and my dad told me that jonbenet was in heaven. on new year s eve in their hometown, atlanta, georgia, the family buried jonbenet. i think it s the worst thing a human being can experience is the loss of a child. but things for john and patsy were about to get even worse. investigators had grown suspicious. a lot of things didn t make sense. why would they leave a ransom note with her body still in the house. my first impression was that this guy wrote the magna carta. you will withdraw $118,000 from your account. if i were kidnapping this guy s daughter, i d ask for a quarter million, half million, $1 million so the amount of money is just really odd to me. the ramseys thought so, too. what s that mean? we looked at psalm 118. was it a biblical reference? where did this number come from?
what s that mean? we looked at psalm 118. was it a biblical reference? where did this number come from? when did it hit you that the $118,000 equated to your christmas bonus? it didn t initially because that bonus had actually occurred a year earlier, in january of 96, but it was on every pay stub that i got. police asked the ramseys for handwriting samples. john gave them two note pads. these pads were pads that were kept by the telephone and each john and patsy had their own pads. detectives concluded the ransom note was written on pages torn out of patsy s notepad. also examination of that pad showed that somebody had started a ransom note at one time and then abandoned it. did the kidnapper write a practice note? over the next few weeks other clues heightened police suspicions towards patsy. the garrote was fashioned