Killing JonBent Ramsey

Resolving for the Murder of a Child Beauty Queen and a Botched Investigation The killing of six-year-old beauty queen JonBent Ramseyfound in the basement of her family home in Boulder, Colorado, with a smashed skull and a garrote placed around her neckremains one of Americas most shameful unsolved crimes. A flawed investigation, fraught with police and prosecutorial misconduct and widespread evidence tampering, means that the little girls killer remains at large after more than two decades. Now, as told in Killing JonBent Ramsey an unflinching new investigation into the crime will seek to finally secure justice for JonBent. Investigative journalist Dylan Howard has assembled a crack team of internationally renowned criminal investigators, experts, and lawyers with the express aim of finding her killer. They have sifted through scores of new tips and leads, pored over never-before-seen crime scene evidence, searched through hundreds of pages of coroners reports, police statements, and private journals, and conducted many exclusive new interviews. They have petitioned courts and law enforcement agencies, gathered archival material, and utilized new scientific advances. This is not a retelling of JonBents story; it is an active investigation of her murder. Combining the compulsive draw of a Hollywood movie blockbuster, the addictive thrill of the police procedural, and the heartwrenching tragedy of the real-life murder of a beautiful toddler and the consequences for her family, Killing JonBent Ramsey seeks to put right one of the modern ages most monstrous wrongs.