Pedophileophobia.com presents the case that has shocked the nation and more than once. This horrible case is one that every American would like to see solved. It should be remembered though that the person who committed this despicable and cowardly crime was not just a pedophile, he or she was a sociopathic killer and no one should associate the run of the mill pedophile with this type any more than one should think that all men who are sexually attracted to grown women are potential murderers of women. An evidence chart has been provided with some conclusions given by this site.

JonBenét Ramsey (scroll down to see evidence chart.)

JonBenét Patricia Ramsey (August 6, 1990 – December 25, 1996) was a six-year-old beauty pageant contestant who was found murdered in the basement of her parents' home in Boulder, Colorado, United States, eight hours after being reported missing. The case drew national attention in the United States when no suspect was charged and suspicions turned to possible family involvement. The tantalizing clues of the case inspired numerous books and articles that attempt to solve the mystery.

On August 16, 2006, the case returned to the news when John Mark Karr, a 41-year-old ^[1] school teacher, reportedly confessed to her murder. On August 28, 2006, the district attorney announced that Karr's DNA did not match that found at the scene, and no charges would be brought against him.

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1 Life
2 Murder case
3 Defamation lawsuits
4 Speculation
5 References
6 External links

Life

JonBenét Ramsey was born at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and moved with family to Colorado when she was a year old. Her first name is a combination of her father's first and middle names, John Bennett; her middle name is that of her mother, Patsy Ramsey, who enrolled her daughter in a variety of different beauty pageants in several states. In addition, she funded some of the contests in which Ramsey was involved. Patsy Ramsey was a former beauty queen, having held the title Miss West Virginia 1977; her sister was Miss West Virginia 1980. JonBenét Ramsey held a number of child beauty contest titles, including (in alphabetical order) America's Royal Miss, Colorado State All-Star Kids Cover Girl, Little Miss Charlevoix Michigan, Little Miss Colorado, Little Miss Merry Christmas, Little Miss Sunburst, and National Tiny Miss Beauty.

John Ramsey, JonBenét's father, had a net worth of $6.4 million as of May 1, 1996. Distinguished as a naval officer, he held a pilot's license and owned two planes.[1]. In 1989, late in his military career, he formed the Advanced Product Group, one of three companies that merged to become Access Graphics. After mandatory military retirement, he became president and chief executive officer of Access Graphics, a computer services company and a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin.[2] In 1996, Access Graphics grossed over $1 billion, and he was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" by the Boulder Chamber of Commerce. Immediately following the murder he was "temporarily replaced so the company did not have to bother him about business matters as he grieved," according to Lockheed spokesman Evan McCollum [3]. After losing his job at Access Graphics, which was sold to General Electric in 1997 | (proper citation needed), he moved to Atlanta to do consulting work.[4] In addition to their $800,000 residence in Boulder, the family had a $300,000 lakefront summer home in Charlevoix, Michigan.[5]

John Ramsey stated that he found his daughter's body in the basement of their 15-room home in Boulder on December 26, 1996.

JonBenét's grave lies in Saint James Episcopal Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia, next to the grave of her mother.

Murder case

On December 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey (according to her testimony) discovered that her daughter was missing after finding a two-and-a-half page ransom note demanding $118,000 inside the family residence. Despite specific instructions that the police and friends not be contacted, she telephoned the police and invited over family and friends. The local police conducted a cursory search of the house but did not find any obvious signs of a break-in or forced entry. The note suggested that the ransom collection would be monitored and JonBenét would be returned as soon as the money was obtained.

In the afternoon of the same day, Boulder Police Detective Linda Arndt asked Fleet White, a friend of the Ramseys, to take John Ramsey and search the house for "anything unusual." John Ramsey and two of his friends started their search in the basement first. There in the wine cellar John found his daughter's body covered in a white blanket. Later that evening, the police authorized the removal of the body by issue of a search warrant. Typically, this procedure would be performed under consent of the parents.

