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JonBenet Ramsey Part I: The 911 Call

Cold Case Murder Mysteries

Cold Case Murder Mysteries

True Crime

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

At 5:52am on December 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey dialed 911 to report that her 6-year-old daughter, JonBenet, had been kidnapped from the family's home in Boulder, CO, which became the impetus for one of the greatest mysteries in true crime lore.

Join host Ryan Kraus for the first part in this series as we analyze the audio of that infamous 911 call.

Here is a link to a new animated true crime TV show Ryan is developing:
https://youtu.be/WAlgo_sz4tY

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, welcome back to Cold Case Murder Mysteries.

0:10.4

I'm your host Ryan Krause, joining you once again to take an updated look at perhaps the most infamous and controversial case in recent True Kime history, which is the murder of six-year-old

0:21.7

Jean-Beney Ramsey in December 1996.

0:25.3

This is a case I covered in my first episode, but I've received a lot of requests to revisit

0:31.1

the evidence in a series format, so let's take a look.

0:35.1

Of course, the drama begins at approximately 5.52 a.m. on the morning of December 26, 1996,

0:43.0

in Boulder, Colorado, when a woman named Patsy Ramsey, three days shy of her 40th birthday, calls 911 emergency services,

0:53.9

frantic and out of breath, to report that her young

0:57.1

daughter, Jean-Beney, has been kidnapped from the family's home. The only clues to

1:02.8

Jean-Bene's whereabouts, and who took her, are documented in a ransom note left at the base of a

1:09.4

spiral stairwell near the kitchen where Patsy

1:12.6

made the 911 call. The call was received by Kimberly Archiletta, a 911 dispatcher who worked

1:20.2

the overnight shift and was only minutes away from clocking out that morning. She would later

1:26.0

comment in an interview with NBC, quote,

1:28.9

that's been the hardest call I ever took. I think it's because there was something inside me that

1:34.6

said, something's not right. End quote. So let's now listen to the audio of the call and then try to

1:42.7

assess what made her feel like that.

1:47.3

9-1-1 emergency.

1:48.7

What are we named?

1:50.0

Police.

1:51.0

What's going on there, ma'am?

1:54.0

We are kidnapped.

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