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(#11) JonBenét's Aunt Thinks She Knew The Killer
Pamela Paugh, the younger sister of Patsy Ramsey and a fellow beauty queen, had her own theory about her niece's murder. As the investigation continued over the course of several years, Paugh felt certain the murderer was someone JonBenét knew and trusted since there was no sign of struggle in her room. Paugh theorized that jealousy involving the Ramsey wealth led the murderer to kill the young girl. Although the person was likely known to JonBenét, Paugh theorized, the murderer must have been a family friend — certainly no one from the family.
Paugh's theory was plausible, since JonBenét's autopsy found undigested pineapple in her stomach. This finding played into an investigative hypothesis that JonBenét's brother Burke may have killed her. According to a report in Vanity Fair,
The night of the murder, the experts believe, Burke made himself a snack of pineapple with milk, and tea. His fingerprints were found on a bowl, and the teacup next to it. JonBenét, the experts believed, snatched a piece of the fruit (reportedly one of her favorite desserts) directly from the bowl with her fingers, leaving no prints. This, the experts believe, catalyzed the grisly events that followed.
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(#3) Patsy Ramsey Was A Beauty Queen Herself
Nearly 20 years before JonBenét's murder, Patsy Ramsey was crowned Miss West Virginia in a 1977 beauty pageant. Patsy grew up in the pageant circuit, and what was a way of life for her, soon became fodder for criticism during the murder investigation of her daughter.
Critics and investigators alike implied that JonBenét Ramsey never really wanted to do pageants, and that Patsy was just trying to live vicariously through her daughter, pressuring JonBenét and fostering a negatively competitive environment.
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(#2) John Ramsey Had Another Daughter Who Died
Four years before JonBenét's murder, her father lost another young daughter. Elizabeth Pasch Ramsey was one of John's children from his first marriage to Lucinda Pasch. Elizabeth worked as a flight attendant for Delta Airlines before she died at the age of 22.
Elizabeth's official cause of death was cited as the multiple injuries she incurred in a car crash in January of 1992. By all accounts, it was a freak accident; Elizabeth's boyfriend lost control of his car in a rainstorm and was hit by a truck.
However, after JonBenét's death, investigators pulled Elizabeth's autopsy report on the off chance there was any link to her death and the murder of JonBenét. No connection between the two deaths was ever found.
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(#4) Burke Ramsey Left His Feces Throughout His Family's Home
One of the red flags casting suspicion over Burke Ramsey's involvement in his sister's murder was his childhood scatological obsession. Crime scene evidence found feces smeared on a box of candy he gave JonBenét for Christmas.
The family housekeeper recalled Burke covering a bathroom wall with his excrement, and during the murder investigation, she also recounted finding "fecal matter the size of a grapefuit" in JonBenét's bed, which the housekeeper believed was left there by Burke.
The Case Of: JonBenét Ramsey looked into the issue of Burke's feces at the crime scene, and one of the experts noted, "The behavior is [indicative] of somebody who's got a problem. When I think of putting feces in the sister's bed... he was doing that."
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(#13) John Ramsey Remarried
While his relationship with Beth Holloway Twitty came to an end, John Ramsey tied the knot for a third time in 2011. He married Jan Rousseaux, a designer from Las Vegas, in a private ceremony in Charlevoix, Michigan.
Charlevoix was the same town where John and Patsy lived in the years preceding Patsy's death. When People magazine asked John what JonBenét would think of this new marriage, he simply replied, "I have no doubt she will be smiling."
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(#6) John And Patsy Disagreed About The Pageants
John Ramsey stated multiple times the beauty pageants in which JonBenét participated were just a way for her and Patsy to bond, but in retrospect, he admitted he wished they'd never put their baby girl on display. The Independent speculated as much as well, analyzing how involved the Ramseys were in their daughter's career and whether girls should be sexualized to the extent which they typically are for pageants.
...The killing has reinforced a widely held view that there is something grotesque about girls as young as four being taught to sing and strut their stuff on stage, to offer prettily turned answers to the judges. The suspicion lingers that dressing JonBenét as someone three times her age made her a target, whether of jealousy or perverted sexuality, or someone trying to settle a score with her doting family.
Allegedly, Patsy Ramsey saw the pageants as the center of JonBenét's young life. Although the media ran mostly pageant photos of JonBenét during the murder investigation and after, she only participated in nine pageants altogether.
In fact, many who knew JonBenét, including her parents, referred to her as "a tomboy at heart."
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When talking about Christmas, people always think of shopping, food, and all kinds of joyous things. But on Christmas in 1996, a murder shocked the world. The body of JonBenét Ramsey, who was only 6 years old and won beauty queen, was found in the basement of her home. An autopsy revealed that Joan Bennett suffered two fatal injuries and was sexually assaulted.
Although many experts and detectives pointed out many suspicious points on the day of the crime, including suspicious conversations and behaviors of the family member, due to the lack of definitive evidence in this murder case, it has not been solved so far. The random tool collected 13 facts about the murder that many people never know.
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