After Patsy Ramsey known as 911 at 5:52 a.m. on Dec. 26, 1996, to report that her daughter JonBenét Ramsey had been kidnapped, she and husband John Ramsey additionally reached out to various their buddies, who got here proper over to help the couple.
In flip, along with responding officers, there have been individuals milling across the Ramseys’ 5,000-square-foot house all day earlier than John discovered JonBenét’s physique within the basement shortly after 1:30 p.m.
“I ought to have eliminated all these individuals from the scene, that was against the law scene mistake,” retired Boulder Police Detective Bob Whitson recalled within the Netflix docuseries Chilly Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey. “However, on the time, it appeared like a professional kidnapping. So, I assumed, Nicely, these are the help system for the Ramseys, and I let ’em keep.”
Not figuring out she was useless when he discovered her, John stated within the sequence he at first tried to untie the wire that certain her palms. The knots have been too tight, he stated, however he did take away a bit of duct tape that was masking her mouth and tossed it onto a blanket that had been with the physique.
He then carried her upstairs, which, in keeping with investigators, ensured that the proof collected from her physique, the pajamas she was sporting, the tape, and many others., was contaminated.
“There might have been some proof on the duct tape if that wasn’t eliminated,” Whitson stated within the sequence.
