Parents Innocent
Disregarding the media lies and rumour bullcrap, the evidence is pretty strong and DOES NOT even hint at the parents being her killers. It astounds me that people still torture the innocent just because some newspaper rag or crappy tv show says so.
Half of the so called evidence isn't even true! It is just media fabrication, a lot like the evidence in the Jack the Ripper case.
Here are the basic facts given by police and forensic investigation sources are channel 4 "who killed jonbenet", crimelibrary and http://jonbenetramsey.pbwiki.com -
The entire family had been out and left the house empty on Xmas night. They returned home and put JonBenet to bed around 9.30pm.
Patsy woke after 5am and walked downstairs to the kitchen. She found a ransom note and went to check on her daughter. She found JonBenet absent and called 911.
Fact - A ransom note was found on the stairs leading down to the kitchen.
FACT - The samples of handwriting that John and Patsy provided to the police were later found to bear no similarities to those on the ransom note.
Police record a 911 call from the home at 5.25am and have responded at the scene by 5.32am.
Note - The Police made the serious error at this point of not securing the scene IN ANY MANNER. It should be noted that as such any forensic evidence upstairs would be considered contaminated.
The Police allowed Jon Ramsey and a friend (Fleet) to search downstairs and it was in a basement room that her body was discovered by her father.
"JonBenet was found wrapped in a blanket and lying in the middle of the basement floor. She had duct tape across her mouth. She lay with her arms above her head and a white cord was wrapped tightly around her neck. The same cord was tied loosely to her wrists. The broken handle of a paintbrush, measuring approximately 4.5 inches in length, had been looped into the cord to form a garrote. At the time of her death, JonBenet was wearing a sweatshirt over a long sleeve shirt. The lower half of her body was clad in white pajama bottoms over white panties."
(note that such 'evidence' as a lack of footprints around the home are not factual as the scene was not secure nor was the weather taken into consideration when this stuff was leaked to the media by inexperienced (fact!) and overzealous cops)
FACT - there was little to no snow coverage around the house.
Police report of dec 26 states a number of open windows in the house and at least one open door. As this may be considered contaminated (anyone could have done this), we can disallow this info but consider the secure basement scene where the basement window was found to be OPEN. Also this very window was broken and could not be secured as a result.
"JonBenet's bedroom is one floor below her parents' room, a total distance of 55 feet of walkways, covered by thick carpeting.
A carpeted spiral staircase, a few feet from her room, leads down to the kitchen. From the kitchen, it is only a few steps to the door that leads to the basement stairs. At the bottom of the stairs is a short corridor that leads directly to the room where her body was found."
As such it is not unreasonable to conclude that there was NO NEED for a forced entry, there was no 'secret room' as reported nor was there copious amounts of snow around the house.
"The evidence suggests that either someone took the girl from her bedroom by force, or lured her to the kitchen with the promise of food, which would explain the undigested remnants of pineapple found in her stomach at the time of her death. "
Note - a stun gun was used on her at some point. In autopsy pics you can clearly see two burn marks on her neck that were not in any pics taken the days before.
"She was then taken to the basement, had tape placed over her mouth, and was bound with the nylon cord. She was then sexually assaulted, after which she was strangled with the garrote and bashed about the head. The killer or killers then wrote out a two and a half page "ransom" note on a pad from the house, demanding $118,000, and left it at the foot of the staircase."
In the following days and weeks news reports speculated on a variety of falsehoods including the level of grief shown, the hiring of criminal lawyers and the Ramseys sexually abusing their daughter. None of the claims can be verified and sources have been proven false.
Fact - JonBenet had been examined by her family doctor before her murder and was not sexually molested. He found no evidence and reported her a happy and healthy child. The medical examiner confirms this.
If this theory is correct, then the killer would have to be someone who:
- is familiar with the layout of the house.
- knows the Ramseys personally enough to know that John Ramsey received a bonus of $118,000.
- is small enough to have gained entry via a narrow basement window and possibly exited the same way.
- was confident enough to spend the time to not only commit the offense, but to have the presence of mind to write a long note in an attempt to draw suspicion away from himself.
In addition to this:
The evidence observed by police at the scene strongly suggests that the attack came from someone outside the house; for instance:
- A footprint made by a Hi-Tec stamped hiking boot was found in the concrete dust of the wine cellar. The boot has not been connected to any of the Ramseys.
- An unidentified palm print was found on the door of the wine cellar. It does not belong to John, Patsy or Burke Ramsey.
-A pubic hair was found on the blanket in which JonBenet was wrapped. It does not belong to John, Patsy or Burke Ramsey.
-A piece of broken glass was found under a basement window. The window was open and the sill showed signs of disturbance.
-There was a scuff-mark on the basement wall below the window. Someone had to have climbed in or out of this window (however, no footprints were found outside the window).
-The duct tape and the cord used in the murder were not found in the Ramsey house.
(see http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/ramsey/it_5.html)
There is further evidence of a suitcase with duvet and pillow found in the basement where fibers had transfered to the body.
It seems all of the untainted proof is down in those basement rooms.
So why exactly do people still think the Ramseys killed their daughter?