JonBenet Ramsey ////// The Autopsy | Forensic Files

JonBenét Ramsey She was strangled with a cord. Little Miss Colorado 6-year-old murder victim JonBenét Ramsey
unknown intruder her brother JonBenét Ramsey They still have not interviewed the
parents. I didn't do it. Do it. John Ramsey didn't do it and we don't have a clue
anybody who did it. My life has been hell from that day forward and I want nothing more than to find out
who was responsible for this. After John Ramsey and Fleet White found JonBenét's body in the wine cellar
located in the basement, John in a hurry ran up the stairs taking the body with him placing the body on the floor of the
kitchen. Detective Linda Arndt then moves the body to the living room. Then Arndt orders Fleet White to stand by the
door to the basement and guard the door. Fleet White goes to the door but for some reason runs downstairs to retrieve
the duct tape from the basement floor. This is all taking place between 1:04 p.m. and 1:23 p.m.
At approximately 1:30 p.m., Priscilla White calls her home. I'm guessing here Captain, but this is very likely to halt
Burke leaving the Whites' house and returning to the Ramseys. Around the same time, officers Ron
Walker and Larry Mason return to the scene, saw JonBenét's body and then searched the home afterward securing the
house. Shortly after the body was found, John Andrew Ramsey, Melinda Ramsey, and
Stewart Long arrive at the Ramsey house in Boulder, Colorado. Between 1:30 and 2:00 p.m., a detective overhears John on
the phone. John called a pilot, his pilot, telling him to ready the plane. This to me is
very strange behavior from somebody who has just recovered the body of their 6-year-old daughter. Right.
Around 2:00 p.m., John Ramsey signs a consent form to search the Ramsey home. I'm just
touching on that that plane call to the pilot for a little bit here. The the detectives had to stop John Ramsey
from leaving the the Ramsey family from leaving telling the Ramseys, "Hey, you shouldn't go anywhere. We have a murder
investigation. The crime scene's your home and you know, they're not going to tell them this up front and center here,
but obviously, they're suspects." Right. And I I think the way the Ramseys were actually thinking was Atlanta,
Georgia was what they considered home. So, we have this bad thing that happened. We want to get back home. We
don't want to be here. We don't want to be in this house. Um but that does, like you said, hinder
the investigation. I don't think that hinders the investigation of the house or the crime scene, but it hinders the
investigation in being able to talk with them um adequately. Yeah, and then regarding
this consent to search form for the the search warrant, if you will, or this makes it seem like John's being
very cooperative. Yeah, I and I technically don't believe this to be an actual search warrant, you
know, one that you bring before a judge, judge signs off on it. I believe this is
just a consent to search form signed by John Ramsey, the the owner of the home. This is just one of those other little
details within this case that I absolutely cannot stand is that regardless, you know, depending
on whose magnifying glass you look at these details from, you get a different story Mhm. on what's
going on here. Where the Ramsey defenders would tell you, "Look, this is proof positive that they were extremely
cooperative. Don't bother Nick with worrying about that they wanted to hop on a plane and fly far away
because this shows how cooperative they are. They were signing a consent to search their home form. They have
nothing to hide. They're an open book." But then the ones that want to come after the Ramseys point out they're not
really an open book because John later says that he thought he was signing off on a on on saying that yes, you can
perform an autopsy on the body. Right. So, it's it's just frustrating. That's one of the most frustrating
pieces of this case. Well, I think that one of the frustrating things is when people say Only one thing's the truth,
right? Can we agree on that? It can't be both. Yeah. I Well, I don't know. I think Well, they say there's three sides
to the truth. There's yours, mine, and the actual truth. Um But I think Sometimes there's just the truth. But I
think with the whole wanting to go back home, he didn't go back home like they wanted to. The cops said,
"Yeah, don't do that. That's a bad idea." But it's so stupid with this case. It's like a non-point.
Like, yeah, he's like, "Let's go back home." "Hey, don't do that." "Okay, we're not going back home." But they
didn't they didn't stay in the house. They Nobody wanted to be in that house. Oh, and I can't I cannot blame them. I
And I don't even know if John ever went back in that house after that day cuz they ended up staying
with their friends. But but let's also be clear that around this time, they pulled John into a room by himself
and they talked to him for a while. Mhm. And at some point, they talked to Burke by himself for a
while. So, They do talk to Burke. This would be at the um He never comes back to the Ramseys'
house. Right. So, they talk to Burke one-on-one. My understanding is it was straight-up one-on-one. It was Burke was
still at the friends' house. Right. And he's over there, you know, playing with the other kids and they're distracting
him. The I that's a troubling aspect of this case, too, because you can look at just that
whole situation in two different ways. One, are you protecting your child, Burke, by removing him from the
situation that could scar him for life, something extremely traumatizing, or are you purposely
putting him away so that he doesn't disclose some information? Right, but you eventually let him talk to the cops
one-on-one. John's even in the room with him. Right. So, if you're so worried about what he's
going to say or if if you knew that he just smashed his 6-year-old sister's head with a flashlight, you're going to
let him sit in a room with a detective by himself? Or with friends and others that he could share that information
with willy-nilly. I mean, he's 9 years old. Right. You're not there when when they
ship him off. And also, that's not just the Ramseys' thought process of all let's get Burke
out of here. This was a this was the cops and the Ramseys going, "He needs to be removed from this site."
The cops suggested that he should be removed from the the Ramsey home? No, I think it was it was like a a collective
effort. It was a collective idea. I don't think it was just as simple as the Ramseys saying, "Hey, he needs to get
out of here." One thing I will point out here that I think is very troubling on behalf of the Boulder police and on the
Ramseys is if you're working under the scenario that a child has been kidnapped from
your home and a ransom has been called for in a letter, Right. wouldn't you want to protect your your
remaining child? Wouldn't you feel that that there should be some kind of security for this other child
rather than sending him off to some friends' house? Right. seems It seems it It's another situation where
we can point out that the Boulder police clearly did not know how to respond to a
kidnapping situation that where a ransom is being called for. Yeah, but at the end of the day, I think people that are
pointing at the Ramseys constantly, you don't know what it would be like to lose a 6-year-old daughter or how you'd
react or what you'd be thinking about. I think it'd be hard to think about anything.
