Dec. 24, 2025
12 Days of Murder - "THE CHRISTMAS MURDER: JONBENÉT RAMSEY'S LAST NIGHT ALIVE - PART 1"
Reid Carter launches 12 Crimes of Christmas with America's most haunting unsolved murder. December 25, 1996: Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was killed in her Boulder, Colorado home while her family slept. December 26: Patsy Ramsey found a bizarre three-page ransom note demanding exactly $118,000 - her husband's Christmas bonus. Police arrived at 5:55 AM but didn't search the basement. Seven hours later, John Ramsey found his daughter's body in the wine cellar - strangled with a garrote, skull fractured. The crime scene was destroyed. The investigation botched from minute one. Twenty-nine years later, no arrest.
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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Reed Carter. Wednesday, December
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twenty fourth, twenty twenty five, Christmas Eve. Welcome to twelve
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Crimes of Christmas. For the next twelve days. While the
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courts are dark for the holidays, we're covering classic cases
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that shook America, and we're starting with the one that
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happened exactly twenty nine years ago. Tomorrow, December twenty fifth,
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nineteen ninety six, Boulder, Colorado, a six year old beauty
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queen named John Beney Ramsey went to bed in her
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family's fifteen room mansion after a Christmas party. She never
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woke up. The next morning, her mother, Patsy, found a rambling,
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three page ransom note on the back staircase demanded exactly
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one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars for John Benney's safe return.
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That number wasn't random, it was almost exactly what her
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father John had received as his Christmas bonus that year.
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Patsy called nine one one at five fifty two a
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m police arrived. Seven minutes later. They searched the house,
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but somehow missed the basement. For seven hours, John Bennet's
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body lay in the wine cellar, while officers combed the
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upstairs and friends wandered freely through the crime scene. At
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one pm, a detective asked John Ramsey to search the
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house again. He went straight to the basement, opened the
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door to a small storage room, found his daughter lying
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on the floor, duct tape over her mouth, hands bound
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above her head, a garrote made from a broken paint
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brush handle twisted around her neck. She was six years old.
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John carried John Bennet's body upstairs, laid her on the
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living room floor, destroyed whatever forensic evidence might have remained,
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the crime scene was already contaminated beyond repair. Twenty nine
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years later, no one has been charged, the case remains
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officially unsolved, and we still don't know who killed John
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Beney Ramsey on Christmas night. I'm reed, Carter. This is
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Celebrity Trials today. The murder that has haunted America for
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nearly three decades, the botched investigation, the destroyed crime scene,
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and a six year old girl who should be thirty
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five years old today, Part one of three. Before we
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get to the horror, let's talk about who John Benet
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Ramsey was, because she deserves to be remembered as more
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than a victim, more than a case file. John Benet
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Patricia Ramsey was born August sixth, nineteen ninety in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Her father, John Bennett Ramsey, was a successful businessman who
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ran Access Graphics, a computer company that had recently been
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acquired by Lockheed Martin. Her mother, Patricia Anne Ramsey Patsy,
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was a former beauty queen who'd won Miss West Virginia
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in nineteen seventy seven. The family moved to Boulder, Colorado,
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in nineteen ninety one, when Access Graphics relocated its headquarters.
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John was worth an estimated six million dollars. They lived
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in a Tudor style mansion on Fifteenth Street, fifteen rooms,
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a wine cellar, multiple staircases, and a basement so large
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and labyrinthine that police would later fail to search it properly.
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John Bennet had an older brother, Burke, who was nine
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at the time of her death. She also had older
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half siblings from John's first marriage, John Andrew and Melinda,
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and she'd had another half sister, Elizabeth, who died in
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a car accident in nineteen ninety two at age twenty two.
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John Benney was buried next to her Patsy introduced John
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Benney to beauty pageants at age four. The Little Girl
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was a natural blonde hair, blue eyes, a smile that
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lit up stages. She won titles including Little Miss Colorado,
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America's Royale Miss, Little Miss Charlevois, Colorado, State All Star Kids,
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Cover Girl, and National Tiny Miss Beauty. The pageant world
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would later become controversial of John Bennet. Performing in elaborate costumes,
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full makeup, and styled hair made some viewers uncomfortable, but
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by all accounts, John Beney loved performing. She was described
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as outgoing, affectionate, and genuinely happy on stage. She attended
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High Peaks Elementary School in Boulder, loved her family, loved Christmas.