The results of the autopsy revealed that JonBenét was killed by strangulation and a skull fracture. A garrote made from a length of nylon cord and the handle of a paintbrush had been used to strangle her; her skull had suffered severe blunt trauma; she may have been sexually assaulted. The official cause of death was asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma. The other half of the paint brush was found in a tub of Patsy Ramsey's art supplies.^[2] It was noted by experts that the construction of the garrote required a special knowledge of knots. Autopsy also revealed that the child had eaten pineapple only a few hours before the murder, of which her mother claimed to be unaware.

Clues

Police investigations within and around the residence discovered the following clues which were, by some, interpreted as evidence of intrusion:

Two dissimilar footprints in the wine cellar that did not match any of the shoes in the residence
A third footprint of an unknown person on the outer part of the window of the room by the wine cellar (John Ramsey said the window was malfunctioning)
A possible footprint on a suitcase, placed directly below the same window
A rope that was foreign to the residence found on the bed of the guestroom near JonBenét's room
Physical marks on JonBenét's body that suggested the use of a stun gun
Blood sample on JonBenét's underwear that did not match any known suspect

Ransom note

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JonBenét Ramsey ransom note

Investigators determined that the lengthy ransom note was written on a pad of paper that belonged to the Ramsey family. A Sharpie felt-tip pen similar to the one used to write the note was found in a container on the Ramseys' kitchen counter, along with other pens of the same type. [6] According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on the same pad of paper, a practice sheet of the ransom note was found. No fingerprints could be detected on the note. The text of the note had many odd features, including the fact that $118,000 was demanded - $100,000 in $100 bills and $18,000 in $20 bills.[7] Perhaps coincidentally, John Ramsey earned a bonus that year of $118,117.50. The police regarded the ransom price a suspiciously low amount of money in proportion to John Ramsey's income. The writer of the note claims "We are a group of individuals that represent a small foreign faction. We do respect your buisiness (sic) but not the country that it serves.".

Several handwriting samples were taken from a number of suspects who might have written the ransom note. Forensic analysis cleared everyone except for Patsy Ramsey, whose writing style bore some resemblance to the ransom note.[8] [9]

Later developments

In December 2003, forensic investigators extracted enough material from a mixed blood sample found on JonBenét's underwear to establish a DNA profile. The DNA belongs to an unknown caucasian male. The DNA was submitted to the FBI's Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), a database containing more than 1.6 million DNA profiles, mainly from convicted felons. The sample has yet to find a match in the database, although it continues to be checked for partial matches on a weekly basis.

Later investigations also discovered that there were more than 100 burglaries in the Ramseys' neighborhood in the months before JonBenét's murder, and that 38 registered sex offenders were living within a two-mile radius of the Ramsey's home.^[3]

JonBenét's mother, Patsy Ramsey, died of ovarian cancer on June 24, 2006,^[4] at the age of 49. She had been battling cancer off and on after first being diagnosed in 1993. She had a recurrence in 2003. She was aware at the time of her death that the Boulder County (Colorado) District Attorney's Office was investigating a suspect in Bangkok, Thailand.

John Mark Karr

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On August 16, 2006, 41-year-old John Mark Karr, a former school teacher, was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand on five-year-old child pornography charges from Sonoma County, California. Authorities reportedly tracked him down using the Internet after he sent emails regarding the Ramsey case to Michael Tracey, a journalism professor at the University of Colorado.^[5] Once apprehended, he confessed to being with JonBenét when she died, stating that her death was an accident. When asked if he was innocent, he responded, "No."

However, Karr's DNA did not match that found on JonBenét Ramsey's body. On August 28, 2006, prosecutors announced that no charges would be filed against him for the murder of JonBenét Ramsey.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Defamation lawsuits

Several defamation lawsuits have ensued since JonBenét's murder. Lin Wood was the attorney for John and Patsy Ramsey and has prosecuted defamation claims on their behalf against St. Martin's Press, Time, Inc., The Fox News Channel, American Media, Inc., Star, The Globe, Court TV and The New York Post.

Speculation

In 1999, the Governor of Colorado, Bill Owens, told the parents of JonBenét Ramsey to "quit hiding behind their attorneys, quit hiding behind their PR firm."[10]

Case speculation by experts, media and the parents has supported different theories. For a long time, the local police supported the theory that her mother had accidentally killed JonBenét in a fit of rage after the girl had wet her bed on the same night. Another theory was that John Ramsey had been sexually abusing his daughter and murdered her as a cover. John Ramsey's son Burke Ramsey was also targeted by speculation, and asked to testify at the grand jury [11].