And you go, "Oh, well, they shipped him away, so they're not protecting their son." Well,
they might not even be able to to think properly. So, I think some of their actions Right.
That's what I mean. That's when the Boulder police should have stepped in and said, "No. This is
This This home right now is secure because we have law enforcement presence here. He's safe here." Right. I I agree.
And they should have done a better job of trying to when they got to the scene initially,
they should have cleared the whole house. And then then they would have found her
and then the crime scene wouldn't have been contaminated and they would have enough officers where you're not having
her father pick her up and contaminate evidence and and then have the mother cry over her and contaminate evidence.
Have the detective pick up the victim Right. evidence. I mean, it's that's pretty out Well, not only did
Linda Arndt move the body after John moved the body. Mhm. And this is important to the autopsy.
But so she allowed someone to take a blanket as you know, a sign of uh to protect their child or I don't know,
remorse or whatever. Whatever however many different ways you want to look at it.
Right. She allowed someone to take a blanket and place it over the body once it was removed to the
moved to the living room. Yeah. And then to further that JonBenét's feet were still sticking out
from the blanket from the bottom of the blanket. And I believe Linda Arndt told someone to
cover up the feet as well. So, they took a Colorado Avalanche, you know, the hockey team.
They either took a hockey sweater or or a sweatshirt and placed it over the feet
of the body. So, what that means to the layperson, basically any hairs, fibers, anything like that that could
have been on that blanket could have been on that sweatshirt or sweater now is on could be on her body and or
clothing. Yeah. So, it's just it's just truly a mess. Now, shortly after John signs this consent to
search form the Ramsey's leave their home. They go to stay with the Fernie's. Remember we
discussed the Fernie's, they showed up early that morning to the Ramsey home. Yeah. This
uh the Ramsey's going to the Fernie's includes John's older children, John Andrew Ramsey and Melinda
Ramsey and her boyfriend as well. Now, sometime that afternoon John Ramsey calls and requests a visit from Michael
Bynum who is reported to be John Ramsey's close friend and a corporate attorney.
It is during this visit so Michael Bynum, he agrees to this visit and it's during this visit that
same afternoon that John hires Michael Bynum to represent him and Mr. Bynum advises the Ramsey's at
that time that they need to get additional attorneys. Right, but you're I think you're missing one step.
He actually got a call. Their lawyer got a call. He wasn't hired at the time. But that's why he suggested that
John gets lawyer because he got a call from a contact that he had inside the police
department that said they're just trying to make this about you guys and that's it.
And and that's when he suggested, you need to get a lawyer. On December 26th, 1996 at the home of John and Patsy
Ramsey this is from the report. These are the words of pathologist John E. Meyer, M.D.
He says the body of the 6-year-old female was first seen by me after I was called to
an address identified as 755 15th Street in Boulder, Colorado. I arrived at the scene approximately
8:00 p.m. and entered the house where the decedent's body was located at approximately 8:20 p.m. I initially
viewed the body in the living room of the house. The decedent was lying on her back on the floor covered by a blanket
and a Colorado Avalanche sweatshirt. On removing these two items from the top of
the body, the decedent was found to be lying on her back with her arms extended up over her head. The head was turned to
the right. A brief examination of the body disclosed a ligature around the neck and a ligature around the right
wrist. Also noted was a small area of abrasion or contusion below the right ear on the lateral aspect of the right
cheek. A prominent dried abrasion was present on the lower left neck. After examining the body, I left the
residence at approximately 8:30 p.m. At 10:45 p.m. on December 26th the body of 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey
is removed from the family's home. Before we move on to December 27th, Captain, I want to make sure that I
point out here in regards to contamination of the body that it has been noted by several
people. This is not one of these items that's in dispute or up for debate. This is across the board.
John Ramsey, Patricia Ramsey, Linda Arndt and Fleet White all touched the body before it was examined. Right. And John
Ramsey and Patricia Ramsey touched the body several times. I'm not pointing that out to indicate
guilt or to indicate that the Ramsey's were trying to cover something up. I think it would be a 100% natural
reaction to want to go to your child to touch your child. I'm just pointing it out for the the
purpose of evidentiary value. Yeah, I mean, it compromises the scene. We're not saying that it's to cover up
anything. It compromises the scene. And um and then we also know where we're starting from. So, the following is from
Steve Thomas's book. This is Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation. Steve Thomas was one of the leading
detectives on the case. This is from page 41. And it says, "It was the morning of
December 27th. The little body was first removed from a locked yellow outer covering, then from an inner black bag.
The paper sacks were removed from the hands and feet and Meyer, remember he is the pathologist, began describing his
findings. The victim weighed 45 lb, was 3 ft 11 in tall and had green eyes and some green
garland was caught in her blonde hair. A single loop of white cord was around her
right wrist tied on top of the sleeve but so loosely the doctor easily slid it free. There were 15 half inches between
that loop and a loop on the other end which once apparently had bound the left wrist. A white cord of the same type was
wrapped so tightly around the throat and neck that a deep horizontal furrow had been dug into the skin.
A gold chain and cross were tangled in that ligature which was tied behind the neck to a
broken stick. Blonde hair was snared in the knot and the coroner had to cut the hair in order to remove the cord which
was tied more like a noose than a twisting garrote. The broken paintbrush used as the
garrote handle had Korea printed on it. When Meyer clipped the nails of each finger, no blood or tissue was found
that would indicate a struggle. He used the same clippers for all the fingers although doing so created an
issue of cross-contamination. For optimal DNA purposes separate and sterile clippers
should have been used for each finger. Furthermore, we later learned that the coroner's office sometimes used the same
clippers on different autopsy subjects. Well, that's that's amazing. Great job there. Captain, we could go through the
entire autopsy. Uh I want to kind of go through and cherry-pick some items. But to do the entire autopsy would be
an exhausting process. It's over 3,000 words long. So, I point that out one to not be lazy
about it but to point out that it was and appears to be a thorough document constructed by pathologist Meyer. Mhm.
