After Patsy Ramsey Called 911 at 05:52 on December 26, 1996 to report that her daughter Jonbenét Ramsey had been kidnapped, she and husband John Ramsey Also handed to a number of their friends, who came directly to support the couple.
In turn, in addition to responding officers, there were people who ground around Ramsey’s 5,000 square meters homes all day before John found Jonbenét’s body in the basement shortly after 13:30
“I should have removed all these people from the stage, it was a mistake for crime sites,” retired Boulder Police Detective Bob Whitson recalled in Netflix Docuseries Cold case: Who killed Jonbenét Ramsey. “But at that time it looked like a legitimate kidnapping. So I thought, yes, this is the support system for Ramseys, and I let them stay.”
When he didn’t know she was dead when he found her, John said in the series that he initially tried to loosen the cord who tied his hands. The knots were too tight, he said, but he removed a piece of channel band that covered her mouth and threw it on a blanket that had been with the body.
He then carried her upstairs, which according to the investigators ensured that the evidence that was collected from her body, pajamas that she was wearing, the band etc., was contaminated.
“There may have been some evidence of the canal band if it was not removed,” Whitson said in the series.
