Death Of A Beauty Queen Trivia Quiz

Answer: Boulder Colorado

On Christmas Day, JonBenet, her brother, and her parents went to a friends house for Christmas dinner. On the way back JonBenet fell asleep in the family car. Her father carried her upstairs, and placed her in her bed. When Patsy, her mother, awoke at 5:00 A.M., she noticed a letter on the kitchen stairway.

The note said that JonBenet was being held for ransom. Patsy immediately yelled for John, her husband, and together they called the police. When the police arrived, a search began in earnest for the little girl. Hours later, JonBenet's little body was discovered in the basement of the family home by her father.

She had been strangled. Who could have done such a horrible thing to an innocent little girl?

Answer: $118,000

The Boulder City Police were suspicious from the start. Especially when they discovered that John's bonus and the ransom note were for the exact same amount of money. However, in most criminal investigations, there are bound to be some errors. In this case however, there were major mistakes right from the start. If the police had started the investigation properly, would the killer or killers have been caught right away?

Answer: No

Upon the arrival of the Boulder City Police, one would have expected the Ramsey house to be sealed off. This was not the case. The police never sealed off the house, thus letting friends, family, and neighbors walk right into a crime scene. They took no means to collect or protect any forensic evidence.

The scope of the mistakes were quite apparent. However, by that afternoon, upon searching the house again, with John Ramsey, Detective Fleet wanted to know if Ramsey had seen anything unusual. Ramsey did not think that anything was out of the ordinary in the house.

However, while searching, John Ramsey came upon a door at the other end of the basement, and much to his horror when he opened the door, the only thing he saw was a white blanket. After only seeing the white blanket, he told Detective Fleet, that he had found JonBenet.

Answer: Rocky Mountain News

Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News Reporter, wrote the story about the murder. According to Brennan, the police had strong suspicions that the Ramseys were the ones responsible for the murder of their daughter. One day later on December 28, 1996, Brennan had made it perfectly clear to his readers that the Ramseys were the main suspects for the murder.

Although the police refused to comment, reporters started to cite their own evidence as fact.

Answer: Footprints in the snow.

The Rocky Mountain News and various other newspapers reported what they felt was a valid piece of evidence, missing footprints in the snow. The reason for this is that, although there was snow all around the Ramsey house, there was in fact no snow around the base of the house, such as near doors or ground windows.

As noted in the police reports, there was no reason for someone to have to break into the Ramsey home. The house was not secured, either by locked doors or windows. In fact, in the room that JonBenet was found in, there was indeed a broken window.

Answer: Leslie Durgan

Needless to say, the Ramseys were outraged. They couldn't understand why someone such as the Mayor would say things like this publicly when it was obvious to them that their daughter's killer was still out there. They were yet to realize that the Mayor's comments were the opinions of the police and the general public who truly thought that the Ramseys were responsible for the death of their daughter. During an interview given by Mayor Durgan in 1997, she clearly stated that the reason for her response to Mrs. Ramsey's message to her friends, family, and neighbors was to 'stop the fear in the neighborhood that someone was out there to murder young children in the night'.

When the interviewer asked Mayor Durgan where she received her information she stated, 'The Police Chief'.

Answer: Robert Ressler

Now a former FBI agent, Ressler believes that JonBenet knew her killer. The killer could have come from a small circle of friends around the Ramsey home in Boulder. The circle would include family, neighbors, and employees of the Ramseys. Ressler based is findings on a resignation letter from Detective Lou Smit that was sent to District Attorney Alex Hunter.

This is part of the letter to the District Attorney: 'The case tells me that there is substantial, credible, evidence of an intruder and lack of evidence that the parents are involved'. Did this mean that the police were now going to start looking for the real killer or killers?

Answer: Insufficient evidence to charge any suspect with the murder.

Although there was DNA evidence that proved that someone had indeed killed JonBenet, the Grand Jury had come back with a verdict that there was insufficient evidence to charge any suspect with the murder. Three weeks after this announcement, the Governor of Colorado declared that John Ramsey was still considered a prime suspect.

In response to the Governor's declaration, the Ramseys threatened legal action if he continued to malign them.

Answer: The Star

When The Star reported that Burke had killed his sister, the Ramseys immediately threatened to sue the newspaper. A court order made The Star print a retraction on behalf of Burke.

Answer: Prozac

John Ramsey was taking the anti-depressant drug known as Prozac. He was taking the drug around the time of his daughter's death. If a person who is under a doctor's care for depression and paranoia, like John Ramsey was, fails to take the drug for a few days, their depression and paranoia could come back with a vengeance.

Answer: Mary Bienkowski

Mary Bienkowski told police that her client, whom she refused to name, was involved in the murder of JonBenet. She said her client was a woman who had been treated for ten years because of a trauma resulting from sexual abuse when she was a child. She said that her client told her that JonBenet was murdered in a sex-ring operation.

The police later dismissed Bienkowski, saying that she has been known to give false statements.

Answer: Baseball bat

Smit said that the evidence included: 1. A metal baseball bat found outside the Ramseys' Boulder home. Fibers on the bat matched a carpet found in the basement near the storage room, where JonBenet's body was found. The bat was found in a place where kids normally wouldn't play. 2. DNA evidence that indicates JonBenet's attacker was a male, but the DNA does not match John Ramsey, and 3. Peanut-shaped foam packing material and leaves found in the basement that Smit thinks might have been tracked inside by someone entering through a broken basement window.

It would have been something that would not have been blown in there. This information is directly from www.crimelibrary.com.

Answer: 20-20

During their interview, the Ramseys said that the police should look at their friends. They said that it is possible that one of their friends was a pedophile. John and Patsy said that it was possible that this friend of theirs had waited for hours in the Ramsey home to attack and murder JonBenet.

Answer: A

According to Donald Foster, Patsy's use of the letter 'a' prior to the murder, matched perfectly with the ransom note. However, after the murder, Patsy changed her handwriting, and so the letter 'a' looked different. Also, the ransom note was signed 'S.B.T.C.', and Patsy's use of acronyms had been observed on Christmas cards she sent out that same year.

Another piece of damaging evidence was that the paper that the ransom note was written on matched perfectly to Patsy's stationary, as did the pen that wrote the ransom note.

Answer: Dorothy Allison

Dorothy Allison, who passed away on December 3, 1999, began to have visions of the day JonBenet was murdered. Since then, the sketch that Dorothy helped them to make had been placed on the Ramseys web site.