Cherry-picking some items here at the top of the report, Captain, we have name Ramsey, JonBenét. I just want to say
real quickly, if if you're not willing to take the time to have different clippers on each
finger I would assume there's some kind of protocol. Uh let's just if we're going to start with that
conversation then and yes, it's 3,000 words I don't know if that means it's thorough. I just meant the document. I
said it was a thorough document, not a thorough examination. The thing here with these
autopsies that gets difficult is you're solely relying usually on one individual to handle this process
properly. As you're pointing out here follow protocol. And protocol varies depending on what
county you're in, what city you're in, what state you're in. Mhm. It's I hate to say this, but it truly is a
bit of a willy-nilly process. It's one of those situations where you question the science of it because it's human
error and it's and it can be laziness. It can be a number of different things. Yeah, and it
can be opinion-based. Correct. And the other thing too is you know, I I had a discussion once with
with some people and they said, "Well, there were multiple hairs found on the body
from different sources and that means that there were multiple killers." And I said, "Well, not necessarily. We've done
enough of these cases to realize that that random hairs and fibers can end up on people for a number of different
reasons that are innocent nature." Right. But to further that along in the way that
the way that I connect this to this conversation is I've reviewed at least two cases where
later we learned that one of the hairs found on the body came from the body bag that the body was placed into and it
wasn't cleaned properly. Or it was a county that was quite poor and they're just reusing body bags all the time. The
report states at the top the name of the decedent is Ramsey JonBenét, date of birth August 6th, 1990, age 6,
sex female, autopsy number 96A155. Death date and time December 26th, 1996 13:23. So
1:23 p.m. This is interesting. They have to well, I guess they don't have to, but
per protocol are supposed to put a time of death on this form whether they come up with an actual time of
death or not. And in this situation 1:23 p.m. is put on this document because that's
considered to be the agreed upon time that the body was in the living room. Mhm. We know she
didn't die at 1:23 p.m. And in fact, there was no real time of death that was truly established in this case.
Steve Thomas says that the detectives were told to work with a window of 1:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.
And then he kind of backs into that a little bit and shrinks that window based off of some information we know to
be true. The 911 call comes in before 6:00 a.m. So you can go ahead and take away 6:00
to 7:00. Now you're left with 1:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. Right. I like that and I do like
you're going to hear me question Steve Thomas's actions and and theories and and how he
came up with some stuff as we move forward. But I want to point out that personally I find his investigation to
be interesting in in a sense that there are pieces of it that seem incredibly thorough.
Where even on the timeline of the day when the body's found, he has multiple times for when people arrived to the
house inside his report and inside his notes. Some people point out what a terrible job. This detective has
multiple times for the same people arriving to the house. It this can't be an accurate document.
Right. Steve Thomas never claims for that to be an accurate document. What he's saying is I've talked to everybody.
Somebody tells me person A arrives at this time and then somebody else tells me person A arrived at that time. Until
I can prove what time that person arrived, I'm leaving both in my report and in my notes. Both are correct. So I
I find that portion to be well done on on Mr. Thomas's behalf. Yeah, because like you said, I mean he's
not just going, "Okay, well I talked to this person I talked to this person and I believe this person more." Right.
He's just saying He's leaving it on there until he can prove other otherwise. Yeah. And
where I find it a little tricky though is when we have the time of death, when he's discussing what he believes or what
he claims the detectives believe to be the time of death. Uh-huh. I find that I his theory and the
detectives theory kind of wiggle that theory gets wiggled into their time of death and the window that they create.
You know, they're making assumptions that I think are s- very dangerous to make in this investigation. One being that
they say, "Okay, well, we're told to work with this window of 1:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. We know that it was before
6:00 a.m. because of the 911 call. We've shrunk the window a little bit." They they want to shrink this window.
And I I we need that window to be much smaller than that. We need that window to be
shrunken. Yes. So we can really get an idea of what happened and who needs to be accounted for during that time. The
thing that I believe that they do that's dangerous to the investigation is they make the assumption that the the ransom
letter was penned after the death. And that the letter writing process would take a
certain amount of time and thus they can shrink the window even more. Have you wrote the letter out yourself?
I have not, but if I sit down and try to write it with my left hand instead of my
right, it's going to take me even longer. Right. But I mean do you have like just a guess of how long do you
think it would take you to copy? Well, you say copy, but there's a chance that the author was was writing it from,
you know scratch, right. Yeah, that they're coming up with it. And here's the other thing. How many
times did they how many practice letters could there be? You know, there are multiple pages
ripped out from that pad of paper. Mhm. Uh I believe it's three that they were able to determine that there were three
pieces of paper missing between where they believe the the page one of the letter came from and the rough draft,
let's call it, with the misses and misses or um Mr. and Mrs. I at the top of the
page. Right, but what I think people should do is pull out a couple sheets of paper and copy it. Start by copying it.
That gives you some kind of time frame. It's that's under 5 minutes. So yes, it's it's a lot different to
create one from scratch, but if the perpetrator brought that note with them under 5 minutes to copy it. Yeah, over 8
hours if you have to sit down and watch Ransom, Dirty Harry and Speed. Mhm. When you're doing conducting
that they didn't find those tapes at the scene of the crime. Right. Hey, you're right, a portable, remember those old TV
VCR combos? Yeah, black and white. Yeah, that it that the perp brought it with them. All
right, so we're we're we're getting getting off track here. Uh final diagnosis tox studies
blood ethanol non detected, blood drug screen no drugs detected. Final diagnosis, cause of death of the
6-year-old female is asphyxia by strangulation associated with cranio-cerebral trauma.
Cheers to you, Captain. I'm raising a big big glass of Christmas bomb 2019 by the awesome folks at Prairie Artisan
Ales Garage Grade four out of five bottle caps. Thanks to everyone who has donated to the beer fund. And I don't
mean just this week, I mean all year long. Yeah, for the last however many years you keep the lights on
and you keep beer in the fridge. Well, in our mouths as well. Picking up where we left off here, Captain
to put it quite frankly Mhm. just to muddy the waters even more in this case, we have
basically two causes of death declared by Mr. Myers, M.D. A term that we will probably be
discussing quite a bit. I want to describe this to everyone just so we're all on the same page as we move
forward. The term will be garrote. The general consensus being here that a garrote can be made out of many
different materials including ropes, cable ties, fishing lines, nylon, guitar strings, telephone cord or piano wire,
anything of that type of nature. A stick may be used to tighten the garrote. This
is a Spanish word which actually refers to the stick itself. In Spanish, the term may also refer to a
rope and stick used to constrict a limb. This basically is a popular murder weapon
and for sadist, it's a torture device. It's unfortunately a term that we've used many times on
this show. Continuing with our exam here, Captain the decedent is clothed in a long-sleeved white knit collarless
shirt. The chest area contains an embroidered silver star with silver sequins. Tied loosely around the right wrist
overlying the sleeve of the shirt is a white cord. At the knot, there is one tail end which
measures 5.5 inches in length with a frayed end. The other tail of the knot measures 15.5 inches in length
and ends in a double loop knot. This end of the cord is also frayed. There are no defects noted in the shirt,
but the upper right sleeve contains a dried brown stain 2.5 by 1.5 inches believed to be from
the nose or mouth. There are long white underwear with an elastic waistband containing a red and
blue stripe. The long underwear are urine stained over the crotch area and legs.
