Where were you this very week in 1996??

[Styngyn]

I'll start....skiing on and off and hanging out with fam and not engrossed in this case at all because the images of that young girl in all that makeup kinda grossed me out. I remember my mother saying 'I think it was the brother that did it'.

 

[Shadowtrix]

I was five when this happened but I vividly remember seeing the newspapers and TV specials on this case pretty much all through my childhood. It’s still eerie to think JonBenet would be around my age now if she was still alive.

 

[bombardier]

i was still an ovum and wouldnt pop out for a couple more years

 

[killarney rose]

First holidays in our then new, and now current home. I was finishing up college and working at Walmart as temporary Christmas help. Hoping that when I went in today(NYE) I’d get laid off so that I could enjoy the rest of my school vacation home with the kids.

 

[Ponytale]

I learned about this case in 2001 while I was watching CNN and Larry King interview with the Ramsay's was on. I was 13 years old and sick at home from school. I never watched CNN in that age, so, yeah... But my teenage life went on a pause for that time while the interview was on, I listened and watched and remembered the name JonBenet. After the show I went to my computer and started google'ing. Soon later I found Websleuths. And it's been pretty much the same since then.

 

[Fika]

I was 7 years old at the time. I didn’t learn about this case until much much later possibly in my late 20s.
One of the true crime shows I was watching featured JonBenet case. I’m in Europe and her case isn’t well known, at least where I’m from.

 

[Chypre]

I was a newlywed spending the holidays with my family. No cable TV. I hadn't lived in an area with any type of child pageants that ever came into my experience at that point. So we were all just kind of baffled. I took it for granted it was the Ramseys because of the "no footprints in the snow" scam.
Years later, I moved to a place that has pageants. A few girls in high school did them for scholarships. A freshman club needed to make money for a trip and one of the teachers suggested they sponsor a pageant. It went OK and they did make a lot of money. Some is how it's handled but I see the dangers.

 

[887sMtreme]

I was working in the newsroom of the ABC-TV affiliate where I worked at the time and when the network feeds started coming through about this then-breaking story. We all watched them and expressed distaste to each other about the whole kiddie pageant thing, which was foreign (!) to us.

As soon as the details about the family congealed, I speculated Burke had killed JonBenet out of jealousy for all the attention it seemed she absorbed. Patsy struck me as a social-climbing phony and John as a cipher, probably p***y-whipped. Burke, whom we saw only briefly, seemed just pathologically separated from reality; I assumed he had some kind of emotional disorder. Ever since then, I’ve read and watched everything I could about the case and have tried to keep an open mind about what the facts (or what we think are facts) tell us about exactly what happened. My beliefs about guilty parties have never strayed from the Ramsey/Paugh families.

 

[mickey2942]

I think that it is easier to pinpoint locations and even people who you are with, on major holidays.

 

[Keiri]

College, Washington DC, focusing on my studies and not the news.

 

[mtlupy]

I was in my mom's uterus for another 5 months!

 

[ispywithmylittleeye]

I'll start....skiing on and off and hanging out with fam and not engrossed in this case at all because the images of that young girl in all that makeup kinda grossed me out. I remember my mother saying 'I think it was the brother that did it'.

I remember sitting on my mom's couch and her saying the same thing. She thought that would be the only logical reason for the parents to collude.

 

[Lamima]

Graduated college and working. Was 22.5 years old and was about to move in with and marry my husband. And would have 1st child in 12.5 months. Remember following the case and was especially focused once I was expecting. Was just unfathomable to me, the whole event/case.

 

[887sMtreme]

College, Washington DC, focusing on my studies and not the news.

My home town! (A.U. alum here.)

 

[887sMtreme]

I remember sitting on my mom's couch and her saying the same thing. She thought that would be the only logical reason for the parents to collude.

I’ll admit that was my first theory and one I keep coming back to. There have been compelling arguments here for BDI — but also equally compelling arguments against. So frustrating!

 

[Keiri]

My home town! (A.U. alum here.)

I too am an AU Alum. Eagle.

 

[ispywithmylittleeye]

I’ll admit that was my first theory and one I keep coming back to. There have been compelling arguments here for BDI — but also equally compelling arguments against. So frustrating!

It's a 3 piece puzzle that you just know you can figure out but you cant!!