The Ramseys have invariably held that the crime was committed by an intruder, and hired John Douglas, former head of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, to examine the case. While being paid by the Ramsey family he concluded that the Ramseys were not involved in the murder. He also concluded that it was unlikely that anyone would resolve the case. He detailed his arguments in his 2001 book, The Cases That Haunt Us.

Due to the lack of evidence, a grand jury did not indict the Ramseys for any crime. Seven months after the murder, the family moved back to Atlanta.

References

^ Arrest Sources: Arrest made in JonBenét Ramsey case. CNN (August 16, 2006).
^ JonBenét: Anatomy of a Cold Case - Court TV
^ Erin Moriarty, JonBenét: DNA Rules Out Parents, 26 March 2005.
^ JonBenét Ramsey's mother dies. MSNBC/AP (7 April 2006).
^ No Forensic Evidence Currently Links John Karr to JonBenét Murder. Crime Library (August 17, 2006).
^ http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/28/ramsey.arrest/index.html
^ http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/karr/cokarr82806mq.html "not the source of the DNA found"]
^ http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/karr/cokarr82806mq.html

Hickey, Eric. Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime.
M., Ronald and Stephen T. Holmes. Profiling Violent Crimes.

External links

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Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey? Jon benet

(The following is work in progress and with a conclusion that is subject to change)

Evidence

Father John

Mother Patsy

Brother Burke

Intruder

Motive

None known

Possible jealously, possible outrage over bed wetting.

Understandable feelings of jealously.

None known, just assumed to be a psycho, pedophile, killer.

Lengthy Ransom note written there at the house on household stationary.

Cleared by handwriting analysis.

Only person not cleared by hand writing analysis.

Burke may have felt the ransom note would be confusing to police.

He would have known about the bonus his father received, which was the approx. amt. demanded in the note.

However, the language in the ransom note seems far too sophisticated for a nine year old, and only two words are misspelled, though there are several difficult to spell words in the note.

Seems highly unlikely that an intruder would have written a ransom note there at the house instead of bringing it with him. How could he have been certain that he would be able to find materials to write a note with?

However, as an afterthought, a wacko intruder might have figured he could receive some ransom money before the body was found in the basement, so then decided to stay and write the note after killing the victim.

If one or both of the parents had written the ransom note, would they have used their own pen and paper pad and then leave them to be found by the police?

Would they have left such a massive handwriting sample (two and a half pages)?

The following word were misspelled, not the kinds of spelling errors educated business people would be likely to make -- unless of course they misspelled these words on purpose to throw people off.

"We xx respect your bussiness but not the country that it serves. At this time we have your daughter in our posession."

However, there are many challenging words to spell correctly in the note, but the rest were all spelled correctly:

adequate, attaché, exhausting, deviation, particularly, advise, scrutiny,

The following proves beyond any doubt that the killer knew John Ramsey. "Use that good southern common sense of yours."

Strangulation by garrote.

The knots are rather complicated, but some say not expert. Father had knowledge of knot tying from being in the Navy.

Stick used in the garrote came from her own art supplies.

"In the tote was a broken brush splotched by paint. Splinters were on the floor beside the tote. It was a major find because the broken brush matched the fractured end of the multicolored stick used in the garrote"

If this was an artist's paint brush, why bother to break off both ends?

Could have easily fashioned the garrote with a piece of cord, tied complicated, but unprofessional knots, and of course, attached a wooden handle from his mother’s art supplies.

Would at first seem absurd that an intruder would bring a cord to be used as a garrote, but then look around the house for a stick to be used with it, or that the intruder just made the entire thing there instead of making it before entering the home. However, JonBenet's hair entangled in the cord of the handle clearly shows that the garrote was made after abducting the girl and while restraining her -- the killer tied the cord to the handle close to JonBenet's head while holding her down at the same time.