Beneath the long underwear are white panties with printed rosebuds and the word Wednesday on the elastic waistband.
The underwear is urine stained and the inner aspect of the crotch are several red areas of staining measuring up to
0.5 inches maximum dimension. To touch on this what we've just reviewed here, Captain
the in regards to the urine this is a big big thing in this case. Because what we would learn very early
in the investigation from the Ramsey's housekeeper is that JonBenét was known to wet the
bed quite frequently as well. Her statement to detectives was that often when she
would come in in the morning that Patsy would have already stripped the bed placing the sheets in the washer
and then when the housekeeper would get there, you know, she'd transfer them to the dryer, sheets are dried and then
apply them back the bed and this was at times a daily routine. I believe her statement was that this
was a daily routine leading up to about 30 or 40 days before the murder. And it had just kind of gone away. It
was almost like JonBenét had uh grown up from that that she was no longer wetting the bed. I might be
mistaken, but I think at one point she was not wetting the bed and then she started wetting the bed again. That's
exactly right. That's the same thing that I heard and I believe that was the statement from the housekeeper.
The detectives also found Pull-Ups, you know, like the they're they're not quite
diapers. They're for older children. Yeah, I wear them. I I wear them to concerts so I don't
have to take a break to go to the bathroom. I don't want to miss anything. Now I wear them when I'm in the garage.
There were Pull-Ups found in the home. And there was some question if JonBenét was known to wear these. I'm guessing
that she would. I don't see why Pull-Ups would remain in the house when you have children that are 9 and 6
years old. Just look at the pictures of their house, man. It's a mess. That's true. They
It's a hot mess. Yes. One of the the reason why we point this out here is that one of the big theories that has
lasted all these years is that JonBenét wet the bed that night and in you know anger anger in impulsive
reaction Patsy freaks or hits her over the head with something and it's this all came about because she wet the
bed once again. Right. And Patsy had just been through it all and this was the final straw. She lost it.
Didn't mean to hurt or kill her child, but that's what she did. And then It's like potty training abuse.
It's It's actually pretty common. Like the even people that wouldn't you want to think would hit their kids
or be violent towards their kids they can be if the kid is not being potty trained correctly or or is not able to
do such, right? So, we have to address this because we do have in the autopsy report from the external
examination that there was urine on the clothing. Mhm. I do want to point this out though.
We should be clear here that this could have come about at any time. It doesn't necessarily mean that she
100% wet the bed that night. No. This could have She could have She could have wet herself during an attack.
That's extremely common. She could have wet herself after, you know, in death. Yeah.
So, to point to that and say, "Hey, she had to have wet the bed and this is the only This is the explanation we've come
up with due to that fact." Again, I think that's a dangerous assumption to make in this
investigation. To further this out a little more and you know, I hate to I hate to throw the
warning out there that it's going to get a little gross because it seems only sensible because we are discussing
an autopsy, but Mhm. Or the fact that our show is called True Crime Garage. In in the uh
when discussing her wetting the bed, there's also reports that she has defecated in the bed
before multiple times. Mhm. There's also statements that Burke would defecate in JonBenét's bed.
Mhm. I don't know either one of those two be true. It seems to me like the one that we can
really hang our hat on here that seems to be the most true is the bed wetting situation.
This is brought up by multiple people. Mhm. And the the other bit I I can't say for certain that
that I believe either one of those. Now what would be pointed out during this investigation and these aren't my words
but bed wetting, defecating in the bed, things of that nature, it was pointed out that sometimes that is what you
would see when somebody is being molested. Not only molested, but usually when they're being molested by somebody
within the home or within the family. The reason for that is that in those situations
sometimes the victim will do that consciously or unconsciously subconsciously, whatever it is
Mhm. because they want to appear less desirable or gross to the perpetrator. Some was a way of
protecting themselves. Correct. That I point that out because that is one of the theories as well in this
case. I also want to state 100% that there's never been any evidence before or after
the murder of JonBenét Ramsey that John or Patsy had that they were ever involved in any
paraphilia at all. Yeah, cuz let's be clear on something. They searched their house. I think they actually called it
There was one magazine that called this murder kiddie porn murder. And they searched the house for porn and
they did not find any. Right. So, and then there's also a rumor that they had all these
um books uh or one of the books on in their study was opened up to incest or something like that. I believe it was
that a dictionary Yeah. that the word incest was marked in a dictionary. I question that one too, Captain,
because that's one of those ones that you hear in more salacious reports on this case. Mhm. I really
question I feel like that would be a a more well-known fact if it was a fact. What we What we do know as a fact is
they didn't find any pornography in the house. Right. And to top that off, these both
parents have other children. There's you know, there's never been any any complaints by any of the other
children that that Patsy or John was ever involved in anything like that. Mhm. And to further that out even more,
we have Melinda on record multiple times saying her father just wouldn't be capable of such an act and that he
be it murder or molestation. Mhm. While we're on the subject though of the bed wetting situation, one thing that I
did find particularly strange in this case and this is well reported, too that JonBenét Ramsey had 27 doctor
visits in the course of the 3 years leading up to her death. On an average, that puts her at like
nine a year. Mhm. That's a crazy amount. The doctor when asked about this states that
that was for the the pediatrician states that these were for all normal reasons.
She did have some sinus issues, I guess, that would be cause for reoccurring visits.
