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JonBenet Ramsey's father shares how loss of 2 children 'challenged' his faith 28 years after daughter's murder
EXCLUSIVE – John Ramsey, father of JonBenet Ramsey, says the loss of his two daughters within a four-year period in the 1990s “challenged” and eventually strengthened his faith.
Ramsey made the comments about faith while reflecting on 6-year-old JonBenet’s murder 28 years ago, when he found her dead in the basement of their Boulder, Colorado, home the day after Christmas in 1996.
“I don’t know of anything worse for a person than to lose a child. I’ve had several things that I’ve been through: a divorce, I’ve lost my job, I lost my life savings,” Ramsey told Fox News Digital. “But the loss of the child was overwhelmingly much, much more hurtful and much more of a loss to what life’s all about for a parent.”
He has been through that loss twice — once in 1992, when his oldest daughter Beth was killed in a car accident, and again in 1996, when JonBenet was killed.
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JonBenet Ramsey, left, and her father, John, right. (Netflix)
“When I lost my daughter Beth four years before we lost JonBenet, it just took me to my knees. I was just devastated. … I wasn’t prepared at all for that,” Ramsey recalled. “And it really challenged my faith as well. How could a loving God let this happen to an innocent child? But then, over the next few years, a lot of soul-searching and thinking and talking to friends helped me process that part of the loss, which was … potentially the loss of my faith as well.”
After Beth’s death, Ramsey began to reflect on whether there is “more to life than what we see and live here on Earth.” He described finding his faith as a several-year-long process.
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John and Patsy Ramsey, the parents of JonBenet Ramsey, meet with local Colorado media after four months of silence in Boulder, Colo., May 1, 1997. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
“And when I lost JonBenet, that was rock solid,” he said of his faith. “Faith is something that’s in your heart. I’m a left-brained person by nature, I guess. I was an engineer and educated that way. And you’re always looking for proof and facts. And so it’s not abnormal to fall back into, ‘Wait a minute. I’m not sure I believe.’ … But if the faith has gotten to your heart, and you’ve wrestled with the whys and what ifs … then it’s pretty solid.”
Ramsey said he believes both of his daughters are in heaven, even though he can’t personally conceptualize what that looks like.
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The JonBenet Ramsey murder case has gone unsolved for over two decades. (Ramsey family handout)
For years after her death, his family did not celebrate Christmas, but they decided that putting an end to the holiday festivities was not fair to her older brother, Burke, who was 9 years old at the time of her death.
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“It just was too hard. We didn’t have a Christmas tree. We didn’t decorate the house, and we just got through it. And we just said, ‘Well, that’s not fair to our youngest son, Burke,’ who was at the time a 9-year-old, little boy. So, we tried to do things that would put his life back to normal as best we could. And celebrating Christmas was one of those things that we — after, I think probably three years — we just said, ‘OK, that’s why we need to do that for Burke’s sake’ and just kind of eased into that celebration again.”
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JonBenet’s murder has not been solved despite police initially having a list of suspects they considered, including the Ramseys themselves. The Ramseys were cleared of wrongdoing in 2008.
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Police also arrested a suspect named John Mark Karr in Thailand in 2006 after he admitted to killing JonBenet, but prosecutors dropped charges against Karr because his DNA did not match DNA found at the crime scene.
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Ramsey wants police to retest certain evidence for traces of DNA, including external male DNA that federal officials disclosed in 1997, and test other items for the first time using modern genetic genealogy test labs, which have made significant advancements over the last decade. Numerous decades-old cold cases have been solved in recent years due to DNA testing.
John Ramsey is still searching for answers 28 years after his daughter’s murder. (Netflix)
There are more than 20 significant pieces of evidence in the JonBenet murder case that have never been tested.
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While it is unclear if officials will be able to find or identify any suspects in the case by partnering with an independent lab with access to private databases, Ramsey is hopeful that it is the next step for him in his pursuit of justice for his daughter, whether it yields results or not.
He previously told Fox News Digital he plans to meet with the Boulder Police Department in January to discuss DNA testing possibilities.
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(UPDATE: added videos and quotes from Todd Mcgee, Owner of Powderhouse)
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — With snow already piling onto the mountains, more people are flocking to Central Oregon. With businesses seeing more people now than ever before this season.
Todd Mcgee, owner of Powderhouse told KTVZ News, “It’s a lot more in the fact if you think about it, was Christmas break where we should be slammed? we’re as busy or even busier then on a Monday than we were on christmas, you know, weekend. so it’s a huge, significant amount.”