Note how in the above pictures JonBenet's hair is entangled in the nylon cord around the paintbrush handle. This shows that the garrote was made after the victim was in the assailant's control. If this has been a premeditated murder by the parents or the brother, the garrote would have been made beforehand, The entangled hair also shows that the garrote was applied before the blow to the head because the only reason there would actually be hair in the cord is if the assailant had to have the handle close to the victim's head because he also had to hold her down while tying the cord to the handle. This further indicates that there was only one intruder.

No tracks outside of house.

Lack of snow tracks obviously points to someone in the house.

Seems unlikely an intruder could not have left tracks, but depends on conditions:

"Newsweek reported that "there was only patchy snow on the property. JonBenet had ridden her Christmas present, a bike, on the backyard patio the day before." (Glick et al. 1998). Internet poster Braveheart has done the most careful work in examining the temperature and precipitation data, concluding that one cannot rule out an intruder based on this evidence."

Marks left by garrote shows initial placement on lower throat and slipping upward to top of throat where it is tightened down.

Seems unlikely that adults, especially parents would drag the child around in such a fashion.

Marks indicate dragging the victim with the garrote, something a 9 year old boy would be more likely to do as compared to an adult.

Possible of course, but an adult intruder would have had little problem controlling a 6 year old child just by the use of his hands. Using a garrote would possibly have made control even more difficult.

Scream was heard by neighbor sometime after midnight.

"Melody Stanton, neighbor across the street and diagonal from the Ramseys, said she heard a piercing scream shortly after midnight. Her husband Luther slept through the scream, but said he heard the sound of metal scraping on concrete."

Unlikely victim would have screamed if being handled by a family member. It is probably that she would have trusted any family member up to near the end. However, there could have been more suspicion generated by a brother than by a parent.

Certainly an intruder would have been the most likely cause for the victim to have screamed.

Suitcase under basement window

If parents had placed the suitcase there, they would have had the foresight to make the window appear to have been entered. They would have broken it or done something to give the appearance of a forced entry.

A ten year old boy could have easily had the idea to place the suitcase there to make it appear an intruder come and left through the window, but not have done anything to the window itself. It would have probably been out of reach for him anyway.

Of course this points to an intruder, but there is no physical evidence to show that anyone actually entered or left by that particular window except a scuff mark on the outside wall. Some sources say foam packing "peanuts" found in the bottom of the window were found scattered in the basement and one was even found the room where the body was discovered.

Hi-Tec boot print

The print has been linked by investigators to Burke, but they just believe that it was left at an earlier time unrelated to the crime.

Hair on blanket

Belonged to Patsy

DNA tests did not match any family members

DNA not matching any family members may be meaningless:

"tests on similar panties from the same plant and found that some also contained DNA. Since the bits of DNA molecule found mixed with JonBenet's blood were fragmented and degraded to the point that they couldn't even be sourced to any particular type of cell, contamination from the plant is the most likely explanation for its presence."

The blood on the panties was from the victim. DNA of another person was found mixed in the blood and very well may have just originated from someone who had helped in the manufacture of the panties.

Naturally no DNA match of family members would strongly indicate an intruder, but DNA found was degraded and tests may have not been reliable, and the DNA may have just come from the plant where the panties were made.

Ransom note signed: "Victory! S.B.T.C."

Was known to use acronyms in signing or in ending letters and cards.

The following are recognized acronym definitions for SBTC. Notice how one fits the religious character of Patsy Ramsey

Acronym	Definition
SBTC	Ministry of Small Business, Tourism, and Culture (Canada)
SBTC	Saved By the Cross
SBTC	Skill-Biased Technical Change
SBTC	Skill-Biased Technological Change
SBTC	Small Business Technology Coalition
SBTC	Stream-Based Trace Compression

"Though, deep in the future, maybe I shall be the conqueror and live in multiple peace." written 20 years earlier in a yearbook appears to be quite incriminating against John Mark Karr. Note, that if DNA was from the panty factory, a negative test in regard to Karr obviously can not exclude him.

Hand writing on ransom note some say matches John Mark Karr

No family member had a hand writing match like this:

John Mark Karr ransom note yearbook handwriting comparison.

