Twenty years on, the unsolved killing of this six-year-old beauty queen is being raked over in three new documentaries. Why did the case inspire such ghoulish hysteria, while her parents, like those of Madeleine McCann, were demonised and placed under suspicion? Such is the level of suspicion in this story that even the date of death is deemed proof of a conspiracy. Twenty years ago, JonBenét Ramsey, a six-year-old girl known for ever to the world by the uncomfortably adult poses she struck in her beauty pageant photos, was found bludgeoned and garrotted in her family’s basement in Boulder, Colorado. The killer has never been found. There is now not one single part of this sad tale that has not been seized on – by the public, by the police, by JonBenét’s parents, John and Patsy – as proof of a coverup, even down to the child’s gravestone near Atlanta, Georgia, where she was born. There, the date of death is literally carved in stone: 25 December 1996. The few undisputed fact...
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