Real-life Ransom Notes

JonBenet Ramsey: 1996 (page 1 of 3)

AP

This was the note left behind with the body of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, who was found murdered in her parents' Boulder, Colorado, on Christmas Day in 1996. The case was sensational - a beautiful child, wealthy parents, a picture-perfect town and that mysterious ransom note. The ransom note was a lie.

Whoever signed the note - and it was signed S.B.T.C. - said that JonBenet was safe and sound when in fact she had already been murdered and her body was in the house's basement. And then there was that demand for $118,000, an odd figure that happened to be the amount of the bonus received that year by JonBenet's father, John.

The handwriting on the Ramsey note was examined and discussed over and over by "experts" who claimed Patsy, JonBenet's mother, wrote it, therefore she was the killer. Both Patsy and John Ramsey lived under a cloud of suspicion for years but eventually they were cleared of having any involvement in their daughter's murder, a crime that remains unsolved.




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