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Had no idea that December twenty fifth, nineteen ninety six,
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would be her last day alive. That Christmas Day, the
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Ramsays spent the morning at home opening presents. In the
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early evening, they attended a party at the home of
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family friends Fleet and Priscilla White. John Benet played with
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other children ate dinner. By the time they left around
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nine pm, she was already asleep in the car. John
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carried her inside and up to her bedroom on the
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second floor. Put her to bed, still wearing the clothes
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from the party. Patsy changed her into pajamas without waking her.
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The family went to sleep. They had an early flight
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the next morning, heading to their vacation home in Michigan,
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then onto a Disney cruise. Sometime between ten pm on
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Christmas night and five thirty am on December twenty sixth,
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John Bennet Ramsey was taken from her bed, brought to
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the basement, sexually assaulted, struck in the head with enough
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force to fracture her skull, strangled with a garrot fashioned
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from nylon cord and a broken paint brush. She fought.
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The autopsy found scratches on her neck half moon shapes
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from her own fingernails trying to claw the cord away.
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She was conscious when the strangulation began. A six year
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old girl fighting for her life in her own basement
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on Christmas night, and nobody heard anything. John, Patsy, and
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Burke all claimed to have slept through whatever happened. No screams,
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no sounds of struggle. Nothing make it make sense. John
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Beney should be thirty five years old today, should have
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graduated high school, college, maybe started a family of her
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own instead. She's been dead for twenty nine years, buried
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in Marietta, Georgia, next to her half sister Elizabeth. Someone
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has to say her name. Someone has to remember she
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was a person, not just a case file. December twenty sixth,
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nineteen ninety six, the day after Christmas, five thirty am,
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Patsy Ramsey came downstairs to make coffee. The family had
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that early flight to catch. As she descended the back
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staircase toward the kitchen, she saw papers on the steps,
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three pages handwritten a ransom note. Mister Ramsey, listen carefully.
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We are a group of individuals that represent a small
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foreign faction. We respect your business, but not the country
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that it serves. At this time, we have your daughter
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in our possession. Patsy stopped reading ran upstairs. John Benet's
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bed was empty. She woke John, screamed, then called nine
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one one. The call came in at five point fifty
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two a m. Patsy was hysterical. We have a kidnapping.
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Hurry please. The dispatcher tried to calm her down, asked questions,
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how old is your daughter? She's six years old. She's blonde.
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Does the note say who took her. No, I don't know,
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there's a there's a ransom note here. Police officer Rick
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French arrived at five fifty five am, first responder. He
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did a quick search of the house, but missed the basement,
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missed the wine cellar, where John Benet's body was already lying.
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Here's the first failure. French should have searched every room,
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every closet, every possible hiding place. That's basic procedure for
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a missing child. But the house was enormous, fifteen rooms,
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multiple levels, a confusing layout, and the ransom note said
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John Bennet had been kidnap, apped, taken somewhere else, So
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French focused on the upper floors, where she'd last been seen.
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By six a m. More officers arrived. They secured John
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Benet's bedroom, taped it off, but that was the only
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room they protected. The rest of the house open season.
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Patsy had already called friends and family. Fleet and Priscilla
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White arrived, John Fernie and his wife others followed. By
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mid morning, the Ramsey home was filled with people walking
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through rooms, touching surfaces, using bathrooms, contaminating any forensic evidence
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that might have existed. Your tax dollars at work. Meanwhile,
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the ransom note sat on a table, three pages over
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three hundred seventy words, the longest ransom note in FBI history.
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Let me tell you what that note said, because every
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word of it would become evidence. You will withdraw one
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hundred eighteen thousand dollars from your account. One hundred thousand
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dollars will be in one hundred dollar bills and the
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remaining eighteen thousand dollars in twenty dollar bills. Make sure
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that you bring an adequate size attache to the bank.
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When you get home, you will put the money in
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a brown paper bag. I will call you between eight
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and ten am tomorrow to instruct you on delivery one
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hundred eighteen thousand dollars, not a round number, not a
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million dollars, which you'd expect from kidnappers targeting a multimillionaire.
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One hundred eighteen thousand dollars, almost exactly what John Ramsey
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had received as his Christmas bonus that year. Whoever wrote
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this note new intimate details about the family's finances. The
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note continued with threats. Any deviation of my instructions will
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result in the immediate execution of your daughter. You will
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also be denied her remains for proper burial. It referenced
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speaking to the two gentlemen watching over your daughter, warned
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John not to contact police, said the fa family was
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under constant scrutiny, and it was signed Victory SBTC. Nobody
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has ever figured out what SBTC stands for. Theories ranged
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from saved by the Cross to references from action movies.
