sample they could neither eliminate her as the writer nor say definitively that she was investigators made another startling Discovery regarding the note The Ransom money was the exact same amount as John Ramsey's Christmas bonus from that year police found it extremely odd that not only did The Intruders Demand only a hundred and eighteen thousand dollars which is considerably low compared to the millions the Ramses had in their bank account but they also took time writing and practicing a ransom note inside the house the extremely long and bizarre note also contains several movie quotes which perplexed investigators we catch you talking to a stray dog she dies in the movie instead of it actually being a dog a dog breed is actually mentioned if you alert Bank Authorities don't try to grow a brain John a certain character who was an LAPD police officer who was on a runaway bus was talking to a mad bomber on his cell phone the movie was speed [Music] there was another red flag investigators focused their attention on John and Patsy claim that their eldest child Burke who was just nine years old during the incident was sleeping the entire time Patsy and John were frantically looking for their daughter and was only awoken by his father after they called the police yet the 911 dispatcher claimed that she heard the voice of a third person when Patsy thought she hung up the call but was still on the line some people assumed that the voice was Berks so I remained on the phone trying to hear what was being said sounded like there were two voices in the room maybe three different ones the other anomaly in their story was that both John and Patsy were adamant that JonBenet fell asleep in the car and they carried her to bed without her ever waking so the discovery of pineapple and jonbenet's stomach and a pineapple-filled bowl with Burke's fingerprints on it fueled the suspicion that jonbenet's family were not telling the complete truth one investigator theorized that Burke accidentally hit his sister in the head with the nearby flashlight after a fight ensued between them regarding the pineapple in the fear of losing two of their children John and Patsy staged the crime scene with a ransom note to make it look like an intruder was responsible for the murder in an attempt to find Clues police even interviewed Burke separate from his parents on multiple occasions but could not reach any conclusion one other theory was that it was Patsy who killed her own daughter after JonBenet approached her mother with a bedwetting incident that Christmas night apparently the six-year-old was a regular bedwetter and even often wore diapers despite her age many suspected that Patsy who allegedly had some psychological issues at the time attacked JonBenet in a fit of rage eventually killing her some believe that she along with Jon covered the crime to look like a kidnapping and later deliberately compromised evidence to divert the investigation the news of the horrific death of the six-year-old beauty queen who was the daughter of a millionaire broke like wildfire Jean Benet Ramsey the little girl in Colorado was murdered beauty queen JonBenet jonbenet's murder has frightened residents of Boulder local National and even International media followed the murder of JonBenet Ramsey closely pictures of the little girl wearing full makeup and glittery outfits were splayed on the covers of every tabloid magazine as America continued to speculate if the Ramses caused the death of Their Own Child their lawyer criticized the media for a character assassination against his clients he also accused Boulder Police of leaking false and distorted information to the media to apply pressure and elicit a confession from John and Patsy [Music] just a day after Jon benet's burial in Saint Francis Episcopal Cemetery in Marietta Georgia John and Patsy gave their first public appearance on January 1st 1996 the Ramsey parents pleaded on CNN for help finding their daughter's murderer in their first public comment on the murder Patsy says that there's a killer on the loose there is a killer on the list I don't know who it is I don't know if it's a he or a she but if I were a resident of Boulder I will tell my friends to keep keep your babies close to you many people including some in law enforcement found the interview and their body language suspicious but no solid proof ever emerged in support of the theory this interview forged a path for dozens of other interviews from the Ramsey family over the years but none led to any significant clues that could unravel the mystery it was months before investigators were able to obtain the clothing the Ramses had worn the night their daughter was killed and even longer before they could get access to the parents phone records and credit card bills while there had already been a DNA test done by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation a secondary one was done by Maryland's cellmark Laboratories and jonbenet's parents remained Under the Umbrella of Suspicion needless to say the Ramsay family was extremely upset with the investigation they felt that both Boulder Police and the media were targeting them deliberately without any hard evidence foreign just months after the murder once these allegations came to light the Ramses stopped cooperating and stopped giving interviews to police despite previously cooperating with the investigation and even submitting their DNA samples willingly the Ramsey's attorneys wanted all the questions they said they wouldn't go in for an interview with the police because they didn't know what the police were going to ask all further interactions with investigators were set about by their lawyer whom they hired soon after the murder following a friend's advice foreign 1997 district attorney Alex Hunter announced that they had formed an expert prosecution task force vowing to bring jonbenet's killer to Justice the team included forensic expert Henry Lee and DNA specialist Barry Scheck who were both involved with O. J Simpson's defense team in March of the same year just three months after the killing the D. A asked detective Lou Smith who had long time expertise involving tricky homicides to join the investigation he initially explored the Boulder Police Department's theory of jonbenet's mother Patsy Ramsey being the Killer and writing the ransom note she said she had found in her home however 18 months after joining the investigation detective Smith resigned accusing the Boulder Police of unfairly targeting the Ramses as suspects despite substantial evidence to the contrary some people call it tunnel vision perhaps that's the case they have just stopped at the Ramses plain and simple they've gone to the Ramses and they've stopped in his resignation letter dated September 20th 1998 he stated that he believed the Ramses did not do it he further explained that there was credible evidence of an intruder and a lack of evidence that the parents were involved [Music] after leaving the investigation Smith independently worked on the case for years on his own dime unfortunately he passed away before seeing the case resolved on October 13 1999 Boulder district attorney Alex Hunter announced that a grand jury had finished its investigation and he was not interested in filing charges against the Ramses because of a lack of evidence the Ramses released a statement following this announcement saying that it was no satisfaction since a child killer remained free and undetected what was unknown at the time but was reported by CNN 14 years later was that in 1999 the grand jury had indeed voted to indict both Jon and Patsy Ramsey on charges of child abuse resulting in death and being accessories to a crime according to unsealed court documents both parents were thought to have hindered the original investigation in multiple different ways but hunter refused to file the charges even though the grand jury voted for them believing he did not have enough to get a conviction we do not have sufficient evidence to Warrant the filing of charges against anyone who has been investigated at this time although they were never officially charged many people including many in the media still held them responsible for Jon benet's death despite their continuous claims of Innocence the Ramsey family continued giving interviews at regular intervals and even released a book entitled death of innocence in 2000 naming three potential suspects none of whom would ever be held accountable for the murder [Music] in 2006 the Ramsey family faced another tragic loss after a long battle with ovarian cancer Patsy Ramsey took her last breath on June 24 2006 at the age of 49.
