Evaluate the claim "we can predict who will become a criminal"
Sharonhy
CASEFILE-JB.pptxCriminal Behaviour CRM203
Jonbenet Ramsey
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background
Family host a Christmas party
6.47pm: Someone at the party places a 911 call. No message left.
6.54pm: police attend – turned away being assured everything is fine
Timeline: 23rd December 1996
December 25th 1996:
5pm: Family spend the afternoon at Fleet White residence.
In the evening Ramsey family drive home
Jonbenet (JB) is asleep on the drive home, when they arrive home (9.30pm), Jon Ramsey (JR) carries Jonbenet up to her bedroom and puts her to bed (she remains asleep)
JR and Burke Ramsey (BR; 9 yr old brother) remain awake for a couple of hours building Mechano set
Family retire to bed
Timeline: 25th December 1996
Before the night is over… Jonbenet will …
Be fed pineapple
Have her underwear changed.
Be tasered
Her hands loosely tied.
Be (sexually) assaulted
Suffer a severe trauma to the back of the head
Be strangled (by a garrotte).
Be killed
Gray = uncertain
BRACE YOURSELVES
December 26th 1996:
Patsy Ramsey (PR) wakes early
PR goes down the back spiral staircase.
At the bottom step she sees the ransom note
Timeline: 26th December 1996
December 26th 1996:
Patsy Ramsey (PR) wakes early
PR goes down the back spiral staircase.
At the bottom step she sees the ransom note
She only reads the first few lines…
She screams/She runs back upstairs to check on JBs room
JR is awoken
Check BR room – he is asleep, they leave him sleeping
5.52am: PR calls the police to report the incident
Timeline: 26th December 1996
Police arrive: 6 am; friends arrive at same time
Perform cursory search of premises
Window in basement found broken
Suitcase beneath window
JR begins process of gaining $118,000
8am: police arrive and set-up wiretrap and recording equipment
Timeline: 26th December 1996
1pm: Linda Arndt asks Fleet White and JR to search the house for ‘anything unusual’
1.30pm: Fleet White and JR discover JB in basement
JR removes tape from mouth and carries her upstairs
JR asks for blanket to cover JB
PR throws herself on JB screaming “help me Jesus”
Linda Arndt moves JB to living room/under Christmas tree and places Colorado Avalanche sweatshirt over her
2pm: JR places call to his pilot to ready Atlanta flight
8pm: Coroner arrives to remove body
Timeline: 26th December 1996
Police report death from asphyxiation
January 4th: Skull fracture found indicating she would have died from a blunt trauma to the skull
She was suffocated while she lay dying.
Timeline: 27th December 1996
PROFILE THE CRIMESCENE
PROFILE THE KILLER
A tale of 2 stories
A cover-up?
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PR and JR did not spend any time together
JR ‘cordial’ as he greeted Arndt at door
10am deadline passed unnoticed
Arndt asked family and friends for clues
Everyone submitted ideas, except JR
Approximately 10.30am, JR is unaccounted for (Searching house)
His demeanour at midday is changed (shocked, withdrawn, saddened)
Arndt’s report
JR told friend: “I found JB at 11am” (2 hours before Arndt orders search)
December 27th, PR sister sent to home to collect ‘list of items’ – including a golf bag (in winter)
2001: JR admits to looking out of son’s upstairs window, and seeing a van – he suggests this was intruders’… but… can also see trash cans
Within hours of JB being found, Ramsey lawyers are already mobilised and making calls
First call: not to potential suspects that Ramsey’s pointed police to, but to Whites and other family friends present.
BR removed from home at approx. 1pm (December 26th)
Kolar’s report (i)
Pineapple found in JBs stomach (eaten shortly before her death) – none served at Fleet White’s party
Sexual assault (digital penetration)
Signs of previous trauma
Blood had been wiped away, but residual amount remained
JB draped in favourite blanket
JB dressed in panties too big for her
PR claimed never to have seen panties (police later found evidence she had recently bought them for 12 year old niece, but JB wanted them)
Coroner’s report
usan Smith drowned her two young boys, just as thousands of parents have murdered their own children, and countless fathers have molested their daughters.Such brutality does happen, and society’s mindset disregarding such behavior results in more victims.
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“whoever finds the body is most likely to have killed the person”
“if every bit of evidence is making you look left… take a moment to look right”
Body wrapped in blanket – shame, guilt
Parents don’t kill children… except… Susan Smith (murdered children) – along with many thousands more
Countless fathers have molested their child/children
FBI Report
Susan Smith drowned her two young boys, just as thousands of parents have murdered their own children, and countless fathers have molested their daughters.Such brutality does happen, and society’s mindset disregarding such behavior results in more victims.
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Basement window entry (myth)
Dispelling intruder myth
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Dispelling intruder myth
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A tale of 2 stories
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RULEd in
usan Smith drowned her two young boys, just as thousands of parents have murdered their own children, and countless fathers have molested their daughters.Such brutality does happen, and society’s mindset disregarding such behavior results in more victims.