Ski and snowboard rentals tell you much about how busy of a time it is.
The busier the rental shops, the busier the mountains are.
“A ton more season leases. and the nice thing about our rentals, when they’re coming back, they’re looking in good shape,” Mcgee told KTVZ News. “We’re not having to stay late and tune them and P-TEX them and get them all back looking nice.”
Powderhouse still has its day and a half turnaround to have equipment ready to go.
Iif you’re still looking to rent equipment, now’s the time to do it.
PORTLAND — The Utah Jazz currently have the worst defensive rating in the NBA (122). If they finish the season that way, it would be the third straight year with the dishonor of having the worst defense in the league.
Of course, there are some caveats that are necessary to point out. Like the fact that this team has been bad by design and built, in large part, to lose games. And, there has been an emphasis on getting offensively gifted players and fostering their development.
It’s also important to point out the lack of Walker Kessler this season and the amount that the Jazz have to try to cover up for what he provides on defense. But even with Kessler, a good defensive player, the last couple of years the Jazz’s overall defense has been very bad.
On offense, the team is generally trending in the right direction — the Jazz had the 7th best offensive rating for games played in December. The emergence of Keyonte George as a massive scoring threat helps that.
“It’s crazy, for how good our offense has been, how little we actually talk about it as a group,” Jazz head coach Will Hardy said. “Defense is what we’re attacking every day, and it’s what we’ll continue to attack until we get it right.”
Personnel
It’s not like the Jazz players haven’t been continuously told that they need to be better on that side of the ball. They know where they’ve ranked and they know where they are now compared to the other 29 teams.
But, do the Jazz actually have the personnel to play good defense in the NBA?
“I think any group of people can perform to a certain level,” Hardy said when asked that question. “I don’t want to put a limitation on our group at all on that side of the ball. If I didn’t believe in the ability for a group of people to outperform the sum of their parts, or if I didn’t believe in the ability for individuals to grow and get better, then this would be a horrible profession for me. I go to bed with that belief. I wake up with that belief.”
You’ll notice that wasn’t a “yes.”
The Jazz’s point-of-attack defense has been abysmal throughout the rebuild. George has improved this season, but not to the point that he has been a good defender. Statistically he’s still been a negative defender, along with Isaiah Collier, Brice Sensabaugh, Cody Williams and Kyle Filipowski.
The Jazz are hopeful that Ace Bailey can become a positive defender, but he’s still so young and is still trying to adjust to being in the NBA. His growth on defense is something to worry about in the years to come. There’s some grace that Filipowski deserves considering how much he’s been playing the five this season, where he is known to have deficiencies as a defender.
There’s a lot of hope riding on Hendricks, who was drafted in large part because of his defense, but lost last year to injury and has yet to recover the reaction time or quickness required to be the kind of defender the Jazz need at his position.
Some of the Jazz’s best defenders this season (and that’s not saying much) have been Svi Mykhailiuk, Kyle Anderson and Jusuf Nurkić, and those are not the players that the Jazz desperately need to see defensive improvement from.
The future
At some point in the near future, the Utah Jazz are going to have to face the fact that they have a major problem on defense.
“Defense is tiring. Defense is not fun,” Hardy said. “But defense is what gives you the opportunity to win. We can’t show up to the games thinking that we’re just going to outscore everybody. That’s an unsustainable approach. And right now, where we are as a team and as a program, we’re trying to build sustainable habits, a sustainable approach for long term success. Our focus on the defensive side of the ball, individually, has to go up.”
It’s not like the Jazz’s defense needs to be better to win games this season. We all know that’s not the ultimate goal of the front office. But if they were to try to win games next season with this exact roster, the defense would be a problem.
And there’s blame to go around. The Jazz front office has not drafted defensively sound players, Hardy has not been head coach of a good defensive team, and the players on the team have not shown that they care enough on that side of the ball or that they can improve to a reasonable level.
It’s possible that with winning being the goal, the players would care more, that Hardy would coach differently, that players would buy in, etc. But that’s not concrete evidence for us to work with right now.
On Monday night they gave up 137 points to the Portland Trail Blazers, a bottom-10 offensive team. It was just the latest, in a multi-year string of poor defensive outings. The Jazz’s defensive issues are not going away anytime soon. So something has to change if the Jazz want to be a good team in the future.
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