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The Astrology of JonBenet
Ramsey

The murder of the six-year-old
JonBenet Ramsey is a conundrum. Many theories have been brought
forward to explain the murder of the young beauty queen in her parents
house on Christmas Night 1996. Indeed the case is still open and
still no one knows the identity of the murderer(s).
Lois Roddens wonderful
site AstroData News provides birth information for JonBenet, which
allows us to speculate on the motives and execution of the crime
for which there is no firm case. Indeed Rodden notes sites for virtually
any possibly murderer: her father, her mother, her father and mother
together, her older brother, a family friend, or the police.
Her Biography:
The daughter of a charming socialite
and ex-beauty queen herself, Patricia Ann Paugh (born 12/29/1956
in Parkersburg, VW) and wealthy businessman John Bennett Ramsey
(born 12/07/1943, Lincoln, NE), JonBenet had an older brother, Burke
(born 1/27/1987, Marietta, GA) and two older half-siblings, John
Andrew (who lived at the Ramsey home) and Melinda. They were both
out of town on the night of the murder. The family lived in a 15-room
Tudor style home in Boulder, Colorado.
Called "America's Tiny Little
Miss," the adorable child was a six-year-old beauty and talent contest
winner, dressed in sophisticated costumes and able to model like
a pro.
On Christmas night, 1996, she
went to bed cheerfully. Sometime before dawn, JonBenet was killed;
her skull fractured; she had been sexually molested and strangled
with a cord. Duct tape was put over her mouth, and her body was
dragged downstairs to a small room in the basement. She was wrapped
in a blanket with her feet taped together, her head uncovered and
her arms above her head.
When her mom checked the household
the following early morning, she found that JonBenet was not in
her room. Patsy Ramsey called the police at 5:22 AM, shouting "Send
help!" and saying that her daughter was missing and that a 2_-page
ransom note demanding $118,000 had been left by the kidnapper on
the steps of the back stairs leading to the kitchen.
The note read, "Dear Mr. Ramsey,
We have your daughter..." It was printed in block letters and had
neat margins. It also made reference to a Navy air base in the Philippines
where John Ramsey had served. Four misspellings in the note appeared
to be intentional.
The police arrived at 5:35 AM
and made a brief search of the house. Two hours later, a detective
arrived, and FBI agents came in at 10:30 AM. It was not until 1:00
PM that someone thought to look in the basement and John Ramsey
discovered his daughter's body. He removed the tape from her mouth
and carried her upstairs. She laid on the floor beside the Christmas
tree until 10:45 that night, when the coroner's staff took the body
to the police morgue. When John Ramsey found JonBenet at 1:05 PM,
her body was completely set with rigor mortis, which indicates that
she had died between 10:00 PM on December 25 and 6:00 AM on December
26.
The police committed devastating
errors immediately following the crime, so grievous that some critics
said, "It was as if the police were attempting to do everything
possible to handicap the prosecution." They irrevocably disrupted
the crime scene by allowing John Ramsey to pick up his daughter's
body and carry it upstairs to cover it with a blanket. A cord attached
to a wooden handle was wrapped around her neck. DNA evidence was
contaminated and as well, the Ramseys were not immediately and separately
interviewed.
The case remained in the media
for the following four years, with apparently no solid evidence
to lead to the killer. The Ramsey parents were the focal point of
investigations, both of them leading suspects of the police investigation.
The ransom note was from paper belonging to the Ramseys and fiber
found on the duct tape used to bind the child was consistent with
that found on Patsy's clothing. The small amounts of evidence were
basically circumstantial and not enough to bring charges. Though
the ransom note was similar to Patsy's writing, it could not be
definitively proven.
The case was tried and the Ramseys
lynched and damned by the media and the public. Whether or not the
case is ever solved, their lives have moved from one hell to another.
Week after week, JonBenet's exquisite features were pictured in
the tabloids until the public began to cry "Enough! Let that
poor child go." Six months after the murder, Patsy, John and
Burke moved to a home in the Atlanta area to try to mend their lives.
A former beauty queen herself,
Patsy began to enter her child in pageants when she was five, donning
elaborate costumes and sophisticated makeup. The quantity of glamour
shots of the little girl, some as provocative as those of an adult
model, helped to fuel public interest in the case.
On 10/13/1999 a Boulder grand
jury wrapped up a 13-month inquiry during which it had examined
30,000 pages of testimony and evidence, bringing the $2 million
investigation to an inconclusive finish. They were no further toward
solving the murder than on that shocking day after Christmas three
years before.
The Ramsey's memoir, "The Death
of Innocence," went on sale 3/17/2000, the same day that they began
a string of TV appearances objecting to their persecution in the
media as being the killers of their daughter.
A T Manns Astrological
Take on the Case
My astrological system uniquely
includes the gestation period, and in JonBenets case, the
father and mother were in opposition (Sun opposite Moon) from the
beginning about JonBenet. Originally wanted by her father (after
whom she was named), her mother took over her beauty career, using
the little one as a surrogate of her own unfulfilled ambitions.
The directed Moon squares the
Mars/Pluto opposition at the time of the murder, and the transiting
Moon activates her Venus(beauty)/Saturn(jealousy) opposition, all
of which show me that her mother was responsible for the murder
itself, and that her father assisted in the clumsy coverup. In this
sense, both parents are guilty of her murder.
For More Information:
Who done it? Five compelling
articles with completely different points of view:
Source Notes:
Pamela Young quotes "The Death
of Innocence" by John and Patsy Ramsey, published in 2000 by Thomas
Nelson, Nashville, in which there is a detailed account of the birth.
Another biography gives a different version of the crime, Steve
Thomas and Don Davis, "JonBenet," St. Martin's.
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