They shouldn’t have let John Ramsey walk around the house.įinally, hours later, it was JonBenet’s father, John Ramsey, who discovered his daughter’s body in a small room in the basement.
Friends joined the frantic search- a crucial crime scene error that would come back to haunt the Boulder police department:Ībrams: They shouldn’t have let people into the house, which was a crime scene. Police soon arrived and began combing the house for any sign of JonBenet. In the kitchen, she said, she found a rambling three-page note demanding $118,000 for JonBenet's return. The next morning, her mother, Patsy, said she discovered that JonBenet was missing. 6 year-old JonBenet was put to bed around 9 p.m. It happened at a million-dollar home in a quiet, upscale neighborhood in Boulder, Colorado. Now of course, the facts of the case, are well known: the horror came to light at first light the morning after Christmas, December 26, 1996. This is really crazy talk.īut as strange as the latest developments seem, and no matter what ends up happening with suspect John Karr, some experts are shifting the focus in the case away from the Ramsey family and taking a closer look at something known as “the intruder theory.”ĭateline talked to former investigators, an FBI profiler, and experts who have followed this case through every bizarre twist and turn every step of the way. He’s saying, “I loved her” and he talking about how beautiful she was. There’s something beyond weird about listening to this guy. MSNBC’s Dan Abrams was first to report the news about the arrest Wednesday afternoon.ĭan Abrams, NBC legal analyst: I’ve never seen anything like this. Karr, said to be obsessed with high-profile crime cases and who continually surrounded himself with young children, is just the latest development in a mystery that has fascinated us for nearly a decade. Since news of the arrest broke, a story that has had so many strange twists and turns has turned stranger still - with the man in the center of the case so mysterious even childhood friends don’t recognize him. Unlike Oswald, Karr claims he actually knew something about this killing: “I was with JonBenet when she died,” he said.
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