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Patsy Finds the Ransom Note: The 911 Call and the Three-Page Note
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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.
Knox argues that the prosecution in the Rittenhouse case was radically irresponsible to charge murder, and that the media focused on irrelevant character attacks rather than the specific actions at issue. She draws a direct line to her own ordeal, where her sexuality was put on trial instead of the actual evidence.
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.
Meredith Kercher's actual killer, Rudy Guede, served approximately 13 years in prison — a sentence Knox and others consider far too lenient given the gravity of the crime.
The 3-page ransom note demanded exactly $118,000 — John's precise annual bonus — threatened beheading, signed off 'SBTC Victory,' and was written on a legal pad found inside the Ramsey home. John Ramsey and Megyn Kelly dissect why it almost certainly came from someone who knew him personally.
