HER NAME WAS JONBENET

"JonBenet was the kind of girl interested in how many trips she had taken around the sun and the rhythm of the earth under her feet. She was an incredible little kid who loved to be tickled. Miss America was the least she could have been." - Steve Thomas

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Christmas 1993: JonBenet and Burke

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1996: JonBenet with her friends from High Peaks Elementary.

(Shared from Reddit)

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1994: The Ramsey family celebrating Thanksgiving in Atlanta.

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"Of course, everyone enjoyed Charlevoix, a great place to spend the summers. We had bought our little house, almost sight unseen, in 1992. For years before that we had visited Charlevoix and spent hours with real estate agents — and by ourselves — scouting out property in the area. Patsy named the house Summer Hill because we usually visited in the summer and it was perched on a hill."

- John Ramsey, "The Death of Innocence"

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John Ramsey always remembered his youngest daughter as an outgoing, lively little girl who wasn’t shy about speaking her mind. Years after JonBenet’s death, he shared this memory in an interview while reminiscing about a recent gathering with friends. As the men lit up cigars, memories of his daughter came rushing back, reminding him how, during celebrations, JonBenet would quickly scold him if she caught him enjoying a smoke.

“I could never smoke a cigar or have a beer around her,” John recalled with a grin. “She’d always tell me, ‘Dad, that’s not good for you.’ I just smiled.”

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JonBenet Patricia Ramsey

August 6th, 1990 - December 25th, 1996

“JonBenet was a loving, beautiful little girl with so much life in her and with so much to offer to the world. She would have made a beautiful beauty queen, a wonderful mother and loving wife, a great career lady, an attorney, a doctor, an accountant, and so it goes. What would she been or would have become?” - Pamela Archuleta, a family friend.

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August 6th, 1996: JonBenet celebrating her sixth birthday. After spending the day with a grill out and playing in the backyard with all of her cousins, it was finally time to open gifts. JonBenet could not contain her excitement as she tore away the brightly colored gift wrap to reveal a Samantha from the American Girl store: the most wished-for item on her birthday list. As soon as Samantha was out of the box she hugged her tight and exclaimed, “Oh, my doll!”

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JonBenet at Mackinac Island's Arch Rock.

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JonBenet, Patsy, and Burke.

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JonBenet's newborn portrait.

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Newborn JonBenet with her father, John Ramsey, and big sister, Beth.

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“She had an old trunk, and it was filled with hats and dresses and scarves and old high heeled shoes. You know, all little girls have those dress up things.” - Patsy Ramsey

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January 27th, 1995: JonBenet and Burke celebrating his birthday with a laser tag party.

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"Since I grew up in Georgia, I wasn't used to the snow. One day in Boulder, there were little patches of snow on the ground, and JonBenet and I went out to 'build a snowman'. I soon realized that it would be almost impossible to do that with the little bit of snow that was left. But JonBenet was determined: 'I know we can do it!'

And so, of course, we worked and worked until we had a two-foot high snowman. I'd do anything to make her happy." - Melinda Ramsey, JonBenet's sister.

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A portrait from JonBenet's last photoshoot (November 1996)

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"I know you loved your life and I loved your life too. And knowing how much you loved yours, I must love mine the more. I will always be thinking of you and hoping that you are having ice cream in heaven. I know you are an angel there and someday I will be with you.

The clouds will be pink like the walls of your room and we will be laughing together and looking forward, and back, and not missing each other anymore.

Love forever, Your friend, Lindsey"

- An excerpt from a letter written by Lindsey, a friend of JonBenet, on the 6th anniversary of her death.

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"Ever since she was an infant, she loved anything that sparkled or lit up. She clapped her hands in delight at our first Christmas tree and the colored lights.“ - John Ramsey, the Other Side of Suffering