JonBenét Ramsey: The FULL MK Confidential Series

**Jon Ramsey** (0:01)
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**Megyn Kelly** (1:01)
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and today's Sunday mega episode. Today we're starting something new, bringing you our MK Confidential five part series in full each week. Today, all five episodes of our deep dive into the JonBenét Ramsey case covering every angle. You can find new episodes of MK Confidential every night this summer at 9 p.m. Eastern on our podcast feeds and our YouTube channel, youtube.com/megynkelly. Enjoy and we'll see you Monday.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:46)
In Colorado, it has all the makings of a classic murder mystery, a ransom note, a dead body, strange twists and turns.

**Megyn Kelly** (1:53)
For nearly 30 years, the murder of JonBenét Ramsey has haunted America. Not just because she was a beautiful six-year-old girl, not just because she was found dead inside her own home the day after Christmas, but because almost every piece of this case seems to point in two directions at once.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:12)
Was there an intruder or was the family involved?

**Jon Ramsey** (2:16)
I did not kill my daughter, JonBenét.

**SPEAKER_7** (2:18)
What parent would ever strangle their own child?

**Megyn Kelly** (2:22)
Over the next five episodes, we will go back to the beginning of the JonBenét Ramsey case, and we'll be back every day for the next eight weeks with many more cases. This is true crime like you've never heard it before. This is MK Confidential.
There have been suspects, confessions, theories, explosive accusations, and more TV documentaries on JonBenét Ramsey than we can count. But underneath all of that noise is the story of a six-year-old girl whose death became a national obsession.
To much of America, JonBenét first appeared not as a child, but as a pageant image. Big hair, makeup, sequined costumes, a practiced smile beneath the stage lights. Her mother Patsy had been a pageant queen herself, Miss West Virginia, and JonBenét was following in her footsteps. After her death, the videos played over and over on a loop. JonBenét waving from a parade float, JonBenét singing in a sparkling outfit. Those images fascinated the country, and in some ways distorted the case right from the start because the pageant girl America saw on TV was only one version of this little girl. She was also a kindergartner, a daughter, a little sister, a six-year-old kid who played with friends and loved to perform.

**Jon Ramsey** (3:47)
She just had this effervescent personality, just like Patsy. I mean, just ta-da, here I am, you know.

**Megyn Kelly** (3:54)
That Christmas, she asked her father for one more turn on her brand new bike.

**Jon Ramsey** (3:59)
She wanted to keep riding her bike, and I said, well, we'll do it later.

**Ron Walker** (4:05)
Of course, there wasn't a later.

**Megyn Kelly** (4:07)
Within days of her killing, JonBenét was no longer simply a murdered child. She'd become a symbol, the child beauty queen, the little girl in makeup, the face on every supermarket tabloid and television screen in America.
And while the country argued over her parents and her pageants, and her family's private life, the most important fact remained unchanged. Someone had killed her.

**Jon Ramsey** (4:33)
Someone killed this six-year-old child. We know that.

**Megyn Kelly** (4:38)
This is the story of a murdered child, and the family, the police, the lawyers and community forever changed by what happened inside that house.

**Lou Smit** (4:48)
She did mean something in this world.

**Megyn Kelly** (4:51)
I'm Megyn Kelly, and this is MK Confidential.
It's the day after Christmas, December 26th, 1996 It is a clear, chilly morning in Boulder, Colorado, less than four degrees outside. Candy Canes line the winding walkway to the Ramsey house at 755 15th Street. It's a large brick Tudor style home in a well-to-do neighborhood, elegantly decorated for Christmas. Jon Ramsey is up before dawn, puttering around. He talked about that morning with CNN.