‘Law enforcement screwed up; they screwed up from day one.’ ibid.
A slew of new suspects emerged: ‘In order to protect the one living child they had left – which was Burt – they figured out a cover-up.’ ibid.
A family friend could have been the murderer – Bill McReynolds – he looked like Santa ... He turned up on the Today Show a week later ... ‘She [JonBenet] took him on a personal tour of the home ... And even believed he was the real Santa Claus ... She had so much trust in Santa Bill’ ... ‘That crime 22 years to the day to JonBenet’s murder’ ... ‘Investigators need to look elsewhere’. ibid.
Gary Oliva: ‘He was a convicted child sex offender’ ... ‘he was a homeless man’ ... ‘he knew that neighbourhood’ ... ‘the poem he wrote Ode to JonBenet found in his backpack’ ... ‘He had created a shrine to JonBenet in his home’ ... ‘They just could not put him at the scene of the crime’. ibid.
Police don’t seem to consider [Michael] Helgoth a viable suspect ... ‘Helgoth may be the intruder he is looking for’ ... ibid.
A mysterious figure makes an astonishing admission: Daxas. ‘The DNA did not match’ ... ibid.
‘The audacity of the crime.’ JonBenet: People Magazine Investigates, Vicky, ID 2017
JonBenet’s story begins and ends with family. ibid.
Kidnapping and a ransom note? It’s about as far from typical as a 911 call can get … It takes them hours to arrive. ibid.
The detective on site somehow loses control of the crime scene. ibid.
‘Evidence of sexual trauma: this girl was subjected to some sort of damage in the vaginal area that pre-dates her death.’ ibid.
‘A kind of emotional vacuum there.’ ibid. FBI dude of mother
‘He [son] was instantly shielded by his parents.’ ibid. commentator
The killing of six-year-old American beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey has become one of the great crime stories of the twentieth century. Did her mother Patsy abuse, torture and murder her daughter? Real Crime [with Mark Austin] s1e5: Who Killed the Pageant Queen? The Murder of JonBenet Ramsey, ITV 2001
They had found a bizarre three-page ransom note on these back stairs. ibid.
They had found no evidence of a break-in and no footsteps in the snow around the house. ibid.
The couple were hounded everywhere they went. ibid.
‘The window was wide open; but what also caught my attention was a mark on the wall … There was a suitcase right underneath this window.’ ibid. investigator Lou Smit
Late night television fuelled the hysteria. ibid.
‘There’s no way Patsy could have written that after murdering her daughter.’ ibid. Smit
Smit also identified the actual weapon which he believed caused the injuries: ‘The stun gun we came up with is this one … It would have allowed the killer to take her from her bed without her struggling … It points directly at an intruder.’ ibid.
‘You can see the amount of force that was exerted on that garrotte.’ ibid.
‘Somebody brutally bludgeoned JonBenet that night.’ ibid.
Tonight: new evidence about the murder of a six-year-old beauty queen and the prime suspect who might have killed her. Real Crime [with Mark Austin] s4e4: Who Killed the Pageant Queen? Prime Suspect, ITV 2004
The police arrived within minutes: from the outset they suspected the parents. ibid.
They include two men living near the Ramsey home who left Boulder immediately after the murder: both have criminal records yet neither has been interviewed. Two convicted paedophiles who lived nearby have also never been eliminated. ibid.
From the very beginning the Boulder police had DNA evidence now believed to be the killer’s, but for whatever reason failed to test it. ibid.
More mystery DNA found under her fingernails: both had come from the same unknown white male: it all but cleared the parents but the Boulder police said nothing. ibid.
Three months after the murder of JonBenet Ramsey the Boulder police were told that this man, Michael Helgoth, might have been involved: they ignored the information. ibid.
Likely that more than one person was in the Ramsey home that night: the footprints suggest this as did the number of objects taken in and out of the house … and the ransom note also suggests more than one person was involved. ibid.
A series of intrusions and attempted assaults. ibid.
‘My name is Hannah and I’m auditioning for the role of JonBenet Ramsey.’ Casting JonBenet, 2017, child auditions, 2017
‘For me it’s the pearls that make who Patsy was.’ ibid. lady auditions
‘And everyone pointed their finger at Patsy.’ ibid.
‘It feels like a legacy thing for Patsy actually.’ ibid.
The most thorough investigation yet into the murder of JonBenet. And John Ramsey responds to the media storm that marked the 20th anniversary of his daughter’s death. Killing of JonBenet: Her Father Speaks, CI 2018
She was taken from her bed on Christmas night, taken down these stairs to a basement and tortured, strangled and beaten to death. Who killed JonBenet? It’s a question that has gripped America. ibid.
A patrol car was there within seven minutes. ibid.
‘And I heard John scream …’ ibid. mother
They were besieged by the media. ibid.
Video from the pageants began to emerge. ibid.
The Kiddie-Porn Killing. ibid. Sunday Times magazine cover
‘It really wasn’t that difficult coming in that window.’ ibid. Lou Smit, investigator
‘These are stun gun injuries.’ ibid. chief medical examiner
Mixed with JonBenet’s blood was the DNA of an unknown male; it was consistent with the DNA found under her fingernails … The Boulder police ignored it. ibid.
‘This was a very brutal killing.’ ibid. Lou Smit
They listed over 200 pieces of evidence pointing away from the parents. ibid.
‘Armed with new DNA evidence that points to an unknown male as JonBenet Ramsey’s killer, Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacy on Wednesday took the extraordinary step of publicly exonerating the child’s parents and immediate family in her death’. ibid. newspaper article