10 Unbearable Details Surrounding JonBenét Ramsey, Whose Case Remains Unsolved

6 /10 Death Of The Young Queen

JonBenét’s body was delivered upstairs by the father and taken by police for an autopsy. She was long dead at that point and had likely been through the whole time.

No evidence of an intruder was found, and in fact, much of the evidence that was found was contamination from the family members themselves.

JonBenét was revealed to have died from asphyxiation from strangulation and was struck over the head, causing a skull fracture. There was also an internal vaginal injury reported, but rape was not concluded.

5 /10 Ruling Out The Obvious

The first significant suspect was the mother, Patsy. She and her husband both gave multiple DNA sources to match with any evidence found on the crime scene and was questioned extensively. Burke, JonBenét’s older brother, was also examined as a potential suspect.

Although he was only eight at the time, the investigators wanted to clear the entire family of any possible wrongdoing, which did not stop a grand jury and a federal court from initially accusing them of the murder.

4 /10 Building Blocks Of Murder

Over the many years since forensic technology has advanced, and DNA testing has been refined.

In reports made around 2003, it was shown that one set of consistent DNA was found on the polymer rope used to strangle JonBenét to death that did not belong to either of her parents.

While this did not rule them out as suspects completely, it did alleviate some of the blame against them.

However, the DNA did not belong to any of the millions of people on the registry, leaving an unavoidable gap in the evidence.

3 /10 Trials Of Tribulation

Some were wholly convinced that one or both of the parents staged the murder. Patsy, in particular, endured a brunt of accusations and tests to try and clear her innocence.

The ransom note was especially suspicious, being too long, too detailed, and very specific for what it was meant to do.

She went through multiple handwriting tests reviewed by handwriting experts, all of whom were dismissed for tying up the case at the federal level.

2 /10 Unusual Suspects

Many other suspects were tied up in the case, all of whom were interviewed at some point and dismissed due to lack of evidence later.

Burke remained a suspect due to a fingerprint on a bowl of fruit that JonBenét ate before she disappeared, which neither parent knew about.

A pedophile named Gary Oliva was living in Boulder at the time and even had a cutout picture of JonBenét from a magazine, but was never convicted due to lack of DNA evidence.

Another suspect was an electrician in a property dispute with the Ramseys who lived nearby and a schoolteacher who confessed in extreme detail but was later cleared due to unmatching DNA evidence. The DNA, the lynchpin of the case, has never been matched.

1 /10 Beautiful Forever

The case remains open to this day. Even JonBenét’s mother, Patsy, did not live long enough to see justice for her daughter.

If the killer was among the suspects who grew ill or was the one odd man out that killed himself after the investigation went public, then justice will never come.

If the killer is still out there, they have become a faceless horror for the entire nation, leaving only JonBenét’s pageant-winning face as the reminder of the horrific potential that lurks around every corner.