I also wonder, too. We know the situation of the accidental time when Burke hit her in the face with
the in the face Yeah. in the face. in the face Mhm. That in itself though, I want to
point out just just something like that requires multiple doctor visits. I was looking for like a uh a
a straight-up list. Well, yeah, you'd have if there was stitches, you have stitches, then you have to remove the
stitches. Well, we know that she went to a a Yeah, we know that she went to a plastic
surgeon. Like So, just like you pointed out there, that that starts with an initial doctor
visit, referral to somebody, consultation, the the surgery, a follow-up. Right there you have four out
of the 27. Well, and you have a stay-at-home mom. So, I I think yeah, maybe for people
that are everybody's working and there's not a lot of money little things you just going to let go.
But when you have the time to take your daughter in for every little thing and you have the money to cover it I I don't
think that's unreasonable. External evidence of injury located just below the right ear at the right angle of the
mandible 1.5 inches below the right external auditorial canal is a small rust colored abrasion. In the
lateral aspect of the left lower eyelid is petechial hemorrhaging. I'm going to skip some portions of this
autopsy report, Captain, because there are multiple pages that go through all of these
petechial hemorrhaging and all the hemorrhaging that takes place. We know that we've already discussed it
strangulation was involved and anybody that's listened to this show or other true crime shows knows that hemorrhaging
occurs during those types of situations. But to specifically describe some of the report here
this part I believe to be important. Wrapped around the neck with a double knot in the midline of the posterior
neck is a length of white cord similar to that described as being tied around the right wrist. This ligature cord is
cut on the right side of the neck and removed. A single black ink mark is placed on the left side of the cut and a
double black ink mark on the right side of the cut. Okay, so that portion of that last two sentences of his report
are describing the pathologist's actions. Mhm. He's saying I removed it by cutting it and then I placed markers
indicating where the cuts took place. The knot is left intact. Extending from the knot on the neck are two tails of
the knot, one measuring 4 in in length and having a frayed end and the other measuring 17 in in length with the end
tied in multiple loops around a tan brown wooden stick, which measures 4.5 in in length.
This wooden stick is irregularly broken at both ends and there are several colors of paint and varnish on the
surface. Right. Printed in gold letters on one end of the wooden stick is the word Korea.
The tail end of the other word extends from beneath the loops of the cord tied around the stick and is not able to be
interpreted. Blond hair is entwined in the knot and in the cord wrapped around the wooden stick. It appears to be made
of white synthetic material. Also secured around the neck is a gold chain with a single charm in the form of a
cross. Examination of the right extremities is unremarkable. On the middle finger of
the right hand is a yellow metal band. Around the right wrist is a yellow metal identification bracelet with the name
JonBenét on one side and the date 12/25/96 on the other side. This was a gift from her aunt. Mhm. I
believe from Patsy's sister. And I mean just There's these little sad, heartbreaking points in this case
all along the way that just remind you of the pure innocence of this little girl. And you
know, she Here she is wearing a gift that she just very recently received and was probably very excited
to wear this piece of jewelry that she received from her aunt. I mean, it's just it breaks your heart. I also think
it's not clear in this case on how brutal this attack was and that this garrote,
the way it was set up, it almost looked like you'd put a human on a leash and then you'd be pushing their head
down as you pulled the the garrote back. It's truly horrifying. Mhm. I don't think that there's any
documentary out there that has I don't know what the right word is here, Captain, but
I want to say bothered to describe how horrific it would have been. these injuries are.
Mhm. They almost make it sound like it's Sleeping Beauty lying in a windowless room in the basement.
And that's not the situation at all. There There's If anybody that's seen the pictures read the descriptions
and we're going through them. Here you hear the the the medical speak. Mhm. Jargon.
And it just sounds like textbook [ __ ] But really in lay terms, it was it's a horrific attack on a on a tiny little
person. Yeah, there's actually two marks on the neck, one at the lower part of the neck.
And then at some point that became free and it they go in deeper. And there's actually a couple pictures
that you can see how deep the the rope goes around her throat. It almost disappears. Yeah. And the line
that it left at the midline of the throat Mhm. after the fact. Yeah. I mean, it's it looks like somebody took a
maroon marker, a maroon Sharpie and just drew a line across somebody's neck. That's how
deep it looked like it was the cord was going into the neck. Mhm. There was a red ink line drawing in the
form of a heart that was found located on the palm of JonBenét's left hand. The fingernails of
both hands are of sufficient length for clipping and we already discussed that they
used the same clippers to clip all of the fingernails. Now, you said that there was no
nothing found underneath the nails, but I thought there was some DNA and possibly some blood that was found
underneath the right hand's finger fingernails saying that showing that she struggled with somebody at some point.
You're correct. There are multiple reports on this detail of the investigation. The bit that I gave you was Steve
Thomas's report. Mhm. One of the leading detectives. So, I don't know what is the
real true answer. What I find interesting is that he follows up his report by saying
we later learned that the all the fingernails were clipped with the using the same clippers. Right.
Again, I think that points to his thoroughness of saying whether this is right or wrong, this is
what happened. Yeah, whether it's right or wrong, this is what happened and then
to to add to the weight of that question everything because this also happened. Right.
What's the best way to describe the the cuz there was some I don't want to use the word damage to
the vaginal area. Mhm. I don't think that damage is the right word. Well, would you say indication of
I've actually seen this disputed multiple ways. One claims that there there's evidence
that there was at least some kind of touching to the vagina area. Digital manipulation.
Yeah, at the time of death. And then they also use the word chronic. Now, when you hear the word chronic, you
think, "Oh, well, this is weeks, months." time. No, this was this term would have
made sense to meaning that there was something that happened to her um days in advance uh one of the
medical examiners thought that this would happen basically most likely a individual putting
their finger inside of her vagina. On the 22nd or the 23rd. Now, other medical examiners have stated
that some of this bruising could be due to hygiene. The bedwetting. The irritation of
The irritation, yeah. of having urine-stained clothing on the skin right up against the skin for
Well, sometimes they get period of time. you get rashes and so then a mother would use um they would get some kind of
medication to put on the rash. And you could then you know, that's where you could get
some digital What do they call it? Well, I think to put it pretty as clean as we
can would be to say that the reports out there state everything from chronic molestation
to something as little as uh irritated skin that could come from urine-stained clothes or Right, but
let's be clear about this. vigorous wiping Right, but let's be clear about this chronic molestation.