"Most guys are riding the fence," said Curt Baggett, the Texas-based co-founder of the School of Forensic Document Examination. "But there are at least a dozen traits that match up perfectly, when comparing a (high school) yearbook signed by Karr and the ransom note."

Some of those traits are fairly common, while others are rare, he said. That there are so many similarities pushes the odds up into the seven digits.

To put it another way, Baggett said, the "chances are a million-to- one" that someone other than Karr wrote the ransom note.

A well-known national handwriting expert said Monday he is 99.9 percent certain John Mark Karr wrote the ransom note found near the scene of JonBenet Ramsey's murder.

A metal baseball bat was found outside the house that could have been used to fracture JonBenet's skull.

The baseball bat found outside the house had fibers consistent with fibers found on the carpet in the basement where JonBenet's body was found and it did not belong to the Ramseys. Obviously, no neighbors claimed ownership either.

This news story came to light in 2004

"there is new evidence pointing to an intruder, and evidence that the killer may have tried to strike again in Boulder less than a year later, but was interrupted. The victim,, who was sexually assaulted but not killed (her mother came in the room and the intruder fled) attended the same dance class as JonBenet."

Hypothesis:

It was not Burke because he could not have written the ransom note -- the language, style, and character formation is just too sophisticated for what one could expect from a nine year old. Some say he was the one responsible, but then one or both of his parents covered it up to help him. This seems ludicrous. No parent finding their daughter killed by their son would feel anything but anger toward the son. Knowing that a nine-year old boy is not going to go to prison anyway, there would have been no good reason for the parents to cover-up the crime by writing a ransom note that would almost certainly easily be traced back directly to them and could result in themselves getting sent to prison for the murder.

It was not John Ramsey. There is just no evidence, except for some knowledge of knot tying that would incriminate John Ramsey. There is just nothing pointing to him. JonBenet was his own daughter, not a step-child and even named after him: John Bennett Ramsey ~JonBenet Ramsey. Would he kill his own namesake? She was anything but a problem child. It would just go against all reason to think he could garrote her and bash her head in.

It was not Patsy Ramsey. By all accounts Patsy was a loving mother who had great pride in her daughter. For her to garrote and bash JonBenet in the head would just seem completely incongruent with her character. The garrote was also obviously made on the spur of the moment because the paintbrush handle was broken and wrenched away from the bush part. If Patsy had made the garrote, she would probably have just used the entire brush without breaking it; and I ask you, how many women can tie a slip knot?

It was not John Mark Karr. Though there are amazing similarities in his handwriting and the ransom note and the issue of the "SBTC" seems highly suggestive, nothing in his website that he was running at the time, which has now been taken over by someone else who is publishing Karr's email messages directly before the time of the killing, even remotely suggested that he knew of JonBenet Ramsey. Being the pedophile that he is, surly he would have mentioned her if he had any knowledge of her. There are also reasons to believe he had never been in Colorado in his life before the D.A. took him there from Bangkok, and nothing he said about the actual commission of the crime correlated with known facts.

DNA tests have also been done on all four of these suspects, with no matches.

The ransom note tells us that the killer knew John Ramsey: "Use that good southern common sense of yours." The $118,000.00 demanded strongly indicates knowledge of the bonus JR received. The crime was committed on Christmas night (actually in the early hours of the next day). Why then? The Ramseys had gone to Christmas dinner on Christmas evening at the home of Fleet White. The Ramseys also had a Christmas party at their own home on Dec. 23rd. Most likely someone at one of the parties became jealous over hearing of the bonus and planned the kidnapping.

Scenario:

The person decides to kidnap JonBenet to get the money. The intruder enters with a rope (a rope was found on a bed in a guest bedroom) and a metal baseball bat, duct tape, and nylon cord intended to be used to tie JonBenet's hands. The person may have in fact also entered the house with a ransom note (we have no way of knowing), but then decided to write a new one there using their own paper because naturally the Ramseys' own pad of paper (and pen) could not be traced back to him (the intruder). Note, the intruder may have entered the house while the Ramseys were at the Whites' house for Christmas dinner, rather than late at night. This scenario would allow for the intruder to have ample time to move about the house and find the materials to write the ransom note and actually write it. The intruder naturally leaves the ransom note where it will be easily found before dealing with JonBenet (he knows he won't be able to leave the note afterwards because once he has the girl he can no longer deal with the note and must concentrate on leaving the house). This is why the note seems to makes no sense (asking ransom for a murder victim left right there in the house) -- he actually did not intend to kill her. And, why in the world would anyone leave a pointless ransom note that might be traced back to him if he actually had no intention of kidnapping the girl, but just wanted to kill her?

