New series sheds light on JonBenét Ramsey case

By 
 November 19, 2024

It really is amazing when you think about the fact that this crime happened in 1996, and there's no less public interest in the case now than there was all those years ago.

In fact, a new show about JonBenét Ramsey may reveal details that were previously unknown.

According to The Daily Mail, the documentary "hints at bombshell new details about the murder that shocked America." It's been almost 30 years, and we're still learning new things about the case.

America's Famous Cold Case

Netflix is releasing a three-part series about the murder of JonBenét Ramsey.

Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey? asks serious questions about the police work when this case first happened. According to dailymail.co.uk, detectives botched the initial investigation and the media made things worse by portraying JonBenét Ramsey's family as the primary suspects.

Netflix said that they are urging Colorado police to "'finally take the necessary actions' that will bring the killer to justice and 'offer her family the peace they've long sought.'"

December 26, 1996

JonBenét Ramsey was just six years old and already a successful beauty queen when her mother woke up the day after Christmas and discovered her child missing. That morning, Patsy Ramsey woke up to find her daughter missing and a ransom note demanding over $100,000 for the return of JonBenét Ramsey.

The reunion would never happen, though. JonBenét's father, John Ramsey, found the body of JonBenét in the family's basement later that day.

According to her autopsy, JonBenét Ramsey "had sustained a broken skull and a garrote was tied around her neck. The autopsy report stated that JonBenét's official cause of death was 'asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma.'"

Worldwide interest

The case generated interest literally all over the world because of the brutality of the crime and JonBenét Ramsey's status as an innocent child beauty queen. Netflix has released a synopsis of the show for those interested in learning more:

On the morning of December 26, 1996, after a warm family Christmas, John and Patsy discovered that JonBenét, their six-year-old youngest daughter, had disappeared, and that someone had left a sinister ransom note in the kitchen. A short time later, John Ramsey found his daughter's lifeless body in the basement, and realized the horror of what had really happened: JonBenét had not been kidnapped, she had been sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in her own home. The police in Boulder, Colorado, who had little experience in homicide investigations, soon suspected JonBenét's family, arousing media curiosity and encouraging highly biased coverage of the events that eventually became a national soap opera. Twenty-eight years on, the fascination hasn't waned, the accusations continue to fly, and JonBenét Ramsey's murder remains unsolved. In this three-part documentary series, Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director Joe Berlinger examines the calamitous handling of the case by both law enforcement and the media.

While it might be a bit much to expect this new documentary to literally solve the case, it certainly is interesting that we're yet to know everything there is to know about the crime nearly thirty years later.

As long as people are interested in solving this case, there's a chance that we can eventually uncover the truth behind the little girl's murder. Nobody has ever been charged for the death of JonBenét Ramsey, despite police believing that JonBenét Ramsey "was sexually assaulted and murdered through either a blow to the head or strangulation with a garotte" and ruling the death a homicide.

Before her death, JonBenét has been crowned Little Miss Colorado, Little Miss Charlevoix, Colorado State All-Star Kids Cover Girl, and National Tiny Miss Beauty.

If we ever do find out the truth behind what happened to JonBenét Ramsey, this documentary might have had a hand in uncovering the truth.

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