1996年圣诞节的第二天，轰动全美的6岁“小选美皇后”琼贝尼特·拉姆齐在地下室被残忍杀害。这一案件已成为美国历史上的著名悬疑命案，案情扑朔迷离，头绪繁多，10年来小美后的亲生父母一直被怀疑为凶手，直到日前真凶在泰国落网。

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琼贝妮特1990年8月6日出生在美国佐治亚州首府亚特兰大。6岁那年，琼贝妮特在美国儿童选美大赛中脱颖而出，当选“美国小小姐”，还荣获“科罗拉多小小姐”等多项美誉。她的母亲帕齐·拉姆齐曾于1977年当选“西弗吉尼亚州小姐”。
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1996年12月26日，也就是圣诞节次日，父母发现他们的宝贝女儿死于自家地下室中，身上有被殴打的痕迹。尸检还表明，琼贝妮特死前曾受性侵犯。

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该命案轰动全美。警方在案件调查中，一度把目标指向琼贝妮特的父母和她的哥哥。夫妇俩和9岁的儿子都曾受到警方传讯，也因此成为美国媒体的众矢之的。

　　多年来，案件一直没有进展。约翰和妻子帕齐不仅要忍受失去女儿的痛苦，还要承受来自舆论的怀疑和谴责。帕齐今年6月死于卵巢癌，生前饱受煎熬的她因无法忍受“莫须有”的罪名，曾公开为自己和丈夫辩护，并批评久久不能破案的执法机关和媒体无能。
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2003年事情出现转机。亚特兰大警方表示，罪行更可能是外人闯入约翰家中所为，博尔德新任地区检察官也声明同意这种看法。至此，警方才排除对拉姆齐夫妇的怀疑
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沉寂10年后，当年轰动一时的命案16日终于取得重大突破。美国警方当天透露，嫌犯已在泰国落网。“嫌犯将于下周内押送回科罗拉多，他将面临谋杀、绑架和对儿童性侵犯等多项罪名指控。”美国国土安全部官员在曼谷新闻发布会上表示。

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现年42岁的嫌犯卡尔曾是一名小学教师，逃往泰国前居住在美国佐治亚州科尼尔斯。“琼贝妮特死时我确实和她在一起，”卡尔在新闻发布会结束后告诉记者，“但是她的死亡只是意外事故。”但是当记者问及他与拉姆齐一家有何渊源、认识多久时，卡尔拒绝回答。

“这是非常漫长的10年，我很遗憾帕齐已经不在了，”拉姆齐的律师林·伍德激动地说，“约翰和帕齐这些年一直在巨大压力下生活。”至于拉姆齐一家是否认识谋害女儿的嫌犯卡尔，伍德拒绝作任何解释。

好漂亮的女孩！
昨晚看了一晚上的過去報道，那個叫tomas的混蛋，居然還寫了本書證明母親殺死自己女兒，最離奇的是此書一度排行榜第一，因此很多人堅信母親是兇手！直到4天前才有人反擊tomas的愚蠢觀點

PS:这孩子真天真可爱, 发几张照片吧........
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Few crime stories in the past decade have gripped America as much as the murder of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, who was found beaten and strangled in her home the day after Christmas in 1996.
That year more than 800 children were murdered in America but without attracting the same kind of intensive scrutiny.

A decade on and the name conjures video images of the little blonde girl dressed in a pink cowgirl outfit and other elaborate beauty pageant costumes that were played and replayed on TV chat shows, feeding theories as to how she died.

The pictures went worldwide and even today, there is no shortage of websites examining the case.

From the very beginning, the JonBenet case was an unusual one.

She was discovered on 26 December 1996 in a little-used basement room at her cavernous home in Boulder, Colorado.

Claims

She had been garrotted with a cord and her skull had been fractured.


JonBenet's mother Patsy said that on the morning of her daughter's death, she had found a bizarre, two-and-a-half-page ransom note on the stairs demanding $118,000 for her daughter's return. Eight hours later, her father John, a successful business executive, discovered the body.


Many thought that the case would never be solved
The family said an intruder had broken into the house but the police claimed there was no evidence of forced entry or footsteps in the snow outside.

From the beginning, police focused their investigation on John and Patsy. Boulder Police labelled them as being under an "umbrella of suspicion".

The police investigation was led by Steve Thomas, who believed that Patsy had accidentally killed JonBenet after a bedwetting incident, and that John and Patsy had then staged it to look like a murder.

The District Attorney's office employed legendary investigator, Lou Smit, who had solved more than 200 murder cases.

He believed the Ramseys were innocent and that someone had broken into the house and waited in a nearby bedroom before attacking JonBenet.

Victim to villain

The sensational nature of the crime was amplified by pictures of JonBenet cavorting in full-make up and glamorous costumes at beauty pageants.


Patsy and John Ramsey fought long-running feuds with the nation's media
At a stroke, these unsettling pictures turned Patsy from public victim to villain.
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Many thought there was something pretentious about the way her name - pronounced zhawn-ben-AY - had been made up from a combination of her father's first and middle names.

Then there were those who frowned on the way Patsy had pushed her daughter to succeed as a child beauty queen. In her last months, JonBenet was awarded numerous beauty pageant titles, including Little Miss Colorado and National Tiny Miss Beauty.

For Patsy, however, there was nothing wrong with this. She, herself, was a former beauty queen.

For years, the couple carried on a running feud with newspapers, magazines and television shows and filed libel suits against some news outlets.

Not tried

But, while it appeared that they were being tried in the press, they were never charged. In 1999, a grand jury refused to indict either parent.

And in 2003, a federal judge in Atlanta concluded that the evidence that she reviewed suggested that an intruder had killed JonBenet. A retired detective was hired to lead a refocused investigation.


The Ramsey home in Boulder, Colorado, where JonBenet was found strangled
The initial police investigation had become marred by shoddy detective work, with police being criticised for the way they handled the case, the Ramsey family and the evidence involved.

For example, blood found on the girl's clothing was not properly submitted for DNA analysis until eight years after the murder.

DNA from a white, Caucasian male was found mixed with JonBenet's blood in bloodspots on her clothing. This DNA did not come from her parents.

Thursday's announcement of an arrest has come too late for Patsy Ramsey, who died of cancer in June.

However, a family spokesman said she was aware that the police were going to arrest someone soon for the murder of her daughter.

On Thursday morning, a note on her grave read: "Dearest Patsy, Justice has come for you and Jon. Rest in peace."

But for John Ramsey, the arrest may not be enough to bring complete closure. He once said in a TV interview that even if someone was charged with the murder of his daughter, there would always be people who would still think he and Patsy were responsible for JonBenet's death.