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Case against JR
“The call would not have been made if both were collaborating on the staging of a kidnapping, because that call effectively nullified that staging. Why go to all the trouble of writing a long "ransom" note and then bring the police into your home while the kidnap victim is still inside? By the same token, if Patsy wrote the note and John was innocent, she would certainly have not wanted to make the call and would have seriously resisted, insisting it was too dangerous and calling his attention to the threats in the note. And if she'd resisted, and John nevertheless wanted the call made, I see no reason why he would not have made it himself.”
RULED IN
usan Smith drowned her two young boys, just as thousands of parents have murdered their own children, and countless fathers have molested their daughters.Such brutality does happen, and society’s mindset disregarding such behavior results in more victims.
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Case against JR
“Thus: Fact: no intruder, telling us this must have been an inside job. Fact: Patsy Ramsey is the one who called the police, telling us she could have known nothing about the staging clearly implied in the note. Conclusion: John Ramsey and John Ramsey alone must be the guilty party. Case solved.”
RULED IN
usan Smith drowned her two young boys, just as thousands of parents have murdered their own children, and countless fathers have molested their daughters.Such brutality does happen, and society’s mindset disregarding such behavior results in more victims.
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A tale of 2 3 stories
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Paper for ransom note used from Ramsey kitchen
At least 1 previous ransom note attempt made
“Mr and Mrs│”
Pen used (and replaced) from pen holder under kitchen counter
Why?
The Ransom note
The Ransom note
“Listen carefully!”
“foreign faction” – foreign?
Correction “we do respect…” – change mindset?
Misspelling “bussiness” “possessions” (but correct ‘attaché’ ‘deviation’)
“We have your daughter in our possession” – “in our possession” – understood and unnecessary
$118,000 – the exact bonus JB had for xmas
“your account”
“be rested”
“she dies” (not “she will die”) – and no exclamation point
“And, hence” (doesn’t make sense… but PR uses it in xmas cards)
Mr Ramsey John
SBTC
The Ransom note
Asked one of the police officers present in the morning: “have they brought in the cadaver dogs yet?”
Why ask for dead-body-dogs?
PR quotations
On Dec. 27, 1996, Patsy Ramsey, exhausted and lying down, reached up and touched the face of a friend, Pam Griffin, the woman who had made JonBenet’s pageant costumes. Griffin thought Patsy was delirious when she asked, “Couldn't you fix this for me?” as though a sewing machine could bring back her daughter. She then remembers Patsy saying, “We didn't mean for this to happen” and Griffin got the definite feeling that in her weakened condition, Patsy had revealed that she knew who the killer was.
PR quotations
“you know, America has just been hurt so deeply with the tragic things that have happened. The young woman who drove her children into the water, and we don’t know what happened with the O. J. Simpson – and I mean, America is suffering because (people) had lost faith in the American family.
We are a Christian, God-fearing family. We love our children. We would do anything for our children”
PR, during Janary 1st, 1997, CNN interview
PR quotations
Steve thomas
usan Smith drowned her two young boys, just as thousands of parents have murdered their own children, and countless fathers have molested their daughters.Such brutality does happen, and society’s mindset disregarding such behavior results in more victims.
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A tale of 2 3 4 stories
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Burke Ramsey
The golf bag that was asked to be removed – belonged to BR
Parents never woke BR – but he’s heard on police 911 call
History of abuse towards sister (including hitting her with a golf club)
Fingerprints on pineapple bowl and tea glass
PR serves pineapple to BR (though denies contact)…
Burke Ramsey
The taser marks…
Burke Ramsey
Burke Ramsey
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Interview, 26th December
No concern for sister
Continues eating sandwich…
DSS Psychologist interviewed BR: “shows little emotional connection with family”
BR: “I feel safe at home” – after an intruder broke in?
Dr Bernhard (psychologist) took a sip from BRs soda cup – BR ‘bristled’ and indicated he could not drink from it anymore…
Playing ‘Guess who’ – BR flips down a face, realises mistake, and says “oops, you’re not dead yet”
BR leaves JB our of portraits (school friends include her – normal for grief). Dad in plane (small distant), mother smaller than BR
Burke Ramsey
Report
“Flat, unemotional affect, closed down, and difficult to draw info out of
Not sociopathic – behaviour more typical of ‘dysfunctional environment’
Psychologist asked BR if he knew what happened
BR - thought she was struck over head (and imitated the exact overhead blow as he said it)
Perhaps she was stabbed
Never mentions she was strangled (though he knew by that point)
What he did NOT know was that she had received a head trauma – the autopsy had not come back yet
Burke Ramsey
Report
Paughs (PR parents) bought PR/JR books on:
The hurried child – growing up too fast
Children at risk
Why Johnny cant tell right from wrong
No evidence for parental sexual involvement…
USA Stats on child murders
1996: 16 murders by boys <10 years old
1996: 61 forcible rapes committed by boys <10 years old
Sexual behaviour problems
JonbenÉt Ramsey (1990-1996)
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