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Does anyone remember the JonBenet Ramsey case?
In 1996 a little girl was murdered, and her family has been the suspects for over a decade now.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080709/ap_on_re_us/jo...
What is your opinion on this?
It is really sad that the police spent so much time and energy accusing an innocent grief strichen family, instead of hunting down the murder.
They also contaminated the scene when teh y investigated the morning she disapeared.
9 Answers
- Jus MeLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
I think that even though her parents had there "suspicious" moments the detectives shoulda put a little more effort into finding this little girls murderer...
It's been what 12 yrs. now and all they got is that it wasnt her family?
- dumdumLv 71 decade ago
This is a classic example of why the death penalty should be reserved for the cases where the scientific facts prove beyond all doubt the suspect committed the crime. Not because the prosecutor was convinced, not because 90% of the public is convinced, but only if the scientific facts are there "dna" for example. The prosecuter and the general public, myself included, were convinced beyond any doubt the family did it. We would have killed innocent people.- If they did not have the wealth to fight this case, they would have still been in jail to this day.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
we don't know for sure the family members are innocent...
the D.A. came to this conclusion prematurely, as the "unidentified man" who these fingerprints belong to can just be an innocent guy working at the store the underwear was purchased in, or doing the laundry, something of that nature...
and he also could've been an accomplice to a plot by some of the family members.
you shouldn't trust what the D.A says on face value, they make mistakes and the conclusion reached today is by all means completely premature and frankly it's very irresponsible of the DA to rule out all family members just based on one unidentified man's fingerprints.
- Sadie CLv 41 decade ago
My Opionion is that they parent did do this crime. There is always the chance that they made somebody else do it. This often happens in murders. Just because its not their DNA doesn't mean that they didn't do it. I'm sure that theres a case out there where somebody else did the crime even though the DNA pointed elsewhere. This is why there is innocent people in jail right now. DNA should not be the only evidence considered in crimes. There should be other evidence as well.
Source(s): My parents are lawyers - 1 decade ago
***Of course I do. It's too bad they just finally got around to do DNA testing! Her mother has long since died.
Sad, sad case.
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If indeed the family did it, as so many people believe, why, why, why, have they not at least tried to prosecute one of them??? Simply because there is no evidence to even get that far! As far as a 9 year old boy doing it, that is simply ludicrous! A 9 year would slip up somehow and would not be clever enough to avoid detection all these years. How many 9 year olds do you know?? L
Let's leave this to the people who know more about the case than we do. . . . . . .
- Anonymous5 years ago
the guy confessed to killing her & instructed police that he had molested her till now killing her. whether, there replaced into no DNA data to returned up his confession. additionally his lady buddy stated he wasn't even interior a similar state on the time of the killing. needless to say a nutter searching for his quarter-hour of popularity.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
My opinion is that her brother Burke killed her, that he had been molesting her for a while, was jealous of all the attention she received, that he lured her down to the basement and she had threatened to tell on him and he killed her. It explains why there were no footprints leading to or from the house, why they hired attorneys to do spin control, why no one has been caught yet and why the ransom note contained the exact figure Ramsey got for his Christmas bonus. So many discrepancies so many half truths and no one thought to look in the basement because they already knew that's where she was; also why Burke was heard on a 911 call frantically asking his mother who she was calling, scared out of his wits...not out of what happened to his sister but fear for himself. The total lack of emotion from either parent, their refusal to cooperate with the investigation, etc it makes sense that it was her brother.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
I just asked a question about her also..
I believe our society is sad to put the blame on the mother /father when she was dying of cancer and had that battle in her life also.
Wondering if they will work harder to find the real killer ..since they have the skin cells of him/her?
Not much has been said about the father lately or the son since the mother died...
- 1 decade ago
Yes i do remember it. It's so sad that those who killed this poor girl where never brought to justice.