Podbit · The Megyn Kelly Show
Patsy Ramsey's 911 call from December 26, 1996 captures sheer maternal panic — her voice breaking as she tells the dispatcher her daughter is gone, ending with her audible prayers for Jesus to help her. It is one of the most haunting pieces of audio in American crime history.
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Patsy woke before dawn to make coffee, came down the back staircase the family always used, and found three handwritten pages spread across one of the stair treads. She screamed, and John came running. The note — which Patsy could barely finish reading — opened 'Dear Mr. Ramsey, Listen carefully!' and claimed a 'small foreign faction' had JonBenét in their possession. It demanded exactly $118,000, threatened beheading if police were called, and signed off 'Victory! S.B.T.C.' Patsy called 911 immediately, ignoring the note's instructions. Kelly reads the note in full and Ramsey picks apart its most suspicious elements: the specific dollar amount that matched his annual bonus exactly; the beheading threat; the SBTC sign-off; and the slip into first-person singular later in the note, suggesting a single author despite the 'we are a group' framing.
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