HER NAME WAS JONBENET

“Sometimes if I’m at the beach or something or in the car, I’ll think about if she was right there next to me.” - Burke Ramsey

Christmas 1993: JonBenet and Burke

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1994: The Ramsey family celebrating Thanksgiving in Atlanta.

- John Ramsey, "The Death of Innocence"

“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.”

“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.

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!”

JonBenet at Mackinac Island's Arch Rock.

JonBenet, Patsy, and Burke.

JonBenet's newborn portrait.

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

“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

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

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.

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

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