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her brother [Applause] JonBenet Ramsey [Music] find out there would be very few little
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girls as famous as blonde six-year-old JonBenet Patricia Ramsey she was born in Atlanta Georgia on August 6th 1992
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parents John Bennett Ramsey and Patricia and Ramsey her name as unique as it was
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was a combination of her father's first and middle names her father John was a wealthy businessman and her mother Patsy
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was a former beauty queen John Ramsey was a smart calculated and determined man he graduated from Michigan State
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University in 1966 with an electrical engineering degree five years later a master's in business administration from
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MSU John was married before he and his first wife had three children Elizabeth Melinda and John Andrew but
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the two divorced in 1978 on November 5th 1980 he married what many considered to
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be the woman of his dreams 23 year-old Patricia and paw yeah better known as Patsy Patsy attended West Virginia
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University and graduated with a BA in journalism in 1978 just a year before she won the Miss West Virginia beauty
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title in 1977 On January 27 1987 Patsy gave birth to the couple's first child Burke Ramsey then three and a half years
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later they welcomed their second child Jon Benet in 1991 the family moved to Boulder Colorado for John's business
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access graphics a little background here John was extremely hardworking and driven he was an entrepreneur he started
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a computer company in the 80s eventually his company and two other companies merged in 1988 this formed
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access graphics the company was then sold to Lockheed Martin in 1991 John became the chief executive officer and
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president of access graphics thus sparking the family to set up shop in beautiful Boulder Colorado the Ramseys
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purchased a 7,000 square foot home the address 75515 Street Boulder Colorado the home was purchased for $500,000 some
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reports state the home is 11,000 square feet but I believe that would include maybe the basement balconies in other
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areas we all know how the real estate listing game works they also did a very extensive renovation on the property as
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well speaking of which I will do my best impression here it's a beautiful red brick Tudor style home built in 1927
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there are four floors including the basement the basement is made up of a series of small rooms the home features
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two staircases one traditional and one spiral there are five bedrooms Burke and JonBenet's rooms are located on the
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second storey JonBenet's room is complete with its own bathroom and balcony the master suite is above the
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children's rooms located on the third storey the ramsey's patsy in particular loved this house the Ramseys were riding
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pretty high but unfortunately life is often a series of peaks and valleys sadly on January 8th 1992 John Ramsey's
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oldest daughter from his first marriage Elizabeth Ramsey was killed in an automobile accident in Chicago Illinois
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she was just 22 years old on December 23rd 1992 the Ramseys purchased a 1731 square foot vacation home in Charlevoix
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Michigan for 336 thousand dollars for those unfamiliar this is an absolutely beautiful area northern Michigan right
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along Lake Michigan absolutely gorgeous in June of 93 Patsy Ramsey is diagnosed with breast
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cancer for this she will receive exams at the Charla Void Community Hospital and treatments in Maryland now we're
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going to go through a pretty thorough timeline for the Ramsey family some of these events may seem trivial however
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given the crime that we know is going to occur these items were included in this
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timeline because of the possibilities and the suspicions surrounding this case in 1994 seven-year-old Burke hits his
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little sister JonBenet on the cheek with a golf club well let's be clear this is
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not a situation where Burke decided I don't like you and I'm gonna smash you in the face with a golf club this was
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purely an accident this wasn't like the time my brother hit me in the back with a baseball bat because he was trying to
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kill me I questioned this at first glance because we do know that children siblings will fight with one another and
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they can be quite vicious at times plus when they're very young as they would be
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in this situation it's an impulsive thing to pick up a club and hit your sister or your brother
