When the family returned home that evening, JonBenet was already asleep. Later, the family went to have Christmas dinner with friends. JonBenet and her brother Burke probably woke up early and opened presents. Sadly, even with most of the evidence now out in the open, JonBenetвЂ™s death still remains a mystery.Д¬hristmas Day of 1996 probably started like many other holidays for the Ramsey family. This past fall, as the twenty-year anniversary of JonBenetвЂ™s death approached, television networks scurried to once again sensationalize one of the countryвЂ™s most well-known cold cases with four documentaries and a Lifetime movie.

Could a pedophile or a pervert have been infatuated with the little girl, and caused her demise? Others wonder if the RamseysвЂ™ seeming lack of cooperation with and defensive attitude toward police is basically an admission of guilt. Many criticize the family, Patsy Ramsey in particular, for allowing the little girl to participate in the sexualized world of childrenвЂ™s beauty pageants. There are many who wonder if an ill-treated crime scene may prevent authorities from ever determining JonBenetвЂ™s killer. Some point to a housekeeper, and some people suspect JonBenetвЂ™s brother.

Others canвЂ™t imagine that JonBenetвЂ™s parents would be involved in something so horrific, and are convinced that it had to have been an intruder who broke into the familyвЂ™s home, slaughtered the little girl, and left her body behind. There are many who believe JonBenet was killed by one or both of her parents, with her death staged so that it would look like a kidnapping.

To this day, many questions still swirl around the little girlвЂ™s death, and the case remains unsolved. It is hard to believe that it has already been 20 years since 6-year-old beauty pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her Colorado home.

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