This is not There was no signs of There's There's no scar tissues to prove that she was molested for weeks and
months and years. Not true. We're talking about the time of her death and probably
once a couple days before. That's all they prove. It also seems like there was wood fragments found in her
vagina as well. I didn't personally see that in Dr. Meyer's report. Yeah, I think I saw that from Lou Smit.
He does reference um fibers Okay. as well. So again, with this with this area of the body, it's it's
really it's up for to debate, really. Depending on who you talk to, this represents any
number of things. What I feel that I've seen and heard the most, so I'm going to
throw this in the batch of general consensus would be that just as you pointed out
that this is something that occurred either at the time of death or shortly before
and it could be anything from as terrible as digital manipulation or something uh
more vigorous wiping or hygiene. I I'm ruling all that out. What most of the medical examiners state
is that that the the choking, which people so haphazardly want to say is covering up for
for something. Right? That the that the choking of JonBenét was is after the fact and therefore
it's covering up an accident. No. The choking was not an accident. It It on purpose.
It was not meant to kill her. It was meant for sexual gratification. So, if you have a
they believe that there was molestation at the time of her death. And I I think that's that needs to be
fact. to me. Because it's like you don't have one or the other. And a lot of people think because there
wasn't penetration with like a penis that the individual would be um more likely to be a younger.
Or a crazed or disorganized offender. You typically see that Right. in those types of
of murder cases. So, the report says a 1 cm red purple area of abrasion is located on
the right posterioral Sorry, I'm going to struggle with some of these words here, Captain. Posterior
lateral area of the 1 by 1 cm hymenal orifice. The hymen itself is represented by a rim of tissue extending
clockwise between the 2 and 10:00 positions. The area of abrasion is present at approximately the 7:00
position and appears to involve the hymen and distal right lateral vaginal wall.
Mhm. We say all that to point out that it the that's basically saying there's a small
amount of damage or injury to that area. Yeah, bruising. Yeah. One thing that is completely shocking
in this whole case to shocking to me, Captain. Mhm. Is that it appears that Linda Arndt
the pathologist who arrived on the 26th to examine the body at the Ramsey's home
and then several other people as well that nobody realized that this poor girl had been struck
over the head. Yeah. It's It's almost like it took further detection that it wasn't You know, you
have the shocking scene of the garrote of the cord wrapped around this little girl's throat.
Mhm. Maybe it's the shock factor and you you you don't see what what might have been obvious, but all the reports I've
read and stop me if you've read any that that are different. But, it sounds as if this head wound,
which this was a massive injury and we'll get into the details of it, but it sounds like sight scene
unnoticed. Right. Yeah, well, there's no blood. It's not like massive pools of blood.
Right. And she had long blonde hair. I believe it was Was she two two pigtails or ponytails, whatever they call that?
Well, yeah, I mean, that I If you've ever seen one of your buddies like hit their head, especially when they have
blonde hair it turns bloody real real quick. Right, but what I'm getting at is I
don't know how much blood there was. There wasn't. Right. And I don't know I would like to have a
pathologist or a doctor sit down with me and tell me the reasons why there's no blood. Obviously, one, she's already
dead or near death at the time. Yeah, that's what most medical examiners when they look at this say, "Look, there's a
lack of blood, so we they believe and all all the credible ones, the most credible ones that I've seen with this
case state she was choked. It was sexually It's for sexual gratification. The perpetrator was
choking her either trying to touch her. Now, that would be random, that wouldn't
be as much. Most likely they were touching themselves while they're strangling her.
Uh she There's defensive wounds around her neck meaning she was trying to stop the choking.
At some point, some people believe they would have cut off the blood circulation
to her brain. Um and there's some signs of that. They they believe through the autopsy.
And so, I I can't remember what they call it, but it's basically where you're dead.
Um And it's it happens almost instantaneously. Mhm. Yeah. And so, they they also believe
that, you know, normally if somebody's trying to strangle somebody in order to kill them, there's
a lot of marks that are left like inside the neck muscles, there's strains. Uh different bones and stuff possibly
could be broken within the neck. And none of that is seen here. That's why they believe
that these these bruises within side the vagina are from molestation because the
evidence of the choking doesn't Like I said, it doesn't seem like the purpose of the choking
was to kill her. It was to control her. So, where it gets a little convoluted is
a lot of medical examiners think that during this sexual gratification that the perpetrator then
uh either freaked out or or got into it too much and hit her over the head with something.
Now, other people believe that the perpetrator knew that they that she was dead because they also there's also
a temporal lobe bruising in the brain. And that's common when somebody is when somebody shakes somebody after death.
Right. And so, somebody chokes her, doesn't mean to kill her shakes her she's dead.
And then I think I believe that's when the the blow to the head happened. Because at that point the heart has
stopped, it won't be pumping blood to the to the brain. That would be one of the reasons why we wouldn't have pools
of blood everywhere. That is one reason. The other reason could be two is do we How much broken skin do we actually have
with this strike? Right. And the the interesting thing here, too, is the the use of the garrote
in the manner that it was used very likely could suggest that it's it's not only a torture device, but it's also
a sexual assault device. Mhm. Where you're using it because that's what this this
sicko is into. And sometimes, we see this a lot in a lot of cases that we've covered,
especially with serials that they will often choke someone almost to the point of death and then
allow them to receive air and then choke them again. Right. And they believe that
was happening with her because there there's signs of that for from the autopsy. But, let's let's be clear
that shows like CBS's documentary on this case it doesn't make any sense. You can't
start off with the idea of that there was a a blow to the head. You cannot start that off. They believe
this blow to the head would have made her brain dead. Should be unconscious minimum
and then because of the brain swell and the brain bleed should be brain dead. And what happens if you're unconscious
or you're brain dead? You do not put up a fight if somebody is choking you. Right. So, let's There's no
need to restrain the arms Right. from the perpetrator's perspective. Right. And I know a lot of people are
going to sit there and say, "Well, but but all that stuff is to cover up some kind of accident."
Let's be clear that CBS and everybody involved in that show were irresponsible for putting out that information. It's
just factually not correct. And if you want to I don't advise that you do this cuz you might have nightmares about
this, but go look go look at pictures of JonBenét Ramsey's neck and see all those
half moons of that 6-year-old girl trying to stop somebody from strangling her. So, this idea that there was Burke
accidentally hit her on the head or that or that during uh changing of uh pajamas or changing of the sheets or
whatever that in JonBenét's bathroom. Right. That that that she slipped and hit her head.