After the intruder places the note, he comes to terms with just how to best kidnap the girl. He decides the rope is just not necessary and it will be difficult to tie small wrists and ankles with a full size rope, so he tosses it into a guest room. He may have actually used the guest room to think for awhile about just how to handle JonBenet, and then just decides to leave it. Some theories say he was hid under the bed in the guest room when the Ramseys arrived home and remained there until late at night when he made his move for JonBenet. He prepares the nylon cord. He enters the JonBenet's bedroom and tries to tie her hands. She may have screamed at this point, but most people feel she screamed while in the basement. He stops trying to tie her hands and places tape over her mouth, grabs her and wraps her in the white blanket that was later found covering her body and carries her to the basement. He is having a difficult time figuring out just how to get her out of the window with him. He takes her into the boiler room where he spots the art-bin and decides to make a garrote using some of the cord he brought and one of the paint brushes as a way of controlling her and hoisting her up through the window behind him. While restraining the girl with one hand at her throat and possibly kneeling on her, he grabs a large paint brush from the bin. He quickly wrenches off the brush part, leaving the stick; he also breaks off the other end of the brush (which was never found). One must keep in mind that there was much more nylon cord found than what would have been needed to just fashion the garrote, so the garrote was not planned from the beginning. It was conceived of and made on the spot from the cord that was brought and one of the paint brushes that was spotted.

He laces the nylon cord around JonBenet's neck and ties a slipknot (There is little hair caught in the noose, therefore it is unlikely the noose was made first and placed over her head). While pinning her down he attaches the handle to the garrote. Since he is using his hands to hold her down at the same time, some of JonBenet's hair gets entangled in the cord at the handle. He finds that the garrote is insufficient to control the struggling girl and get her out of the window -- autopsy photographs show markings that clearly indicate the garrote noose began low and moved up her throat indicating a struggle and lack of initial control. The intruder becomes frustrated and strikes JonBenet with the baseball bat killing her when he finally realizes that he'll never be able to get her out of the house. (The metal baseball bat was later recovered outside with fibers from the house attached). Before leaving through the basement window, he hides the body in the wine cellar attached to the boiler room, and decides to molest her a bit out of curiosity. This was obviously not primarily a sex crime because the victim was found fully dressed and there was no indication of actual rape and no semen was present. However, blood on the panties and a torn hymen suggests possibly that the third part of the paint brush was inserted into the victim and then kept (it was the only part not found). The assailant then pulls her pants back up and covers her body with the white blanket before leaving her and closes the door. The intruder had no trouble entering through the basement window, but needs a suitcase as a step to get back out. He takes the baseball bat with him, but then leaves it in the yard, possibly feeling conspicuous carrying the bat away from the scene of the crime. Snow is patchy and the ground is frozen, so no tracks are left.

The ransom note was written by someone who is intelligent, but immature. The note has two spelling errors near the beginning. Both words "business" and "possession" are words known to be commonly misspelled, so the "intelligent" ransom note writer purposefully misspells these words as a ruse, but then quickly gets tired of trying to creatively misspell words, because for him misspelling takes longer than spelling correctly -- he even puts the accent mark in "attaché." The note is juvenile in its talking about a foreign faction, and the word attaché it used to make the note sound more "spy" like. Saying "she dies" in the present tense is typical youthful "tough-guy talk," i.e. "Touch my car -- you die." Asking for only the bonus amount, making the attempted kidnapping sound like the work of foreign subversives, and bungling the whole thing shows the mentality of a teenager. I believe the killer of JonBenet Ramsey is the son of an acquaintance of John Ramsey, probably a business acquaintance, that was at one of the Christmas parties that Ramseys attended.. ~ Brother Mark