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with it because they did something mean to you first and Burke only being seven years old he want to be thinking if I
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hit her in the face with a golf club I could possibly kill her right this could have lasting consequences however
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everything that we could find only indicates that this was just an accident and believe it or not in my own life I
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have experienced a situation where one of my friends accidentally hit another friend in the face with a golf club in
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the face on the backswing because the person was standing too close as the other person was taking a swing we don't
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have the details of this specific accident however again everything indicates that it was just that an
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accident right but it was pretty vicious because JonBenet would be left with a scar a short time later JonBenet
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underwent plastic surgery at a surgeon in Denver this to correct that scar on the left cheek from the golf club
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incident in December of 1994 the Ramseys giant beautiful home is one of just seven
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homes in the area to be included in the historic homes for the holidays tour this is important for a few reasons
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mainly this means that approximately 1,500 people will participate in a tour of the Ramseys property and the house in
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April of 1995 four-year-old Jon Benet Ramsey wins the Colorado State all-star kids pageant now she will participate
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and win several pageants I'm not going to go through all of them captain frankly when researched well you get a
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bunch of different information so I will just stick to the ones that I can confirm or at least have double-checked
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October of 1995 was a happy and exciting month for the Ramsey family Jon Benet was crowned Little Miss Colorado
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sunburst and John Ramsey was the winner of the Entrepreneur of Distinction Award
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yeah but to be clear I don't think like her whole family was revolved around her
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winning something I think it was nice when she won and they devoted a lot of time doing it but I don't think it made
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the family's year if she got some award regarding John Ramsey's business keep in
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mind access graphics is doing very well and the company is growing in sales and staff quite rapidly
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then it was Patsy's turn to receive some recognition this came when the April 1996 issue of women's magazine profiled
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Patsy Ramsey this article of course will include a lot of her personal information but also a lot of personal
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information about John and the kids then in July of 1996 Jon Benet won America's
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Royale tiny miss the following month she finishes second and the Sunburst national pageant this pageant was held
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in Atlanta Georgia on Saturday November 30th John Ramsey hosts a surprise 40th birthday party for his wife of 16 years
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and this is truly a surprise as her actual birthday is not until December 29th mm-hmm
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this was a big 40th birthday celebration for Patsy held at the Palace Hotel in Denver there's a lot of speculation
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though that she was not looking forward to this time and was actually very upset
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about turning 40 then on December 6th during the lights of December parade JonBenet appeared on her own Little Miss
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Colorado float this is an annual parade where spectators enjoy floats created and decorated by local businesses
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churches and civic groups the parade often includes marching bands fire engines holiday carolers and an
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appearance by Santa Claus this takes place in downtown Boulder in 1996 Burk was in this parade as well on Friday
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December 13th there is a big holiday party at the Ramseys home this is attended by more than 150 of their
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friends from church so again just pointing out another event at their house with a lot of guests so what we
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are quickly learning is this is a house that has many people who have been in and is often opened up to many guests
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over just the few years that they have owned the home right four days later on the 17th the six-year-old was crowned
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Colorado's Little Miss Christmas this is one of the larger pageants that she has
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participated in and certainly an achieving moment and in hindsight really kind of just an eerie weird thing that
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Jon Benet would be named the 1996 Little Miss Christmas now we don't have a date