Or got tossed across the room by her mother or struck over the head with a flashlight. Right.
To the credit, I guess, of the of the people that believe Burke may have killed his little sister via an accident
or whatever. The skull fracture, to me, does look like it could have came by way of golf club.
It I mean, it there's I If anybody looks at that picture and says "Nah, I wouldn't think a golf club
could make that." Well, yeah, cuz that's strike. I would I would go Well, then you're you you need
to go get glasses, my friend. Right. Because it straight up in the dimensions. So, let's describe this
because not everybody's going to be fully aware of of this. The fracture the skull fracture
is huge. It measures 8 in in length. And the way that this works out is she would have been struck on the
top of her head, but it's more to the right side. side of her head, yeah. Yeah. And the
the fracture runs from where the where the impact hit on the skull, and it runs all the way forward. Yeah. And then what
you have at the top where the impact took place, you actually have a full section that
broke off. It it runs 8 in in length total, but from where the point of impact what we have here is picture a
skull where you have a crack that runs down the majority of the right side of the skull. Uh-huh. At the top of that
crack where it stops, you have a basically a rectangle shaped piece of the skull that fully
broke off on all four sides. And that piece itself is quite small. I believe it's 1 and 1/2 in by
1/2 in. Yeah. But that's that's the rectangle there, and then from there you have uh you
would have your remaining so it'd be 6 and 1/2 in of a fracture that runs from that broken piece there.
Yeah, and and and cops were looking for this this possibility as well. Maybe not so
much a golf club, but it did look into that Burke had a bat. And then they did some tests and then
realized they don't believe that would happen through a bat. Not saying that the cops were saying that Burke hit her
in the head, but they were looking for objects. Yeah. Uh then you have a bunch of tests done
on the flashlight. Again, I think that's it's reasonable to you see you have a bigger
opening, bigger fracture, then it goes to um thinner fracture. So maybe something like a a big
flashlight. It would definitely have like the weight to it to to be able to do to be able to create that that type of
fracture. But there's also a picture of crime scene picture that there's this It
almost looks like um one of the like a fireplace tool. That would also be like if I were to walk around someone's home
after seeing the the skull when the skin is pulled back and see the fracture itself, Uh-huh. if I were to walk around
anyone's home and like pick up instruments that I think could have could have made that impact and left
that mark Right. on her, left that fracture in that manner, I don't think I would go for flashlight.
I'm not saying it's impossible. I wouldn't go for flashlight, wouldn't go for bat. Anything that's kind of rounded
doesn't seem to make sense to me. I see something where you you need like you need something where you're almost
seeing the like that broken piece of the skull is the outline of whatever hit her.
And that to me would be like a yeah, like a fireplace tool or a golf club, anything like that.
Right, but if you look through the crime scene It's 100%. It has to be you know, the the the markings of what
hit her. Yeah, if a object hit her. Um It had to have hit her. Look at the I mean Well, let me finish my thought.
Sorry. So first if you look at the crime scene photos, there there it looks like some kind of
fireplace tool. I don't know what you call those, but it's right under the Aren't those the poker things that you
like move the wood around? some people have like the the pokers and then they have the brushes and then they
have the uh shovels and and they have all different kinds of things. Okay. Right?
It looks like there's one and it's underneath the open window where the suitcase is. And you'd have to
go through there's tons of crime scene photos, but you have to go through and you can see it laying on the ground.
Now, I can't it's blurry. I can't tell you exactly what it is, but I go well, we know where the we know where
the paintbrush handle came from. It came from that room. Right. That that was used in the garrote. Uh we
know that at some point she was in that suitcase because we have all these uh fibers from her clothes that are in that
suitcase. So they were going to use Well, you you can say you know that. I won't I won't be on board with that one.
I'm not not convinced that she was in the suitcase. Okay, but what we do have is a suitcase with a bunch of fibers
from the clothes that she was wearing that night. So Well, again, I don't know that they were
the clothes that she was wearing that night. The Well, that's the report I that I saw. Again, but that and I'm not
sure I don't I don't want to sound like I'm challenging you here. I'm I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just saying
the information I've reviewed doesn't state that same stuff. Right, but right where that suitcase where that suitcase
is. Correct. Underneath that open window, there's a crime scene photo that has some kind of
object and I just want because police have stated we haven't found the object of what hit
her on the head. Right. And here's where this is what I question. Okay. It all has to work on some order. Like
Lou Smith Mhm. Keep calling him Smith. It's like his analysis of the the intruder theory
doesn't work. It starts with a stun gun. Well, what does the stun gun do? It incapacitates the person.
Renders them unconscious at some point, right? So Very likely too for a small person.
We're not talking about a full grown adult. We're talking about a very small child. And how long are they
incapacitated for? The this is what I would want to know. I I could Yeah, I don't think any of us
can say because there's differing you know, there's varying degrees of even these stun guns. But just his analysis,
it doesn't make any sense cuz if I go, "Okay, I'm going to go up to JonBenét's bedroom and I'm going to hit her with
this stun gun and that's what's going to allow me to take her downstairs." Okay.
At what point does she eat pineapple? So Well, we should be clear here for those that don't know. There was
um a substance found in JonBenét upon the the autopsy findings that suggests that she ate pineapple or
a substance that resembles pineapple shortly before her death. Right. It was undigested. Right. And then we have
crime scene photo photos that have a bowl of pineapple with milk, which I've never heard of. If my mother fed me
pineapple, it's just pineapple in a bowl. That's weird. I've heard of yogurt and
cottage cheese, but never milk. I think it's milk. Again, don't don't quote me on that, but
So but my thought is, okay, well, Lou Smit Lou Smit's Smit. intruder theory have
her get downstairs. She wakes up. She's supposed to be met by Santa Claus at some point. She goes downstairs. She
sits at the table. She makes herself some pineapple. Maybe she doesn't make herself some
pineapple. Maybe Burke made himself some pineapple, but he went to bed, he didn't finish it. So
then she sits there and decides, "I'll eat a piece of this." That's when the intruder would have to
come in contact with her. Right? Or I guess she could have woke up in the middle of night,
went downstairs, ate some pineapple, went back upstairs. It's possible. Uh then you use the stun gun, but again
the stun gun doesn't make any sense because once you start trying to control her with the garrote,
you need defensive wounds. I I do want to point out here though too, the purpose of the garrote may not be
Yes, it's control, but not in the manner that I think that some might be thinking.
