Finally, there was quiet in the house, even on Christmas night. The two young children in the family of four had been put to bed late, though the boy wanted to play with a new toy. After all, it was Christmas! The girl, six years old, was quite sleepy from her long, exciting day. Did her mother, as was her custom, soon wake her daughter up to take her to the toilet to pee? Had the girl already wet her bed yet again, an occurrence that happened quite regularly?
In the wee hours of the night, a loud horrific scream coming from this family's house was heard by a close neighbor. Then all was quiet again.
Early the next morning a police dispatcher received a frantic call from a panicked, hysterical woman who claimed her daughter had been
kidnapped! How did she know?
There was a ransom note! Police and the FBI immediately responded, but the promised call from the kidnappers never came. That afternoon, the father left police to walk through the house to see if he noticed anything. He discovered the dead body of his daughter in an isolated room of the basement.
The little girl's life ended horribly. She was viciously struck with a blunt object that cracked her skull. But there was much more that would come out after the autopsy. This was the tragic Christmas of the Ramsey family, prominent in Boulder, Colorado - wealthy businessman John Ramsey, his beauty-pageant wife Patsy, their nine-year-old son Burke, and their beautiful and outgoing daughter JonBen彋.
2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the unsolved murder of JonBen彋 Ramsey. This book presents a
thorough and well-documented timeline detailing the Ramseys' family and social life, their home environment, and the investigative actions of the police after the murder, including the latest information on the DNA evidence (as of 2026).
Especially useful in this book are the monthly, weekly, and even daily correlation of activities by the family, police, Ramsey attorneys, and the District Attorney as shown in this extensive timeline. Learn not only how the crime unfolded but what life was like for JonBen彋 leading up to December 25, 1996. What were the family values of the Ramsey family as denoted by their home environment, how their children were raised, and what activities they encouraged them to take? What did it mean for the young girl to be placed in child beauty pageants? This book presents a detailed factual timeline of events, before and after JonBen彋's murder, not found elsewhere in the extensive literature of the case.