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but I want to make sure that we include this here there is a report that this took place sometime in December of 96
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and this comes from a statement to law enforcement at some time in December Jon Benet tells a gardener this is Brian
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Scott about her father John Ramsey she says I really miss him I she was around more yeah he's working
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pretty hard probably traveling a lot and it's later reported that his net worth at this time would be roughly six point
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four million dollars December 20th was a busy day for the Ramseys on two fronts one axis graphics had a luncheon party
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and a celebration for more than 300 employees at the hotel bull Dorado and two Jon Benet participates in a school
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performance at high peaks Elementary School Patsy attends the performance the access graphics luncheon and the
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performance at the school are going on at the same time so Patsy is not present for the business celebration because she
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is at the school now it's important to keep in mind that one of these events could be tied to JonBenet's death for
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any number of reasons truth be told none of us really know for sure here's an excerpt from the book
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death of innocence authored by John and Patsy Ramsey in the book John says early
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in December 1996 Tom Carson came to my office John I want you to look at these figures I looked up at him standing at
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the door with a handful of papers as best as I can tell we're going to hit the billion dollar sales mark in a
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couple of days it's a big milestone a billion dollars my mouth dropped I know we were close but I didn't think we were
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there yet it's on top of us he smiled probably in a couple of days I think we should do something to celebrate
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I agreed if for no other reason than to congratulate our employees a billion dollars in sales and 600 employees
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worldwide was a big milestone for access graphics one of our public relations people thought we should also contact
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the newspaper to announce our success I had a gut reaction that the press release wasn't a good idea I didn't want
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that kind of visibility outside of the business still I agreed since our employees deserve the recognition now I
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wonder if this publicity might have attracted the attention of the killer or further irritated the person
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if he or she had a grudge against big business access graphics or me know John's memory of this party in the book
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states that the luncheon was held on December 16th according to The Daily Camera Business Magazine this
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celebration was held on December 20th John did a phone interview regarding the company success and on December 21st the
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daily camera business magazine publishes the article on axis graphics reaching 1
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billion dollars in sales alright so why are we going with December 20th and not December 16th that's a good question
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we have a couple of reasons for that one we know that the luncheon and the school
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performance occurred on the same day we have statements saying that the performance the school performance was
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on the 20th and we also have the fact that the daily camera business magazine article comes out that same year I mean
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just the day after the party John's book does not come out until years later and
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he's going off of memory on December 22nd JonBenet Ramsey is gonna be in a beauty pageant and the Southwest Plaza
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Mall this is the one that she sings rockin around the Christmas tree and she has a toy saxophone sometime in late
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December the Ramsey family sent out their annual Christmas card with the Ramsey family updates for their loved
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ones the 1996 Christmas newsletter reads as follows dear friends and family it's
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been another busy year at the Ramsey household I can't believe it's almost over and time to start again Malinda 24
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graduated from Medical College of Georgia and is working in pediatric ICU at Kenney stone hospital in Atlanta John
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Andrew xx is a sophomore at the University of Colorado Burke is a busy fourth grader where he really shines in
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math and spelling he played flag football this fall and is currently on a basketball bench his
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little league team was number one he's lost just about all of his baby teeth so I'm sure we'll be seeing the
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orthodontist in 1997 JonBenet is enjoying her first year in real school kindergarten in the core knowledge
