They were in the kitchen, they were in the living room. “People were streaming through that house. “The police did a terrible, terrible job securing that scene … and if you don’t secure the scene, you don’t get good evidence,” said Diane Dimond, an investigative reporter who covered the case. However, with the Ramseys’ friends showing up for moral support, they also contaminated the scene by moving about the house. Police arrived shortly after the 911 call and began investigating the scene for clues about the kidnapper.
“You’ve just been dealt a horrible, crushing blow.” “You lose all perception of time, of place,” added Patsy Ramsey in 2000. JonBenét Ramsey was killed in her family's Colorado home in 1996. In a 911 call just before 6 a.m., her mother Patsy Ramsey was inconsolable as she told the dispatcher that her daughter was missing and that she’d found a ransom note at the bottom of her stairs.
JonBenét’s parents initially thought she had been kidnapped during the night. JonBenét is found dead in her parents' basement The child beauty queen had died sometime during the previous night but wasn’t found until hours later. Smit was called out of retirement to help the investigation three months after JonBenét was found dead in the basement of her parent’s Boulder, Colorado, home on the morning of Dec. “It was really important to him.”Īs part of their promise to keep the case alive, van der Woerd and Smit’s other granddaughter, Lexi Marra, created the podcast “The Victim’s Shoes,” where they discuss details of the case. “When he got sick with cancer … he knew that his time was limited and so, during that time, he just talked to others about not letting this case die,” said Cindy Marra, Smit’s daughter.
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