Note how my scenario is quite similar to the following written by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro. I formulated my account before reading the following. Due to the similarity and the lengthy investigative research Shapiro did, I would have to support his account, however I am not convinced a stun gun was ever involved:

"While the Ramseys were out having dinner, an intruder stealthily entered their home after removing a grate from a basement window-well in their backyard, and slipped into their home. In my mind, the killer was a young, high-risk pedophile, a social outcast with a God complex who believed he had the divine right to take life. This wouldn't surprise me since the intruder strangled JonBenet Christmas night and used a ransom demand of $118,000. Police thought the amount might be related to Psalm 118, part of which reads: "bind the sacrifice with cords unto the horns of the altar." Within minutes, the intruder began familiarizing himself with the house, perusing books, files and opening closet doors and dresser drawers. He also left an open copy of the Holy Bible on John Ramsey's desk to Psalm 35, a passage about being falsely accused of a crime.

While waiting for the Ramseys to come home, he wrote the infamous three-page ransom note with a Sharpie pen on a pad he found in the house. Then, he patiently waited in a second-floor guest bedroom located above the garage, next to JonBenet's bedroom. When the family arrived home at 10 p.m., the intruder hid under the bed and waited for the family to go to sleep. Then, he entered JonBenet's bedroom and attacked her with a stun gun on her back, then carried her downstairs.

On the way downstairs, he left the three-page ransom note on the steps. Before going into the basement, the intruder noticed an alarm panel with its lights on. Knowing that the alarm could be wired to any door or window in the house except the one he'd already come through, he carried JonBenet back to the basement. Once there, he tried stuffing JonBenet into a large hard suitcase he found so he could take her away without anyone seeing her. However, the suitcase didn't fit through the window, and the intruder couldn't get through the grate while carrying the little girl in his arms. Knowing he couldn't take JonBenet with him without exiting from upstairs and risking the alarm sounding, the intruder decided to sexually molest her in the basement of her own home.

Using a package of white nylon cord and a roll of black duct tape he'd brought with him, the intruder silenced JonBenet and bound her in a ritualistic choke-chain-like garrote, which enabled him to suffocate her, if necessary. He then tied the white cord to the paintbrush handle he'd broken into three separate parts. The intruder then sexually penetrated the six-year old with the sharp end of the paintbrush handle.

Then, perhaps to satisfy his own bloodlust or simply silence her, the intruder stunned JonBenet on her face to incapacitate her and then strangled her. While struggling to breathe, JonBenet clawed at the rope, which explains the deep fingernail marks on her neck. Before she could get free, the intruder struck her across the head with an aluminum baseball bat which police found on the north side of the house. The killer then left the house through the basement window, perhaps using the suitcase as a step-up to the window well.

Police never found the roll of tape, the remainder of the cord or the sharp end of the paintbrush handle. They did, however, find an unidentified palm print on the door to the windowless room where JonBenet's body was discovered the next morning, as well as a boot-print from his climbing boots inside the room.

Despite her massive head wound, JonBenet barely bled. In addition, she had petechiae, indicating she had been strangled. Blood vessels underneath her eyes had ruptured, telling Smit she'd been unable to breathe at the time she was hit in the head. To Smit, this was proof the garrote had been around JonBenet's neck first, suggesting the murder had been premeditated. Since the FBI had no record on file of a parent ever killing a child with a garrote, Smit believed an intruder-a fantasy stalker-had committed the crime.

Perhaps the most compelling evidence of an intruder was the foreign DNA commingled in her vaginal blood. It was a minuscule amount, but its "markers" matched those found in skin tissue under JonBenet's fingernails on both of her hands. Had JonBenet clawed her assailant while trying to break free from the garrote?"

Links:

Layout of the Ramsey Home

The Ramsey case: a primer

Daddy's Little Princess:

Lou Smit Discusses JonBenet Ramsey's Murder on Larry King Live

THE MURDER MANSION

The Ramseys' Friends and Acquaintances

Time Line ~ Excellent

Another interesting time-line with many links

A forum that discusses the evidence