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program is fast paced and five full days a week she has already been moved ahead
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to first grade math she continues to enjoy participating in talent and modeling pageants
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she was named America's Royale tiny miss last summer and is Colorado's Little Miss Christmas her teacher says she is
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so outgoing that she will never have trouble delivering an oral book report John is always on the go traveling
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hither and yon access recently celebrated its 1 billion dollar mark in sales so he's pretty happy he and his
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crew were under way in the port huron to mechanic Island Yacht Race in July if I had to
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pull out Midway due to lack of wind can you believe that but his real love is the new old looking boat Grande season
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which he spent months designing I spend most of my free time working in the school and doing volunteer work the
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Charlevoix house was on the home tour in July and will likely appear in one of the Better Homes and Gardens
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publications in 1997 on a recent trip to NYC my friend and I appeared among the throng of fans on The Today Show Al
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Roker and Bryant actually talked to us and we were on camera for a few fleeting moments we are all enjoying continued
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good health and look forward to seeing you in 1997 one final note thank you to all of my friends and my dear husband
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for surprising me with the biggest most outrageous 40th birthday bash I have ever had
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we'll be spending my actual birthday on the Disney big red boat over the New Year Merry Christmas and much love the
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Ramseys I I kind of find this whole ritual that people do with the updating of the families it's kind of douchey
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well I feel like this is a very upper-class typical holiday thing update everybody with a newsletter I've never
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and probably will never experience having to put one of these letters together yeah being just a regular
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blue-collar guy myself what it jumps out to me is that episode of Everybody Loves
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Raymond where they write a bunch of really nice stuff about themselves that's not true but here everything that
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Patsy and I'm assuming Patsy puts this together as it sounds you know she says I spend most of my free time it really
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points to her upbringing and how polished and posh she really is yeah and I everything that she has put here is
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true and it's just it's just interesting to see how the other half lives well it
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just seems like they should get into their douche canoe and paddle down vanity River I've never lived far from
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family and friends so maybe this is more common than what I am aware of on December 23rd this is just two days
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before Christmas the Ramseys hosted a Christmas party with approximately 30 guests attending and with former
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journalism professor Bill McReynolds playing Santa Claus McReynolds was a ramsey family friend probably one of the
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more alarming details in this timeline during the Ramseys Christmas party mm-hmm at 6:47 p.m. someone attending
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the party placed a 911 answered by police dispatcher therese hillary the caller hung up without saying anything
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police called back but when they did no one answered and the call was picked up by the Ramseys answering machine
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because of this an officer goes to the home as 654 p.m. the officer knocks on the door and is invited in and then
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leaves at 7:09 p.m. this after being assured that there was no emergency this has made people speculate was the
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perpetrator of this crime at this party and calling 9-1-1 to see how fast somebody would respond to 911 this is
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one of those items that you you look at it and you just go what is going on here
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because as you just pointed out it could mean something very big to this case into the investigation right if in fact
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what you said and what people have speculated toward is true that means the killer is at this party but or somebody
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that worked with the killer is at this party right but you also have a lot of kids running around is it possible that
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one of them just picked up the phone and dialed 9-1-1 and then never confessed to
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it because they don't want to get in trouble there is a guest list that you can find online I have reviewed it
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myself don't care to go into it here as it sounds quite boring to just read off a list of names the other thing I
