JonBenet Ramsey, once reigning Little Miss Colorado, was discovered to be murdered in her Boulder, Colorado home on Thursday, December 26, 1996. Ramsey, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, was born on August 6, 1990, in Atlanta, Georgia. An active participant in childhood beauty pageants, JonBenet grew up in Boulder, Colorado, where her family moved approximately one year after her birth.

On Christmas day in 1996, Patsy Ramsey, reportedly put her six-year-old kindergartner, JonBenet, to bed sometime between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. Early the following morning, Patsy Ramsey discovered a hand-written note addressed to John Ramsey, JonBenet's father, then age 53 and the millionaire president and CEO of Access Graphics, located in Boulder. The note purported to be from individuals representing a small foreign faction. It instructed John Ramsey to withdraw $118,000 in ransom money from his bank account and stated that someone would call him between 8 and 10 a.m. to arrange for the delivery of...