After
Patsy
Ramsey
called
911
at
5:52
a.m.
on
Dec.
26,
1996,
to
report
that
her
daughter
JonBenét
Ramsey
had
been
kidnapped,
she
and
husband
John
Ramsey
also
reached
out
to
a
number
of
their
friends,
who
came
right
over
to
support
the
couple.
In
turn,
in
addition
to
responding
officers,
there
were
people
milling
around
the
Ramseys’
5,000-square-foot
home
all
day
before
John
found
JonBenét’s
body
in
the
basement
shortly
after
1:30
p.m.
“I
should
have
removed
all
those
people
from
the
scene,
that
was
a
crime
scene
mistake,”
retired
Boulder
Police
Detective
Bob
Whitson
recalled
in
the
Netflix
docuseries
Cold
Case:
Who
Killed
JonBenét
Ramsey. “But,
at
the
time,
it
looked
like
a
legitimate
kidnapping.
So,
I
thought,
Well,
these
are
the
support
system
for
the
Ramseys,
and
I
let ’em
stay.”
Not
knowing
she
was
dead
when
he
found
her,
John
said
in
the
series
he
at
first
tried
to
untie
the
cord
that
bound
her
hands.
The
knots
were
too
tight,
he
said,
but
he
did
remove
a
piece
of
duct
tape
that
was
covering
her
mouth
and
tossed
it
onto
a
blanket
that
had
been
with
the
body.
He
then
carried
her
upstairs,
which,
according
to
investigators,
ensured
that
the
evidence
collected
from
her
body,
the
pajamas
she
was
wearing,
the
tape,
etc.,
was
contaminated.
“There
may
have
been
some
evidence
on
the
duct
tape
if
that
wasn’t
removed,”
Whitson
said
in
the
series.
Gossip