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question though to captain is what kind of staff was working this party would we
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have had people helping out whether it be caterers or somebody answering the door valeting cars you know so it could
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extend beyond the guest list for whoever called 911 with you I think that there's
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a very likely possibility that with all these kids running around one of the older kids wants to do something funny
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in front of the younger kids and calls 911 you know and get scared and hangs up well there's two other things some
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people have 911 on a speed dial so you have people working a party did somebody pick up the phone to call this is 1996
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they don't have cell phones most people don't have cell phones so did somebody working the party go to make a call
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hit the wrong button and it speed dialed 911 that's something I couldn't find information from
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little JonBenet Ramsey herself called 9-1-1 because something happened at that party
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party were not for sure it's been reported multiple ways that the person playing Santa Claus got a tour of the
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house from Jon Benet Ramsey some people speculate that happened in 1996 some people say that happened in 1995 so bill
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McReynolds was considered a family friend of the Ramseys and someone that he wasn't just somebody that was hired
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to play Santa Claus they they knew this man on some level right he had played Santa Claus at their holiday party
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before and as you said it's a bit confusing on the stories that you hear even over 20 years later where some
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people will say Jon Benet gave Bill McReynolds a tour of the home at some point during the party on in 1996 some
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people say that it may have happened in 1995 we also have a situation where it is said that Jon Benet gave Bill
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McReynolds a gift and he would say years later that out of all the times that he
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played Santa Claus out of all the parties that he attended as Santa Claus that Jon Benet was the only child to
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give him a gift again and he's receiving this gift a couple days before her death
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so that's something that obviously would stick out to you other and the only other gift that he probably ever got was
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like maybe a stinky lap from some dirty kid on Christmas Eve December 24th an article appeared in The Daily Camera
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according the Ramsay's Christmas party apparently this daily camera is just watching and reporting everything going
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on in the Ramseys world during the day on December 24th JonBenet played at a friend's home this is Meghan Kosta
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Nick's house and told Megan's mother Barbara about a secret visit from Santa now this wasn't just her running up and
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saying hey Santa's gonna visit me there was a discussion had between Megan's mother Barbara and little JonBenet right
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Barbara questioned JonBenet as to when Santa was going to pay her this secret visit because we are on Christmas Eve
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you can imagine the natural conversation that would be had when an adult and a small child the adult is going to say
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something to the effect of yes you've been good all year and when you go to bed tonight Santa's going to visit you
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and when you wake up you're going to find all your presents under the tree through this conversation what Barbara
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would learn is that Jon Benet explains to her no I'm not talking about you know she wasn't talking about the traditional
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visit from Santa Claus as we all know it right that's already gonna happen she says no this is going to be a secret
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visit after Christmas mm-hmm and of course at the time this doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary for
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Barbara or strange right it would only be until a few days later that this is really going to set off some alarm bells
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one that's what's so difficult about this case is there's so many little points of you can't even calm evidence
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just points of speculation that could mean everything or it could mean nothing at all the other thing to hear captain
00:32:13
is I'm sure there's a lot of people out there right now that if they did not know of this detail already their mind
00:32:20
is immediately jumping to Santa Claus bill McReynolds who we just discussed playing Santa Claus at the Ramseys home
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on the 23rd I think that natural fit we should keep in mind here though how many Christmas events has
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this little girl attended just in the recent weeks right how many santa clauses did she come into
