The family claimed Burke remained in bed throughout the commotion. Their parents then placed her corpse in the basement with a nylon cord around her neck, covering her with a blanket and making it look as though an intruder broke in, with Patsy writing the ransom note.
When she came downstairs and tried to steal some of her brother’s snack, he allegedly hit her over the head with a nearby torch - before prodding her with a piece of train track to see if she was alive, leaving two marks in her back that some have claimed came from a stun gun. They theorised that Burke could have been angry at JonBenet over Christmas presents. The forensic experts, former FBI agents and psychologists concluded that after coming home from a Christmas dinner, John carried JonBenet upstairs to bed while Burke sat down to eat a bowl of pineapple and milk in the kitchen downstairs.
CAN THE JONBENET RAMSEY MURDER BE SOLVED WITH DNA CRACK
The crack team of world-leading experts who spent months working through every theory on the murder for last night’s dramatic documentary called for the case to be reopened after they all came to the same conclusion - that she was killed by her nine-year-old sibling and their parents covered it up. But eight hours later, Mr Ramsey found JonBenet’s body in the basement of the family’s 15-room Tudor home in Boulder, Colorado. But behind closed doors, things were apparently not as perfect as they seemed.Įarly on Boxing Day morning in 1996, Mrs Ramsey called 911 to report her daughter missing and the discovery of a ransom note demanding $US118,000. John and Patsy Ramsey were wealthy and respected pillars of the community - she a keen volunteer and dedicated housekeeper, he a successful businessman. “When I think of putting faeces in the sister’s bed … He was doing that.”Įxperts believe Burke Ramsey killed his sister in a fit of jealous rage. “The brother is not exactly thinking straight, the behaviour is … of somebody who’s got a problem,” he said. Leading forensic pathologist Werner Spitz alleged in the documentary that Burke appeared to have a “mental problem”, having also smeared faeces on a bathroom wall. “After they sealed off JonBenet’s room, the crime scene technicians went through it, they apparently found faeces smeared on a box of candy she had got for Christmas,” said Mr Clemente. The Ramseys’ former housekeeper Linda Hoffman-Pugh recalled once “finding faecal material the size of a grapefruit on the sheets” in his six-year-old sister’s bed. That’s the question that’s become paramount after a landmark documentary last night concluded that Burke Ramsey killed JonBenet.Īnd the key to his role in the sensational, 20-year-old case could hinge on disturbing claims about the boy smearing faeces on his sister’s Christmas gift and her bedroom walls.īurke, now 29, had a “history of scatological problems”, FBI special agent Jim Clemente notes in The Case of JonBenet. WHAT would drive a nine-year-old boy to murder his younger sister? He also denounced the CBS documentary theorising he killed his sister as a “false and unprofessional television attack” that is riddled with “lies, misrepresentations, distortions and omissions”. Editor’s Note: In a recent interview, Burke Ramsey denied that he harmed his sister, and said he suspected a paedophile who stalked child beauty pageants was the killer.