The 20-year-old cold case of who murdered JonBenet Ramsey has been investigated in the first instalment of the documentary with centres on the pageant queen’s unsolved murder and compelling new audio has been revelled.
The Case of JonBenet Ramsey went to air on Monday night and the documentary revealed what might have happened in the seconds after the six-year-old’s family thought the phone call was over.
On Boxing Day in 1996 Patricia Ramsey called 911 to report her daughter had been kidnapped after reportedly finding a ransom note on the stairs of the family home in Boulder, Colorado.
After she finished speaking to the operator, Mrs Ramsey thought the call had disconnected but the 911 operator was still on the line and captured muffled audio of Patsy talking to someone else inside the Ramsey’s house.
Those six seconds of audio have been analysed by the CBS documentary’s team of experts, led by former FBI special agent Jim Clemente, who have been brought together to look into the case. What the experts allege to have discovered is evidence to suggest what was said after Patsy thought she hung up went like this:
“We’re not speaking to you,” said a male voice, thought to be John Ramsey.
“What did you do? Help me Jesus,” said a female voice, believed to be Patsy Ramsey.
“What did you find?” said the voice of a child, thought to be Burke — who the Ramseys always maintained was asleep the entire time.
The documentary also featured an interview with the 911 operator, Kim Archuletta who took the call and who has never spoken publically before.
Archuletta said that, while she couldn’t hear what was being said, Patsy’s hysterical tone shifted a lot once she thought the phone call had ended.
“It sounded like she said, ‘Okay, we’ve called the police, now what?’ and that disturbed me,” Archuletta said.
“So I remained on the phone trying to listen to what was being said. It sounded like there were two voices in the room, maybe three. Different ones. I had a bad feeling about this, to me it sounded rehearsed.”
While Archuletta and the experts believe the recording might be key evidence missed by police who worked the case, one of the experts on the documentary, James R. Fitzgerald, a retired FBI supervisory special agent and forensic linguistic profiler, says even if the documentary team of experts feel they’ve solved the 1996 case, no one will be arrested at the end.
“In the last 15 minutes of our special on Monday evening, 100 percent absolutely the viewers will know who this team of experts suspects as having killed JonBenét, no questions about it,” Fitzgerald told E! News.
Fitzgerald, who worked on the original murder case in 1996-97, also added: “I’m a linguist and words mean things, so it’s how we define solve … It’s going to be up to a prosecutor’s office and maybe a police department to actually put handcuffs on someone. Whether that happens, working as private citizens now, we can only go so far.”