as years passed the Ramsey family continued to protest their innocence as they continued to demand Justice for JonBenet on July 9 2008 nearly 12 years after the murder in a press conference Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacey publicly exonerated and cleared the entire Ramsay family of responsibility for the death of JonBenet Ramsey Lacey cited new methods of DNA analysis suggesting that the Ramsey family did not have anything to do with their daughter's killing in a letter she also apologized to the family for contributing in any way to the public perception that they might have been involved in this crime in August 2009 Boulder Police announced that they were reactivating the case with the help of a newly created 20-person advisory task force to further work on jonbenet's murder since then the case has remained open though no new suspects have been named publicly investigators revealed in a statement that they had tested over 1500 pieces of evidence analyzed nearly a thousand DNA samples interviewed more than a thousand individuals and investigated over 21 000 tips through 19 States but always came up empty-handed in late 2016 just months before the 20th anniversary of jonbenet's murder CBS released a special on this crime or a team of investigators suggested a theory that involved Jon and Patsy Ramsey creating a fake crime scene to cover up Burke Ramsey's involvement in accidentally killing his younger sister after its release Burke filed a 750 million dollar defamation lawsuit against CBS the producers of the documentary as well as the experts who were seen in the documentary Burke also separately sued a forensic pathologist who gave an interview promoting the documentary breaking a 20-year silence in September of 2016 the nearly 30 year old Burke Ramsey appeared on the DrPhil show and spoke publicly about the murder for the first time while addressing some of the conspiracy theories surrounding his involvement in the murder he denied killing his sister several times he also complained about the media's perception of the case and said it had led him to seek a more private life as an adult many people criticized this interview addressing Burke's uncomfortable grinning throughout the entirety of the episode despite all the concerning factors and allegations against the Ramses they were not the only suspects in jonbenet's Murder as Twisted as this case is there was in fact a pool of suspects who were not in the Ramsay family over the years a number of people were under the light of Suspicion for the little girl's tragic demise unfortunately every effort from the investigation to look into them was in vain one of those suspects was Gary Oliva a then 32 year old known sex offender in Boulder Colorado given the fact that there was unknown male DNA on jonbenet's underwear and she was thought to have been sexually molested Gary was looked into as a suspect more concerningly the convicted pedophile had been living in the area on and off when police allegedly found a magazine cut out with jonbenet's picture in his backpack after he was apprehended on drug charges in 2000. allegedly not long after this murder he also confessed to one of his friends about hurting a little girl when I get this terrifying phone call he's screaming I heard a little girl it was shock it was pure shock he was soon released from prison but the suspicions remained however in later years he was cleared as a suspect based on DNA testing another potential suspect was an electrician named Michael helgoth who worked in a nearby auto salvage yard around the time of the murder allegedly Michael had been tied to an alleged property dispute involving the Ramses the investigating officers speculated whether or not he was involved in the Despicable Act of jonbenet's murder out of revenge against her parents allegedly helgoph made multiple concerning statements to one of his colleagues shortly before jonbenet's murder such as he couldn't wait until Christmas as he and a partner were about to make 50 to 60 thousand dollars each he also made a comment about what it would feel like to crack a human skull oddly enough he committed suicide just two days after 1997 press conference announcing that the boulder D. A was zeroing in on a new suspect however Helga has since been cleared by DNA in 2006 investigators seemingly got a breakthrough in the case out of the blue when a former school teacher John Mark Carr confessed to Jon benet's death in graphic detail saying that it was an accident Carr was arrested in Thailand where he'd been living after facing child pornography charges in the U.
S John Mark Carr 41 years old was arrested for the murder of JonBenet Ramsey yesterday morning at approximately 6 a.