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interaction with we talked about the parade that she attended that she sat on the float
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the main attraction was Santa Claus she could have spoke to a Santa Claus there or just somebody dressed as Santa
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Claus right or Santa Claus at the mall or yeah the mall pageant that she attended there was the school event this
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is the second of the Ramseys Christmas parties and who knows how many parties they attended as a family right but
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let's just say that she's spent a little more time than some of the kids with the
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family friend playing Santa and he just casually says she she might have said something to him like well yeah I know
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you're gonna visit me on Christmas what but what about after that he's like oh wow else I'll pay you a special visit
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after Christmas not didn't mean anything but would mean the world to a six-year-old just like the 911 came from
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the Ramseys home on the 23rd this mention of a secret visit from Santa Claus after Christmas could mean a lot
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it could mean nothing at all in regards to the investigation on December 24th later that day the Ramseys attended the
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Twilight service at st. John's Episcopal Church in Boulder Colorado around 9:00 p.m. John Ramsey retrieves a brand-new
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silver girls bicycle stored at a neighbor's home this is Jo barn Hills garage and he places it under the
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Christmas tree for Jon Benet and then both John and Patsy Ramsey get stashed Christmas gifts out from their basement
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it's listed here as the basement area and place these under the tree as well this is interesting for a few reasons
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one it shows that at 9 p.m. on the 24th both I rant both Ramsey adults both parents went down into the basement to
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retrieve these hidden Christmas gifts for the kids right there basement as we mentioned earlier is made
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up of a series of rooms there are several small rooms in this basement it's my understanding that the large
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room was more of a play area now given the size of this home I don't know that a designated play area means
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that it was frequented by the children often or if it was just a once in a while
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type thing well their house is very interesting to me because it's so large but it's so blocked off in little
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sections it's almost like a maze and also when you see pictures or video footage when they had the little tours
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for the houses the Christmas tours their house looks immaculate it looks amazing
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but but when you see crime scene photos of the house it looks every room looks like it's in a disarray it looks like to
00:35:45
me I would say every room needs to be cleaned every room needs to be organized based off those pictures so it's a it's
00:35:55
a very interesting house a couple of quick thoughts here before we move on Campton often you know this was a home
00:36:01
built in 1927 and often when homes are added to over the years they end up looking like that where it's a it's a
00:36:09
lot of smaller rooms rather than a few giant rooms yeah and I also wondered and I couldn't find I know that there's
00:36:16
blueprints of this house online and I found like the top floors but I couldn't tell the basement and like you said this
00:36:25
house has been added on to but a lot of times the basements aren't added on to so it's let's say it's a 7,000 square
00:36:32
foot home well that basement only might be 1500 square feet the reason why I pointed out
00:36:39
that the basement was a series of rooms as well as question how often the basement was in actual use by either the
00:36:48
parents and/or the kids is that my assumption here is that the parents are hiding the gifts from their kids
00:36:56
they could be possibly hiding gifts from one another as well right but just wanted to point out that on Christmas
00:37:02
Eve both parents state that they went into the basement of that home now I question how often the children would be
00:37:09
in the basement because we're gonna have a lot of questions going forward about a
00:37:15
very small room that's well tucked away in this basement if the kids don't go down there very often there's no need to
00:37:23
hide these gifts to that extent they could have just hid them in the quote-unquote playroom yeah but it's
00:37:31
pretty common knowledge that this room that they quote-unquote called the wine cellar is a room that was unfinished it
00:37:38
was to be come a wine cellar never happened and that's often where they would hide gifts because that at least
00:37:48
that part of the basement we know that the kids didn't go to so we we have do we have something stating that they the
00:37:57
gifts were hid in this wine cellar no but what we have from John Ramsey is when he was explaining to the police
00:38:05
officers this is you know this is what we call the wine cellar but it's not finished yet it's going to be the wine
00:38:11
cellar right now it's just used for storage and sometimes we put presents there for the kids on December 25th 1996
00:38:20
this is around 6:00 a.m. the Ramseys wake up later in an interview Patsy will say it was six ish probably the Ramseys
00:38:29
