Location: Boulder, Colorado, USA (December 25-26, 1996) 🇺🇸
Story: On Christmas night 1996, six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was reported missing from her family's upscale Boulder home. Her mother, Patsy, discovered a bizarre, three-page ransom note demanding $118,000. It warned against contacting police. Yet, the family immediately called them, friends, and a priest,creating a chaotic scene. For hours, the home was treated as a kidnapping case. ⛄
Twist: That afternoon, JonBenét's body was found by her father in a rarely used basement room. She had been strangled and suffered a skull fracture. The ransom note, unusually long and written on household paper, pointed to an inside knowledge of the family. No evidence of forced entry existed. The case swiftly shifted from kidnapping to murder, with suspicion falling heavily on the family. Despite decades of investigation, grand jury hearings, and endless speculation, no one has ever been formally charged. The murder of JonBenét Ramsey remains one of America's most haunting unsolved crimes, a Christmas tragedy wrapped in a mystery of money, pageantry, and profound sorrow. ❄