In October 2013, unsealed court documents revealed that a 1999 grand jury had recommended filing charges against the Ramseys for permitting the child to be in a threatening situation. JonBenét's parents gave several televised interviews, but resisted police questioning except on their own terms. In 1998, the police and district attorney (DA) both said that JonBenét's brother Burke, who was nine years old at the time of her death, was not a suspect. The Boulder police initially suspected that the ransom note had been written by Patsy, and that the note and appearance of JonBenét's body had been staged by her parents in order to cover up the murder. The crime is still considered a cold case and remains an open investigation with the Boulder Police Department. The case generated worldwide public and media interest, in part because her mother Patsy Ramsey, a former beauty queen, had entered JonBenét into a series of child beauty pageants. The autopsy report stated that JonBenét's official cause of death was " asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma". She had sustained a broken skull from a blow to the head and had been strangled a garrote was found tied around her neck. Her father, John, found the girl's body in the basement of their house about seven hours after she had been reported missing. A long handwritten ransom note was found in the home. JonBenét Patricia Ramsey (Aug– December 25 or 26, 1996) was an American child beauty queen who was killed at the age of six in her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.
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