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The note itself contained phrases that seemed borrowed from films
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like Speed, Dirty, Harry, and Ransom. But here's the most
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damning detail. The note was written on a legal pad
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from inside the Ramsey home using a pen from inside
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the Ramsey home. The FBI told Boulder police this was
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extraordinarily unusual. Kidnappers write ransom notes beforehand. They don't sit
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in a victim's house composing a three page letter while
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a dead child lies in the basement, unless the killer
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wasn't a kidnapper at all. The call the note promised
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between eight and ten am never came because John Benney
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wasn't kidnapped. She was already dead, had been dead for hours.
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At one pm, Detective Linda Arndt made a decision that
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would haunt the investigation Forever Frustrated that no ransom call
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had come, she asked John Ramsay and family friend Fleet
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White to search the house again see if anything was
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out of place. John went straight to the basement to
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a room investigators had somehow missed a small storage area,
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the wine cellar. He opened the door and there was
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John Bennet. She was lying on her back, a white
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blanket partially covering her body, duct tape over her mouth,
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wrists bound above her head with white cord, another cord,
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a garrot made from nylon rope, and a broken paintbrush
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handle wrapped around her neck. John screamed, picked up his
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daughter's body, carried her upstairs, laid her on the living
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room floor, ripped the duct tape off her mouth. Detective
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aren't watched in horror. Any forensic evidence on the body, fingerprints, fibers,
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DNA was now compromised. The crime scene, already contaminated by
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hours of foot traffic, was destroyed for by a grieving
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father holding his dead child. The coroner didn't arrive until
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eight pm that night. John Benet's body wasn't removed until
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ten forty five pm, more than seventeen hours after Patsy's
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nine to one one call. Welcome to justice in America.
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A six year old girl murdered on Christmas night and
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the police bungled the investigation from the first minute. We'll
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be right back with the autopsy findings that would shock
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the nation and the evidence that pointed in two completely
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different directions. Welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm Reed Carter.
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December twenty seventh, nineteen ninety six. The day after John
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Benet's body was discovered, Boulder County Coroner John Meyer performed
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the autopsy. The official cause of death asphyxia by strangulation
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associated with cranio cerebral trauma. In plain English, she was
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strangled and her skull was fractured. Both injuries could have
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been fatal on their own. Let me paint you the
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picture of what the autopsy revealed. John Bennet had an
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eight and a half inch linear fracture on the right
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side of her skull. Someone had struck her with tremendous force,
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likely a blunt object, possibly a flashlight or similar weapon.
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The blow caused bleeding in her brain, subarachnoid and subdural hemorrhage,
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but she didn't die. Immediately from the head wound. The
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evidence suggested she survived unconscious but alive, for somewhere between
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forty five minutes and two hours after being struck. During
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that time, someone fashioned a garat, took a paint brush
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from Patsy Ramsay's art supplies in the basement, broke it
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into three pieces, used one piece as a handle, wrapped
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nylon cord around it, created a device specifically designed to strangle.
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Then they put it around John Bennet's neck and twisted.
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The autopsy found a deep ligature furrow around her neck,
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petechial hemorrhages in her eyes, tiny blood spots caused by strangulation.
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She was alive when the cord tightened. The half moon
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scratches on her neck proved she fought tried to pull
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the garrote away with her own fingers, a six year
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old girl fighting to breathe in her own basement. There
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was also evidence of sexual assault. No seamen was found,
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suggesting no conventional rape, but there was vaginal injury, trauma
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to the hymen, a small amount of blood evidence that something,
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possibly the missing piece of the paintbrush that was never found,
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had been used to assault her. The coroner noted that
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her vaginal area appeared to have been wiped clean. Someone
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tried to eliminate evidence. Duct tape covered her mouth, though
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her arms were bound loosely above her head. Her torso
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was wrapped in a white blanket, her favorite blanket, freshly
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laundered that had been in the dryer. Whoever covered her
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knew which blanket she preferred, knew where the clean laundry was.
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The autopsy also found fragments of pineapple in John Bennet's
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digestive system. She'd eaten pineapple within a few hours of
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her death, but John and Patsy insisted they hadn't fed
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her pineapple that night, said she was asleep when they
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got home from the party. Crime scene photos showed a
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bowl of pineapple on the kitchen table with a spoon
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in it. Burke's fingerprints were on the bowl. Did John
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Benet wake up after being put to bed go downstairs
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for a snack encounter her killer? The pineapple has never
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been explained. Here's what the evidence told investigators. Whoever killed
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John Bennett knew the house intimately knew where to find
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