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Patricia Ann Ramsey ( née Paugh; December 29, 1956 – June 24, 2006) was an American beauty pageant winner who won the Miss West Virginia pageant at age 20 in 1977. She was best known as the mother of JonBenét Ramsey, a six-year-old child beauty pageant queen who was found dead in her family's home in Boulder, Colorado, on December 26, 1996.
Dec 26, 2021 · Patsy Ramsey died of ovarian cancer in 2006. In a statement marking the 25th anniversary of the murder, Boulder police said they actively “use new technology to enhance the investigation” and...
Dec 23, 2021 · A week after JonBenét’s death, her parents, socialite Patricia Ramsey—the 1977 Miss West Virginia—and businessman John Ramsey made their first appearance on national TV on CNN, pleading for...
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- Olivia B. Waxman
- December 26, 1996: JonBenét goes missing. 5:30 a.m.: When Patsy gets up to make coffee, she discovers a two-and-a-half page handwritten ransom note on the back stairs leading to the kitchen that says her daughter has been kidnapped, according to the Denver Post.
- December 31, 1996: JonBenét’s funeral is held. The six-year-old is laid to rest in Marietta, Georgia, next to her older half-sister Elizabeth, who had died in a tragic car accident in 1992.
- January 3, 1997: Detectives reveal the ransom note was written inside the house. Detectives announce that the note was written on a paper pad from inside the house, meaning it was likely written after the murder.
- March 7, 1997: A handwriting analysis eliminates John, but not Patsy. Based on expert analysis, detectives confirm that John didn’t write the ransom note, but say there is a chance Patsy may have.
Jan 13, 2021 · 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. The three-page long note said in part that if JonBenét’s parents called the authorities, she would die, and asked for $118,000.
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- Tom Berman,Denise Martinez-Ramundo,Muriel Pearson
Jan 14, 2021 · The case was widely televised and suspicion fell on her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, who denied having anything to do with JonBenét’s death and insisted an intruder was to blame.
Dec 13, 2016 · Patsy Ramsey died of cancer in 2006. John Ramsey is now remarried, lives his life in the Western United States and says not a day goes by that he doesn’t think about JonBenet.