John Patsy Burke and Jon Benet will partake in the normal Christmas morning activities exchanging and opening gifts
00:38:37
breakfast and you know captain I feel like the Christmas morning cup of coffee is the best one of the year I love when
00:38:45
the parents stop everything and say look we're not opening up anything and so I get my first cup of coffee right right
00:38:52
make them wait at noon John is going to leave the house this is to go and check on the airplane keep in mind they have a
00:39:02
planned flight for early the next morning sometime between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. John
00:39:10
Ramsay returns to the home from checking the plane so the family with the exception of John leaving for a bit this
00:39:18
is pretty much just a really great Christmas day at home now you had touched upon something just a few
00:39:26
minutes ago where you said when you see the crime-scene photos that the house is
00:39:31
in disarray that it's just a mess well first off with my standards with two young children in the home and having a
00:39:39
big Christmas I would say a big lavish Christmas because the parents have all kinds of money and they can buy these
00:39:47
children all kinds of stuff one would anticipate to see a mess especially when they're not hosting anything you know
00:39:55
they've already hosted their Christmas get-together one would expect to see a mess
00:40:00
however I do want to point out that there were several people close relatives of the Ramseys that stated
00:40:07
that the house was kind of always in a mess even though that the house had a housekeeper and that they had some help
00:40:15
that would come in and take care of some things for them the house was always in
00:40:19
a mess this again in part two young children will do that to a home right but messy house messy mind I also want
00:40:29
to point out that in years past we have video footage of the Ramsay's Christmas on I believe it was 1994 and I maybe
00:40:39
some footage on 95 I don't know if that was released to the public but on 1996 what they claim is I think they woke up
00:40:47
and the battery was dead of the camcorder so that's why they didn't take a video that day between 5:00 and 6:00
00:40:54
p.m. the Ramseys left their house this is all four of them John Patsy Burke and Jon Benet and they are in route for the
00:41:03
home of their dear friends flea and Priscilla white this is for a Christmas party I've seen this reported to be as
00:41:12
early as 4:00 p.m. but most often it's said to be in the five o'clock hour this is
00:41:19
your typical Christmas party but at an unknown time the Ramseys leave this party right on the drive home from the
00:41:30
party JonBenet and her brother Burke fell asleep in the car and the Ramseys made
00:41:35
some stops along the way to drop off gifts this is to Stuart and Roxy Walker's home and then to Glen and Susan
00:41:44
Stein's house because we don't know exactly what time they left the party and what time these stops took place we
00:41:54
also don't know exactly what time the Ramseys arrived back at their house right they claimed it was between 9:00
00:42:01
and 9:30 we would have several stories about what would take place once the Ramseys arrived at their home one of
00:42:12
these stories says that John put Jon Benet Ramsey to bed and then he went and played a game with Burke afterward and
00:42:21
eventually Burke goes to bed mm-hmm the Ramsay's later reported to the Boulder Police Department officers that Jon
00:42:29
Benet Ramsey was last seen by Patsy Ramsey in the residence at approximately 10:00 p.m. according to Boulder Police
00:42:38
Department detective Linda aren't John Ramsey said Jon Benet was last seen by him at approximately 2200 hours 10:00
00:42:47
p.m. either way both of these statements put Jon Benet as being last seen in her
00:42:54
bed at 10 o'clock right and a lot of people think how it went down was they get home she's still asleep they don't
00:43:03
want to wake her up and Jon carries her to her bed that's where he would say goodnight and then supposedly this is
00:43:12
where Patsy Ramsey comes in to check on her and says goodnight to her as well John would tell to Boulder police
00:43:20
officers separately that he read to both children before they went to bed now later he would deny both of those
00:43:28
statements yeah because I've heard him say several times that he to bed and she was asleep when he
00:43:34
carried her to bed yeah I just don't know here captain I could see mmm either of these situations being very likely
00:43:42
kids fall asleep in the car you don't want to wake them up you put them straight to bed it's also Christmas
00:43:48
night you know thinking back to my childhood you remember when you get like something
00:43:53
super cool like like a Super Nintendo or a really big gift right and then your parents are like here's your Super
00:44:02
Nintendo with a couple of games oh we got to leave and go to somebody's Christmas party and you're like no last
00:44:09
thing I want to do is leave so still Vince yeah they could have still been excited and
00:44:15
when they got home either situation makes make sense to me what doesn't make sense is that the stories aren't the
00:44:24
same or similar enough yeah and I would say look if you're Burke Hey look at the
00:44:29
story they both fell asleep on the way home nine-year-old Burke wakes up and guess
00:44:36
what he wants to do he wants to play with one of his cool toys that he got just like he just said JonBenet Ramsey
00:44:43
is she's six years old and think about the amount of stuff she's done she she's been a in
00:44:50
competitions she's been performances she's had to be run all over to this family gathering
00:44:59
this friends and family gathering I'm assuming that this six-year-old is wiped out and there is a picture that was just
00:45:08
recently in the last couple years released to the public which is supposedly the last picture of JonBenet
00:45:15
that was ever taken and she looks tired in the picture and that was taken at the
00:45:21
party before they left to go home so and also like I said early claims from John
00:45:29
Ramsey this is what happened later claims from John Ramsey this is what happened I'm gonna go with that story
