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From the very beginning of this I just could not reconcile the idea that the parents were involved in any way. I will never belive that. The devistation you see in every interview. The mom may have looked out of it because I'm sure she must have had to be medicated to get through the next moment. So sick and sad the media destroyed this families life even further.

On December 26, 1996, six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was found dead in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. An autopsy reported death by strangulation and a severe skull fracture. Her body was discovered after a 911 call from her mother, Patsy Ramsey, who reported JonBenét missing and said she had found a two-and-a-half-page ransom note on a back staircase demanding $118,000 — an amount close to a recent work bonus received by her father, John Ramsey. A garrote made from nylon cord and a broken paintbrush handle was found around the child’s neck, and she had been bound.

Suspicion focused on family members, who were the only known people in the house that night: parents John and Patsy and their nine-year-old son, Burke. A 1998 grand jury voted to indict the parents on child abuse resulting in death, but the district attorney declined to sign the indictment. In 2006 John Mark Karr confessed but was later excluded by DNA testing. In 2008 genetic testing identified an unknown male profile on JonBenét’s clothing and the Boulder District Attorney formally cleared the Ramseys. No person has been convicted, and the case remains unsolved.