It could be straight up for sexual assault Right. type of control. And I'm not going to go
into it too much. I mean, um maybe on off the record or something. I don't feel comfortable discussing what
the garrote itself could have been used for. The thing I will put my stamp on here
though, well, before we get into that, let's point out that where the stun gun idea comes into play is that there are
pictures. There were unfortunately or fortunately, I guess, depending on how you want to look at it. It's
incredibly degrading to the victims involved in this case, but autopsy photos were leaked to the press
Yeah. at some point. And you can view them online still to this day. Based off of that,
we have Lou Smit who later says, "Look, you see these two little what look like little prong marks?"
He said this these came from a stun gun. Now, you have other experts. You have Dr. Werner Spitz and I'm trying to think
of what he's most famous for. He's covered He's done so many different cases, but
Werner Spitz where our listeners would know him the best from would be from um West Memphis 3. He was the one that that
later viewed the photos and said, "Hey, these marks are bite marks from a from turtles." Mhm. So that that's that dude.
He says when he views these photographs, these are not stun gun marks. They're they're he would expect what he's
looking for is a stun gun basically is leaving an electrical burn type mark on the skin. Yeah, I And he says that what
he's seeing doesn't does not appear to be a burn to him. I don't see that on her back, the marks on her back that a
lot of people think are like maybe a train track set. Um which would have been in the room that
she possibly was molested in. That's the other thing, too. She has multiple scrapes and stuff on her back
and marks on her arms and stuff like that. Basically that she was squirming during the time that she was molested.
And so, could she got these marks on her back at that point? Yes. But the marks on her face,
to me, I see what looks like a burn between the two marks. And you would expect a good deal of struggle and
squirming if in fact she was being choked and there was some type of sexual assault
prior to death. Yeah. This is what I said I was going to put my stamp on here, Captain. Reviewing the
pictures of the skull, I don't know science. I'm not a pathologist. I'm not claiming to be an expert. You take this
for whatever you for what it is. It's it's some dumb guy in a garage giving his opinion. Wait. No, I should I should
go then. Should be my turn then. But what my opinion is based off of these photographs, Mhm. the damage to
the skull, man. I don't think that Burke would have had the strength, regardless of weapon,
to create this type of damage in one single blow. This looks to me to be one single solid hit to the skull. Mhm.
I also will go further and say I don't think and I've seen pictures of JonBenét's
bathroom. Mhm. The theory that Patsy lost control and threw her across the room and this
was some kind of head injury that occurred when she got thrown across the room or she hit her head on something
after being slapped by Patsy. I'm not saying that Patsy's innocent. What I'm saying is
this injury did not come from anything like that. In my opinion. This is a single strike,
a very violent strike to the head, single strike with with a lot of strength behind it, and a
lot of force behind it. The other thing I will say, too, I beg anyone to go out there and look up
the garrote or what they are calling a garrote in this case. Because what I see here, this is one of
those rare times in the case where you see some level of criminal sophistication. And what I mean by that
is this this weapon, this torture device here, Mhm. appears to me, this wasn't the first time
whoever constructed this, this was not the first time that they put one of these things together.
Well, most medical examiners call these not sophisticated. Yeah. These are not These aren't knots made by a 9-year-old.
When I look at this, what I see, if you I would love if somebody would take the pictures it like if I could go back and
unsee them and somebody could take away the words JonBenét Ramsey from the photographs Uh-huh. and just hand them
to me and go, "Oh, what's that What's this from? What do you think this is?" What I see there, Captain,
without anything clouding my vision, is an intricate torture device constructed for the sole purpose of
sexual assault. Yeah, it seems like most of the medical experts believe again, during this sexual assault,
during this torture, that this individual lost control and ended up hitting her on the head, but at
that point the brain wasn't pump the heart wasn't pumping to the brain already. Like that's a real thing, I
guess, during strangulation that that will stop first. And it slows it along the way. Yeah, and
then it's still the person's still alive, technically, but there's no blood or oxygen
pumping to the brain now. Meaning she'd be brain dead, they hit her on the head cuz they lost control or
it was part of their fantasy or whatever. I think that's a very good possibility.
But like I said, we have fibers, whether you want whether you want to believe this or not
because there's experts that contradict each other over and over. But there's fibers in that suitcase. And
my thought is that this individual, for whatever reason, the sexual gratification was going to be better for
them uh if they molested her inside the house, knowing that her family was there,
there was excitement there. Once they figured out she's dead, that wasn't part of the plan.
The ransom note's already sitting on the staircase. Right? Mhm. I have to get her out of here.
I am going to use the suitcase to transport her. I put her in the suitcase. At this
point, no blow to the head. I think it's possible that an individual put her in that suitcase
and tried to lift her up through that window and then dropped her. And landing on her head. Yes, yes, the
suitcase would hit first, but she's inside the suitcase. And I think that's possibly
what created um that fracture. You pointed out something that's very important in this case.
And just with every aspect of this case, there's so many different opinions. There's so many different even expert
opinions. And regarding the autopsy itself, cause of death, injuries to JonBenét, how those injuries occurred,
we've had many very reputable, good, solid experts over the years examine this case. But what they've examined
have been photographs. And what they've examined have been documents. There's only been one pathologist to examine the
body. Right. And that was Dr. Meyer, MD, in 1996. For all of our old episodes, check us
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Brief Summary

The episode examines the JonBenét Ramsey murder case, focusing on the investigation and family dynamics surrounding her death.

Key points

JonBenét Ramsey's Tragic Murder. The case of 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey, found dead in her home, remains unsolved.
John Ramsey's Disturbing Behavior. John Ramsey's actions after finding his daughter's body raise questions about his involvement.
Contamination of Evidence. Multiple individuals touched JonBenét's body before it was examined, compromising the crime scene.
The Dangerous Assumptions. The detectives make assumptions about the time of death that could jeopardize the investigation.
The Garrote Explained. A garrote is described as a popular murder weapon and a torture device.
JonBenét's Doctor Visits. JonBenét had 27 doctor visits in the three years leading up to her death, raising questions.

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