00:45:37
around 10:00 to 10:30 p.m. Patsy goes to bed now according to Patsy's statement John goes to bed
00:45:46
at 10:03 to 1033 p.m. what we're basing this off of is that Patsy says quote John came to bed shortly thereafter then
00:45:58
asked do you recall if it was 15 minutes or a half an hour right Patsy Ramsey says it was probably just a few minutes
00:46:06
so we are tacking on three minutes either way to that statement 1003 to 1033 John and Patsy both claimed that
00:46:16
they were not awakened during the night they're both in bed yeah but I heard it reported somewhere I want to say maybe
00:46:23
was John Douglas that John Ramsey claims that he took some kind of sleeping aid that night I believe that to be correct
00:46:32
as well as I think that was a pretty regular thing for John Ramsey either way by both accounts we have both of them in
00:46:41
bed between 10:00 10:30 ish 1033 at the latest yeah I've not seen any reports like
00:46:49
growing up when I was a kid my father would go through and check the windows and check the doors now we didn't live
00:46:57
in a 7,000 square foot house but I wonder if John Ramsey had some kind of routine that he would check the
00:47:06
perimeter of the house it has been said that he did that night and it has been said by people that were close to the
00:47:13
family and their housekeeper that the Ramseys were quote good I believe the quote is actually really good about
00:47:22
locking their doors mm-hmm but it's interesting because they're not using their alarm system they have alarm
00:47:30
system but it seems like that was not a common practice for the Ramseys it would
00:47:35
have been at one time the problem was or it's been reported as such they're having two little kids in the home the
00:47:44
children were constantly setting off the security system which created all these
00:47:49
false alarms and anybody that has a security system knows that those false alarms they start to come with fines
00:47:57
that can get fairly fairly steep right fairly quickly from law enforcement now we move on to
00:48:07
December 26th captain sometime around midnight neighbor Scott Gibbons says he looked out his kitchen window
00:48:16
toward the Ramsey residence and observed that the upper kitchen lights were on and dimmed low again another one of
00:48:24
those things it could mean something it could mean nothing at all now the whereabouts of John Andrew
00:48:32
Ramsey this is John's son from his first marriage his whereabouts will come into
00:48:39
question so it is important for us to note here that between midnight and 1:00 a.m. at least three people put him at
00:48:47
the home of Lucinda Johnson in Marietta Georgia later he is at another home again in Georgia just to be perfectly
00:48:56
clear here captain these sightings these alibis for John Andrew Ramsey are 100% confirmed right yeah they were actually
00:49:07
cleared by the police which they haven't cleared a lot of people in this case so
00:49:12
for them to clear him that that's important and we have confirmation of people being with John Andrew Ramsey up
00:49:19
until 8:30 6:00 a.m. at 1:00 a.m. neighbors Andrew Vermeer and Luke Vermeer they went to bed this is after
00:49:30
watching movies they say that before they went to bed all the way up to 1:00 a.m. they did not hear anything unusual
00:49:37
they didn't see anything unusual everything was typical for that time of night mm-hmm
00:49:44
according to Boulder detective Steve Thomas neighbor melody Stanton says she heard a scream between midnight and 2:00
00:49:54
a.m. this seems quite interesting to me but I do want to take this a step further and point out that this same
00:50:03
woman did say at the very early stages of the investigation that she had nothing to offer she did not want to get
00:50:11
involved then later she claims that she heard a scream between the midnight hour and
00:50:17
approximately 2:00 a.m. yeah I heard what I heard about these screams is that they heard some screams multiple screams
00:50:26
none just one but they heard multiple screams and thought okay well surely the the parents of this girl are home
00:50:34
because they she thought the screams were from a little girl that the parents are home and they'll take care of this
00:50:41
and that's why they stopped hearing the screams also around 2:00 a.m. I want to point out that the whites regarding the
00:50:48
activity at their friends fleet and priscilla white everyone including their guests are reported to have gone to bed
00:50:56
by 2:00 a.m. at 5:30 a.m. John Ramsey wakes up the family plans to get up early that morning because they were to
00:51:05
fly to Charlevoix Michigan for a family vacation Patsy Ramsey got up quote a few
00:51:12
minutes later while mr. Ramsey took a shower mrs. Ramsey put back on the same outfit she had on the night before she
00:51:20
put on some makeup and she went down to the second floor and then went down the spiral stairs to the kitchen now there's
00:51:30
two different versions of this story there is one that states that she went to check on Jon Benet on her way
00:51:37
downstairs and Jon Benet was not there right the other story says that she went she attempted to go straight down to the
00:51:46
ground level floor now either way there on the spiral stairs she found on a step
00:51:56
near the bottom of these stairs she discovered a handwritten note on three sheets of paper laid out side-by-side
00:52:04
they indicated that Jon Benet had been kidnapped Patsy Ramsey told detective aren't that she found a note at the
00:52:12
bottom of the staircase at approximately 5:45 a.m. she says she read only a few lines
00:52:19
stating that Jon Benet was kidnapped but safe and unharmed in demanding 118 thousand dollars for her return
00:52:27
mrs. Ramsay immediately screamed and then ran to check JonBenet's room which she found to be empty
00:52:35
after hearing mrs. Ramsay scream John Ramsay ran downstairs and met Patsy Ramsey in the stairwell together they
00:52:45
checked on Burke who appeared to be asleep in his room John Ramsey then went downstairs to read the ransom note
00:52:53
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